Afters this, I push another button, e.g. any letter, then the four messages with the questions about the trust appears. I say YES, pressing the PAUSE simultaneously, but during this procedures suddenly I see a writing on the sheet just not for a second and that's it. How can I fix and read it, when it disappear immediately?
First, it's not normal you would get the trust request *each* time. Is this what's happening ? Or, just because you are uninstalling completely each time ? There's no need to do that now, just try to read the diagnostic window.
And, to have the pause key working, you have to have the Simconnect text window on the foreground, the pause key will not do anything if you press it when another window is displayed.
Simply try to arrange the FSX window and the simconnect diagnostic window so the can both be seen together on your desktop, and then press the pause key only when the simconnect window is on focus. If it's not, simply click on it, this is basic Windows behavior...
And no, there will be no text appearing and immediately disappearing. The lines of text will *scroll* and, if you followed my previous instruction and replaced the logging command to log only errors, instead of everything, there should be only a few lines scrolling, which means it should be quite easily to read them, even without pausing.
BTW since yesterday or so when I download the first of my FSD_airports, I see in the couatl-folder not the couatl.exe file, instead of this there are a file only named "couatl" with a green snake-symbol in front. Is this OK?
Yes, if your windows is configured to not show file extension, you wouldn't see the .exe extension.
There must be another solution,
There's no other solution that follow what I've said, thus being able to read the diagnostic window messages, so I can understand your issue.
And as I saw in this support-forum, I was not the only having the problem with the Cuoatl.
Your issue doesn't seem to have anything to do with this, all the issues are because faulty antivirus products interfere with it, not because the Couatl program has a problem. Clear proof of this, if you *follow* all the discussion to the end, not just the start of them, is that when the antivirus is correctly configured as instructed, it wil always work.
Your issue *seems* to be different, which is why I've asked to run the diagnostics, without them, there's no way to even start thinking how to fix it.
If you are really unable to use the pause key as instructed, it's possible to direct the output to a file, change the simconnect.ini file as follows:
[SimConnect]
level=normal
console=1
RedirectStdOutToConsole=1
OutputDebugString=1
file=%APPDATA%\MicrosoftFSX\simconnect%03u.log
file_next_index=0
file_max_index=9
I've removed the commas on the file commands, and changed the pathname to point to a writable folder.
Run FSX once, then exit from it when the first screen appears. If you do it correctly, a file named simconnect000.log should have been created under %APPDATA%\Microsoft\FSX.
Post it here attached to a message, so I can have a look at it.
