Hi,
you may be aware that V4 has problems with FSX-SP1 Simconnect (in fact it is broken) and some Apps that rely on that connection will not work. But there is a work around, which I will illustrate for the superb landing tool "Lord of the Landing", which inter alia provides touch down rates, center line deviation, bank angle, plots and much more. The App can be found in the Avsim library (v1.8)
You have to create two files (e.g. using Notepad++): Simconnect.cfg and Simconnect.xml. Place them at the indicated locations.
1. This is how Simconnect.cfg must look like:
[SimConnect]
Protocol=IPv4
Address=YOUR ADDRESS
Port=2024
MaxReceiveSize=4096
DisableNagle=0
Please do not forget to insert YOUR IP ADDRESS of your PC. If you do not know it you can use the windows console (WIN key+R), then type "cmd" and then "ipconfig" to find out your IPv4 address in your local network.
Place the file to your Documents folder (...\Your User Name\Documents).
2. This is how Simconnect.xml must look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?>
<SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0">
<Descr>SimConnect</Descr>
<Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>
<Scope>global</Scope>
<Address>YOUR ADDRESS</Address>
<Port>2024</Port>
<MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
</SimConnect.Comm>
<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Protocol>Auto</Protocol>
<Scope>local</Scope>
</SimConnect.Comm>
</SimBase.Document>
Please do not forget to insert YOUR IP ADDRESS of your PC.
Place the file to ...Your User Name\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\
Now Lord of the Landing also connects to Prepar3d V4 and works.
The same should also work for other Apps.
Important Note: Do not forget to deactivate Simconnect.cfg (Simconnect.cfg.off) if you still want to use Prepar3d V3, as this will block the add-ons in the exe.xml or dll.xml from loading.
Cheers,
Chris