Joshua Reiman Posted August 19, 2020 at 12:35 AM Posted August 19, 2020 at 12:35 AM Looked around forum with no exact answers to this problem. Error Reads: "No supported flight simulators were detected! Please ensure you have FSX or Prepar3D installed correctly. vPilot will now exit." Any solutions for this problem or a fix? Additional Info: - I was in the Beta - Did not attempt vPilot in Beta - Currently on Steam Version - Retried install of vPilot multiple times. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Worden Posted August 19, 2020 at 01:27 AM Posted August 19, 2020 at 01:27 AM Same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 19, 2020 at 04:31 AM Posted August 19, 2020 at 04:31 AM My guess is they changed the registry information that vPilot uses to detect the sim. If you are comfortable with the registry editor, please take a look and see if this key exists: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 1250410 Within that key should be a subkey called InstallLocation, which contains the path where the sim is installed. If that key doesn't exist, please check to see if there is a similar one nearby perhaps with a different Steam App number. 1 Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Worden Posted August 19, 2020 at 07:56 AM Posted August 19, 2020 at 07:56 AM Yeah, mine was installed under a folder named chucky. I renamed it to the MicrosoftFlightSimulator folder and now it works. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roel Schie Posted August 19, 2020 at 10:33 AM Posted August 19, 2020 at 10:33 AM (edited) I have the same issue, I have found the folder Chucky, I also found that key. Do I need to rename the folder Chucky to 'MicrosoftFlightSimulator'? If so, there a problem, there already is a folder with that name. Both are loacted in steamapps/common. Does somebody have a more noob explaination on what to do? Edit. I've got it. For anyone wondering, in start, type 'regedit' and open the program. Follow the path as show some posts above. open the installLocation and change /Chucky to /MicrosoftFlightSimulator. Previous explanation seemed very vague until I did it. Edited August 19, 2020 at 10:59 AM by Roel Schie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Edvin Aaro Posted August 19, 2020 at 10:59 AM Posted August 19, 2020 at 10:59 AM 25 minutes ago, Roel Schie said: I have the same issue, I have found the folder Chucky, I also found that key. Do I need to rename the folder Chucky to 'MicrosoftFlightSimulator'? If so, there a problem, there already is a folder with that name. Both are loacted in steamapps/common. Does somebody have a more noob explaination on what to do? Yes, there is another user having that exact problem, renaming it works perfectly! Mats Edvin AarøAssistant to the Vice President - Supervisors VATSIM General Manager: Member Engagement[email protected] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Haag Posted August 19, 2020 at 02:40 PM Posted August 19, 2020 at 02:40 PM (edited) no joy on my end, im not using steam edition, no Chucky anywhere, no regkey or similar matching. Still crawling through the registry to find anything. What other Keys does vpilot look for? This is the MSStore or Xbox gamepass version btw. Thanks for any help! 🙂 My installation lives under: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.7.12.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe Edited August 19, 2020 at 02:52 PM by Tobias Haag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reynolds Posted August 19, 2020 at 03:42 PM Posted August 19, 2020 at 03:42 PM (edited) I renamed chucky to microsoftflightsimulator in the steamapps/common and merged the files but that didn't fix it. I checked the registry and couldn't find microsoftflightsimulator in the registry. What else should I be trying? edit: I have not made any progress, I could not find the flight simulator in the registry under any of the suggested locations, and I don't want to break it so I'm just going to hope they update vpilot in the future to fix this. Edited August 19, 2020 at 05:24 PM by David Reynolds Frsutration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 19, 2020 at 04:44 PM Posted August 19, 2020 at 04:44 PM For the record, I would NOT recommend renaming folders or changing registry values. Who knows what effects that might have later on. vPilot currently looks at these registry keys to locate the MSFS installation directory: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FlightSimulator.exe\InstallLocation SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FlightSimulator.exe\Path SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 1250410\InstallLocation SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 1250410\Path It looks for these keys under both HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER 8 hours ago, Bryan Worden said: Yeah, mine was installed under a folder named chucky. I renamed it to the MicrosoftFlightSimulator folder and now it works. Weird. Bryan, are you saying the registry folder was called Chucky or the disk folder was called Chucky? vPilot doesn't care what the disk folder is called. It looks in the registry to find the name of the disk folder, and it can be anything. I saw other users where it was named Chucky and that's just fine. Just changing the disk folder should not make vPilot suddenly find the sim. What's important for vPilot is that it can find the registry value that stores the install location. vPilot then checks that install location on disk to see if the folder contains the exe file, which is called FlightSimulator.exe. