Pete Dowson

Please send me all the details to petedowson@btconnect.com. Are you the author? If so, you can either have your users enter the Key manually, or, better, you can provide it automatically and invisibly in your program or in your Version Info data. I can send you full details. Pete

Thanks for telling us. It's nice to have some good news now and then! Pete

Actually I only just noticed this message (it must have crossed with my reply to your first, so of course mine got stuck on the end of the thread: Aha! Correctionyes, doing EXACTLY what you say, I can get it to happen here too. Now that is VERY weird. There's nothing I know of in FSUIPC which should care whether you are on the ground or airborne, but evidently something is doing something. Sorry I doubted you. I'll investigate this and let you know. Please don't worry about it any more, I'll get to the bottom of it ... Regards, Pete

Hmmm. Why didn't you kill that as suggested? What is it in any case? Sorry I have never heard of it. But if it is fiddling with the operating system shell, much as WindowBlinds does, it is certainly a prime suspect. Please let us know what it is and whether it is the culprit! Regards, Pete

Even if it did, FSUIPC isn't doing anything with it that matters, unless you are running an external weather program. That mesage is only logging the fact that something called WEATHER.DLL's clear weather routine, that's all. The log extract you showed before is just the initialisation call, for the default loaded Flight. Regards, Pete

I think you just execute it and it tells you. It comes with some documentation. Sorry, I do not do such things. In fact I am off-line for a while now. It is Sunday evening, one of the few times I relax a little. Regards, Pete

No, you are misinterpreting something there. When you load a flight, FS itself clears the previous weather. FS logs this fact, as it needs to know when this happens so that it can reset any weather supplied from outside. It merely intercepts FS's own call to the "clear weather" routine in order to detect it. The only times FSUIPC actually clears the weather are 1) when you tell it to, via hotkey or button 2) when you start a weather program which changes the weather through the old FS98 weather interface (unless you tell FSUIPC not to in an FSUIPC INI parameter -- see the Advanced Users guide) 3) when a "New Weather" or "Advanced Weather" interface using program requests that the weather be cleared. Yes, it means EXACTLY what it says. Something (in this case loading a flight) cleared the weather, so FSUIPC clears down the external weather requests, if any, so that next time an external weather program changes something they'll be seen as changes. Regards, Pete

So what did you do different, this time? Maybe that's the clue? Well, maybe there are other programs too that do this. Windowblinds is the only one folks have told me about. Try closing down any other add-ons you have running. The utility "EndItAll" is good for that. It has got to be one of them. What's a "messenger" program? Is this contact not good enough. Sorry, I don't understand. Regards, Pete

I am sorry, I never heard of any such problem with FS before. Unless anyone else here can jump in and help, I think you need to get on to Microsoft support. Evidently you have something in your system which is interacting very oddly with FS. Sorry I cannot help from here. Please do let us know how you get on. You need FS to work before trying to use FSUIPC, or any other add-on really. Regards, Pete

The ALT key does not open the Modules menu, it merely displays the FS menu, from which you will be able to select the Modules menu by the letter "M" (or use the mouse). Do you not even see the FS menu, the one beginning "Flights ..."? If not you have a big FS problem. If you do, and there is no "Modules" menu near the end of the list, then either you have not installed FSUIPC.DLL in the FS Modules folder, or you are running something like WindowsBlinds which prevents anything altering FS's menus. The latter problem is addressed in the Announcements at the top of this forum, and in the latest FSUIPC documentation (3.05). Regards, Pete

Have you got DX9b? That may help, along with the latest video drivers. Good luck! Regards, Pete

Wow! How do you get such fantastic performance? What processor/video are you using on the FS PC? I'm lucky to get 20 fps (average much less) on my P4 2.4GHz! Time I upgraded again I think! Pete

Ulisses, If the displays which are "jerky" are the engine read-outs in the EICAS, not the PFD or ND displays, then I can probably offer some adjustable parameters to make those scan, in FSUIPC, faster or slower. Generally they do take a lower priority. It's a performance thing -- a lot of the engine values have to be derived by my code on every frame. for some of them, to avoid the overheads, I don't do it on every frame, but only perhpas 3 or 4 or 5 times a second. This is in order to provide maximum fluidity to the important stuff like the attitude indications - pitch, bank, heading -- airspeed, vertical speed, altitude, and so on. Check things out, see what it is you are really seeing, check the WideFS logs, and so on. Then write to me on petedowson@btconnect .com -- not before Monday, please, and maybe I'll get you a Beta to try with some parameters to set scan rates. Regards, Pete

Yes: don't use visibility smoothing, visibility maxima or graduated visibilty. And enable the option in the Technical page to change FS's own weather, so mucking up the selection of "weather themes". The only other changes are to support a few extra values in the IPC interface, and some additional facilities for those programs, like FSMeteo 6, which use the NWI. That's it. You can check the list of changes in the History document. Really, if there's some minute timing change somewhere in FSUIPC which has an effect on stutters and pauses in Project Magenta on client computers, and I cannot imagine what that could be, your system must have been on a knife edge, ready to fail in such a manner in any case. Are the WideFS logs reporting problems? Are the frame rates poor (use "F" in PM's PFD) -- the data update rates should in general, match FS's own frame rates? Is the frame rate limiter set 'wisely' in FS? What exactly are these symptoms of stutters and pausing? I find it very difficult to imagine anything I've done for many months having any affect on this in the first place. It just doesn't make any sense. Pete

