fturner

First off (may not be FSUIPC related), I have a chproducts USB ProThrottle so I am trying to map the throttle on my joystick to the spoilers. When I do, the spoilers are bouncing up and down then finally settling down at full, even though I only want say 1/4 spoilers. I can't find anything interfering with it and when the joystick is mapped to flaps or throttle, everything is fine. Any ideas on this? I do have the registered version and have tried the joystick control to set the range but to no affect. Second, anytime I run a weather program (either FSMeteo or AS2004), after about 10 seconds of setting the weather my system drops down by 10 FPS or more. Then every second I get a hesitation, even at cruise altitude. Yet, when I use the built in weather download, I may lose a max of 2 fps in really bad weather conditions. I have the latest version of FSUIPC, a fresh install of winxp and fs2004 with no other addons installed. To give you an idea how much I lose, if I run the barebones FS2004, ie NO addons, with all settings to max, I can get around 48FPS on average at KSEA with the default 737. Then I add FSUIPC, and fire up either the FSMETEO or AS2004 and I am down around 15 fps in 2d panel mode and I get around 18 in the VC or spot views; and thats with turning AI, autogen and display sliders off/down. I've even limited cloud layers in AS2004 to 2 layers. I do not have a slouch of a system either. A P4 3 Ghz, 1 Gig ram, ATI 9700Pro 128Meg card blah blah blah. I think there may be a problem somewhere as it appears weather is being pushed into FS on a regular bases, instead of just when the external weather program is scheduled to push it in, but just my own observation. best regards Fraser

When you set up your serial port connection, are you setting either Software (XON/XOFF) handshaking or are you using hardware handshaking. I'm asking this because if resetting the serial port works, then what is happening is, your program is sending the data out the serial port, then its sitting there waiting for an ack signal back from the device. If you do not have the handshaking set up right, then this will stop your program cold. You need to match up both sides of the serial communications, and hardware handshaking is the better. Of course you could try to disable the handshaking. Fraser