FSHost and FSX Steam Edition

Sparko · January 10, 2015, 02:13:56 PM

It seems that FSX Steam Edition is not compatible with FSHost

This is the main reason I have held off from posting up the January fly-in as I know there are people that want to join us but only have the steam edition. With this in mind can people who would be interested in the next fly-in let me know what version of FSX they have installed (or prefer to use) and I will try and sort something out. If there are enough people using either version then we could do 2 flights (one for each version). Not really sure how to get round this so any suggestions welcome

albert · January 10, 2015, 02:29:05 PM

I don't know about you mate but the server didn't come up for me when I scanned, could it be it's just a case that the server is down or is there a web page explaining this?

I know I successfully used FSHost just after installing the steam version originally.

sulky_uk · January 10, 2015, 02:39:49 PM

just used fshost and the server seems to be down. I am in the process of installing everything onto steam edition, while keep the other edition installed, i suppose ill see how it turns out soon enough, either way if need i could host the steam fly in on paddys comp as he is a school till feb, and we can use fshost for everyone else, ill play both :devil:

albert · January 10, 2015, 02:47:36 PM

I tried another FSHotst server and the client loaded fine and I ran FSX Steam Edition fine. Nobody else was on the server so I couldn't tell if I was seeing other aircraft but I can't see how it wouldn't work.

Sparko · January 10, 2015, 05:06:45 PM

I tried it the other night and got a weird error message, tried tinkering with it but couldn't get it to locate my FSX install I'll have another look later

albert · January 10, 2015, 05:50:04 PM

So the client wouldn't even load or link to a server?

Sparko · January 10, 2015, 06:05:17 PM

nope cant load fshost, it says:

"The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect"

So this is obviously a local issue just for me rather than a compatibility issue. so looks like FSX and FSHost are ok (although I did read somewhere that it wasn't :blink: )

Apparently the issue is to do with 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package ' im just looking around now to find a solution.

Sparko · January 10, 2015, 07:11:47 PM

...aahhh finally fixed it.

If anyone else gets the message "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect" when running FSHost after installing the steam version you need to do the following:

Go to the following FSX steam directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\SDK\Core Utilities Kit\SimConnect SDK\LegacyInterfaces

in this folder there are 3 folders

FSX-RTM
FSX-SP1
FSX-XPACK

In each one of these folders there is a SimConnect installer. Run each one in turn in the order listed above.

FSHost should now run

smilodon · January 10, 2015, 11:21:14 PM

Oh no......
Hmmmm interesting.......
Good luck.....
Hurrah.......

Just catching up with the thread. Glad I'm still going to be able to have a go at flying in formation or whatever happens on the server.