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EZCA vs FSX View System

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I participate in the Windows 10 Insider Program, and the last two builds have caused EZDok to not work.  After the first build, I tried to uninstall it, and EZCA worked again, but the removal of the build messed up a couple of other features on my computer.  When  the next build came out, those issues were fixed but now EZCA does not work again.  I've tried standard stuff (admin rights, compatibility, etc) but now luck.  I'm wondering if anyone has any tips for most efficiently using the standard view system in FSX.  I installed EZCA a couple of years ago, but not sure I want to reinstall windows 10 from scratch just to get EZCA to work.  

 

Thanks!

Mike McWilliams

 

Asus Rog Crosshair X670E Hero motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3d CPU, Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4080 super video card, G.Skill  TridentZDDR5 64gb SDRAM, 3 Samsung NVMe SSD 980 2TB SSDs

What are the key features for you that EZCA gives you that you want to achieve without it?

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Well I want to keep EZCA for all of the features it offers, I just don't know that I want to reinstall Windows 10 and reinstall all my other programs so I can get EZCA to work.  I thought there might be a few tips out there to use the default view system until EZCA works again with Windows 10, and I was considering getting OPUSFSI too.

Mike McWilliams

 

Asus Rog Crosshair X670E Hero motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3d CPU, Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4080 super video card, G.Skill  TridentZDDR5 64gb SDRAM, 3 Samsung NVMe SSD 980 2TB SSDs

I to had a problem with EZCA after updating to win 10.

 

In the end I un-installed EZCA and re-installed. Be sure to exclude EZCA folder from windows defender.

 

This did the trick for me. Hope it helps..........

 

Martin.

Martin Stacey.

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Thanks Martin.  Actually, EZCA had been working well in Windows 10 for me.  It wasn't until I installed the last couple of Insider builds that I started having trouble.  When I had the problem the first time, I did try the uninstall and reinstall and that didn't work.  I went back to the previous build, and EZCA started working again, but like I said, a couple of other things got messed up in the process.  So there must be something going on in the recent builds that is messing EZCA up.  Because the Insider program involves beta builds, I would not expect any fix on EZDok's part until the Anniversary Build of Windows 10 is finalized this summer.  Oh well, I might mess around with OPUS a bit and see what that's like...

Mike McWilliams

 

Asus Rog Crosshair X670E Hero motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3d CPU, Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4080 super video card, G.Skill  TridentZDDR5 64gb SDRAM, 3 Samsung NVMe SSD 980 2TB SSDs

what is the point of being in the insider program? "it breaks apps i want to use" doesn't really seem like a great reason to be running beta builds.

 

one thing you might want to consider is installing the latest ezdok version, if you are working from one you installed a few years ago it's possible that it is quite out of date and possibly the newest one is more resilient to whatever microsoft is changing.

 

anyway good luck! i don't think i could ever go back to the standard views :)

 

cheers

-andy crosby

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Good point!  The insider program has been pretty cool so far though.  EZCA has been the only issue I've had and the extra features Microsoft is building into Windows are definitely worth being in the program.  I did try the latest version I could find, I think it was 1.18.7.  I am missing my EZCA views, but I've been using FS for 26 years so it hasn't been too hard going back to standard views!  If Windows breaks anything else though, I'm out! 

Mike McWilliams

 

Asus Rog Crosshair X670E Hero motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3d CPU, Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4080 super video card, G.Skill  TridentZDDR5 64gb SDRAM, 3 Samsung NVMe SSD 980 2TB SSDs

I'm not a participant in the Windows Insider program and today's the first time I've fired up FSX-SE in a couple weeks.  EZCA wasn't working for me either, so I uninstalled, got the latest version off of Flight1's website and installed that.  It's working fine again now.

 

I do remember having to go through the "install this version then that version, then throw some glitter and say 'hey booboo' three times and then install this version" nightmare when I first set up EZCA on my new machine (back in February) and when the latest EZCA update came out a few weeks later I was reluctant to update because I had it stable on my system.  But, since it was acting up today I took the dive and updated.  Hopefully it does not continue to be a problem.

 

(Edit:  The build I got off of Flight1's website is 1.18.7, which is what you indicate above.  Did you happen to try re-running the EZDOK config?)

Richard P. Kelly

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Thanks for the info.  Yea, I tried to reconfigure and it still didn't work.  Really strange, When FSX starts, I can see the EZCA icon, but then it just disappears.  I might try reinstalling again this week and maybe I'll get lucky!

Mike McWilliams

 

Asus Rog Crosshair X670E Hero motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3d CPU, Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4080 super video card, G.Skill  TridentZDDR5 64gb SDRAM, 3 Samsung NVMe SSD 980 2TB SSDs

Did you Reinstall\Repair your simconnects after the build updates.

 

For FSX,  located here,  Click into each one and Install\Repair all 4  

 

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Just to be safe Rerun the one that comes in the folder as well.  

 

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I had not tried that, thanks for the tip.  I'll give it a shot!

Mike McWilliams

 

Asus Rog Crosshair X670E Hero motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3d CPU, Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4080 super video card, G.Skill  TridentZDDR5 64gb SDRAM, 3 Samsung NVMe SSD 980 2TB SSDs

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Did you Reinstall\Repair your simconnects after the build updates.
 
For FSX,  located here,  Click into each one and Install\Repair all 4  

 

Just a quick follow up.  I tried installing all versions of simconnect, then reinstalled EZCA, and ended up with the same result.  No big deal; I've gotten pretty good and installing and uninstalling EZCA, so it was only an investment of about 5 minutes.  I'll keep trying as the new build come out and hopefully it will be addressed by the time the new version, official version of Windows 10 is out.  

Mike McWilliams

 

Asus Rog Crosshair X670E Hero motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3d CPU, Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4080 super video card, G.Skill  TridentZDDR5 64gb SDRAM, 3 Samsung NVMe SSD 980 2TB SSDs

Someone suggested above that you exclude the EZCA folder from being scanned in Windows Defender. Have you tried this?

 

I was having the same problem, icon disappearing etc. It worked fine up until about a week ago when I updated Windows 10. And sure enough when I created an exclusion in Windows Defender the problem was gone.

Best regards,

 

Neal McCullough

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I'm not running Defender but using Norton.  I've tried running in silent mode, but I may just uninstall it and go back to Defender.  I'll give it a shot, thanks!

Mike McWilliams

 

Asus Rog Crosshair X670E Hero motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3d CPU, Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4080 super video card, G.Skill  TridentZDDR5 64gb SDRAM, 3 Samsung NVMe SSD 980 2TB SSDs

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