Pete Dowson

The FSUIPC SDK contains all the information you need, including tools and examples in VC++ and VB. Pete

I have no idea, sorry. Is there any documentation with the instructor station? I've never had time to look at it and it doesn't look like I'll get time for a while yet. Pete

Sorry, I don't understand any of that. This is a question for SimFlight I think. I am but a guest of their system. Probably a "Furum" is not the same as a "Newsgroup"? Pete

Sorry, no, none at all. There has never once been a case where, if the DLL is installed into the FS Modules folder, it does not provide the menu access, not once in four years! When you press ALT then M then F, like that, in sequence, what happens? Is there a file FSUIPC.LOG in the Modules folder? A file called FSUIPC.INI? It really sounds as if it isn't installed, but if it is then both these files will be produced even before you get to the Menu. Also, some description of your system would be useful, please. And what "game" is it you are trying to use FSUIPC in? Regards, Pete

Yes, that's what I use. Not cheap, but as good as it gets, especially if you are into airliner flying. There is a new IFR GA panel too. Pete

Sorry, I know nothing about multiplayer, and there's nothing in FSUIPC for it. Pete

No, I don't do anything with temperatures, whether OAT or TAT. I wouldn't know what to do with it anyway. Pete

Someone else has already asked Elite about this and they said the FS2004 driver will be about 2 eeks, I think. Ask them yourself. Yes, they have a silly programming error. They compare 3.04 with 2.92 and think it is a lower number! I put in a facility especially for FSUIPC to give a false version number when asked, but they don't use that. They read the version information! Please complain to Elite -- they should send you a fixed version. Regards, Pete

There some FS controls. DEMO RECORD 1 SEC, DEMO RECORD 5 SECS and DEMO STOP. They may or may not work. Try assigning a keypress to those in FSUIPC. If they work, then you can do it by using the facilities in the FSUIPC interface to send any FS controls (offset 3110). Pete

Yes, you can quote me here. But I don't know if it will be patchable. Maybe -- a section of code doing the check on FS version would need bypassing. However, this may be against the author's wishes, especially if it has now gone to payware, so it may not strictly be legal to do so. You certainly should take care, and not publish it. Pete

Is that the Microsoft program? If so then no -- WideFS only provides a Networked version of the FSUIPC interface, so it can only support programs using FSUIPC. Have you checked whether it uses Multiplayer? If so then it will probably work from another PC without adding anything. Pete

http://www.simmarket.com Links to the correct pages are provided in the Announcements above. Pete

Maybe the later version is the one in the Abacus product? Sorry, I don't know. Pete

If you register FSUIPC at SimMarket you will get a Key for it. Otherwise you can only run accredited programs. The recent versions of ActiveSky will be accredited, but 1.6 is rather old -- you could check with the author about that, or see which version you need to use. No, FSUIPC has nothing to do with sound at all. Pete

It may be using a variable which is not yet working properly in FS2004. I am only about half-way through checking them all, and mostly have to respond to requests from developers so that I make work the things they need first. Certainly the author of Arrestor Cables has confirmed that it does work in FS2004, so there must be something different in the earlier, freeware, version. For me to look at this could you produce a Log file please. In FSUIPC Logging, enable IPC reads and writes, and run the program both in FS2002 and FS2004 and Zip up and send me both Log files -- send to petedowson@btconnect.com. I will try to spot whatever the difference is that it doesn't like. Regards, Pete

I don't know, sorry. There are plenty of add-ons which will work through WideFS though. Check the list of FSUIPC applications on the Schiratti page. It isn't complete, but it's a start. Pete

Hmmm. I'd not noticed that. You are right. You can of course select a theme, get the weather for it, then save a new default flight. Then that weather will load up next time, but even so, the "theme" is back then to "user defined". This is happening because FSUIPC is adjusting some weather details for you, though only the "global" settings (those used for weather stations which don't have their own weather). Any change, even a small one, made by FSUIPC or manually by you is effectively setting "user defined weather". If you don't want this to happen, just select "normal defaults" or "minimum weather defaults" in FSUIPC, or turn off all the weather filters. I may make a new option to allow the weather filters to be applied only to external weather sources, avoiding touching the FS built-in weather at all. Regards, Pete

I think some help from SB folks is needed there -- the position read from FS is not in degrees and minutes format in any case, but in special FS units, and it isn't touched by FSUIPC. The aircraft position is one of the few things which have been the same right through since FS98 and before. Pete

