... to get access to the REX forum (a fair membership Verification issue, which is in hand). My question affects P3d users who have FSX installed as well, AND use REX Essential (or variant).  I suspect many of you guys will have solved this issue, or can put me straight.  

 

I have my P3d setup pretty much how I want it, with REX installed, in combination with Opus. But, unable to try the new PMDG T7 I re-installed FSX.

 

So far so good. But when I tried to install REX to FSX it only gave me the MRR Options (Modify, Repair, Remove) referring to my existing P3d installation. This seems normal enough, but my question is: Is it legitimate / possible to dual-install REX to both sims? If so can someone tell me how. I'm not out to bend rules here. 

 

Thanks in advance for any feedback, 

 

Gareth 
Ex RAF Uni Squadron, Soton, UK) 

The information about REX in the FlightSimStore says this:

 

To use REX Essential PLUS with Prepar3D, users will be required to pay a one-time licensing fee. Purchasing this special license is only available within the REX Essential PLUS application.

 

O, wait, I think I misunderstood your question. I think that in your case you shouldn't reinstall REX for FSX: you just have to tell REX you also have FSX installed somewhere in the options or settings screen.

Gareth ...

 

you only need one copy of REX installed. To get it working with FSX all you need do is pull up the REX config page and under the section headed 'simulator folder location' browse to FSX wherever that may be installed. And it follows that you will then have to run texture selection etc and send your choices to FSX  .... that's it! 

 

Alan

What JvE and Alan said. You have to point REX in the options section to either the P3D or the FSX folder.

 

I did't get it the first time either, but hopefully they will make this simpler in a future upgrade of the "REX Central". How about a simple choose between REX and FSX each time you start REX? (Make this optional so those only running one sim can avoid the annoyance).

Thanks, your comments were much appreciated. I actually stumbled into that solution eventually. Kind of logical in its own way. It would have occurred immediately to a programmer I suspect. Kind of resembled getting OpusFsx to feed both sims (from the one install.)

 

Cheers

Not to be a jerk, but the REX manual says exactly what the others said to do...  

Well wadyaknow!

 

Unlike you, I was "finding it hard" to find it in the manual myself. Others obviously did not find it hard and kindly passed it on, thereby saving me some time and frustration. It happens a lot in forums.  Thanks for being the one to have to say something though, thus proving Plato right. 

 

;-)

Off-Topic: The REX manual is a mass!

Not instructive for beginners, hard to understand not logical at all and unclear in certain point!

 

Like many software companies they trust that the user takes the time to search the forums for answers to simle questions!

 

Not a good service at all!

Normally, I support RTFM posts. However in this case I have to agree with the OP, it's not easily found, and the manual could be laid out better. That said, it is more of a complex and versatile product than one may first believe.

Doc & Dave,

I found your comments most apt. I'm sure we all try to avoid falling foul of the RTFM syndrome but there are those times when you just can't find what you want and in sheer frustration fall back of the good will of your fellow simmers. Especially when what you're looking for would seem basic to the needs of many users. Still, I remain a keen REX fan.

Anyway, when you're at my end of the life cycle brain fag kicks in earlier every day and this can definitely lower your desperation threshold. So, regards from a 19 year-old ever fighting to escape a 71 year-old body! :-)

Sorry Gareth, my post wasn't meant as an insult.

 

I see nothing wrong with asking for help, just wanted to point out that the information is available in the product documentation.

 

I'll take my ball and go home now. :mellow: