new user -cant get dcs plugin into game manager

Ive tried drag and drop but no luck

its stuck on live for speed ( in built one )

I've left plug in zipped and ran game manager in admin mode

when I try to drag and drop it will not except the zip plug-in file

am I missing something out ? can someone please put a simple step by step procedure

I've spent an hour reading the instructions but they are zero help and lots of info i dont need

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the game manager will not accept the plugin when i try to drag and drop


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hello
witch one version Dcs used? need used |DCS ( not dcs beta)

hiya

thanks for reply, i tried the one in the plugins section + one that was user made in forum, both same problem

i will try this, so I am not to open sim tools at all, and use this updater thing in this file ...ok i will,give his a try, big thanks

@Adrianstealth How did you go?
I am having the same problem. When you drag any plugin file over the running SimTools_PluginUpdater.exe program box on my game PC, the pointer changes to the stop pointer and not the + pointer to indicate it can drop in?

All programs were run as administrator.
Partial installations were run as per each PC.
Ensured SimTools_GameManager was not running.
Firewall was checked to ensure that the .exe's were listed.
On failure to drop an uninstall was done and a complete power down to flush memory.
Installation was done for both the default directory and to C:\simtools => to allow full access to this directory by Windows 7 - Thanks billy G!)
On repeated failures a manual registry flush of simtools entries was done after uninstallation prior to full power down.
Live for Speed shows as the default game in partial installation whereas a full installation gives the option to not install it.

In my particular instance this is what transpired to my predicament...

I have two PC's running win7 and the game PC is patched to the latest release dcs world. The second PC is controlling the G-Seat and work very well with SMC3 (Many thanks again Rufus!!!). Over the weekend I did a full install on both the game and controller PC and was able to drag and drop the DCS plugins (Both standard and Rifts - but I thinks Rifts is standard now too?). When I got to do a full game test between the two PC's I could not see a UDP connection show up and of course there was no game data transfer. After verifying port numbers and export.lua I resolved that I did not do the partial installation necessary for each PC. I did a self contained install on both PC's?) I uninstalled on both PC's and did the required partial install on both PC's to C:\simtools.
and appeared to install okay. I then proceeded to install the plugins as part of the setup but found the game PC would not accept the dragged plugin no matter what steps I took.

The controller PC works and I can drag any plugin all day...

Excellent noorbeast. That was it. Learn something new everyday. I've almost always run exe's as admin to give full access when I remember. I am curious as to why it did not work with admin rights. (Path ways I suspect?).

Thanks again. Another hurdle passed.

big thanks noorbeast

i found the thing hiding in the folder, my memory is coming back too lol

I also was un-zipping the plug-ins which is wrong, shames things are not a bit more user friendly
as some people never bother with forums

yes its misleading
find the thing that noorbeast mentioned its a 3rd item hiding that you need to drag and drop the UNZIPPED plug-in file too,
that should work

again ....do not un-zip the plug in keep it as it is and drag and drop