gollum65

Hi John. I certainly understand that if some other developer's ACARs program isn't working right that it would be hard for you to even investigate. If it was only one program, I would agree that it's gotta be the ACARs program. But in this case I'm up to 3 different ACARs programs and none of them are seeing FSUIPC. The programs in question are GCP from Globe Cargo, Merlin from British Airways Virtual, and VAS ACARs from the Virtual Airline System (there are 3 alliance VAs that all use this same program). I did Windows tech support for many years. I know a lot of "tricks of the trade". One such trick I just tried. It's very reliable. I uninstalled FSUIPC 6, rebooted, deleted any folders left over, then installed FSUIPC 6.20 but changed the default install location to a location of my choosing. This "trick" almost always works as it forces Windows to treat it as a new installation. It did not work this time. Do you happen to have a version of FSUIPC 6 that is older than 6.19 that I can try? Maybe that will fix it? Thanks for your responses and support.

Also, I'm friends with the CEO of Globe Cargo, who is the person who developed their ACARs programs, and he has advised me that his ACARs program reported that it could not connect to FSUIPC.

Forgive me for being dense but how do I get to the logging tab? FSUIPC does not show up in the P3D Add-Ons menu. There is no APP to run that I can find. All there is in the FSUIPC6 folder is a .dll. Also FYI, I just installed yet a 3RD ACARS program from another VA and it has the same problem. It does not recognize when P3D is running.

Hi John. Thanks for your response. The problem I'm having is with FSUIPC 6 and it's not giving any error related to a version number. It's just not recognizing that FSUIPC is installed. How do you log IPC reads and writes?

Hello, I fly both P3Dv5.4 (whatever the latest iteration is) as well as MSFS 2020. I fly them both regularly and haven't had any problems until this week. All of a sudden I have two different VA ACARs programs that are not seeing that FSUIPC 6.20 is installed for P3Dv5.4. One of them, for British Airways Virtual (their Merlin ACARs) sees the path for P3D but says "FSUIPC is not installed for this simulator". I happened to have a backup installer from FSUIPC 6.19 so I tried uninstalling 6.20 and installing 6.19 but that hasn't helped. Curiously, ACARS programs from other VAs don't have this problem and detect when P3Dv5 is running just fine. I run both P3D and the ACARs programs in question as administrator but have also tried not running them as admin. I have other things, such as vpilot, which work fine. I can confirm as I write this that other ACARs programs as well as vpilot work fine. I'm very confused. Any help would be appreciated.