multi-machine issue

[RiteFlyer]

Glad to see drones are back! I’ll need them for testing the external visuals- I updated all pcs on the 7-pc sim, edited the VSProSlaves.ini on the master to “5” but couldn’t see an aircraft on the ramp at KPSP last night. Keith, do you know of any issues with the upgrade and multi-machine setups? (just FYI WinXP, XP 9.70 - 1 Master, 5 visuals, 1 instructor station)

[Keith Smith]

No issues that I know of, there was another user who tested it on a multi machine setup and it worked for him.

[RiteFlyer]

Ok, thanks- I’ll look into it further today...

[RiteFlyer]

Keith- Still no aircraft visible on the external views - PE folder installed in the Resources/Plugins directory on each pc. Should the external view pcs be showing that they are running the PE plugin? they are currently showing there are no plugins installed. The Master does show the plugin and connects to PE without issue. I did edit the .ini.

I did not install the plugin on the instructor station.

Thanks

[Keith Smith]

Yes, the plugin needs to be installed and functional on the master AND all the slaves. You said that no plugins are viewable on the slave machines, that's the problem right there. If the plugin isn't loaded/running on the slaves, then by definition, you're not going to see anything on the slaves.

You need to find out why the plugin isn't loading on the slaves. A post of the log.txt file would be helpful.

[RiteFlyer]

I installed the plugin on the IOS (old pc but works for IOS), and it behaves the same as the external view machines. Here is the log.txt which shows essentially the same as all of the ext views' error ("C:\Documents and Settings\Home\Desktop\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\PilotEdge\win.xpl : Error Code = 126 : The specified module could not be found."):




"log.txt for X-Plane 9.70 X-Plane 970000 compiled on Jun 1 2011 23:57:30

This log file is generated automatically by Laminar Research applications and contains diagnostics about your graphics hardware, installation, and any error conditions.
If you need to contact tech support or file a bug, please send us this file. NOTE: this file is rewritten every time you start ANY of your X-System applications.

If you got a hard system crash and want to report this to Laminar Research, then be sure to send your crash_report.txt file generated by the crash as well!

Windows 5.1 (build 2600/2) Service Pack 3
CPU type: 586
Physical Memory: 3756085248
CPU 0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz Speed (mhz): 2793
CPU 0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz Speed (mhz): 2793

X-System folder:'C:\Documents and Settings/Home/Desktop/X-Plane 9/', case sensitive=0

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CPU count : 2
HASP USB-key message: hasp_login: no key found
Fetching plugins for C:\Documents and Settings\Home\Desktop\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins

Loaded: C:\Documents and Settings\Home\Desktop\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\PluginAdmin\win.xpl.

Loaded: C:\Documents and Settings\Home\Desktop\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\Cygnus.xpl.

C:\Documents and Settings\Home\Desktop\X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\PilotEdge\win.xpl : Error Code = 126 : The specified module could not be found.
I found the following scenery packages (prioritized in this order):
0 Custom Scenery/LOWI Demo Area/
1 Custom Scenery/LOWI Demo overlay/
2 Custom Scenery/LOWI Demo terrain/
3 Custom Scenery/Mars Demo Area/
4 Global Scenery/-global overlays-/
5 Global Scenery/-global terrain-/
6 Resources/default scenery/700 roads/
7 Resources/default scenery/900 beaches/
8 Resources/default scenery/900 europe objects/
9 Resources/default scenery/900 forests/
10 Resources/default scenery/900 red terrain/
11 Resources/default scenery/900 roads/
12 Resources/default scenery/900 us objects/
13 Resources/default scenery/900 world object placeholders/
14 Resources/default scenery/900 world terrain/
15 Resources/default scenery/default apt dat/
16 Resources/default scenery/sim objects/

Could not find tile 48 name is close-frame
(in sign '{@B}{no-entry}' from airport KBFI)
Starting scenery shift at 0
DSF rotate time: 2 for 0 DSFs.
DSF load time: 1289557 for file Global Scenery/-global overlays-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+33-118.dsf
DSF load time: 1777014 for file Global Scenery/-global terrain-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+33-118.dsf
DSF load time: 143170 for file Global Scenery/-global overlays-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+33-117.dsf
DSF load time: 1852771 for file Global Scenery/-global terrain-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+33-117.dsf
DSF load time: 40777 for file Global Scenery/-global overlays-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+33-116.dsf
DSF load time: 1508793 for file Global Scenery/-global terrain-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+33-116.dsf
DSF load time: 253950 for file Global Scenery/-global overlays-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+34-118.dsf
DSF load time: 2024484 for file Global Scenery/-global terrain-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+34-118.dsf
DSF load time: 102772 for file Global Scenery/-global overlays-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+34-117.dsf
DSF load time: 1682192 for file Global Scenery/-global terrain-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+34-117.dsf
DSF load time: 35910 for file Global Scenery/-global overlays-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+34-116.dsf
DSF load time: 1692248 for file Global Scenery/-global terrain-/Earth nav data/+30-120/+34-116.dsf
Loading airplane number 0 with Aircraft/General Aviation/Carenado_C_172IIN/Carenado_C172.acf.
Preload time: 881108.
Total load time: 38
HASP USB-key message: hasp_login: no key found
HASP USB-key message: hasp_login: no key found
HASP USB-key message: hasp_login: no key found
Preload time: 1508.
Preload time: 762."

[RiteFlyer]

Ok, so here's what I did to get it to work- I copied the contents of resources/plugins/pilotedge/32 to the root of /pilotedge, which really just added the msvcr100.dll to the /pilotedge directory.

[Keith Smith]

Good to know. It works for me either way because I have that DLL in my system path already (it's the C++ runtime), so I didn't notice the issue.

I'll get the main distribution updated, thx.

[Daddy O]

I had an interesting situation like yours once. Out of the blue i couldnt see anyone.

Turned out the custom airport i was using had the wrong altitude set, so the planes were all taxiing 50 feet above me. Doh!