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SbuilderX won't run after install

awreaper

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Can someone tell me how to get this program working on a 64 bit Win 10 install? I downloaded and installed version 313. i have installed it to the default location, C drive and to the documents folder all with no luck. When I launch it the error is "Can't find the INI file, please delete it....". Well I can't find an INI file. There is a .cfg file in the directory but deleting it does no good. I found the 314 version which says it supports P3D and 64 bit. I extracted it per the read me but I still get the INI file error.
 
awreaper said:
i have installed it to the default location, C drive and to the documents folder all with no luck.
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Where is the default location? I installed it on a separate Partition and it works. Maybe a other location eg C:\SBuilderX would be better?
 
Have you a SBuilder.ini file? It is the only ini-file I have for this program. I think this file is not fix, it changes everytime you use this program.
I have to admit I use this program with Win7. So I didn't know if this program is compatible with Win10.
 
"When I launch it the error is "Can't find the INI file, please delete it....". Well I can't find an INI file. There is a .cfg file in the directory but deleting it does no good."
 
I think I have it fixed. I needed to run the program as an administrator. That took care of the ini file error.
 
Thanks for posting your solution ! :)

I had begun gathering some info for a reply related to the above SBuilderX error message, from what (very) little I could find online that was (remotely) related to this; but none of those mostly inconclusive threads I'd found thus far, had specifically mentioned this simple remedy:banghead: :

...to Run SBuilderX as Administrator :idea:.


Keep up the good problem-solving and thanks again for sharing your discoveries with others here ! ;)

GaryGB
 
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No problem and thanks for your help as well. Just to add, I am running this on Win 10 with P3D and I have not had to do anything extra other than running SBX as admin to get it to work. I am running SBX 3.4.
 
FYI: When you begin using SBuilderX version 3.14 (64-bit) to work with creating / editing CVX vector scenery content, there are outstanding questions as to whether the existing shapelib.dll file version supplied with SBuilderX (that was IIUC, a 32-bit file re-compiled for use in a 64-bit Windows environment) ...will actually work under Windows 10.

http://www.ptsim.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=2405

http://www.ptsim.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=2404

http://www.ptsim.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=2358


There are also outstanding questions as to whether this can simply be swapped out for another version of that shplib.dll file from either Arno's ModelConverterX (aka "MCX") or from one of the recent 64-bit compatible builds of the GDAL GIS application. :scratchch

So please keep us informed as to whether you encounter any issues in SBuilderX with "Appending" / creating / exporting such ESRI SHP file-related CVX vector scenery content via shapelib.dll ...that SBuilderX will also ultimately need to compile via FSX / P3D SDK SHP2VEC. ;)

GaryGB
 
The 64-bit shapelib.dll is the same as Arno's. Something is broken in Windows 10 regarding the way Luis Sa implemented the communication with the DLL file (using VB.net).

I would recommend anyone using SBuilderX to use the 32-bit version 3.14 when using Windows 10. You will lose a little memory room when working with huge bitmaps, but those can always be broken down to smaller files and BGLs.
 
Hi Dick:

Thanks for that clarification. :)


So, IIUC, in Windows10:

* one can still use SBuilderX 3.14 (64-bit) for aerial imagery tile downloads, as well as "Add Map" 'From Background'- or 'From Disk'-, and to compose aerial imagery BGLs that require use of the FSX / P3D Resample compiler ?

* we must use SBuilderX 3.13 (32-bit) for CVX vector work, including "Appending" SHP files, and creating, editing, BGLs that require use of the FSX / P3D SHP2VEC compiler ?


Thanks in advance for your further advisement on this issue for use of SBuilderX in Windows 10. :scratchch

GaryGB
 
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