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It is in your FSUIPC7 installation folder. together with your FSUIPC7.ini file (where your assignments are stored). If you cannot see the extensions, you need to update your Windows Explorer settings to show file extensions for known file types. Instructions are provided at the end of the Installation and Registration guide.
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Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant Issues
John Dowson replied to Shayaan's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
Have you calibrated your TCA Quadrant as described in the instructions? Please see the following post/comment (and subsequent comments for the download links): However, if its working for the FSLabs (and default aircraft?), then it may be due to the controls for that particular aircraft. Try switching to using the FS controls (and not direct to FSUIPC calibration), and try various controls to see what work for those aircraft. Please don't post screenshots or links to screenshot. We need to see your FSUIPC6.ini file to see your assignments, usually in conjunction with your FSUIPC6.log file (with appropriate logging activated). For trouble-shooting assignment issues, FSUIPC logging is your friend. Try activating axis logging and see what events you see when you move the throttle in the aircraft, and see what events are logged when you move your TCA throttle levers. Also, please check for other posts for the TCA quadrant and the add-on aircraft that you use, both here and in the forums for the add-ons that you use. This is a popular quadrant and there is a lot of information out there. The first thing I do when I receive such reports (as I have neither the TCA Quadrant or the add-on aircraft that you use) is google! -
Near simultaneous clicks not recognized
John Dowson replied to Henrik Bergvin's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
Ok, understood. Use event.button for now. I'll make a note to look into the LuaValue param issue when I get a chance. -
Ah, then thats interesting. If MSFS CTDs, that should be reported to Asobo (via zendesk) with crash and event logs attached. Do you also have your FSUIPC7.log file from the crash? I'll take a look at the dump to see if there is anything there when I get a chance (but will take a while for this I'm afraid), but I suspect, as MSFS also crashed, that it is a simconnect issue thats affecting both client and server. Its more usual for such crashes to take down MSFS only, but then FSUIPC7 closes anyway (with auto-close activated), but it shouldn't crash. Another thing to try would be to activate simconnect logging (see FAQ section on how to do this). This would then show if there were any simconnect errors at the time of the crash.
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Near simultaneous clicks not recognized
John Dowson replied to Henrik Bergvin's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
Yes...is the speed an issue, or is the problem with the parameter being lost for the first call here: You are sending two different parameters to the same script at the same time, so it looks like the second is overwriting the first before it is processed (they are global parameters/variables). I'm not sure if I can do anything about this but I'll take a look (may take a few days to get around to this). -
sim stops responding after 7 hours
John Dowson replied to vieira12's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
No, that doesn't matter. Did you change the stall parameters as suggested. Did you not see any stalled warning messages (or re-connects)? Maybe activate Extras logging as well. As well as finding out what clients those ids refer to (as suggested by Pete), you should also look for and count any connection closed and open messages, which will be when clients are re-connecting. That would be interesting to know. The start of the log file should show you the format of the open messages - just extract all of those from your log, together with any close messages. John -
Switches on Honeycomb Bravo Throttle don't wotk with FSUIPC7
John Dowson replied to Hano's topic in FSUIPC7 MSFS
Are you using the lua script to use the buttons outside of the 32 button limit? Have you tried using the lua script for the Bravo? See and this may also be of interest: John -
They should be under %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps. However, you may not have application crash dumps activated. If not, you can activate (either for all or just for FSUIPC7) - see https://www.meziantou.net/tip-automatically-create-a-crash-dump-file-on-error.htm. Then. of/when it occurs again, send me the crash event report, the dump file and the FSUIPC7.log file. Thanks, John
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Problem with loading dll lua modules
John Dowson replied to adrem's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
I'll check with @Pete Dowson but I don't think we can do this as then we would either have to install the required lua.dlls with FSUIPC, or put a requirement on the user to install these if they want to use lua. Can you not include the lua core in your dll and just dynamically link to the one in the FSUIPC6.dll? -
I would do as Pete says, but first delete your current profile (its empty) and start again. When you create a profile (best to do this in the axes assignments section first), you must either import the [General] axes first (a pop-up will ask you this) or add at least one axis assignment before you close. Otherwise you will have a profile created and no axis section which can cause issues later when trying to add/edit axis assignments for that aircraft.
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So the crash was with FSUIPC7 - did MSFS crash or did it keep running? Can you show me your FSUIPC7.log file (from when the crash occurred), and was there a crash dump file produced? The event log does show it was an FSYUPC7 crash, which is the first I've seen - usually its MSFS that crashes. As the crash is in the ntdll.dll, I would need the crash dump file to investigate. John
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Yes - the MSFS SimConnect documentation states: Internally, not all events are mapped to the relevant SimObjects. i.e. not all sim events are currently working. So it looks like those sim events are still not connected for that aircraft. You should report this to Asobo via zendesk. Hopefully there will be lvars (or hvars) as alternatives for such events at some point as well, maybe before these are fixed by Asobo.
