What am I doing wrong?

[Matt Kaine 1195440]

I have spent about 5hrs now trying to get XSquawkBox and VatSim working and No Joy. Running

Win7 Ultimate

64bit

2gb Ram

Intel Xenon 3.20ghz Core 2

X Plane 9.7 32bit

Xsquawkbox 11

 

I followed instructions exactly. Downloaded and extracted files for XSquawkBox 11. Put the Folder XSquawkBox in the Resorces/Plugins folder. And could not get it to show up in Plugins menu after starting my XPlane 9.7. After some trial and error I found if I copied the win.xpl file from the 32 folder and stuck it directly into the resorces/plugins/Xsquawkbox folder I could at least get it to show up in Xplane but it is not loading any of the other files tho. I tried copying them directly to the /Xsquawkbox folder like the win.xpl file but still wont load.

 

So when I load as directed Xplane/Resources/Plugins/XSquawkbox/32 it doesn't even try to load in Xplane as shown in log file...

 

Windows 6.1 (build 7601/2) Service Pack 1

CPU type: 586

Physical Memory: 2146422784

CPU 0: Intel® Xeon CPU 3.20GHz Speed (mhz): 3200

CPU 0: Intel® Xeon CPU 3.20GHz Speed (mhz): 3200

CPU 0: Intel® Xeon CPU 3.20GHz Speed (mhz): 3200

CPU 0: Intel® Xeon CPU 3.20GHz Speed (mhz): 3200

 

X-System folder:'F:\X-Plane 9/', case sensitive=0

 

OpenGL Vendor : NVIDIA Corporation

OpenGL Render : GeForce GTX 560/PCIe/SSE2

OpenGL Version : 4.3.0 (430)

OpenGL Extensions: GL_AMD_multi_draw_indirect GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays GL_ARB_base_instance

 

....

 

HASP USB-key message: hasp_login: no key found

Fetching plugins for F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins

 

Loaded: F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\PluginAdmin\win.xpl.

 

PilotView - parsing setup file

PilotView - parsing successful

PilotView TrackIR Interface -- initialize OK.

PilotView TrackIR Interface : Window handle registration successful.

NaturalPoint software version is 5.00

PilotView TrackIR Interface : Cursor stopped

PilotView TrackIR Interface : Data transmission started

Loaded: F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\PilotViewWin.xpl.

 

HELIHUD: Reading config file F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\helihud\helihud.ini.

HELIHUD: loaded font courier.bmp, base 1.

HELIHUD: loaded font ArialSmall.bmp, base 101.

Loaded: F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\helihud\win.xpl.

 

Xsaitekpanels v1.46

Loaded: F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\Xsaitekpanels\win.xpl.

 

I found the following scenery packages (prioritized in this order):

0 Custom Scenery/__MACOSX/........

 

 

If I pull the win.xpl file out of the 32 folder and place directly into plugins/Xsquawkbox I get...

 

HASP USB-key message: hasp_login: no key found

Fetching plugins for F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins

 

Loaded: F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\PluginAdmin\win.xpl.

 

PilotView - parsing setup file

PilotView - parsing successful

PilotView TrackIR Interface -- initialize OK.

PilotView TrackIR Interface : Window handle registration successful.

NaturalPoint software version is 5.00

PilotView TrackIR Interface : Cursor stopped

PilotView TrackIR Interface : Data transmission started

Loaded: F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\PilotViewWin.xpl.

 

HELIHUD: Reading config file F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\helihud\helihud.ini.

HELIHUD: loaded font courier.bmp, base 1.

HELIHUD: loaded font ArialSmall.bmp, base 101.

Loaded: F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\helihud\win.xpl.

 

Xsaitekpanels v1.46

Loaded: F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\Xsaitekpanels\win.xpl.

 

XSB WARNING: could not open ICAO docomeent 8643 at F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\XSquawkBox\..\Resources\Doc8643.txt

XSB WARNING: could not open related.txt at F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\XSquawkBox\..\Resources\related.txt

XSB WARNING: we failed to find XSB's custom lighting texture at F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\XSquawkBox\..\Resources\lights.png.

Loaded: F:\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\XSquawkBox\win.xpl.

 

I found the following scenery packages (prioritized in this order):

0 Custom Scenery/__MACOSX/......

 

At this point XSquawkBox shows up in Xplane, but tells me it didn't load everything. So I try to log onto the Vatsim server and I get an

error: invalid cid/p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]word (6) message.

My ID was set to inactive and I reactivated it and might just be taking for ever for the Servers to re-activate my CID. I can wait a bit on that.

 

I find it odd that in the log file it is looking for files with \..\ in the address. It may mean nothing, but only thing I could find that could possibly stop the files from loading.

 

So any ideas as to why the core Xsquawkbox stuff isn't loading properly?

 

Not sure if it matters but Xplane has its own dedicated HDD separate from the HDD with the OS on it.

 

Thanks in advance for any advice. Right now my brain wants to explode from info overload.

[John Wiesenfeld]

If you are using XP9.7, you might want to try the earlier version of XSB, which is 1.0.6, also available on the XSB download page.

 

That has always worked OK for me.

 

Good luck.

 

John

[Mike Burke 1145825]

XP9 won't look in the 32/64 bit structured folders, as far as I know, since it predates support for those.

 

The older version of XSB should work fine for you since you're constrained to 32-bits - I'd try 1.0.6 first.

[Matt Kaine 1195440]

Thanks for the responses. After i posted last night i went back to the XsquawkBox download page and found the older version. Installed and verified it worked.

 

Now hopefully this will allow me to [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ign my PTT button. Last night with 11 as soon as I pressed [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ign 128 would appear and would not take any other [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ignment. I will play with it tonight, hopefully it will go smoothly.

 

Thanks again for the reply Guys!!!