stevewright

Peter, Could I trouble you to drop me an email on s.j.wright@leeds.ac.uk as I'd like to ask if it's possible to schedule a visit to the University. Many thanks Steve Wright

On the PC running XP SP3 - namely the old type PC being used to drive the TRC 472 cockpit device, the machine has a copy of 6.86 wide FS. The wideclient config reads: ; PLEASE SEE WideFS documentation for parameter details ; ===================================================== [Config] Port=8002 Window=-4,-4,1032,746 Visible=Yes ButtonScanInterval=20 ClassInstance=0 NetworkTiming=5,1 MailslotTiming=2000,1000 PollInterval=2000 Port2=9002 ResponseTime=18 ApplicationDelay=0 TCPcoalesce=No WaitForNewData=500 MaxSendQ=100 OnMaxSendQ=Log NewSendScanTime=50 Priority=3,1,2 ; ----------------------------------------------- [user] Log=Errors+ ; =============================================== [sounds] Path=C:\Wideclient\Sound\ Device1=Primary Sound Driver Device2=SoundMAX Digital Audio The wideclient log file shows: ********* WideClient Log [version 6.86] Class=FS98MAIN ********* Date (dmy): 06/02/12, Time 16:43:52.156: Client name is PRE-PC0161 219 LUA: "C:\Wideclient\Initial.LUA": not found 250 Attempting to connect now 1250 Trying to locate server: Need details from Server Broadcast 1250 Failed to connect: waiting to try again 3250 Attempting to connect now 41250 New Client Application: "TRCLink" (Id=3464) 67422 Trying to locate server: Need details from Server Broadcast 69547 Server = MININT-B5719LI 69594 Trying TCP/IP host "MININT-B5719LI" port 8002 ... 69594 ... Okay, IP Address = 192.168.1.20 69609 Connection made okay! 73984 Lost contact with ASE WX requester 228234 New Client Application: "TRCLink" (Id=3708) 401094 ****** End of session performance summary ****** 401094 Total time connected = 327 seconds 401094 Reception maximum: 21 frames/sec, 596 bytes/sec 401094 Reception average whilst connected: 20 frames/sec, 544 bytes/sec 401094 Transmission maximum: 1 frames/sec, 57 bytes/sec 401094 Transmission average whilst connected: 0 frames/sec, 21 bytes/sec 401094 Max receive buffer = 1926, Max send depth = 1, Send frames lost = 0 401094 **************** Individual client application activity **************** 401094 Client 3464 requests: 171 (Ave 0/sec), Data: 7386 bytes (22/sec), Average 43 bytes/Process 401094 Client 3708 requests: 3 (Ave 0/sec), Data: 162 bytes (0/sec), Average 54 bytes/Process 401094 ********* Log file closed (Buffers: MaxUsed 2, Alloc 6849 Freed 6849 Refused 0) ********* And lastly the wideserver config files show: ; PLEASE SEE the documentation for parameter details ; ================================================== [Config] Port=8002 ; ----------------------------------------------- [user] Log=Errors+ ; =============================================== Any guidance you can give would be very much appriciated. Kind regards, Stephen Wright Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds.

I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but in the FSX folder on the server machine we have the following files (in addition to the FSUIPC files in Modules). Wideclient config reads: ; PLEASE SEE WideFS documentation for parameter details ; ===================================================== [Config] ServerName=ServerIPAddr=192.168.1.20 Port=8002 Window=197,151,886,589 Visible=Yes ButtonScanInterval=20 ClassInstance=0 NetworkTiming=5,1 MailslotTiming=2000,1000 PollInterval=2000 Port2=9002 ResponseTime=18 ApplicationDelay=0 TCPcoalesce=No WaitForNewData=500 MaxSendQ=100 OnMaxSendQ=Log NewSendScanTime=50 Priority=3,1,2 ; ----------------------------------------------- [user] Log=Errors+ ; =============================================== [sounds] Path=C:\Documents and Settings\speme\Desktop\WideFS\Sound\ Device1=Primary Sound Driver Device2=Emu10Kx Audio [C8C0] Wideserver config (FSX) reads: ; PLEASE SEE the documentation for parameter details ; ================================================== [Config] Port=8002 ; ----------------------------------------------- [user] Log=Errors+ ; ===============================================

