Simconnect and AS2012?

[GodAtum]

No, that is version 1. Now you need 1A and 2.

Hi Jim, according to this post (http://forum.avsim.net/topic/403701-fsx-acceleration-sdk-question/) SDK1A and 2 do not work with FSX Acceleration (as Gold is Deluxe + Acceleration).

[DaveCT2003]

as Gold is Deluxe + Acceleration).

Well, sort of. Gold is both Deluxe, and also has Acceleration witch includes Simconnect. Trouble is, Acceleration installs also result in a corrupt installation of Simconnect roughly half or more of the time, and since nobody including ACES was able to nail down that the problem is, many don't know their Simconnect is corrupt / missing files until they go to run an addon that uses Simconnect and they start having problems which vary so greatly from person to person they seem to be impossible to nail down.

 

About half the people claim not to have problems, though I question whether they just don't see the problems or that the problems don't affect what they have installed - again it seems to vary from person to person. The other half have a lot of problems, though some to when they go to install a new high end addon or attempt shared cockpit / networking Simconnect, etc.

 

For this reason, I recommend folks run Deluxe with SP1A/SP2, which is the most stable of the FSX releases. Not saying you should, do what you like.

 

By the way, Jim's advice is spot on. Got to do it step by step.

[GodAtum]

Thanks for the helpful explanation

 

I will try these steps then:

 

Now you install the SDK version 1A which you download from Microsoft.

Next you move the new simconnect.msi file to the client and run it. That gives you the 1A simconnect version.

Now you install the SDK version 2 which you download from Microsoft.

Next you move the newest simconnect.msi file to the client and run it. That gives you the 2 simconnect version.

Finally you can run AS and not get any error message about your simconnect version.

[GodAtum]

Well, sort of. Gold is both Deluxe, and also has Acceleration witch includes Simconnect. Trouble is, Acceleration installs also result in a corrupt installation of Simconnect roughly half or more of the time, and since nobody including ACES was able to nail down that the problem is, many don't know their Simconnect is corrupt / missing files until they go to run an addon that uses Simconnect and they start having problems which vary so greatly from person to person they seem to be impossible to nail down.

 

About half the people claim not to have problems, though I question whether they just don't see the problems or that the problems don't affect what they have installed - again it seems to vary from person to person. The other half have a lot of problems, though some to when they go to install a new high end addon or attempt shared cockpit / networking Simconnect, etc.

 

For this reason, I recommend folks run Deluxe with SP1A/SP2, which is the most stable of the FSX releases. Not saying you should, do what you like.

 

By the way, Jim's advice is spot on. Got to do it step by step.

 

A quick question, do i need to back up the Xpack folder and where is it located?