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  2. Gray "Wall" Pops Up

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

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    I have had this issue as well, but for the life of me I cant remember how I fixed it. It was a while ago now. That said, my current setup I let AS6.5 do all the weather work not FSUIPC, the only thing I have FUSIPC doing is the taxi wind control.

    If I recall AS6.5 has some sort of a guide to setup FSUIPC, ie which check boxes to tick etc.

     

    I think you have to use one or the other as I think they conflict somehow.

     

    I still have this issue that you mentioned:

     

    when I leave it unchecked but then FS doesn't look as great and the cloud transition seems a bit funny (it goes from "hazy" to really clear around 3000' with this setting off and on clear days or I can see the airport at 4000-5000' but then descend into low visibility and completely lose the airport around 3000' ).

     

    Maybe someone else has a few ideas or fixes.

  7. FSUIP with GPS AERA 500

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

    Posted

    Hello Pete,

     

    I would like to know if it's possible to connect my area 500 with FSUIPC 4 on my PC... It's not really a PC, it's a Macbook Pro Retina. I run windows seven under bootcamp so it's not an emulation, it's a real windows. My FSX works perfectly. The question is about the connexion cable, cause I have USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt connector only... No serial connector.

     

    Thanks a lot for your help

     

    Steeve

     

    Steeve,

    You can try a usb to serial adapter https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ii&gfe_rd=cr&ei=4RGGUpffN6uN8Qee7YDgBQ#hl=en&q=usb+to+serial , there a heaps around. Should work with the Aera 500.

  8. Changing Engine Volume

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

    Posted

    Thanks Pete, I did a bit of reading of the FS sound SDK and there is no facility to include an airspeed variable. I might look into the vparams in the sound.cfg and see what I can come up with. At the moment I am using a after market sound set by TSS which is certainly better than the default sounds.

     


    Second method would be to create your own sound control, using the FS sound files (or your own), using Lua to play the right ones on the right speakers at the right time. That could be quite a big job though. Maybe you could just remove the relevant FS ones and only play your own above a certain airspeed.

    I might have a look into that. Also Project magenta has added some engine sound ability to pmsounds, could be worth exploring as well.

     

    Cheers

    Jeff

  9. Changing Engine Volume

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

    Posted

    Hi Pete,

    Just an inquiry if you know if the engine sound volume can be altered in flight. The reason I ask this is that in most rear engined aircraft the engine volume becomes almost non existent once you pass a certain airspeed. As I fly a Learjet in FS it would be nice to reduce the engine sound as I increase in speed. As it is at the moment the engine sounds are just as loud if I am doing 160kts or 320kts. Could this be done in LUA?

     

    Thanks

    Jeff

  11. OOM with new updated FSUIPC

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

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    There is no point. FS cannot use more than 4Gb as it is a 32-bit program! The OOM never means you are out of physical memory in any case as Windows is a paged system -- it swaps less-accessed areas out to a page file on disk.

     

    My understanding is that FSX will only use 2Gb in the user mode virtual address space. More info here:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#memory_limits

     

    However there seems to be a Large Memory Address aware fix (to use 4Gb) for Win 7 64bit here:

    http://kostasfsworld.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/oom-out-of-memory-helperfix/

     

    Haven't tried it as I still only use fs9.

     

    Like you said adding more physical ram will do nothing for FSX.

  12. Widefs & project magenta

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

    Posted

     

     

    Problem is when I start any of the pm software with  widefs running all I get is a blank screen... no display. When I run the pm software without widefs I all works ok?? 

     

     

    Any idea why?

     

     

    thanks

    Michael

    Make sure the WideFS client is running on PC2 and PC3.

    Also make sure you battery and avionics are on in the aircraft as PM will blank the screen when the battery master is off.

  13. WIDE FS

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

  14. PDMG 737 Pokey 56 E and FS Symphony

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

    Posted

    Your issue lies with FS Symphony, as it is FS Symphony that writes to FSUIPC offsets so the PMDG offsets need to be set in FS Symphony rather than in the FSUIPC window in fs.

    Your question really need to be address to the creator of FS Symphony rather than here.

     

    Have you read the the setup document?

    http://www.flying-the-winglets.de/Downloads/Symphony15.pdf

     

    Upon reading the document I cant find any reference to the PMDG offsets. There may be a way to add them, but again that would be a question for the creator of FS Symphony.

  17. Problem with Rudder Trim

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

    Posted

    Whats wrong with using FS controls for trim ie Elev Trim Up and Elev Trim Dn rather than trying to feed it through the offsets. Works fine for my Learjet sim.

    If you need to alter the effectiveness of the trim you can play with the settings in the aircraft cfg file under the flight tuning section.

    I run mine at about 1.4 as I needed the trim to be more effective.

    [flight_tuning]

    elevator_trim_effectiveness = 1.4

    aileron_trim_effectiveness = 1.0

    rudder_trim_effectiveness = 1.0

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  21. rotary encoder input speed

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

    Posted

    Hi Alaxus

    Thanks for the advice. However, I'm afraid it's still well beyond me. What I really need is for someone to do this for me as a paid job. Are you interested? Also, if you think the Leo card is not the most efficient way of doing it, do you have any recommendations as to other options? I'm happy to consider using a whole different card and driver if necessary to achieve the goal.

    Thanks again, Chris

    Currently I am using 5 of these in my MCP

    http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=7&product_id=1052_0

    with this software: fs2phidgets

    http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/downloads.php?do=cat&id=20

    Its pretty straight forward.

    The other one you can look at is the goflight module:

    http://www.goflightinc.com/collections/modules/products/gf-rp48-push-button-rotary

    Again pretty straight forward.

    Have a look in to those first as I think it will work better for your situation.

  23. CTD fresh install FSX and FSUIPC 4.827

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

    Posted

    Some suggestions:

    Do a memory scan, you have quite a bit of ram, and its possible that one of your sticks may be corrupted. Download and run Memtest86 (you will need to burn it to a disc). With that amount of ram it will take a few hours to do a thorough scan.

    http://www.memtest86.com/

    DirectX updates here :

    DX9c

    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

    DX11

    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17431

  24. rotary encoder input speed

    in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules

    Posted

    So here's what I need:

    I just need someone that really knows what they're talking about (and has actually done this in the past) to do this for me from start to finish. Ie, they will need to write the program and give me simple, step-by-step instructions on how to install. Given my lack of ability to program, what I'm able to offer is going to be limited. Ie, I can get your files and install them etc. but I can't do any of the programming.

    As mentioned, I'm happy to pay the right person to do this job for me but it has to be from start to finish! (Sorry to badger this point but I can't be dealing with anyone saying "have you tried this or have you tried that".... I just need someone to do this as a paid job for me.)

    Thanks and I hope to hear from anyone that can do this for me soon.

    Kind regards, Chris

    I did something like this a while ago with Leo's card and 5 rotary encoders for my MCP. If you read this post here:

    I will tell you however that most encoders only have 16 de-tents per revolution. This is not nearly enough for what you want.

    In the end I went back to my Phidgets setup.

    Personally I don't think you will get want you want with Leos card. You need to use a more efficient setup that writes directly to the fsuipc offsets.

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