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  1. See the very last page -- ELEC_MeterDisplayTop and Bottom. I think those are the actual character strings shown on the Electrics Meter display. Pete
  2. No. The PMDG 737NGX implements its own subsystems. Please refer to the List of PMDG 737NG Offsets installed in your FSUIPC Documents folder. You have to enable the client data access facility in your NGX, as described. Pete
  3. No you are okay with that one for now. But what I'm doing today is adding a bit more optional logging on the Autosave actions -- logging when it saves and when it deletes, both logging actions enabled by an INI file option. That should prove it exhaustively. Later Pete
  4. No. Version 4.944d would log an error if the "DeleteFile" call to Windows failed, so as far as FSUIPC is concerned, it is deleting the files successfully. It looks like there's a serious fault in Win10 for sure. Pete
  5. There's never any need to delete any files, and FSUIPC never puts an icon on the desktop! You download the FSUIPC installer to any working folder NOT the Modules folder! The Modules folder is created automatically by the Installer if it needs to be. Pete
  6. Why? Just the Axes needed to be added! There was no axis changes logged, so you never moved them or there were none assigned! In that case I think that add-on aircraft is intercepting the axes at a higher level and handling it there. If that's the case you cannot calibrate it in FSUIPC, because it needs to intercept the axes too, then feed in the calibrated values at a lower level! Pete
  7. So it is definitely the add-on aircraft setting 25% when it sees FS or FSUIPC setting idle thrust (90%). What a daft thing to do! As you say, you'd need to change the calibration numbers to stop idle ever being set -- one way is to reduce the -16384 limit in the calibration section of the FSUIPC ini file to something lower still, which is never reached. Pete
  8. That is simply not true. The installer will only refuse to replace a LATER version, not an earlier one. If you are finding that isn't happening for you then the only possibility is that you are running an installation which is not Registered in the Windows registry, so the FSUIPC doesn't install there. Show me the Install log file if you think there's something different going on. Pete
  9. Version 4.937 was released long ago, way before P3D version 2.5 was even thought of! You MUST check for the current supported version of FSUIPC before posting such reports. The current version, 4.944a, does support P3D 2.5, and previous versions have done since the day of its release! Pete
  10. No, it's definitely a problem with the installation of the X55 which does seem to happen regularly on Win10 and has been reported before. Please see the FAQ subforum thread "Fixing joystick connections not seen by FSUIPC"
  11. That's correct. and will normally be calibrated to 0, which is the normal FS idle. Like the Saitek throttle. Yes, that's what i thought. So it must be the button action which is doing it ... Well, the button isn't activated. You need to log axis Events as well as the discrete events, please so we can check that the axis values being sent are correct. Are you sure it isn't the add-on aircraft you are using, treating an idle (zero) input as something special? Pete
  12. Thanks for the info. News to me! Pete
  13. The problem is that when it saves the flight, SimConnect times out. It looks like it takes seconds with the sim, or at least SimConnect frozen. It is doing it every time it saves a flight. See: 1224109 **** No SimConnect events or states being received! Re-connecting now ... **** 1224218 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay 1224218 Running in "Microsoft Flight Simulator X", Version: 10.0.62615.0 (SimConnect: 10.0.62615.0) 1224218 Initialising SimConnect data requests now 1224218 FSUIPC Menu entry added 1224218 C:\Users\Desk-Rob\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\AutoSave Wed 140550.FLT 1225000 System time = 16/09/2015 14:06:03, Simulator time = 06:54:40 (05:54Z) This effectively restarts FSUIPC each time. I suspect this is related to your PMDG aircraft. Please first test with a default aircraft. It the performance of your Win10 systems in saving flights is as bad as others are reporting, I'm surprised you can tolerate the hesitations in flight whilst they occur. The PMDG aircraft make that 10 times worse. You can make FSUIPC more tolerant of bad Simconnect responses. I'll tell you more after you test with a default aircraft. Pete
  14. FSUIPC reads buttons and axis values using the same system. Something must be wrong with the Installation of the joystick. Do FSX/P3D see the buttons? Do either of them see the throttle lever(s) -- you don't mention the axes. What stick have you got which you say works? Pete
  15. Okay. Can you both please try 4.944d, an interim update in which I've changed to "DeleteFile" instead of "remove", to see if that helps. Download the DLL only from FSUIPC4944d_TEST.zip and copy it into the FS Modules folder. If it still fails to delete older files, please show me the FSUIPC log file -- it should contain some ***ERROR Autosave ... entries which will give me the reported error number. Pete
  16. Hmm. It looks like the standard ANSI library function "remove" isn't working in Windows 10. That's a bit of a shocker! I'll try the lower-level function "DeleteFile" instead, and also log it if it returns an error. Bear with me, I'll just build an interim version for you to test. Pete
