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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | DVA Fleet download issue

DVA10874
Captain, B737-800

Joined on June 29 2012
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Everett 500 Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
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""You can't fix stupid""
Gold Canyon, AZ

1,337 legs, 2,404.3 hours
1,333 legs, 2,393.3 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on February 19 2017 10:58 ET by Gary Maple

I have not been able to add any aircraft from the DVA fleet installer to FSX Steam, or from any other source for that matter. I have both FSX boxed and FSX Steam installed on my computer however the installer does not recognize that FSX Steam is installed, only that FSX is installed. I saw a post here that said to remove FSX Boxed to fix this issue. OK, but when I look at control panel/remove programs Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Acceleration is listed directly above Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition. Can I remove the Boxed Acceleration without messing up the Steam Edition? Or are they dependent on each other? I have added many planes the my FSX Boxed with no issues. So far the Steam version is running much better then the Boxed version ever has. Any suggestions?

Gary Maple (DVA10874)

DVA10785
Captain, CRJ-200
OLP

Joined on June 02 2012
50 State Club
Piranha Club
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Everett Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Established on the localizer..."
Lugoff, SC

273 legs, 698.0 hours
64 legs, 158.9 hours online
270 legs, 685.6 hours ACARS
18 legs, 34.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on February 19 2017 17:37 ET by Michael Koger

FSX boxed and FSX: Steam are completely independent of each other. I use FSX: Steam with fleet and add on aircraft with no issues.

Michael Koger

Captain, CRJ-200

DVA12547
Captain, A320
OLP

Joined on February 21 2015
B737 50 Club
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DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Midwestern United States

247 legs, 546.8 hours
9 legs, 12.3 hours online
246 legs, 545.3 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on February 21 2017 17:52 ET by Daniel Grovemiller

I had the problems you describe when i had both boxed and steam FSX installed. Then I got a new computer and decided not to install the boxed FSX, but only FSX Steam. With only one version of FSX installed, everything is fine. Older installers, including the DVA fleet installers, accept FSX Steam as FSX and work ok.

Daniel Grovemiller

Captain, A320

Posted onPost created on February 21 2017 19:14 ET by Gary Maple

Thank You for your replies, I un-installed FSX Boxed and all associated files that I can find. Now when I try the DVA installer for the 737NG there is no option for FSX Steam showing and the FSX selection is grayed-out. I do have FS9 installed on my computer and the selection for it does show up. FSX Steam still opens and runs fine so apparently there is no issue with it.

Gary Maple (DVA10874)

DVA11445
Senior Captain, B727-200

Joined on April 12 2013
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"Amici e vini sono meglio vecchi..."
West Monroe, LA

1,808 legs, 2,793.5 hours
1,716 legs, 2,499.9 hours online
1,755 legs, 2,711.3 hours ACARS
1 legs dispatched, 1.9 hours

Posted onPost created on February 21 2017 23:54 ET by Ronnie Jacola

Have you tried running the registry fixer from the DVA library yet?

Ronnie Jacola

Senior Captain, B727-200

Posted onPost created on February 22 2017 18:32 ET by Gary Maple

Tried the registry fixer, it only recognizes that FS9 is installed on my computer and nothing else, and will only apply the fixer to FS9. Something is preventing the installers from recognizing that FSX Steam is installed on my computer. Any suggestions??

Gary Maple (DVA10874)

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
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Joined on January 30 2006
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Charlotte, NC

1,287 legs, 1,796.9 hours
841 legs, 1,048.5 hours online
1,269 legs, 1,774.9 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on February 22 2017 21:56 ET by Andrew Vane

I believe that if you have both FS9 and FSX installed, it may be creating a conflict. I had to finally ditch FS9 to get things working smoothly.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on February 28 2017 19:25 ET by Gary Maple

Update: I have since been able to download add-on aircraft to FSX Steam from Simviation.com with no problems. Also ACARS DOES recognize that FSX Steam is installed on my computer and it runs just fine. The issue is that the DVA Fleet Installer does not recognize FSX Steam. It seems that there is no one from the DVA IT, or the development team out there. Who is actually created this program and are they listening? The helpful suggestion from fellow members is much appreciated, but a response from the folks who actually created DVA fleet installer would be great.

Gary Maple (DVA10874)

Posted onPost created on March 01 2017 00:57 ET by Michael Koger

This is a screenshot of the DVA Fleet installer on my PC.

http://prnt.sc/eeiy35

I run FSX:Steam and it shows up as FSX in the installer, but if you look at the file path it points to Steam. Can you post a screenshot of that screen for you? I have tried just about every DVA Fleet installer aircraft and besides some issues with panels that I was able to fix, they all work in Steam.

Michael Koger

Captain, CRJ-200

Posted onPost created on March 01 2017 21:52 ET by Gary Maple

OK here is a screen shot, hope it works I have just started using Lightshot.

http://prntscr.com/eexjwc

Gary Maple (DVA10874)

Posted onPost created on March 01 2017 22:08 ET by Michael Koger

The only other thing I can suggest is a complete removal of FSX: Steam and a fresh reinstall.

Michael Koger

Captain, CRJ-200

Posted onPost created on March 01 2017 22:51 ET by Gary Maple

I did exactly that two days ago. I uninstalled FSX steam as well as all SIM Connect Client programs using Control Panel. It was a LOT more difficult to get logged back in to Steam this time for some reason. After the reinstall............ same result.
Thank you for your help, I will keep trying to fix this.

Gary Maple (DVA10874)

Posted onPost created on March 02 2017 06:23 ET by Michael Koger

It has to be a conflict with FS9, otherwise I have no idea. Best of luck fixing it.

Michael Koger

Captain, CRJ-200

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

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2,314 legs, 9,320.7 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,972 legs, 8,113.8 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,350 legs, 9,455.6 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on March 02 2017 10:36 ET by Luke Kolin

I think the problem stems from the fact that FSX:SE will write its location to different registry entries if FSX is already installed. I'm not sure how to get around this unless one does a complete FSX removal and then removes and reinstalls FSX:SE. Even then that might not do it.

I'll take a look at switching the registry fixer to look in the FSX:SE paths.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on March 04 2017 14:36 ET by Gary Maple

OK I have fixed everything, When I installed FSX Steam, by default it goes to Program files(x86) in a stand alone file all by itself. It never asked where I wanted to install it. I simply moved it form there to the Microsoft Games folder right below the FS9 folder already there. Now the DVA Fleet Installer does see that FSX Steam is installed and my 737-800 finally DOES appear! Life is good! smile

Posted onPost created on March 04 2017 14:37 ET by Michael Koger

Gary Maple wrote:

OK I have fixed everything, When I installed FSX Steam, by default it goes to Program files(x86) in a stand alone file all by itself. It never asked where I wanted to install it. I simply moved it form there to the Microsoft Games folder right below the FS9 folder already there. Now the DVA Fleet Installer does see that FSX Steam is installed and my 737-800 finally DOES appear! Life is good!

Glad to hear that you figured it out.

Michael Koger

Captain, CRJ-200

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