Pete Dowson

There's nothing wrong with either log, and WideClient has nothing to do until you run a program on it, so if the process is hanging it just has to be a bad network driver or card, or some other program is interfering. All WideClient will be doing is idling waiting for a program to be run. It will send an "I'm here" message every couple of seconds to the Server and expect one back. That's it. It's really dead simple basic Networking copied direct out of Microsoft's own examples. Regards, Pete

I've no idea why they'd need FSUIPC for altitudes in the A/P. Mostly the only thing FSUIPC is used for in these panels is TCAS. No more useful that what you already said, that it works fine without FSUIPC. The Gauge using FSUIPC is "PSS-Dash8.GAU" as is clear from the log, but I've no idea what it is used for. I see you also have the SB3 DLLs loading and they all connect to FSUIPC too. Have you tried without those in case there's some sort of interaction? Regards, Pete

Your ISP is caching it. Sorry, but I really have no other idea. I know nothing about websites. See if the PFC site has been updated. Regards, Pete

No. Sorry. Pete

There's nothing to go wrong if you got the trig correct. What does "not working" mean? I assume you've scaled it to fit your graphics. Don't ask me about graphics, i've no idea about that. Pete

The INI file only contains your settings. The FSUIPC.KEY file contains your registration. You only need to re-register if you re-install windows or move to a different PC. Otherwise copying the KEY file is fine. If your copy is correctly user registered then it won't be a delay due to PMDG module access checking -- all that is then by-passed. Regards Pete

Is AFCAD 140 the only one working on FS2002? It seems odd that someone would add spaces in those fields. The easiest way would be to correct the Version Information, removing those spaces. You can do this with "ResHacker", a freeware program. if you can't find it, zip up and send me a copy of the AFCAD 140 exe and I'll try to adapt it here for you. petedowson@btconnect.com. Regards, Pete

For 90-180 you can either use the formae exactly as above (sin goes -ve from 90-180), or, for clarity of thought, subtract the bearing from 180 and then do as above, but reversing the sign of y. Draw yourself a little picture. It will all be clear then 180-270 is similar, just subtract 180 and reverse signs on both x and y. 270-360 subtract from 360, reverse the sign of the x value. Regards, Pete

The fiddle factors are just that -- non-dimensioned multipliers adjusted interactively by me to get the best results. I tried them with most, but not all, of the default FS aircraft, and got good results except for speed control where the oscillations were still present when I released it. I'm sorry, but optimising is really a trial-and-error process. If you do find better values please let me know, but the current ones are certainly good with both the Cessnas and Boeings. I could imagine there'd be problems with aerobatic aircraft with fast roll rates, but it surprises me that a King Air doesn't stabilise quickly. Regards, Pete

But you imply that all was well until you re-installed FS9. So something has changed there. FSUIPC doesn't actually do anything which involved lots of computation of delays. It doesn't deal with any graphics, or files. A regular 2 second stutter sounds suspiciopusly like something else running in the background, unless one of the gauges or other add-in modules has something on a 2 second cycle. FSUIPC operates on a frame rate related cycle. There isn't anything on a longer cycle than half a second (this latter is for computation of some values not needed on every frame). Have you checked the FSUIPC log? Is your FSUIPC user registered? If not, this may be down to an access check failing from one of their modules and being retried every 2 seconds. Unlike PSS to fob folks off so. They certainly haven't contacted me, and they've always done so in the past when they've had any problems. I suspect they are desperately trying to resolve this and just want folks to leave them be till they solve it. Regards Pete

If you have distance and bearing (d, b) then you can convert that to some x, y coordinates for a Radar screen. It's simple trig isn't it? Tell me where you are stuck. To keep things easy I tend to do this sort of trig in the four quadrants separately -- saves confusion with signs and so on. For the first quadrant (bearing 0-90, Forward/Right), the (x,y) plot position would be: x = d * cos(b) y = d * sin(b) after converting b to radians of course ( *PI / 180). The other quadrants are variations of this with different sinces and +/-90 sort of fixes. On the other hand, just to map positions relative to the aircraft you don't need distance and bearing. Just use the Lat/Long values, made relative to the user aircraft by subtracting the latter. However, then you'd need to rotate the relative (x,y) coordinates to get bearing up, so you might be better off using distance and bearing in any case. But TrafficLook merely lists the data, including distance and bearing. it doesn't draw a map. You already have the data that TrafficLook has. Regards, Pete

Other than by a process of elimination (i.e. remove each possible candidate in turn), no, I'm sorry. The FS control system operates by Posting Messages and there's no way of tracing them back. Regards, Pete

WideFS cannot run parts of FS on other PCs, it only runs other programs. The PMDG aircraft are made up of parts of FS -- DLL files, MDL files, CFG files, Textures, Sounds and Gauges -- all of which need FS in which to run. They are not separate programs and cannot run alone. Regards, Pete

Where's the Log? Pete

There's no definition of Modular interfaces provided by Microsoft, except those for PANELS.DLL for those writing gauges, and a few more recently for extraction AI information. For all other purposes it is a matter of decompiling, disassembly, and tracing. i.e. hacking into the FS code to work out what does what. I would suggest you wait for FS2006 now, though. Regards, Pete

It returns whatever FS gives to FSUIPC when it asks for ATC type. I think, if the ATC_TYPE entry is missing in the Aircraft.CFG file it may give me the UI manufacturer instead. This is why I mention that it is "generally the make" in my documentation. Use "TCASId=Model". Regards, Pete

No. I'm sorry, but I'm afraid FSUIPC doesn't interfere with any of those assignments unless you sepcifically re-program them, and it certainly has no way whatsoever of getting between FS and its Jeppesen weather downloads. For some strange reason everyone always assumes FSUIPC is to blame for anything odd, but it is very rarely the case. Pete

It's being used okay. Even the speed control (which isn't so well behaved) is now being used successfully for taxiing. Let me know what you are doing and I'll try to spot where you are going wrong. Regards, Pete

What is the AutoSave.CFG file set to do? i.e. how often is it saving files? Is it 17 seconds or so? Sounds rather frequent. Are you running an aircraft which saves its own files too, whenever AutoSave does? For instance, the PSS Concorde does this. I've no other way of accounting for two pauses with 2 seconds between. If saving Flights causes a noticeable stutter then one or more of the following are true: 1. The hard disk partition containing your "My Documents" folder is getting full. 2. The disk is very fragmented. 3. Windows write caching is disabled. 4. You are rather short on real memory. Regards, Pete

Show me the Log file and INI files for the Client and Server. Pete

Problems in 3.30 are fixed in 3.47. Pete

1. Please find the "Caps Lock" button on your keyboard and press it so that you can get lower case letters too. All capitals makes it more difficult to read, and it comes across as shouting. 2. The symptom is usually caused by a bad User key. Please ZIP up the FSUIPC.KEY file (in the FS Modules folder) and send it to me at petedowson@btconnect.com. Regards, Pete

The problem appears to be that the Product and Company names have been changed. The Freeware keys list above lists these as: But from your log the names now two spaces and one space in front of them now, so they won't match. Regards, Pete

Sorry, I really don't know. I don't have or use Squawkbox so I don't know how it's PTT is driven at all. Don't they have a support site? Regards, Pete

I'm back but I'm afraid I am not much help here. There's nothing WideFS ever loops and waits for, and it never changes the mouse pointer. It sounds very much like a Network driver or configuration problem. Rather than re-installing the complete operating system, try just uninstalling and re-installing the etwork hardware and software. Regards, Pete