AS2012 SP2 and P3D will not connect

[vonmar 124]

I have ASE (SP4) and AS2012 (SP1) on a workstation PC.

 

I have FS9.1, FSX (SP2) and P3D 1.4.4747.0 (Simconnect version 1.4.0.0) on a server.

 

I have FSUIPC and FSUIPC Wide (current versions).

 

Naturally, I do not have weather data for P3D yet but I do have proper weather ASE/FS9.1/FSX and AS2012/FSX. all are working with FSUIPC wide or Simconnect .... no problems.

 

I wanted to try AS2012 Beta SP2 (build B4696) to get weather tested in P3D so I installed SP2.

 

The initial startup screen gave me a FSX or P3D selection and asked me for "paths" to the server .... but what I selected did not work.

It errored out.

 

I tried starting AS2012 again and got the same selection choices and the same results.

 

I tried starting AS2012 again ... this time I could not try new "paths" to the server ...

Instead, I got a screen for selecting Load Default Options Profile.

So I know I have SP2 installed.

 

When it finishes loading I see "FSX disconnected". So I know we are not talking to P3D.

But I had P3D running on the server hoping it would be seen by AS2012 SP2 ...

At this point I quit P3D and started FSX.

 

FSX worked ok with AS2012 SP2 OK.

 

So, I am missing one link to get AS2012 SP2 and P3D talking ....??

[vonmar 124]

More info.

 

Note: I removed my "license info" from the screenshot.

 

I checked my registry:

My P3d Path was \\HomeSV1\Lockeed Martin.

 

I tried \\HomeSV1\Lockeed Martin\PrePar3D

Which is the full path to the PrePar3D.exe file ... I assume this would be correct.

 

Still did not work.

 

I think some registry data is missing for P3D?

 

These are my paths to files on my server:

 

F:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D

C:\Users\vaughan\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D

C:\Users\vaughan\Documents\Prepar3D Files

 

Should my registry have entries for all three of these?

 

A log:

8:20:05 PM - DPI = 96/96

8:20:05 PM - Verifying Active Sky 2012 License

8:20:05 PM - AS2012 load commencing...

8:20:05 PM - FSX/P3D Path Value = \\Homesv1\fsx\

8:20:05 PM - FSX/P3D My AppData Path Value = \\HOMESV1\FSX AppData\

8:20:05 PM - FSX/P3D My Docs Path Value =

8:20:16 PM - AS2012 settings have been loaded...

8:20:16 PM - Initializing AS2012

8:20:47 PM - FS station database update not needed (unchanged)...

8:20:48 PM - World Magnetic Model has been loaded...

8:20:55 PM - Wx Station Database loaded: 9960 station(s)

8:20:56 PM - Airports Database loaded...

8:20:56 PM - Loading Additional Weather Stations...

8:20:56 PM - SimConnect found and initialized

8:20:57 PM - AS2012 controls initialized...

8:20:57 PM - AS2012 v13.1.4696.12675 Copyright © 2011 HiFi Technologies, Inc., all rights reserved.

8:20:57 PM - AS2012 Module has been loaded

8:20:57 PM - Main Background Wx Engine process has been started

8:20:57 PM - Sim Interface queue process has been started

8:20:57 PM - Online automatic download thread has been started

8:20:57 PM - Random element generation thread has been started

8:20:57 PM - Voice playback thread has been started

8:20:57 PM - Virtual station generation thread has been started

8:20:57 PM - Wake sample and synthesis thread has been started

8:20:57 PM - 3 voice sets activated...

8:20:57 PM - Imagery processing thread started

8:20:57 PM - Thermal Data Loaded: 1 items

8:20:57 PM - SimConnect SP2 instantiated!

8:21:02 PM - Downloading global weather data for 12/3/2012 1:21:02 AM (01Z) from Secondary Server...

8:21:07 PM - Start Download Content License Result Check

8:21:07 PM - Finished Download Content License Result Check in 25 ms

8:21:07 PM - Start Download File Output

8:21:07 PM - Saving weather to disk

8:21:07 PM - Finished Download File Output in 32 ms

8:21:07 PM - Start Decrypt/Decompress

8:21:21 PM - Finished Decrypt/Decompress in 14548 ms

8:21:21 PM - Download Binary Compress File Routine completed in 17933 ms

8:21:21 PM - Populating weather stream with new data...

8:21:21 PM - Parsing line items

8:21:29 PM - Download complete

8:21:40 PM - Downloading Met/Rep data from Secondary Server...

8:21:43 PM - Met/Rep Data Received...

8:21:44 PM - Met/Rep Download complete

8:21:56 PM - Synthesis updated...

8:21:57 PM - Weather injection thread has been started

8:21:57 PM - VAS and thermal generation thread has been started

8:21:57 PM - Data output thread has been started

8:21:57 PM - Effects simulation thread has been started

8:21:57 PM - Station data export completed

8:21:57 PM - **** AS2012 Initial Weather Synthesis Complete! ****

[Damian Clark 1,273]

Hello Vaughan,

 

Please try B4722 which was just posted. If you continue having issues, can you please open a ticket at http://support.hifitechinc.com including a log export, so we can investigate? Thank you!

[vonmar 124]

Damian,

 

Thanks.

Ok, will do.

[Guest vonson]

Same problems with SP2 Beta 2 .... so I submitted an "official" ticket.

[vonmar 124]

Feedback on this networking problem.

 

After a few days on the HiFi support ticket system I found that my network paths to the server were ok.

 

These are the paths to the required files on my server PC.

F:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D

C:\Users\vaughan\Documents\Prepar3D Files

C:\Users\vaughan\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D

 

What was missing ... was a simconnect.xml file for P3D's use.

 

Initially, I did not think I need it because FSX was hooking up ok to to AS2012 on the workstation using simconnect.

And when trying to connect AS2012 to P3D, I seen an entry in the AS2012 screen log that simconnect was seen.

 

Anyway the final solution:

 

I copied my existing simconnect.xml file from:

C:\Users\vaughan\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\

 

To:

C:\users\username\appdata\roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D\

 

Lastly, I did a screenshot of my registry so it might help someone on another day.

[JokersWild 34]

Thank you for posting this, Vaughan. I just purchased AS2012 today. I was having the same issue and had overlooked that step. Thanks a lot for the solution. Looking forward to having weather in P3D finally!