  17. No. Wideclient just presents an FSUIPC interface to FSUIPC applications. FSUIPC applications have to use very Windows-specific API functions in order to operate that interface. It just wouldn't apply to any other operating system. What you want is a networking app at each end, the one on the FS PC being an FSUIPC client. You could even use a Lua plug-in at that end to send and receive data -- see the examples of networking plug-ins provided with FSUIPC. In particular see the slave/server networking to link two PCs running FS, one being slaved off the other. Pete
  18. The filetypes are normal. FS saves three files for every saved Flight. Some add-on aircraft also save files -- PMDG aircraft especially. Are all of the file NAMES the same format, i.e. all with day number and time in the name? The only relevant part of the INI is this: [AutoSave] Next=1 Interval=60 Files=5 SaveOnGround=Yes AutoSaveEnabled=Yes 1=Tue 213333 2=Tue 213432 3=Tue 213532 4=Tue 213631 5=Tue 213731 6=Sat 181634 7=Sat 181734 8=Sat 181833 9=Sat 181933 10=Sat 182033 This shows that you used to have it set to 10 files, so at least half the files would have been from before you changed to 5 files. FSUIPC cannot make retrospective corrections to the saved files. Best to delete all the saved files when you change the options, then things won't get confusing. I don't know. That's why I wanted to see the fileNAMES, not the file TYPES. Pete
  19. What is the INput value from the axis at the aft detent? Are sou sure there isn't a button there, as on the Saitek throttles, and that button is assigned to a control which is causing that action? Enable Button and Event logging in FSUIPC and see what is happening, as there is no way FSUIPC will be doing this without good reason. FSUIPC does no such things. Axes are just numbers which change as you move a lever, Calibration merely maps the input range to the desired output range, and you are in full control of that. Pete
  20. Please show me the filenames of the 9 FLT files, and also the [Autosave] section from your FSUIPC4.INI file (in the FS Modules folder). Incidentally, the 737NGX saves files too. FSUIPC simply sends Delete File commands to Windows in order to delete the oldest set when it requests FS to create new ones. It would be a bit disastrous if Windows 10 doesn't allow files to be deleted by programs. Pete
  21. Are you sure they are all FSUIPC-generated flight files? Can you show me a few of the filenames? There are many add-ons which also save files when a flight is saved. To check you only have 5 actual flight files only count those with the FLT filetype (or FXML for P3D). If you are using add-ons which save extra files, FSUIPC can manage those too, but you need to tell it about them. Please look up the Autosave chapter in the "FSUIPC4 for Advanced Users" document. Note that if your Flight Sim crashes there may well be orphaned sets of saved files for which the index in FSUIPC's INI file hasn't been updated. If you do find FS crashing you will occasionally need to clean up old files yourself. Pete Pete
  22. The Installation instructions which were inside the ZIP you downloaded, sitting right next to the Installer, did actually tell you where everything was and listed what you'd find there! Did you not read the Installation instructions? Pete
  23. MOVED FROM SUBFORUMS TO SUPPORT FORUM SO IT CAN BE SEEN AND ANSWERED! First, let me ask. Have you read any of the FSUIPC User Guide, one of the documents installed for you in the FSUIPC Documents subfolder? If not please do read some, at least those sections relevant to what you want to do. Let me split your message up into its separate questions: Do you mean you press a button but nothing appears showing the joystick number and button number? If so it sounds like the joystick isn't installed correctly. Seems that Saitek installers are very prone to this. If FS itself can see the buttons and axes, then it may just be a problem with the registration of the device -- the most common problem with Saitek installs. To fix this please refer to the FAQ subforum above, look at the thread entitled "Fixing joystick connections not seen by FSUIPC". If FSX cannot see the device either you need to reinstall it from scratch, or visit the Saitek support forum. Naturally the other parts of that settings dialogue cannot really be used until a button or switch is identified, as there's nothing to which it can assign whatever actions you want to select. You are not SELECTING an aircraft here! To select an aircraft go to the appropriate FS menu! You are creating a Profile for the CURRENT AIRCRAFT -- i.e. the one you have loaded in FS and the one you would be assigning actions for. If you already have created any profiles they will be listed for you and you can thereby add the currently loaded aircraft to that profile. Or you can create a new one and give it a name. I really do suggest you at least browse through the User Guide. (It contains pictures as well! ;-)) Probably the same answers as above, then, without more information to go on. Just search tags. Some folks use them, most don't. No, sorry. This is a support forum. Answers are given in the forum, that's the point. Pete
  24. But I don't see any other posts from you! In any case you can delete your own posts then post in the proper place yourself. If you have a question, post it in this, the Support Forum, with a suitable title. If the title states the subject clearly then others may be able to help too, or instead of myself when I'm away (which is often). Pete
  25. THREAD MOVED FROM FAQ SUBFORUM so it can be answered.. It depends on when I see them, or in my absence, another moderator who just happens to visit. BUT if you post support questions in SubForums, not in the main Support Forum, they will usually be ignored for so long that they get really outdated and in the end, deleted. The FAQ subforum, where you posted, is like the other SubForums, a repository for information, not a place for interctive support threads. Pete
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