Those of you who launch Active Sky with a batch file kindly share your script text here.

Thanks,

Have you thought of using FSUIPC to launch it? Works great and closes it again when

you shutdown P3D. Just add the following lines to your FSUIPC.INI file.

[Programs]
RunIf1=Close,C:\Program Files\HiFi\ASP3D\ASP3D.exe

Obviously, you have to change the path to where you have Active Sky installed. 🙂

Edited July 2, 20214 yr by Caveney737
Update to post.

2 hours ago, Dirk98 said:

Those of you who launch Active Sky with a batch file kindly share your script text here.

Sure, here you go, I launch ASN as part of a batch file that brings a whole lot of items together.

Needless to say paths / file names would need to be changed to use the use.

REM Check for ASN and start if not already running.
tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq AS_P3Dv4.exe" | find /i "AS_P3Dv4.exe" > nul ||(START "Active Sky Next P3D v4" /HIGH /D "E:\FSX Addons\ASNext_P3Dv4\AS_P3Dv4" /I "E:\FSX Addons\ASNext_P3Dv4\AS_P3Dv4\AS_P3Dv4.exe")

Cheers

4 hours ago, Caveney737 said:

Have you thought of using FSUIPC to launch it? Works great and closes it again when

you shutdown P3D. Just add the following lines to your FSUIPC.INI file.

[Programs]
RunIf1=Close,C:\Program Files\HiFi\ASP3D\ASP3D.exe

Obviously, you have to change the path to where you have Active Sky installed. 🙂

I needed a batch file to set Affinity for  ASP3D.exe in it so FSUIPC method didn't suit me.

 

14 minutes ago, Dirk98 said:

I needed a batch file to set Affinity for  ASP3D.exe in it so FSUIPC method didn't suit me.

 

This is one of my batchfiles that starts apps as Admin and with a certain affinity :

 

@Echo off
net sess>NUL 2>&1||(powershell try{saps '%0'-Verb RunAs}catch{}&exit)
pushd "C:\Program Files (x86)\PCGameBoost\Smart Game Booster"
start /affinity 5 SgbMain.exe

 

In your case :

@Echo off
net sess>NUL 2>&1||(powershell try{saps '%0'-Verb RunAs}catch{}&exit)
pushd "C:\Program Files\HiFi\ASP3D"
start /affinity 5 C:\Program Files\HiFi\ASP3D\ASP3D.exe

 

Edited July 2, 20214 yr by GSalden

Just in case somebody would like to launch ASP3D with a batch file on a 8-Core/16-LP CPU with HT=ON allocating LP15 and LP13 to ASP3D.exe I've ended up with the following script:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

REM --add the following to the top of your bat file--

@echo off

:: BatchGotAdmin
:-------------------------------------
REM  --> Check for permissions
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"

REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
    echo Requesting administrative privileges...
    goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )

:UACPrompt
    echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    set params = %*:"=""
    echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c %~s0 %params%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"

    "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    exit /B

:gotAdmin
    pushd "%CD%"
    CD /D "%~dp0"
:--------------------------------------

Start "" /affinity 5000 "C:\MSFS\HiFi\ASP3D\ASP3D.exe"

exit

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cheers.

I use a very simple .bat file for this:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "Active Sky for P3D5" /affinity F00 "D:\HiFi\ASP3D\ASP3D.exe"

Of course, adjust the folder locations accordingly. You can even redirect your desktop icon to the .bat file instead of the .exe, then you wont notice any difference when firing up.

And also be aware that the affinity defined by "F00" might not be what you want, "F00" lets ActiveSky run on the last two cores plus HT. If you have something else than a six core with HT CPU, you need to change this string accordingly.

Here's the batch file I use for Active Sky. I don't have Active Sky automatically start with P3D. I start P3D, then just double click the batch file. You can add other apps such as FFTF Dynamic if you want, so you can start all the auxiliary apps at once. I find I have less problems when P3D starts separately. I do not use an affinity mask for P3D itself.

REM SET AFFINITY MASKS FOR P3D AUXILIARY APPLICATIONS
REM Set batch file short cut to run as administrator or affinity setting will not take effect.

REM PARAMETERS
REM /Elevate    Run as Administrator.
REM /B             Suppress Command Prompt Window.
REM /wait        Starts an application and waits for it to end.
REM /affinity    Applies the specified processor affinity mask (expressed as a hexadecimal number) to the new application (e.g. /affinity A808).

@echo off

REM Start Active Sky

REM Affinity mask binary 0101 0101 0100 0000. Hex 5540  Give Active Sky at least 4 LPs (Three doesn't seem to be enough). Also prevent use on LPs 0,2,4 (cores 0, 1, 2)

start "" /B /affinity 5540 "E:\FS APPS\ASP3D\ASP3D.exe" /Elevate /wait

exit

 

4 hours ago, AnkH said:

I use a very simple .bat file for this:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "Active Sky for P3D5" /affinity F00 "D:\HiFi\ASP3D\ASP3D.exe"

Yep, this is what I use.  Simple and gets the job done. 👍

Has this turned into a “my batch file is more powerful than your batch file” competition? 🤣

Some impressive code there!

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Has this turned into a “my batch file is more powerful than your batch file” competition? 🤣

No by any means Ray. This is about free choice and variety in the first hand init?

Edited July 2, 20214 yr by Dirk98

Thank you All for contributing to this thread!

PS: properly saved and archived ))

Edited July 2, 20214 yr by Dirk98

4 minutes ago, Dirk98 said:

No by any means Ray. This is about free choice and variety in the first hand init?

Dirk, I hope you realise I was jesting. 😉

Just now, Ray Proudfoot said:

Dirk, I hope you realise I was jesting. 😉

C'mon Ray, I was just messing.. of course you were! 

Thanks to all the batch file contributors with their ideas I will adjust mine to improve it...   the problem I have with ActiveSky though is getting it to cleanly shut down...   without it being seen as a forced shutdown.

If I shut it down using my Batch file script  then the next time I try and load it the  ActiveSky startup window flags an error that the last session did not shut down properly.

If I do this a few times in a day , I get locked out by ActiveSky until the next day.....

This happens in P3D5      and     when I use ActiveSky to feed weather to my EFB for FS2020

Thanks for your ideas....

 

snippet -

All the other programs automatically shut down completely when I exit MSFS2020 or P3D5....  (the file waits until FSUIPC7 is not running anymore, executed when sim is shutdown)   ...  uses similar method for P352.

 

 

Edited October 17, 20214 yr by aerostar