Install Problems

[Florida1146]

I am running FSX w/SP2 on a quad-core AMD machine with 8 Gb of RAM and a EVGA GTX650 card w/1 GB of memory. I have 2 3rd-party heavies installed - the Coolsky MD-80 and the PMGD 737 NGX. I start FSX with the trike, and then load my aircraft of choice. That being said: I downloaded and installed GSX. Everything worked perfectly. I then loaded FSX and the MD-80, and went to the Add-On menu to check out the GSX addition.

Since I had downloaded the app first and then paid for it, the first thing I did was go to the Add-on Manager and put in my serial number (which worked fine). I then went to the key-mapping choice, and double-clicked on the GSX choice to show the menu (also supposed to be accessed by Ctrl-Shift-F12). Double-clicking did nothing, nor did the key-strokes. I tried the "Global" choice - nothing. But when I exited out of the box, the MD-80 took off in skew mode, screaming "overspeed, overspeed" and nothing could stop it, short of ending the flight. So the key-mapping does not work, and hoses up the MD-80.

The GSX Settings choice seems to work. The "Customize Aircraft" choice seems to work. I have un-installed and re-installed the software, to no avail. It still will not work. Any ideas as to what might be wrong? Below is my Couitl.log file...any clues there? There is no error log yet.

couatl v2.0 (build 2337)
log started on Tue May 07 13:12:47 2013

connecting to SimConnect...
connected to FSX
bglmanx non ready yet, waiting.
connected to bglmanx
Loading addons
requesting AddOn list to bglmanx
bglmanx list contains 18 AddOn(s)
Loading addon ZurichX
Addon ZurichX not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Loading addon OHareX
Addon OHareX not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
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Addon JFK not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
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Addon XPOI not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
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Addon LSGG not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
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Addon KLAS not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
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Addon KFLL not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
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Addon PHNL not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
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Addon KDFW not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
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Addon HAWAII2 not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
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Addon KLAX not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Loading addon ParkMe
Addon ParkMe not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Loading addon GSX
Initializing audio...
Available devices:
  Generic Software on Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
  Generic Software on Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
  Generic Software on Speakers (Headset for Wii )
  Generic Software on Digital Audio (HDMI) (High Definition Audio Device)
Created OpenAL device: Generic Software on Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)

Device info:
   Major version: 1
   Minor version: 1
   Frequency: 44100
   Refresh: 40
   Sync: 0
   Mono sources: 255
   Stereo sources: 1
   Extensions: ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT ALC_ENUMERATION_EXT ALC_EXT_CAPTURE ALC_EXT_EFX

Context info:
   Vendor: Creative Labs Inc.
   Version: 1.1
   Renderer: Software
   Extensions: EAX EAX2.0 EAX3.0 EAX4.0 EAX5.0 EAX3.0EMULATED EAX4.0EMULATED AL_EXT_OFFSET AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE AL_EXT_EXPONENT_DISTANCE

Using EFX 1.0 extension, with 1 auxiliary send(s)
Using EAX reverb
Current directory is D:/Microsoft Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Looking for scenery.cfg in C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/FSX/scenery.cfg
  using Scenery/World (layer 1)
  using Scenery/BASE (layer 2)
  using Scenery/0000 (layer 3)
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  using Scenery/0400 (layer 35)
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  using Scenery/EURW (layer 103)
  using Scenery/NAMC (layer 104)
  using Scenery/NAME (layer 105)
  using Scenery/NAMW (layer 106)
  using Scenery/Cities/Oshkosh (layer 109)
  using Scenery/Cities/LasVegas (layer 112)
  using Scenery/Global (layer 113)
  using Scenery/Props (layer 114)
  using Addon Scenery (layer 115)
  using scenery/Flight Deck 4/Bay of Bengal (layer 116)
  using scenery/Flight Deck 4/San Diego (layer 117)
  using scenery/Flight Deck 4/South China Sea (layer 118)
  using scenery/Flight Deck 4/Mediterranean (layer 119)
  using scenery/Flight Deck 4/Flatten Files (layer 120)
  using Addon Scenery/Fantasy Of Flight LC (layer 123)
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  using Addon Scenery/KECP_2.0 (layer 121)
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  using D:/MegaSceneryEarth/Pennsylvania (layer 125)
Airport cache not valid: detected change in D:/MegaSceneryEarth/Pennsylvania
Regenerating airport cache, looking for scenery files under D:/Microsoft Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/
Worker thread started
Addon GSX loaded
Loading addon CYVR
Addon CYVR not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Loading addon ENBR
Addon ENBR not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Loading addon KSFO
Addon KSFO not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Loading addon KPHX
Addon KPHX not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Starting system monitors
Current locale is English_United States.1252
SharedMemInterface connected
Loading aircraft data from Airplanes\Aircreation_582SL
Using aircraft data from SimConnect
Airport cache regeneration completed with success in 19 seconds
Loading airport KSFB from D:/Microsoft Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/Scenery/0302/scenery/APX26210.bgl
Loading user customizations from C:\Users\GPBarth\AppData\Roaming\Virtuali\GSX\ksfb-nl5bm2.ini
Loading aircraft data from Airplanes\F1 Super 80 Pro
aircraftDb.py provides aircraft data with priority 2
Using aircraft data from aircraftDb.py
Found gsx.cfg file at C:\Users\GPBarth\AppData\Roaming\Virtuali\Airplanes\F1 Super 80 Pro\gsx.cfg

[Florida1146]

Addendum: Although the Key-Mapping pull-down menu doesn't seem to work, the hot-keys ARE working from the cockpit. I can activate the menus with the Ctrl-F12 & Ctrl-Shift-F12 keys, and everything seems to function. I still can't figure out why the MD-80 goes into skew mode from the menu box, but until I do, I will not use that method to access the menus.

The other menus seem to be working fine, so I'll get back to the sim and see what happens next.

[virtuali]

I then went to the key-mapping choice, and double-clicked on the GSX choice to show the menu (also supposed to be accessed by Ctrl-Shift-F12). Double-clicking did nothing, nor did the key-strokes

There's a dialog supposed to be there. If you don't see it, it's likely caused by another add-on you have installed, which is "stealing" the main window focus. The dialog it's likely there, but this other add-on might have sent it back behind the FSX screen, so you can't see it. Add-ons that are known to do this are some online flying clients with chat windows, or similar. You should probably disable them while editing the airplane.

But when I exited out of the box, the MD-80 took off in skew mode, screaming "overspeed, overspeed" and nothing could stop it, short of ending the flight.

This, instead, is caused by your joystick which is not correctly calibrated for the null-zone, so as soon as the airplane goes in slew mode (it has to be put in slew mode to be edited, otherwise its height on ground will depend from its weight, and if it keep changing it, you would create a configuration file that works only for a that weight). If you properly set your null-zone OR just disable the joystick (CTRL+K) before editing the airplane, the problem will go away.