Sims and FMS are getting a few install errors on Windows 8.1 - Any ideas why?

[edutech4schools]

Up until now I have only ever installed Sims and FMS onto a Windows 7 pro client but we have just got the office a couple of new computers running Windows 8.1 pro and I am having some issues.

 

While installing Sims and fms I get the following error -

'Windows cannot find 'ocsetup'. Make sure you've typed the name correctly'

'Could not execute the external program ocsetup.exe'

 

If I continue installing Sims and FMS, Sims seems to run fine and I can log in etc but when I try to run FMS I get the following,

Exception EDBEngineError in Module finance.exe at 0007ccb2. An error occurred while atempting to initialize the Borland Database Engine (errror $210a)

 

I have tried to re-install both FMS and Sims but that made no difference. I also wanted to fully remove both but they do not seem to have an uninstaller listed in add remove programs.

 

Any ideas how I can get these up and running.

 

Thanks

[3s-gtech]

Are you using SOLUS3 to deploy SIMS and FMS to the workstation? If so, you may also need to run the FMSApplicationSetup.exe also which installs some dependencies. I don't do FMS installs often, especially so on Windows 8.1, but it can be tricksy.

[SBennett]

Hi,

 

I think if I'm correct I had this issue before. For some reason the Borland database engine wasn't installed correctly so I manually extracted the application from SOLUS 3 and installed it.

 

Sam

[edutech4schools]

Thanks but still on Solus 2.

 

Just got new setup files and will post back

[3s-gtech]

With SOLUS2, installing the pre-requisites is even less automated. Should work, but you sometimes need to play with things like the Paradox NET DIR location in BDE settings.