Question New SimTools 2.5.1 installation problems

Hi All,

I'm new to SimTools (but not to programming) and am trying to install latest pro version 2.5.1 on a win10 pro pc. Software installs ok (into default location and default settings), I have purchased and installed a valid licence, the latest net 4 is installed but I seem to be missing the default_interfaceplugin.dll (nothing shows in it's directory) which is causing error messages when starting the program, I can get past this but the program won't run properly of course.

I've looked through the forum and found a similar problem with an earlier version started by marki0816 but that solution does not work for me.

Has anyone a solution to this - possibly a pointer to download the missing dll ?

Thanks in advance.

Hi yobuddy,

Thanks for the quick reply. I've already tried uninstalling (using the win uninstaller and then manually deleting the directories in users, except licence dir) and reinstalling the prog in default and another directory, all times the interfaceplugins directory is completely empty. Will try installing as admin (notes do not mention this) then with av off (kaspersky). Let you know shortly - also I did download the ms flight sim plugin which loaded ok but I can't find where that was put.

Hi yobuddy again,

After a lot of install/uninstall on various computers I've managed to understand and solve my problem.

1) Simtools prefers to be installed in an admin level account (installing in a standard account with admin override will install some but not all files). It worked ok on this computer but I couldn't find the admin\AppData\Local... files

2) My antivirus (kaspersky) wasn't the problem, leaving it on/off had no effect

3) My computer is needing another clean install of win10 (I do a lot of programming that requires me to deliberately crash the system and eventually the gremlins sneak in) - my admin user group is not showing in explorer and when I force it to show it hides the apps dir.

4) Installing on another pc (laptop) still required to be in an admin account but everything works as it should

5) Copying the admin\AppData\Local... files in the laptop SimTools dir to this pc in my normal user account got everything working as it should (and there where way more dir's and files than originally installed at the start of play today)

So thanks for the pointer, now I can move on a step.

Note, I will be soon posting a program I wrote a while back for 6dof stewart platforms that lets the user just input the basic dims of the machine then animate it and find all the leg loads, extensions, motor specs etc - just got to rip out some comms links so it will run nicely without an actual machine.