Hyperion35

Thank you very much for this solution, I'd had the same problem with the FC3 install telling me that LOMAC was not installed. I am running Windows XP x64 edition, and I had the registry values in the WOW6432NODE. Once I added the registry key and path value to the standard location you mentioned for a 32 bit system, the installer worked just fine. Fortunately I hadn't run DCS: World recently because of the difficulty installing FC3, so had not updated it. Thank y'all very much and now I expect I'm going to get shot down many many times, but if this is as good as the previous DCS modules, it'll be worth it.

I've tried re-installing LOMAC several times, as well as re-downloading the FC3 module. This time I'm trying to re-download the FC3 module from the HTTP link instead of via torrent. The previous times I'd downloaded FC3 from the torrent link because it was faster. Maybe that version is screwy? If my <expletive> internet service actually remains connected long enough for the download to complete, I'll let you know if that works.

Already tried that. Are you using the CD version of LOMAC or the digital download from the Ubisoft store? So far the one thing all of the complaints have in common is that the digital download version is the one being used.

Hell, it might help if we even knew how it searches. Is it looking at the registry? Is it looking solely in C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics? Is it looking for some other hook that the CD version installs but the digital download version doesn't? For that matter, the digital download version does seem to copy what look like the CD files to a temp folder (at least, it includes an autorun.exe) during the installation. If I had any blank CDs with me, I'd try burning those files to disk and seeing if that helps. Finally, it doesn't seem like the digital download version contains any sort of DRM. It doesn't ask for a CD key (and the email didn't include one), and the registration appears to be optional. Perhaps FC3 is looking specifically for some sort of DRM that was included in the earlier disc version of LOMAC that is no longer included in the digital download version from Ubisoft?

Any plans yet to allow people who purchased the digital download version of LOMAC from Ubisoft install FC3?

I have no problem with giving ED my money, but I do expect that in return I will be able to play the game. I purchased LOMAC from the Ubisoft store from the link on the FC3 webpage. Downloaded and installed it. Purchased FC3, downloaded the FC3 module for DCS: World. All my other DCS: World modules installed just fine. When I tried to install the FC3 module, I get a message that Lock On: Modern Air Combat must be installed. I get this message even if I have LOMAC running at the same time.

Judging from the comments on the other thread, it sounds as though this might be a problem with the digital download version that is sold on the Ubisoft store, or else a problem with the FC3 installer recognizing that version. This is a showstopper-level bug. This is not "landing gear aren't working" or some graphical glitch, this is "customers who paid for the game can't install it". If this is not their highest-priority bug fix then I would love to hear an explanation for why that is. I understand that their contract with Ubisoft requires them to release Flaming Cliffs as an add-on to LOMAC, but if Ubisoft's own version of LOMAC isn't providing the proper hooks for FC3 to recognize, then either ED needs to find some other way for FC3 to recognize the digital download version, or else they need to have a way to send an installer to those of us who can show that we've purchased the digital download version that doesn't require LOMAC.

Meh, I understand that the term "beta" means that by definition not all features are implemented yet. Problem is, one feature that has not been implemented is allowing people who have purchased the digital download of LOMAC to install FC3. Even while LOMAC is running I still get the message from the FC3 installer that LOMAC must be installed. So like I said, I wouldn't complain about bugs or features that aren't yet implemented in a beta release, especially the first public beta release, but I will complain about showstopper-level bugs that prevent legitimate users who have purchased the product from installing it.

Buying the digital version doesn't work anyways. At least, not at the moment. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=96726 Several of us have submitted tickets to ED and have posted comments here. No word back from ED about why or how to fix it. So ironically enough, you're probably better off for having to buy the CD version, since that appears to be the only version of LOMAC that allows you to install FC3.

If I get a response from the ticket I submitted, I'll post it here as well. Here's a pic of the installer telling me that I don't have LOMAC installed while LOMAC is running in the background.

Yes, I am having the same problem. I am running Windows XP x64 Professional Edition. I left a support ticket on the main DCS webpage. I have also included a screenshot of LOMAC running in a window while the FC3 installer tells me that LOMAC needs to be installed.

Yeah, mine is sort-of installed in a non-default directory. It's technically in Program Files (x86\UbiSoft\Eagle Dynamics, but it's on E:\ drive instead of C:\ drive for complicated reasons involving how my drive is partitioned. DCS is installed on the same drive, though, in E:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS, though, so I don't think that's the problem. However, when I checked my registry, I found registry entries for DCS and for the DCS modules that are installed, but couldn't find a registry entry for LOMAC. Perhaps that is the source of the problem? LOMAC installs and runs properly, and I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it. Still no registry entry, or at least not anywhere obvious like under UbiSoft or Eagle Dynamics, and FC3 still refuses to even install the module.

So far the only bug that I am able to report is that FC3 refuses to find my installed copy of LOMAC, and so the FC3 module installer won't even run. There's a thread here where several people have stated that they have the same problem.

I purchased LOMAC via the Ubisoft website link that was on the FC3 webpage. I've already downloaded and installed the new version of DCS: World, and my other modules have all installed just fine (except BS2, since I have the upgrade version and had uninstalled BS1 after I'd installed BS2 a while back, but that's a separate issue). When I try to run the module for FC3, it tells me that I need to have LOMAC installed. It does this even if I am running LOMAC in another window at the same time! What am I not doing properly here?

I am having a similar problem. I purchased LOMAC from Ubisoft via the link on the FC3 page. I downloaded and installed LOMAC, I can run LOMAC just fine. However, when I try to install the DCS Module (FC3_release_en_1.2.2.7122_19.exe), it tells me that Lock On: Modern Air Combat must be installed. Now, the problem may be that I am having difficulty registering LOMAC, because the registration program built into the game keeps telling me that it can't find FMV4Installer.msi, but since LOMAC itself is installed and is playing and fully functional, I don't think that's the problem. I can run DCS: World and was able to install the update for A-10C. I can try downloading and installing the update for CA as well, but I suspect that should work too. Now, when I run DCS: World it says that there's an update available and do I want to download it, but I thought it made more sense to install the modules (since they're all the same version) and then do the update, otherwise the downloaded modules and DCS: World version would be different. Sad part? I'm a computer programmer, I should know this stuff. I swear, staring at code all day must be rotting my brain or something. Since other people can presumably get this to work, I must be doing something wrong. Edited to add: I ran the update for DCS: World, it barely took any time to download, so must have been minor. Still getting the same message when I try to run the FC3 module installer.