When I start FSX after downloading any of your products, I first get a message that SimConnect can't initialize or something, indicating that SimConnect is turned off. Then I get an error message that couatl.exe cannot start, and has to close. And then FSX itself crashes with "A fatal error has occured". Sometimes, I can actually manage to start the sim without it crashing, and then the addon menu is totally gone. Because the addon menu is gone, I think: "Hmm, maybe I should reinstall FSUIPC", but that doesn't work at all, as it says that I'm running the wrong version of SimConnect. So therefore I do a complete uninstall of all of your products, I say yes to uninstall the couatl engine and addon manager, and afterwoods complete uninstall of FSX: Acceleration and FSX: Deluxe. Then I reinstall FSX: Deluxe and Acceleration, as well as FSUIPC (and another 3rd party addon, but that is irrelevant). Now the addon menu appears, so I think "Okay, let's give it a go with one of fsdt's addons now", so I install GSX, but nope, doesn't work, and the same thing happens as before.
Now, I go into really troubleshooting this, I uninstall everything again, do a registry cleanup, reinstall everything, as well as putting a SIMCONNECT.ini inside of the FSX folder in My Documents containing this "[SimConnect]
level=normal
console=1
RedirectStdOutToConsole=1
OutputDebugString=1
; file=c:\simconnect%03u.log
; file_next_index=0
; file_max_index=9", and then I run FSX, I see no errors whatsoever.
Now I start to wonder about my antivirus and firewall (I use AVG Internet Security 2013) because I see that in the start of the install of any of your addons, there is a downloading thingy, so I uninstall and reinstall everything for a third time, including a registry cleanup and rebootings of my computer. But now, when I reinstall any of your products, I make sure to have my antivirus and firewall de-activated, also whilst running FSX, and nope. Still the same thing happens. Now I uninstall your product (as well as couatl engine and addon manager), and I see that FSX runs fine, and that the addon menu shows up with all of my addons. For me, this confirms there is something with couatl.exe which makes my FSX crash and SimConnect to crash as well. Whilst having the couatl engine uninstalled, I try to reinstall FSUIPC to see if there's anything peculiar, and this time it does not report me having the wrong version of SimConnect. Then, I see another forum thread with a person seemingly having the same issue, but the solution that helped him, didn't help me (which was to manually install the couatl engine via a download on your websites).
Could someone please help me?
Thanks,
Henrik Sønstebø