Evening gents

 

I have been trying for a couple of weeks to get RC running, I attempt to run the rebuild scenery DB, I have tried entering both C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT GAMES\MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR X and also C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files. The first is where my actual FSX.exe points to and the second is where my flight plans are located as I have seen mention of that above. I then get the first Makerway dialog box, when I click ok to run the database builder I then get the run-time error 75, with an additional message of Path/File access error.

 

I am running the latest Makerway.exe and my Fsuipc4 version is File version 4.1.2.0 and Product version 4.12.

 

Any thoughts gents on how to rectify this?

 

Kind Regards

 

Paul

 

If you are on VISTA or Win 7 (which appears so) you need to set a shortcut to RC with its properties set to run as admin when FS is under any Program Files hierarchy tree. In addition you need to allow RC to access your FS folder by setting it as "trusted" in any security sweet.

 

It looks like you have RC and FSX on the same pc by your described paths and they look OK. You are executing the scenery rebuild within RC, answered no to the WideFS prompt, put in the FSX folder path as you described, and it started to run makerwys. It is now at 4.64 available from:

 

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

 

Makerwys should open and with your OK start to work as shown by a dialog with an airport counter. It gets its scenery paths from your scenery.cfg as set up by your FSX scenery library settings. If the countdown proceeds only part way then there might be a missing scenery in yo9ur scenery.cfg paths. When make runways completes you click OK and RC then copies r5.csv in your FSX folder to its RCv4X\data folder as r4.csv and then it creates a4.csv from that. During the process just answer OK to all the copying\creating RC prompts an don't close RC for a few seconds so all of the disk writes are completed. A restart of RC for your next session will insure it is using the new files in its data folder.

 

Just for testing you can run makerwys.exe directly in your FSX folder to see if that part works. If it does crash then if you look at runways.txt (it is large so use word or wordpad) in your FSX folder, a log of its proceedings, may be created and show you how far it got.

 

On tip: I have the FS path in a text file with a shortcut on the desktop. When the FS path is needed I just open that file, copy that path, and then paste it in the RC path dialog using ctrl-v, The paste hot key combo at least through Win XP. That saves typing in that long path with the possibility of typing errors.

Hi Ron,

 

Cheers for that, I will give that a try and report back, I am currently on a series of day and late shifts at work, so it is likely to be a few days before I get the chance.  If it fails I shall probably uninstall FSX and go for a rebuild in a C:\FSX folder rather than the default folder choice.

 

Cheers

 

Paul

Hi Ron

 

I gave that a try when I got home from work last night and now got RC working. Now got another issue but that is for another topic :-)

 

Many thanks again

 

Paul