Jim's solution worked for me.

 

Thanks.

As I've mentioned, if I were you and want to get this solved as quick as possible open a thread at the FSDT forum, explain what you have tried so far and attach the log file. Rather than spending so much time with trial and error, go to the source and get help.

 

Exactly.  

Hi Jim

 

I did visit the FSDT forum and was a little nervous of "going over old ground" but thankfully spotted an identical problem in another thread. I followed the advice but sadly without success. I was trying to save the guys some work by dealing with the same issue again!

 

But you are right so I have opened another thread and I'm sure I will get things resolved quite quickly.

 

Your help and and advice Jim is so much more helpful than those who join in the conversation with just the word "Exactly".

 

My thanks once again.

 

JON

The problem with this "solution" (and I think a good option) is that you might have added products which also use the dll.xml to load their respective products. So, if you do what you suggest, the user is going to have to reinstall those products installed after FSDT/FlightBeam stuff

 

Jim  the  way I see it  is  that  when you update  any of  the fsdst addons it  puts the latest  ddl.xml as  a back up  so if  you have any issues  you can revert back  to the original version of  any addon and  don't need  to re install  any addons,  This  is  how  I thought it  worked since  I had  to do this myself since I updated  and lost all my menus  addons, and hadn't  had  to reinstall any other payware airport addon.  Maybe  the Dev (virtuali) can chime inand put  his view on this

Can you kindly tell me where I find the dll.xml file?

 

its in the same folder  as your fsx.cfg is

I have run into problems with couatl before but they are very easily fixed. I have seen the dll.xml file mentioned many times in this thread, please also check the exe.xml file because that tells couatl to run.

 

Run the uninstaller for any FSDT scenery or any using Couatl such as Flightbeam etc. A box will popup asking to uninstall the Addon Manager and couatl engine, press yes for both. Now just reinstall your scenery and couatl/addon manager should be reinstalled.

 

Essentially, if Addon Manager shows in the addons options bar within FSX and couatl.exe is running in the program task manager, your dll.xml file is probably okay. If things still do not work then your virus scanner is potentially blocking something or it just does not like the way things are installed somehow. Try running with only your desired scenery and nothing else running, IE, disable everything in the scenery.cfg apart from that.

 

If all else fails, remove the bglmanx files manually in the default FSX folder, remove the fsdreamteam folder, remove any reference to couatl in the exe.dll/dll.xml files and reinstall addon manager as above.

I have been thinking about purchasing GSX but after reading some things about couatl it has made me unsure :(

 

 

I have been thinking about purchasing GSX but after reading some things about couatl it has made me unsure

Just go ahead and buy it, GSX is a great program. Coautl might give you occasional issues, but they can always be solved rather quickly through reinstallation if nothing else. Admittedly I still haven't figured out what exact benefit Addon Manager and Coautl are supposed to give me.

Admittedly I still haven't figured out what exact benefit Addon Manager and Coautl are supposed to give me.

If you want to know just ask Umberto and he'll be glad to tell you, or search his forum and you will find the answer as he has gone over it before.

Hi Jim

 

I did visit the FSDT forum and was a little nervous of "going over old ground" but thankfully spotted an identical problem in another thread. I followed the advice but sadly without success. I was trying to save the guys some work by dealing with the same issue again!

 

But you are right so I have opened another thread and I'm sure I will get things resolved quite quickly.

 

Your help and and advice Jim is so much more helpful than those who join in the conversation with just the word "Exactly".

 

My thanks once again.

 

JON

Glad to see you opened a thread there and are now talking to the developer. He'll get you squared away.

I have been thinking about purchasing GSX but after reading some things about couatl it has made me unsure :(

 

This isn't the first thread about these problems, and I suspect it won't  be the last. It shouldn't really be necessary these days to be" talking to the developer."

It shouldn't really be necessary these days to be" talking to the developer."

You're proposing that unofficial support is just as good as official support? The OP had tried the unofficial support here at Avsim and has been unsuccessful in getting his problem fixed. Now he's trying the official support channel, which is the manufacturer whom I am confident will be able to solve his issue.

 

Why should we not have to talk to the developer these days? If you have an issue with the PMDG Operations Center wouldn't you want to get support from them rather than asking around on some other unofficial support forum?

 

 

Now he's trying the official support channel, which is the manufacturer whom I am confident will be able to solve his issue.

 

It shouldn't be necessary  to solve "his issue"- ie his  problem. - it's the developer's problem.

It shouldn't be necessary to solve "his issue"- ie his problem. - it's the developer's problem.

You've been around this hobby long enough to know that there's no way a developer can account for every possible software, hardware, antivirus configuration that people are running, in addition to user error and user operating system set up errors.

 

Every popular developer has their own support forum for this reason.

You've been around this hobby long enough to know that there's no way a developer can account for every possible software, hardware, antivirus configuration that people are running, in addition to user error and user operating system set up errors.

 

Every popular developer has their own support forum for this reason.

 

In the last year I've downloaded Adobe CS, Adobe lightroom (v5 and 6), SketchUp, and Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2013 (C++). They had no problem with accounting for "every possible software, hardware, antivirus configuration that people are running, in addition to user error and user operating system set up errors."  I've even download payware airports that don't have these problems either!

 

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I forgot FSX-SE and P3d v2.5!!

In the last year I've downloaded Adobe CS, Adobe lightroom (v5 and 6), SketchUp, and Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2013 (C++). They had no problem with accounting for "every possible software, hardware, antivirus configuration that people are running, in addition to user error and user operating system set up errors." I've even download payware airports that don't have these problems either!

 

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I forgot FSX-SE and P3d v2.5!!

I've never had issues with any FSX related software either nor any other software I run from Apple, Microsoft, etc., so you and I must be fortunate. However, I'm sure there are support forums for all the products you've mention above for people who have issues.

 

I also wouldn't put those type of products in the same category as FSX add-ons however. You're comparing stand alone programs from large companies to addon programs from miniscule companies by comparison.

 

We can agree to disagree, but until PMDG, Aerosoft, FSDT, Flight1, and every other add on developer can somehow account for the millions of user configurations there will be problems and it would be ignorant to say that it's the developers fault. From your prior posts through the years I understand that you typically tend to play devil's advocate and would say that you seem to be an intelligent man or woman, but don't agree that software problems are always the developers problem. There are a lot of people who have some pretty messed up operating systems due to tweaking and/or turning of services and processes, that are probably lucky they can get their computer to even boot.

You ignore the elephant in the room which is the number of threads about FDST and its Addon Manager and Coautl.

 

As I explained, I've downloaded other FSX payware airports without the problems shown in other FSDT threads. That's I chose not to download them