Hello! Thanks for your feedback, let’s figure this out together!
The note about MSFS is just there to remind those who use that simulator that they do not need to install any plugins for it to work. You just need to have Simlink running in that case!
However, for X-Plane 12 you need to install a plugin that sends position updates to Simlink. Based on your 2nd and 3rd screenshots, Simlink does not have the correct path to your X-Plane installation, which means that it can’t install the plugin.
Is your simulator located directly within the Program Files (x86) directory? Not only is X-Plane 12 not a 32-bit application, it is usually installed in its own directory. Here is what it looks like for me for example:
Is the X-Plane.exe file located directly in C:\Program Files (x86), or is it located in C:\Program Files (x86)\X-Plane 12 or similar? If it is located directly inside the program files directory, then it is likely that you are having permission issues because of how Windows default permissions.
To me, it sounds like you accidentally installed X-Plane 12 into C:\Program Files (x86) thinking that it would create a new X-Plane 12 directory for you, but instead it installed the simulator directly in that folder. If that is the case, please reinstall the simulator in a dedicated folder.
Regardless of whether you do the above or not, please also follow these steps:
- Open Simlink
- Select the
Plugin Statustab - Press
Plugin settingsin the bottom right - Find the X-Plane 12 entry (shown in your 3rd screenshot) and press the three dots
to bring up the file browser - Select the folder that contains the X-Plane.exe file
- Press the button to the right of those three dots, now labelled Install Simlink.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further issues.
Kind Regards,
Malte