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Worden Posted August 19, 2020 at 05:42 PM Posted August 19, 2020 at 05:42 PM Sorry for being vague. No I did not rename any folders. I renamed the registry key from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 1250410 Clicking on that key showed me the "InstallLocation" was set to the folder ...steamapps\common\Chucky. I replaced "Chucky" with "MicrosoftFlightSimulator" ie ...steamapps\common\MicrosoftFlightSimulator Now everything works as it should. Sorry for not being more descriptive earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Haag Posted August 19, 2020 at 05:54 PM Posted August 19, 2020 at 05:54 PM (edited) 1 hour ago, Ross Carlson said: For the record, I would NOT recommend renaming folders or changing registry values. Who knows what effects that might have later on. vPilot currently looks at these registry keys to locate the MSFS installation directory: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FlightSimulator.exe\InstallLocation SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FlightSimulator.exe\Path SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 1250410\InstallLocation SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 1250410\Path It looks for these keys under both HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER Bryan, are you saying the registry folder was called Chucky or the disk folder was called Chucky? vPilot doesn't care what the disk folder is called. It looks in the registry to find the name of the disk folder, and it can be anything. I saw other users where it was named Chucky and that's just fine. Just changing the disk folder should not make vPilot suddenly find the sim. What's important for vPilot is that it can find the registry value that stores the install location. vPilot then checks that install location on disk to see if the folder contains the exe file, which is called FlightSimulator.exe. AhA ! This was super helpful! Mine was pointing to alpha! Going to fix that 🙂 working now 🙂 THANK YOU! Edited August 19, 2020 at 05:55 PM by Tobias Haag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Reiman Posted August 19, 2020 at 06:50 PM Author Posted August 19, 2020 at 06:50 PM Can confirm the Chucky fixed worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 19, 2020 at 09:42 PM Posted August 19, 2020 at 09:42 PM Just put out 2.6.2 which fixes this issue without you having to edit your registry values. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reynolds Posted August 19, 2020 at 10:08 PM Posted August 19, 2020 at 10:08 PM (edited) 1 hour ago, Ross Carlson said: Just put out 2.6.2 which fixes this issue without you having to edit your registry values. I updated vpilot and it still didn't work so I have no idea what the problem is. I verified the integrity of the files through steam and everything validated. Edited August 19, 2020 at 10:47 PM by David Reynolds more information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 19, 2020 at 11:17 PM Posted August 19, 2020 at 11:17 PM David, you talked about renaming and merging files and such, so I don't have any idea what state your installation is currently in. The fix people were talking about with changing "Chucky" to "MicrosoftFlightSimulator" was referring to changing the value in the InstallLocation key in the registry, not changing anything on disk or merging files. So I'm not sure how to assist you at this point. Let me know what state your registry and files are in right now and maybe we can proceed from there. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reynolds Posted August 19, 2020 at 11:53 PM Posted August 19, 2020 at 11:53 PM Ok, I am not great with this sort of thing so if you could tell me specifically what you would like to know from me it would be much appreciated. In the registry I can find steam app ###### for 19/21 installed steam items. One of the missing items is MSFS and I'm not sure what the other one is at this moment. It was not there prior to deleting the Chucky folder either which is what I think I did to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 20, 2020 at 12:41 AM Posted August 20, 2020 at 12:41 AM You're saying you don't have the MSFS Steam registry entries at all? (The ones with app ID 1250410) Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reynolds Posted August 20, 2020 at 12:47 AM Posted August 20, 2020 at 12:47 AM (edited) Yes that is correct I also tried installing simconnect and the fse client and the fse client has not been able to connect to the sim either. Edited August 20, 2020 at 12:57 AM by David Reynolds more info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 20, 2020 at 01:52 AM Posted August 20, 2020 at 01:52 AM Did you delete the MSFS Steam registry entries, or did never have them to begin with? Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reynolds Posted August 20, 2020 at 01:55 AM Posted August 20, 2020 at 01:55 AM (edited) I did not have them to begin with. Should I try a clean install maybe? update: Must've been a issue with the install because a clean install fixed it and I feel like a moron. Thanks for all your help. Edited August 20, 2020 at 02:06 AM by David Reynolds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 20, 2020 at 02:05 AM Posted August 20, 2020 at 02:05 AM This may sound like a stupid question, but do you actually have the Steam version, not the Windows Store or GamePass version? Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilles Bellaire Posted August 20, 2020 at 11:25 AM Posted August 20, 2020 at 11:25 AM (edited) Hi guys, Same problem with 2.6.2 and I'm using the FS2020 Microsoft store version. Do I have any chance to run vPilot? Thank you for your help. G Edited August 20, 2020 at 11:50 AM by Gilles Bellaire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reynolds Posted August 20, 2020 at 11:54 AM Posted August 20, 2020 at 11:54 AM 9 hours ago, Ross Carlson said: This may sound like a stupid question, but do you actually have the Steam version, not the Windows Store or GamePass version? I had the steam version but its working now. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Boulton Posted August 20, 2020 at 02:39 PM Posted August 20, 2020 at 02:39 PM Just fixed my steam version it was because the following keys: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FlightSimulator.exe\InstallLocation SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FlightSimulator.exe\Path were still set to the location where I had the beta installed (even though its not installed anymore) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted August 20, 2020 at 02:52 PM Posted August 20, 2020 at 02:52 PM 3 hours ago, Gilles Bellaire said: Hi guys, Same problem with 2.6.2 and I'm using the FS2020 Microsoft store version. Do I have any chance to run vPilot? Thank you for your help. G Gilles, please see this post from me earlier in this thread. Please let me know which of those registry keys you have. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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