granathg

Thank you for the extra piece of info about FSUIPC4! That was another concern of mine. Precisely the info I needed and right to the point. :D All of us are thoroughly grateful to Pete for this product. Priceless. GJG

I am replacing my 32-bit XP system (running FS2004/FSUIPC3.98) with a new Win 7 64-bit system (gobs of RAM and HDD space), on which I will install both FS2004 (with FSUIPC3) and FSX (with FSUIPC4). I purchased the FSUIPC3 license long ago. Can I simply transfer it to my new system and use the same key? Thanks, GJG

Hi jordanal, I had the same question so searched the forum and found your post. The FSUIPC 3.98 User Guide page 28, para 8, says that there are two ways (manual and auto) to assign alphabetic IDs to control devices. It then describes the first method as preferable, which is to assign an alpha ID to a name in the JoyNames section, but it doesn't say specifically HOW to do it in that section, even though one could say that it is implied. Like you, I'd rather use the preferred method. So... you manually added three lines to FSUIPC.ini in the JoyNames section (a good guess, but one shouldn't have to guess). You seem to have also manually edited the Axes section so the IDs match the JoyNames section. Nothing is said about that in the U/G and para 5 on page 28 of the U/G gave me the impression that once you changed the JoyNames section, the Axes section would be updated automagically. I'll try it. Thanks for raising the question. I didn't have to. It's unfortunate that Pete told you that you didn't know what you were doing and that you should just try it and see. I think it was a legitimate question. And in suggesting that you could have used the autoassignletters method he didn't seem to realize that if you wanted to do that you would have done so and your post would not have been necessary in the first place. G