I purchased the product last night, read the manual, and tried to run it. So far, no success.

I'm running Windows XP, so the whole "run as administrator" is a non-issue.

The first thing I did was assign the weapons to an aircraft. It was an old FS9 aircraft ported over to FSX, lacking a panel, so I thought this would be a good candidate for the weapons mod. When I brought up the panel, the main panel and the HUD background appeared, but when I selected the HUD itself, the pointer turned into an hourglass and just sat there flashing over and over with no HUD. I exited the sim, reloaded, and this time selected the weapons-enabled FA-18. This time, I was able to get the HUD. When I went back and selected my aircraft and tried to enable the HUD, again, no HUD and a blinking hourglass, as if something is stuck in an endless loop.

Oh well, I can at least enjoy the FA18, right?

Relaunched sim, selected FA-18, brought up the HUD. I pushed the button to fire the guns. The guns fired a couple dozen rounds, and I saw the effects on the screen - but then the sound got stuck and just kept repeating the gunfire, over and over and over again. I couldn't make it stop except to exit the sim.

I really want to like the product, but it seems very, very buggy to me.

Okay, I guess by posting the whole story with all the details threw you guys off.

Here's what I did this time: I uninstalled Weapons for FSX. I re-installed it. I started my sim and chose the FA-18 that it put the weapons in against by default. I didn't modify any other aircraft.

Panel comes up blank. I pressed Shift+1 to bring up main panel, shift+2 to bring up HUD gauge, and shift+3 to bring up HUD background. I clicked the Master on the panel.

Then, as I clicked into this browser window and began typing this message, as soon as I pressed the space bar for the first time, the RDM REM showed 189 and the sim started making an unending clicking sound - which I assume to be the guns - and it hasn't stopped. In fact, in the course of writing this statement, my rounds remaining has decreased to 99, decreasing a little bit every time I press the spacebar.

I switched the selector over to rockets, showing and just now it fired them all, but it is still stuck on an endless sound loop - still playing the gun sound.

The effects are appearing when I press the spacebar (but interesting that it doesn't matter where I am in when I press the spacebar; it reacts to ANY time I press the spacebar, whether I am in focused in the FSX window or not), but the sound starts the first time I press the spacebar and never stops. I really wish I could make the awful clicking sound stop.

Even when the rounds run out according to the counter on the panel, the sound still continues.

I've been warned in the past about Captain Sim products, and this would seem to confirm it - I'm too stupid to use a Captain Sim product. I just wish I hadn't spent the $22 on this. I read the favorable review at FlightSim.com the other day and thought I would give it a go, despite the flurry of negative reviews at FSPilotShop.com. Man, do I feel really dumb now.

Oh, well, off to uninstall it again. Is there any way to get a refund? Apparently, there's no support and no documentation. I wish the review at FS.com made that clearer. I didn't know I was paying $22 to be a Beta tester.  

Markoz wrote on Jul 19^th, 2011 at 2:34am:


If you have a fix, why can't you give it to me? So, I have to somehow figure out how to enter a support ticket to fix a problem with a piece of software I just bought - but you can't just tell me how to fix it? Are we really going to play "I've got a secret"? Why isn't there anything in the documentation? Why isn't there a link to a patch? Why is it the first time I hear of this problem is here - and even then the answer is nebulous at best?

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Ok, I don't like playing with the registry, but I'll give that a shot.

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Been there, done that.

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Yes, I received that. If only it worked like the manual said. Nothing to aid in trouble shooting, such as where files should go or what should you do if, say, the HUD doesn't appear or the sound gets stuck. Guess that's how software companies like this make money; making customers pay for support for buggy products.

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Interesting, just above you referenced that there is a fix for the sound problem (sounds like someone else has had that issue at some point) and that there is this mysterious KB #685 that apparently someone else has had this problem as well.

Of course, it would still be helpful to actually point me to the answers instead of telling me there's fixes and I need to look for them (what do you think I've been doing for the past two days) and then saying "You're the only one with the problem."

Markoz,

I apologize for my remarks. I thought that you served in an official capacity on behalf of Captain Sim.

I followed your advice and contacted the support desk, who gave me a link to the V1.01 Weapons for FSX. I don't know why this isn't public knowledge; at best, a FAQ saying "If you have sound problems, request version 1.01" or at a minimum, an entry in the KB. As it is, if you hadn't have responded back to me, I still would not have known about the v1.01 that resolved my sound problem. I still think Captain Sim would do well to at least create an entry in this forum about the issue. Perhaps I'll do that as a service to others in my situation.

Thanks for your assistance.

I apologize for my remarks. I thought that you served in an official capacity on behalf of Captain Sim.
That's okay. I understand your frustration.

Mark