Solved New launcher won't start
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So at first I couldn’t get MFDe to work. I got black squares instead of instruments.
Installed the latest Visual C++ redistributable from the Microsoft website.
MFDe now works (not even the latest portable version, but the “old” 0.6.3).But… I am no longer able to start Falcon from the new launcher. I get a popup with " Log Start".
To run BMS, I have to revert to the old launcher.EDIT: tried a fresh install to no avail.
Does anybody have a clue?
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@Fluke clarify what fails to start . . the new launcher itself, or the launcher fails to launch BMS?
screenshot? or copy paste log output?
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@airtex2019 the new launcher itself. No logs in Windows event viewer, not sure where to find logs in Falcon. I’ll dig around.
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what OS is this
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what base directory do you have BMS installed in
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Thanks for your time!
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Screenshot of message upon trying to start the new launcher:
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running on a pretty fresh install of windows 10 pro (probably the reason I didn’t have the C++ distro’s to run MFDe)
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base directory is D:\Falcon BMS 4.37
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no longs in Falcon (not surprisingly, I guess, as it’s not Falcon but the AI that’s giving me the error)
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@Fluke this is a new one to me … anything in
"%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Benchmark_Sims\Launcher_Log.txt"
file?
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@airtex2019 I’m having a meltdown here… my user profile folder is… gone?
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@Fluke yeah I’m looking at the Alt Launcher code on GitHub… if it fails to write a line to log file, it falls back to showing line in a popup messagebox. That is what you’re seeing … “Log Start” should be the first line in the diagnostic log file.
The only way that code could fail, is if your user-profile directory is gone.
But if so … I don’t know how you’re even booting Windows and logging in!!!
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@Fluke I’m as curious as you to know what happened. Hopefully not some ransomware or something very bad.
Maybe step 1… unless someone else has brighter ideas… what do you get if you do
Start / Run / cmd.exe
C:\> set user USERDOMAIN=DEVHOST USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE=DEVHOST USERNAME=Airtex USERPROFILE=C:\Users\Airtex
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@airtex2019 I get the same (but obviously with different names), so my user profile just doesn’t show up in explorer but is still present
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@Fluke ok, next step – try this, but substitute your user name obvs
C:\> dir /a C:\Users\Airtex\AppData Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 421D-642A Directory of C:\Users\Airtex\AppData 11/21/2021 02:56 AM <DIR> . 11/21/2021 02:56 AM <DIR> .. 01/11/2023 10:35 PM <DIR> Local 02/20/2022 03:26 PM <DIR> LocalLow 01/10/2023 08:14 PM <DIR> Roaming 0 File(s) 0 bytes 5 Dir(s) 95,189,008,384 bytes free
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@airtex2019 ok, so the user folder was hidden, that was an easy fix. Still not sure why AI won’t write a log ofcourse.
I’m getting to the point where I’m desperate enough to reinstall my system lol
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@Fluke weird … so it starts now?
the thing that bothers me is, the ‘AppData’ subfolder under there is normally hidden, on Win10 … but not the top-level ‘Users’ directory, or ‘Users\YourName’ … or the Local, LocalLow, Roaming folders under there.
and the code still works… so not sure why a hidden top-level ‘Users’ dir would be any different than hidden mid-level ‘AppData’ dir. I’m afraid to try it and find out … lol
the Alt Launcher code is using entirely normal means to find and open that ‘Local’ directory… if that was failing, I’m really surprised much of anything was working on your box.
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@airtex2019 I’m pretty darn confused now, but now that my user folder is not hidden anymore, the launcher starts as it’s supposed to. For the life of me I can’t figure out what I have been messing with, but heck… it runs again…
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@Fluke glad I could help! I can’t imagine what caused that, and why it would cause such a failure (but not cause literally almost everything, including the Windows shell, to fail)
fingers crossed that was only problem, and easily resolved…
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@airtex2019 indeed… if anything weird happens I’ll reinstall my OS and start from scratch. Thanks for the support!
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@Fluke but srsly do a malware scan … I can imagine some cheesy, lazy ransomware saying “ha, we’ve deleted all your files! pay us bitcoin!” and really all they did was toggle the hidden-flag on C:\Users
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@airtex2019 will do. Also, its a dedicated rig so it would be no problem to just format c :).