Hello. After hearing a lot of good things about RC I decided to give it a go. To my understanding the program is compatible with P3Dv4. When trying to install the program it is a much different story. The install wizard is trying to find a FSX.exe folder (which I don’t have) so I pointed it to my P3D main folder and it wouldn’t take the bait. So my question is, how do I get this program to work with P3D? Thank you 

Just create a text file and then rename it to FSX.EXE. That should work.

12 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Just create a text file and then rename it to FSX.EXE. That should work.

Hello Sir, thank you for your swift response. I did just that but I still get an error saying “Registry key for FS X not found please browse your FS X directory and press OK”. I put the “dummy” FSX.exe folder I created and put it in my program files. 

Where is P3D installed to? You did place that file in the main P3D folder I hope? Your message isn’t very clear talking about Program Files.

Edited May 9, 20197 yr by Ray Proudfoot

My P3D is in my program files. I placed the FSX.exe file I made in my P3D folder. I ran the RC install wizard and it still says it can’t locate FSX...

9 minutes ago, Deltaair1212 said:

My P3D is in my program files. I placed the FSX.exe file I made in my P3D folder. I ran the RC install wizard and it still says it can’t locate FSX...

There are restrictions when P3D is inside Program Files. I would suggest you move it to a folder outside it. That requires uninstalling and reinstalling. However, try running the RC setup with admin privileges. That may solve the problem.

7 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

There are restrictions when P3D is inside Program Files. I would suggest you move it to a folder outside it. That requires uninstalling and reinstalling. However, try running the RC setup with admin privileges. That may solve the problem.

I did try the latter and it still won’t work. Do you running P3Dv4 as well? 

Yes, v4.4 currently. I have installed RC4 on my P3D computer just so I know it works okay and can provide support. I normally run it on another computer via WideFS.

It’s late here so if you can wait until tomorrow (12 hours) I’ll check how I got it to install without FSX installed.

Thank you sir. 

If I can chip in.

My P3D is in its own folder on its own drive: F:\Prepar3d v4. All I did was run RC installer and point it to that folder and all worked. No dummy files needed.

I think your problem is that you have programs in Program Files. Those locations should be avoided like the plague.

Ian Harrison

@IanHarrison, I agree. My memory is a little vague when I installed RC4 and muddied with the many posts about this problem on the forum. Clearly creating a dummy FSX.exe has worked for some but it all depends on various circumstances.

Uninstall and reinstall to a location outside the Program Files folders. D:\P3Dv4 is mine.

Hi Ray,

Glad you agree. If he gets it to work the next post will be about missing msmtffflllxxcc.xml or whatever the thing is called.

9 minutes ago, IanHarrison said:

Hi Ray,

Glad you agree. If he gets it to work the next post will be about missing msmtffflllxxcc.xml or whatever the thing is called.

😁 comdlg32.ocx. It’s burnt into my brain!

Hi guys and thanks for the replies. As much as I would like to wipe everything clean and start over on another drive, I just can’t find myself to do so with everything I have on my sim, it would take me weeks to get everything back to normal. I have done it before because of an OS error and sucks. So I’ll avoid that for as long as possible. I will however note that I do not have FSUIPC 5 installed on my sim. Embarrassingly I never used the program before because I never really saw the point. I now realize RC needs the program to run. To my understanding it does try to download it’s own version but since I have P3Dv4 I need to purchase the 64 bit version correct? Maybe this is the hold up?  

I suggest you wait until P3D v5 is released. That would be a good time to install it outside the Program Files area. I did once move a FSX installation on a friend’s PC which then meant editing every reference in the Registry changing the old path to the new one.

Whilst it took the best part of an hour it was certainly a lot quicker than uninstalling and reinstalling everything. Keep that in mind should you have the time, patience and skill.

Whilst I have bought the full version of FSUIPC5 there is a freeware one that will work with P3D v4. You can get it here. https://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html