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Captainsim 757 not working with MCE

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Hello there,

After a while without flying on my sim, I've reinstalled the latest version of MCE yesterday.
I wanted to use it with the captainsim 757 III on P3Dv5, but it seems it's not recognising it as the captainsim at all. MCP values do not change as expected while the copilot acknowledges my orders.

Any idea of what's happening?

Maxime
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  • Commercial Member
1 hour ago, kmax59 said:

Hello there,

After a while without flying on my sim, I've reinstalled the latest version of MCE yesterday.
I wanted to use it with the captainsim 757 III on P3Dv5, but it seems it's not recognising it as the captainsim at all. MCP values do not change as expected while the copilot acknowledges my orders.

Any idea of what's happening?

Please post the {fltsim.X} sections found in aircraft.cfg for the new planes.

The "sim=whatever_name_they_gave_it is critical in MCE being able to identify it as the 757 from Captain Sim

 

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Hello Gerald,

Well there's many depending on the flight model used (200 or 300 variants, PW or RR engine, engine rating... etc)

I've crosschecked and all the liveries are using the correct air file provided by captainsim (they wouldn't even appear in P3D by experience if it was not the case anyways).

As an example, here is the default CS 757-200 PW2037 entry, with which it didn't work properly: sim=cs757-200_PW2037w

Maxime
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  • Commercial Member
2 hours ago, kmax59 said:

Hello Gerald,

Well there's many depending on the flight model used (200 or 300 variants, PW or RR engine, engine rating... etc)

I've crosschecked and all the liveries are using the correct air file provided by captainsim (they wouldn't even appear in P3D by experience if it was not the case anyways).

As an example, here is the default CS 757-200 PW2037 entry, with which it didn't work properly: sim=cs757-200_PW2037w

Thanks.

Any SIm=string where string has "cs757" should be identified as the supported CS 757.

Unfortunately, no provision was made for those that have "cs 757" with a space char in between.

Will be adjusted in next update to cover all variants.

QW 757 is also supported, therefore can't simply expect "757", as they are handled differently, even though they share speech commands.

It's good you brought it up because small things like these can cause users going through the Demo to assume MCE doesn't support those planes.

 

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Hello again Gerald,

I'm not sure I brought anything up actually, I think you misunderstood me. There is no space in the air file name:

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sim=cs757-200_PW2037w

Thus I'm not sure a wrong sim name is the reason of the issue.
However I checked the dll folder and found only this dll for the cs 757: mccs75X.dll
Is it also for the 757 III ? If so, what other reason could it be?

Edited by kmax59

Maxime
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  • Commercial Member
1 hour ago, kmax59 said:

Hello again Gerald,

I'm not sure I brought anything up actually, I think you misunderstood me. There is no space in the air file name:

Thus I'm not sure a wrong sim name is the reason of the issue.
However I checked the dll folder and found only this dll for the cs 757: mccs75X.dll
Is it also for the 757 III ? If so, what other reason could it be?

There should be a "mccs75V3.dll" in \Prepar3D v5\MCE dlls\ folder otherwise no switches or dials will move for the new 757 planes..

 

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8 minutes ago, FS++ said:

There should be a "mccs75V3.dll" in \Prepar3D v5\MCE dlls\ folder otherwise no switches or dials will move for the new 757 planes..

 

That's really weird ! I reinstalled MCE yesterday right after downloading the latest version from your website. Could it be missing from your latest installer?
Now that you're saying this, it seems the latest version of CS 767 does not seems to have a dll there either. All the other well known aircraft dll are there.

Maxime
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Hello there,

I've tried a reinstall as an admin, still no mccs75V3.dll being installed. Any ideas?

Maxime
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  • Commercial Member
10 minutes ago, kmax59 said:

Hello there,

I've tried a reinstall as an admin, still no mccs75V3.dll being installed. Any ideas?

Turns out, the automatically generated installer didn't include that specific file.

Get this patch and you'll find it there

http://www.multicrewxp.com/Latest-Beta.zip

If the link isn't accessible, copy the line above and paste it to your browser.

Thanks Maxime.

 

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Thanks a lot Gerald !

I don't need them right now, but I think some other dlls are missing too. I guess the CS 767 v2 has a specific dll as well and could't see it either.

Edited by kmax59

Maxime
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3 hours ago, kmax59 said:

Thanks a lot Gerald !

I don't need them right now, but I think some other dlls are missing too. I guess the CS 767 v2 has a specific dll as well and could't see it either.

Checked with colleague. There is only one dll for the 767."mccs76X.dll"

The 32 bit verion handles the plane in FSX

The 64 Bit version handles the plane in P3D V4 or V5

The plane is also supported in MSFS. However, as everyone knows, most overhead panel switches are currently not functional. FO will handle MCP, flaps, gear, spoilers, brakes, external lights and a few other things though.

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