There really is no difference FSUIPC could make that I know of, and the difference in WideServer 6.02 to 6.10 is only evident when and if you ever got lots of restarts logged in the Server Log file -- they just shouldn't occur any more. If you turn off all the new visibility options in FSUIPC 3.05 then there is no difference in what FSUIPC is doing either. They are actually off by default of course. Every time I make a release of new versions, I get many messages like this. And really they cannot be due to the changes I've made, so it is extremely odd. Yet it happens every time. :? I try to keep the actual number of changes down, to keep things predictable and understandable, and in the developments from 3.00 to 3.05 this has most certainly been the case. The most significant change has been the visibility things in 3.05, and apart from those there is nothing of significance to normal running performance. And WideFS has not changed significantly since before version 5.50. Strange. Pete

No. Once you are registered, you are registered for the life of FSUIPC version 3.xx. All you need to do when you download the 3.05 ZIP is copy the FSUIPC.DLL into your FS Modules folder. Do NOT delete any files and your Registration will stay intact. If you ever do want to re-register, just delete the FSUIPC.KEY file, but I can't imagine why you'd want to do that. Regards Pete

Please ask the folks at Project Magenta to help. I'm sure they can make some short-term arrangements for you. It isn't really an FSUIPC matter. there is no way FSUIPC can magically determine you are running a demonstration only. Regards, Pete

[quote name="iflyskyhawks On three separate occasions' date=' FS9 locked up with a black screen and a mouse cursor flashing between hourglass and mouse pointer....Not to place blame or insist that FSUPIC is the cause. In my situation, it was the only variable that had changed.[/quote] Yes, but tthere is nothing FSUIPC is doing or can do about it. Only the video drivers can do such things. Sorry. Regards, Pete

[quote="Les Parson 17820 Trying TCP/IP host "CC1047850-D" ... 17820 Error on client gethostbyname() [Error=11001] Host not found Ah, that's an easy one. Your Windows system running this client does not know of another PC on the same Network and in the same WorkGroup by the name of "CC1047850-D". Use Windows Explorer, find out the name of the Server, the one you can access through Windows Explorer, and change the ServerName in the WideClient.ini file to match. Regards, Pete

The only change between 6.02 and 6.10 is a minor one, in WideServer only, to stop it restarting the services to all clients everytime it detects a "stoppage" in FS (eg a visit to the Menus). You can make it behave just like 6.02 just by adding "NoStoppedRestarts=No" to the WideServer.INI file, in the [Config] section. The fact that you yourself proved that it was not 6.10 ("I then returned to 6.02. The same problem") shows that whatever has changed, it is certainly not the WideFS upgrade which did anything to affect this. I suggest you look for another cause. Something has changed. Maybe your Network card has failed. I'm afraid I can't diagnose your system from here, but I may be able to tell you a little bit more based on the error messages you are getting in the Log files. Regards, Pete

No, sorry. We all wish to be able to do that, but there is no way known to get into the FS ATC system. Perhaps one day Microsoft may release some sort of toolkit, but I doubt it. There isn't even any way to control AI traffic either. I think there's probably a way to delete it, but nothing else. Regards, Pete

I am not involved in the selling loop at all. The professionals at SimMarket deal with all of that. You need to write to Customer Services at http://www.simmarket.com (or use the "Problem" facility they provide for this). Regards, Pete

Thanks. I'll add these notes to the next update for WideFS.doc. Unfortunately it's just missed one update, but I did hint at it there. :) Best regards, Pete

Sounds like it might be something to do with video drivers or your AGP settings. Try going to FS's Options-Settings-Display-Hardware, and setting "render to texture" off. If that fixes it, then it's some sort of AGP problem, an interaction between DX9 and your video drivers or their AGP settings. Regards, Pete

No, but the freeware program does need a key. Since I don't posses all possible freeware programs (and don't want to) I cannot possibly generate them for everyone just like that. I need all the details. For this sort of thing, even if it is freeware, I'd prefer that the Author or someone responsible applied. It may not be the author's wishes that an earlier version of a product is enabled for use on FS2004, for instance, especially if he's preparing a new payware version. You see my point? Please check with the author first, and state that you have done so and that it is okay in your application. Then, check the "sticky" thread up above somewhere listing FreeWare programs and their keys. Either write to me at petedowson@btconnect.com, or add a message to that thread with all the details I need for this freeware program -- program name (.EXE), and, from the Version Information, the Product Name and the Company. If one of those is missing I can make do with the File Description instead. But I need at least two of the three, and I need them EXACTLY, character for character. Remember to say which is which. Regards, Pete