Microsoft FSX direct download and SDK version

[GodAtum]

Just double-click on simconnect.msi or right click it and select open or "Run as Administrator".

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

I did that on my client PC but AS2012 is still complaining i dont have the SDk installed.

[Jim Young]

I think you need to visit the Unofficial Active Sky Forum here on AVSIM and/or go to HiFi.com and submit a ticket.  When you say AS2012 is still complaining, what does this mean?  When you start up AS2012 do you see the comment says "SimConnect SP2 instantiated"?  It should still start up and work.   In the same folder as your FSX.cfg there should be a file called SimConnect.xml.  If not, then it is not installed properly.

 

Best regards,

Jim

[GodAtum]

No it says: "I need a valid FSX SP1 or SP2 Simconnect client". I will make a post in AS2012 and see. many thanks.

[BilboBaggins]

I hate to sound like a 14-year-old, but to put it very simply, the MS direct download of FSX, be it via Xbox or Windows Live Marketplace, completely sucks rocks.

 

My first WLM direct download of the 13GBs, no SDK was anywhere to be found, nor was there any prompt to install the SDK during installation (FSX Gold, supposedly).

 

No Simconnect installed. I got that from a link in the A2A Simulations forum, when its absence was impedingy use of their brilliant software.

 

With issues showing up at one point, I had to attempt to Repair FSX.

 

Guess what: no Repair option in Control Panel.

 

I had to go back to Windows Live Marketplace, which, like EA's Origin, is an utter Zune-like Fail of an attempt to copy Steam, and delete my install.... and re-download all 13GBs again.

 

I'm sure this is the best process on the MS end so Steve Ballmer's teenage daughter's best friend can handle the support, along with an army of friendly, patient but utterly clueless tech support people in Bangalore trained mainly to speak English with a pleasant Indian accent, behind her; but for any would-be end user of FSX, it's another idiotic slap in the face like MS Flight. I'll never buy anything on "MS Steam" again.

 

Oh: I'm sure the main function of having the direct download of FSX is like the Bing bar that pops up everywhere you dare to click on an MS browser: it just generates fake data creating the fake appearance of more usage (in this case, more gigabytes downloaded from XBL/WLM than is really reflective of actual sales), so the bean-counters at MS won't randomly shut down MS Steam in a fit of irrational quarterly accounting.

 

If that sounds bitter and cynical, it is. But it's also true!

[mgh]

I hate to sound like a 14-year-old,.... I'm sure this is the best process on the MS end so Steve Ballmer's teenage daughter's best friend can handle the support, along with an army of friendly, patient but utterly clueless tech support people in Bangalore trained mainly to speak English with a pleasant Indian accent, behind her....;

 

Surely that is the sort of remark a 14-year old would make?

[BilboBaggins]

Ha! I wish it were so..... then again, given what the next few generations are facing, bankruptcy, starvation, environmental collapse, political revolution..... maybe not.