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problem with park brakes
John Dowson replied to mazelda's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
Can you also please post your ini and log files again for both installations. I need to see these each time you make any changes. It should not have showed a 'missing C joystick' if you had made the changes that I suggested (there was no C joystick!) rather than those of Masterius. You problem with the parking brakes on P3Dv5 was that it was assigned to a device with letter A, which had changed GUIs and was -re-registered as device C. The changes I proposed would have corrected this. But now its probably better to show me your files again and we can go from there. -
How to disable FSUPIC 7.0.4 autostart when starting MSFS
John Dowson replied to karlo922's topic in FSUIPC7 MSFS
The auto-start feature, which updates the MSFS EXE.xml file so that MSFS starts FSUIPC7, is optional since the v6.0.12 release. Re-run the installer and de-select the auto-start component. In versions prior to v6.0.12, the FSUIPC installer provided an optional desktop-link that wouls show a splash screen, start MSFS and then start FSUIPC7 30 seconds later. In the latest installer, the desktop link is still provided (optional), but this only now shows a splash screen while MSFS is starting - it no longer starts FSUIPC7. John -
Ok, thanks for the update.
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Yes, its a separate purchase/key. It will be blank unless you enter a key there. You don't need to purchase both each time. WideFS7 is compatible with FSUIPC4, FSUIPC5, FSUIPC6 and FSUIPC7. You just need one key to activate in each/all versions. That depends on your set-up. If you have FSUIPC clients running on a client PC (i.e. separate from the PC running the FS and FSUIPC), then you need WideClient running there and the WideFS license registered on the receiving version of FSUIPC. John
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Near simultaneous clicks not recognized
John Dowson replied to Henrik Bergvin's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
What version of FSUIPC are you using? There was a fix in FSUIPC6 v6.10.12 relating to the timings for repeat button presses (both real and virtual). This update has now been applied to FSUIPC5. If you are using that, I could apply it there to see if that helps. -
problem with park brakes
John Dowson replied to mazelda's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
You can try as @Masteriussuggests (except edit as below), but that may not work either - sometimes you need to edit the registry to remove such entries. However, they are only warnings and not important - they won't have anything to do with your issue. Your Parking Brake isn't currently working as your 'A' device is missing. Changes the [JoyNames] section to the following: -
First, you posted in the FAQ sub-forum, where it explicitly states (in several places) NOT for support requests. Please take care to post un the correct forum for future posts. We do not support x-Plane. Thats xpuipc by a different developer. FSUIPC7 is the version of FSUIPC that works with MSFS. and is a different product to FSUIPC5 and requires a separate license, available from SimMarket. A discount is automatically applied for FSUIPC5/6 license holders at checkout. FSUIPC supports all HID joystick type devices for assignments via its UI. For other HID devices, you can access via the lua com library
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Why? Your ini and log tell me a lot more than a video can. I rarely watch videos for support requests - they are not needed except in exceptional circumstances (and don't have the time!). We prefer a decent description + log and ini files. You can do. Make sure to reload assignments if FSUIPC is running. Otherwise, you can clear it from the axis assignments panel.
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FS2020 and FSUIPC character and input detection - rotary encoders
John Dowson replied to kooky45's topic in FSUIPC7 MSFS
Keyboard input is received from MSFS via SimConnect as key input events, when MSFS has the focus. Commands are sent back (usually) as events also via simconnect. When FSUIPC has the focus, it receives the key events as windows messages. Yes, that would be the case when MSFS has the focus. See if there is a difference when MSFS has the focus vs when FSUIPC has the focus. John -
No sound with function sound.play
John Dowson replied to yak54's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
Yes, your registration details for FSUIPC4 will be valid for all versions of FSUIPC4, and the same for WideFS7. The latest version of WideFS7 is 7.156. -
FSUIPCv7 - my current situation and compatibility ...
John Dowson replied to BAW9DV's topic in FSUIPC7 MSFS
Yes. If P3D/FSUIPC6 is running, you will not be able to run/start FSUIPC7, and vica versa, so if FSUIPC7 is running you cannot start/run P3D. Yes. Its not that complicated. You can have as many different FSUIPC installations as you like (same or different versions), but only one can ever be active at any given time. I wouldn't worry about it. Just download FSUIPC7, install it and try it out. Note that FSUIPC7 can also be auto-started with MSFS, but as a separate application. -
sim stops responding after 7 hours
John Dowson replied to vieira12's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
No, its a simconnect.xml that you need to change, the MaxClients parameter - see https://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv4/sdk/simconnect_api/configuration_files/configuration_files_overview.html. You could also try temporarily changing this line in your ini: TrafficStallTime=1 NormalStallTime=1 to TrafficStallTime=-1 NormalStallTime=-1 This will instruct FSUIPC to just log a message when data is stalled rather than closing the connection and re-connecting (this saving a connection). However, if the connections really are closed, then you will stop receiving data. With this change, you can checj your logs after a session and see if the data was stalled at all during the session. If so, you can determine how long the maximum stall was (with a setting of -1, it will log a message every second that it does not see data), and then set the parameter back to a positive number. i.e. if you find that you were getting a maximum of 3 messages logged, then set the NormalStallTime to 3 (meaning it will then attempt to re-connect after 3 seconds of not seeing data). But if your maxClients is high enough, you shouldn;t need to do that, so try adjusting MaxClients first.