Hello,

 

I purchased my copy of RC4.2 in 2006 via regualar delivery (dowload version didn't exist those days). Today, after submitting of my name, the address on the initial order and appoximate time of purchase I requested the link for v4.3 that I received from JD relatively fast. After RC was intalled on my PC, I was routinely asked to submit Order ID together with my name that I did. To my suprise I received a message from JD that ID is invalid because of some "alpha characters". I didn't enter any "alpha characters" - merely copied and pasted my Order ID (10 digits)<space>!<space> FirstName<space> !<space> LastName. Then I repeated my attemp with various combinations, with and without spaces, and received no answer from RC so far that I treat as the fact my ID was considered invalid forever.

 

At this point I don't know what to do next and your advise would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks

Dmitriy T.

For registration itself you need to paste in the product ID in the registration dialog. since jd sent you the link he is now updating your user information and your purchasing order id is not used in the actual registration process. Also include any - that is in the product id.

 

Is this what you are referring to?

Ron,

 

Your confusing Order ID which is self-generated by the installer (and which is invalid according to John D) with the registration key that I'm supposed to receive upon validation of the order ID. JD said that my Order ID is invalid, but how it can be invalid if I have no power to influence this ID generation.

 

Thanks

Dmitriy

Are you getting the registration screen below? I pointed out the Product ID number which needs to be in the outgoing e-mail whether manual or automatic.This example has the - to be included. You should then receive your key code via e-mail to place as indicated. Be sure when pasting in the key code no extra spaces are added in. The cursor should fall after the last character.

 

 

Yes I am getting this screen, but as I mentioned above John said that Product ID is invalid. Now I'm going to uninstall 4.3 the link to which John send me and install 4.2 from the disc and see what happens.

 

Thanks

Dmitriy

UPDATE:

 

Just reintalled RC4.2 from the disk and exactly the same 10-digits order ID was generated. Now I'm totally confused.

 

How this should be send to Jonn? XXXXXXXXXX!FirstName!LastName OR XXXXXXXXXX ! First Name ! LastName

 

John hasn't been responding to my e-mails since Friday's morning.

 

Thanks

Dmitriy

 

UPDATE2:

 

Uninstalled 4.2, intalled 4.3. Now the order ID is different and I send it to [email protected]. Manually records the Order ID into e-mail request (no copy/pasting). Keep my fingers crossed.

The problem has been succesfully resolved.

 

Thanks to everyone

Now that you have 4.3 successfully installed be sure to update FSUIC and Makerwys from these links and then update your scenery db. These versions are newer than the distribution download and may affect your RC scenery data.

 

http://forum.simflight.com/topic/66136-useful-additional-programs/

http://forum.simflight.com/topic/66139-updated-modules/

Thanks Ronzie,

 

I presume that makerwys should be at the main FS folder. Correct?

Yes. makerwys goes into your FS main folder.

 

If RC is on the same PC, answer NO to the WideFS question and put in the path to your FS main folder. The answer the OK's that pop-up. The last file generated is a4.csv and wait a few seconds before closing RC.

 

If RC is not on the same PC then run makerwys.exe first directly in the FS folder. The start RC and run the scenery rebuild answering YES to the WideFS question and put in the full network path to the host pc fs folder. The process should then continue as above. See page 116 in the RC43 manual.

 

FWIW I prefer to keep in a text file linked to the desktop the full path to FS such as:

 

h:\program files\microsoft games\flight simulator 9

 

which I can then copy and paste into the path dialog when the scenery rebuild dialog requests it. (ctrl-c to copy and ctrl-v to paste in most windows version.) This avoids typing errors in the long path statement since you'll have to enter the path each time you rebuild the scenery data after adding or modifying scenery.