Morning, on the FSX server, within the modules folder of FSX, the FSUIPC files reads as follows: ********* FSUIPC4, Version 4.758 by Pete Dowson ********* User Name="stephen wright" User Addr="s.j.wright@leeds.ac.uk" FSUIPC4 Key is provided WideFS7 Key is provided Running inside FSX on Windows 7 Module base=61000000 110 System time = 06/02/2012 16:34:17 110 FLT UNC path = "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\" 250 Trying to connect to SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 ... 297 FS UNC path = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\" 546 LogOptions=00000000 00000001 546 Wind smoothing fix is fully installed 546 G3D.DLL fix attempt installed ok 546 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay 546 Trying to use SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 4540 Running in "Microsoft Flight Simulator X", Version: 10.0.61637.0 (SimConnect: 10.0.61259.0) 4540 Initialising SimConnect data requests now 4540 FSUIPC Menu entry added 4587 C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\startup.FLT 4587 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\C172\Cessna172SP.AIR 24836 System time = 06/02/2012 16:34:41, Simulator time = 16:34:22 (16:34Z) 24836 Aircraft="Cessna Skyhawk 172SP Paint1" 25054 Starting everything now ... 26318 Advanced Weather Interface Enabled 277869 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 254 secs = 19.8 fps 280677 Weather Mode now = Theme 280677 C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\Previous flight.FLT 702941 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 407 secs = 19.9 fps 732737 System time = 06/02/2012 16:46:29, Simulator time = 16:34:24 (16:34Z) 732737 *** FSUIPC log file being closed Average frame rate for running time of 664 secs = 19.9 fps G3D fix: Passes 15239, Null pointers 0, Bad pointers 0, Separate instances 0 Memory managed: 312 Allocs, 312 Freed ********* FSUIPC Log file closed *********** The wideserver log file in the same loication reads: ******** WideServer.DLL Log [version 7.758] ********* Blocksize guide = 8192 (double allowed) Date (dmy): 06/02/12, Time 16:34:42.185: Server name is MININT-B5719LI 15943 Initialising TCP/IP server 15943 Initialising UDP/IP server 16099 Broadcasting service every 1000 mSecs 31637 Incoming connection Accepted ok (skt=17568) TCP 31684 Restarting service due to zero reception! 282237 Incoming connection Accepted ok (skt=57792) TCP 282487 Connected to computer "PRE-PC0161" running WideClient version 6.860 (skt=57792) TCP 613724 Error 10054: client socket disconnected at Client: removing (skt=57792) TCP 705296 Closing down now ... Memory managed: Offset records: 312 alloc, 310 free Read buffer usage: 162 alloc, 162 free, max in session: 1 Write buffer usage: 13408 alloc, 13408 free, max in session: 1 Throughput maximum achieved: 20 frames/sec, 609 bytes/sec Throughput average achieved for complete session: 4 frames/sec, 125 bytes/sec Average receive rate from "PRE-PC0161": 0 frames/sec, 15 bytes/sec ********* Log file closed *********

The University I work for has recently upgraded it's flight sim hardware (PC's & projectors) going for a heavily overclocked workstation running 64bit environment with rather nice HD rear mounted projectors. However, the problems have become interesting as the TRC 472 (cessna 172) unit purchased some considerable time back it would seem has a 16 bit I/O card. Alas, the card cannot be swapped out for a 64 bit card at this time (according to TRC).... so the only solution has been to use FSUIPC with Wide FS. I've installed FSUIPC and Wide FS on the workstation: registered both software's fine. The TRC unit is connected to an existing PC running XP - and the TRC unit is calibrates more or less fine with their software. This PC was previously loaded up with FS 2004 and the correct FSUIPC software - and worked OK with the TRC hardward. To simplify matters, I've uninstalled all the old FS software off the machine, but left the TRC material on the hard drive. This XP computer has the small programme wide FS within the same TRC folder as per your pdf suggestions (user guide). I've had the departments IT support to network both machines together using a twisted pair (cat 5) cable - and all seems fine thus far. When the workstation runs FSX, the XP machine that is running wide FS appears to show 'connected,' but then shows a announcement bar "MS Flight simulator version is incorrect. Please use MS FS 2002 or FS2004" I've asked our IT team to have a look at the guidance materials re: network settings. Am I missing something obvious here by any chance? Any suggestions would be gratefully appriciated.