You have "ServerIPAddr=192.168.0.1" in the Client INI file. Have you tried giving the Server name instead ("NEW")? Pete

I'm sorry, but I did actually point out in the 'blurb' that the weather filters were probably not such an important part of FSUIPC for FS2004, at least not at present. You can of course apply visibility limits. Virtually none of the FSUIPC weather facilities for FS2000/2002 applied to local weather in any case, it was for global weather and for weather set from external programs. The same applies to FS2004. The limits will achieve your objective, and the upper cut off can be set "to taste". It's only the graduation part which is then missing -- I think the vision of the murky ground below when you are above the limit is more satisfying than the clearing of vision right down to the ground as you climb, which was the case. Neither. In fact most of the omissions are really due to the fact that I couldn't make ANY of the weather access into FS2004 work in any of the Betas. It only started to come good after I got the Gold, which was three or so weeks before FS2004 was released. I am still working 100% on FSUIPC, so thing will gradually change, and probably according to suggestions and requests. I'm currently trying to work out a way of introducing taxi winds again. There are big technical problems too. If nobody wanted to use FS's own downloaded weather, and only either manually set global weathr, or 100% externally controlled weather, then everything would be quite easy for me. But I think the improvements are so big in FS's own weather that a lot of users will stick with it. I have never been able to provide many facilities for that, and FS2004 is even more difficult. I am looking at it still. Sorry, I haven't seen that and really have no time to chase other threads. If you want to precis it here I can read it then. Regards, Pete

Last question first: no, if version 2.97 is installed Active Sky should be okay. But I think 1.6 is quite old. Haven't there been lots of fixes since then? You might want to check for updates. On the installation question, if when FS loads up and you go to the Modules folder, FSUIPC shows as version 2.97, then that is what is installed in the FS Modules folder. There's no two ways about it. It sounds like you've actually put the newer FSUIPC in another folder instead. This has been known before. In fact one user had another install of FS which he'd forgotten all about and he was actually loading FS from there even though he was updating the one he thought he was loading from! There's nothing I can really do from here. Just do a file search using Windows Explorer and see how many FSUIPC.DLLs you have installed and where they all are. That should show the error. Regards, Pete

Just default INI files should be fine for TCP/IP, but with the ServerName parameter provided in the Client INIs. Regards, Pete

That's an incorrect assumption I'm afraid. "Accredited" means it has an access key to enable it to use FSUIPC version 3. It evidently hasn't. You should really get in touch with the author and see if he has a Key, and if not whether he will be getting one. If it is Freeware I will give him one on request immediately. If it is showing AI aircraft positions using FSUIPC's facilities, yes -- all that is compatible across FS2002/FS2004. But programs need keys to access unregistered copies of FSUIPC. If the aircraft works in all other respects and doesn't crash FS then it probably only needs access to FSUIPC. It can be registered manually if Eric does not want to update it, and it should work in any case on a registered copy of FSUIPC. Regards, Pete

There's no difference in the way WideFs works on FS2004 compared to FS2002, so it must be related somehow to processor usage. I need to see both the Server and Client LOG files. Also it would be useful to know what other things you have running on the FS PC -- I am using a P4 2.4GHz PC too for FS2004 with the frame rate limiter set to 20 and have no similar problem. Normally WideServer assumes that if it cannot access FS's "SIM1" variables this is because you are in a menu, or loading a flight or similar. To avoid crashing FS during such times, it holds off from updating things then, but if this goes on for too long it does cause a disconnect-reconnect sequence to ensure everything is restored. I do have a test version of WideServer with which you can stop the disconnect-reconnect part. I put this in as an experiment but at present I'm not happy about it being the default mode -- there were good reasons for this behaviour, and I don't want to get reports of FS lock ups and crashes which were happening on some folks systems before I made those changes back in version 4. So, if you'd zip up the Logs showing the problem and send them to petedowson@btconnect.com, with a covering not describing what you have running where, I'll take a look. I may send a test version of WideServer with which you can change the behaviour, but I'd want feedback on that for a while before I decided to release it. Thanks, Pete

At present, not with localised weather downloads, no. The weather filtering only operates with weather provided by external programs such as those you mention, or global weather which you can set up by clearing all weather then setting your own. I am currently investigating a method of re-allowing taxi winds and perhaps smoothing winds too, no matter where they come from, and if that is successful I may look at applying visibility limits across the board too, but I don't know if any of this will work yet, so I cannot promise anything. Regards, Pete