chris512 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Hi, Is there an update or an eta on when we will be able to use this brilliant add on with Prepar3d 1.3? It's the only thing in my collection that won't work. I love using it! Please tell me there's an update coming to enable EFB in Prepar3d? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aivlasoft Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Hi Chris? it's on my "never-ending-list-of-things-to-do" , but I must tell you that it's not on the top of this list. Development of version 2 has priority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris512 Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 Hi, That's good news, knowing it's on the way.... Thanks for the reply. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris512 Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 Oh, if you want me to beta test anything when you do get around to adding Prepar3d support then just let me know. I'd be glad to help.... Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pscharff Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 EFB support for Prepar3D would be great. It's good to know you are working on it. Patric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG_Flyer Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Now that P3D is available to a wider audience, I've started looking into what's needed to allow EFB to run in that environment. "I" am not "Urs" and "Looking into" isn't technically "working on" but you get the drift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pscharff Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Now that P3D is available to a wider audience, I've started looking into what's needed to allow EFB to run in that environment. Great news! Thank you. Patric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG_Flyer Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Urs has had a few weeks to review the P3D SDK and intends to support P3D with EFB 2. He's been on a roll with alpha builds of version 2 recently and stopping that work to implement, test and tweak P3D support for the current version of EFB could cost three weeks of development. (My estimate.) I'm sure we all want EFB 2 ASAP, and many of us want P3D support. By taking this approach, everyone will get what they want in the most effective manner possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackharpenden Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Hello, While browsing the Avsim forums I found this - http://forum.avsim.net/topic/372470-aiv ... efb-works/ I'm not a Prepar3d user, but it seems someone can make EFB work with it. Thanks, Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aivlasoft Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Hi Jack, thanks for the link. I did a test with the renaming of "Prepar3d.exe" into "Fsx.exe" but I could not get it to work. Although EFB states "Connection established ..." it does only mean that it could connect to "Microsoft.FlightSimulator.SimConnect.dll". I especially mention the so called "fully qualified" name of the dll since the one that is used by Prepar3D is different: "LockheedMartin.Prepar3d.SimConnect.dll". EFB has a built in reference to the MS-FSX SimConnect and it will not call the LM-SimConnect.dll and therefore it will not "talk" to Prepar3d.exe (regardless whether it is renamed or not). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctec1 Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Howdy Folks, I cant tell you why EFB is working with Prepar3d but its working just fine for me. Originally I was getting a crash from FSUIPC but after disabling it its working pretty darn good. I made copies of both the Prepar3d.exe and the Prepar3d.cfg and renamed them to fsx.exe and fsx.cfg respectively. I start Prepared with the fsx.exe, wait for it to finish loading then get situated at my departure airport. Then start the EFB DP and wait for the connection to complete. Start the EFB DU, make a simple point "a" to point "b" route and click on the moving map and it works from there. Couldnt begin to tell you why its working for me but if I can assist you in any fashion with any deatailed info just give a shout. Thx, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FransKes Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 I flew with EFB fully connected to P3D yesterday (before that I used it unconnected). I learned how to do this in the AVSIM Prepar3D forum. To get EFB to connect, create a shortcut to Prepar3D.cfg called fsx.cfg and a shortcut to Prepar3D.exe called fsx.exe. That's it. EFB does everything it did with fsx. The slight initial downside is that most P3D options have to be reset, as it thinks that it is starting over (my controls worked, though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FransKes Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 P.S. One also has to point the fsx registry entry to the Prepar3D folder, and point the EFB folders to the Prepar3D equivalents (doing these alone allowed me to use EFB without actually connecting). But with the shortcuts, EFB is fully active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aivlasoft Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Mark, Frans, thanks for your replies and the "how-to-do's". Although it seems to work for now, keep in mind that there might be some Prepar3d software updates in the future which will no longer be compatible with the today's binaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG_Flyer Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 [Glyph of Travis with his fingers in his ears] "I don't believe in magic. I don't believe in magic. I don't believe in magic." Although I'm not running P3D currently, I think I can see what is happening behind the scenes here. And while as long as you - our customers - are happy, we're happy. But while I'm fairly certain that doing so will not damage anything - you can always re-configure your P3D install to run "normally" - I would assume that such a system would be "configured as to be outside the normal parameters to be properlly supported by the P3D vendor." Of course since FSX has been sans aggressive vendor support for several years, I think all of us are fairly adept at supporting one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overflow Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Here the easy way! EFB is searching a fsx.exe only as task, not more! I have renamed TOPCAT.exe in FSX.exe (or every other 32-Bit Application ) Then Topcat started... Then P3D... Then Data Provider... voila connected! Now Display Unit with a little plan ...WORKS! Here you find my German How To with picturers http://forum.flightm.de/index.php?page= ... adID=46189 Crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pscharff Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Yes, it works! Thanks for finding the key. Patric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overflow Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 The shortest way from another user in the german forum : Rename AivlaSoft.Efb.DataProvider.exe to fsx.exe and start. This will start efb and fake the fsx in task manager by himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aivlasoft Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 @all, please do not rename "AivlaSoft.Efb.DataProvider.exe" to "Fsx.exe", because it will not work in certain situations, especially when a restart of the application is needed. As I already described above, the DataProvider connects to SimConnect and not to Fsx. It only watches for a running process named Fsx so as not to continuously try to connect to SimConnect when Fsx is not (yet) running. To make sure that the scenery update is scanning the "Prepar3D bgl-files" you also must update the registry key for the Fsx installation path. But if you do so, bear in mind that a next EFB-installer might no longer run since it also reads this key from the registry. Please don't forget that Prepar3D is not yet supported by EFB. Please wait for version 2. I cannot guarantee that all this tinkering will work in every circumstances. You do it on your own risk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overflow Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 The warning is correct. But i use P3D only with a complete FAKE FSX INSTALLATION (sorry,only German):http://forum.flightm.de/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=44934 I have no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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