THibben

Pete, I have seen your replies, read them and am sorry I am so dense but I am trying. I have the PFC Jetliner yoke, The Power Quadrant Cabinet,( with radio controls, throttles, start switches, light controls etc.) and Cirrus rudder pedals. I do have registered FSUIPC4 and WideFS7 installed in FSX. But when I opened Steam and selected FSUIPC both FSUIPC and WideFS7 come up as unregistered and won't open. I know you don't register them in steam. Where do I register them so they show as registered in Steam? I hope this is more clear to you. Tom

Hi Pete, I have all Precision Flight Controls hardware but FSX Steam doesn't recognize it. I have a registered copy of FSUIPC4 and WIDEFS7 and have managed to get FSUIPC4 and WideFS7 installed in FSX Steam but it shows it as unregistered and I can not seem to get it registered in steam. I think my biggest problem is trying to figure where to install everything. I am sorry but I am having memory problems and it is a little difficult to understand at times. Thanks for any help, Tom

As I recall you are using PFC hardware. Are you using it with steam? If so how did you get the get it working. Steam is not recognizing my hardware at all. Thanks, Tom Hibben

Hi Eric, I don't understand what your button assignments are. Could you tell me which button each refers to? I also don't understand what each series of letters/numbers means. Actually I don't understand much of what you have accomplished. (grin) Any help would be appreciated. Also I assume you just have the standard PFC console that the throttle quadrant bolts to and not the Jet Console. Thanks, Tom

Hi Pete, One additional item regarding USB vs Serial connection. I have a friend that was using a USB connection for his PFC equipment using a seriak to USB adapter. I was doing the same thing. We were both having crashes and lockups occasionally. We both installed a card in the computer with a serial port and have never had a problem since. Tom

Hi Pete, Let me elaborate a little on the PFC issue. First of all the PMDG issue on FSUIPC is quite clearly stated on pg. 20 & 21 in the introduction doc. They are basically saying they have had some issues between the 737NG and FSUIPC but these were cleared up by deleting the FSUIPC.cfg and letting it regenerate itself after instl of the 737NG. This cleared up most of the issues they had. They also indicate that in SOME instances calibration of some controller hardware was better using the controller calibration. I have the PFC Jet Console and have the PFC 737NG throttle installed. Using the .dll you developed for PFC, and I am using the last release, I have been able calibrate the throttles and thrust reversers very nicely. My engines idle at 20%. I have not been able to get the spoiler or flap lever to work on the throttle quadrant or the gear lever to work on the Jet Console. The flap lever on the console will control the flaps. The weird thing with the gear lever is it uses the G command as it always has. Any suggestions would be helpful and thanks for all you do, Tom Hibben PS: Hope you are clear of all the troubles around London

Hi Pete, Thanks for the quick response. Pete please don't think that I think any of this is your problem. I have been using the PFC equipment for years and know pretty much how it works. Unfortunately I only have 6 lever quadrants, someday I will get enought money to get one for a single engine aircraft. The one I was using is for a twin engine. I wasn't trying to assign anything to the #1 spoiler lever. But unfortunately if I grab the first one by mistake, while looking at the screen, it causes the problem. As far as the cub is concerned it only has a throttle and no mixture so all I am trying to do is assign one of the levers to throttle 1. This was modeled as it was originally built with throttle only. As to the spoiler lever, all I am trying to do is find out what keystrokes are sent so I can find out if any of them are conflicting with the A2A cub so they can fix it. I know you have set up the throttle control as standard. The confusion I have is while the the key pad #9 and #3 keys work to control the throttle, I can't get the the PFC to control it. As I said I do have a 6 lever throttle quadrant, I have selected one of the other levers, ie: #2, and I have callibrated it and enabled it. The problem is I still can't get it to work. Thanks again and I will try again. Tom Hibben

Hi Pete, Would you please be so kind as to help me with a problem I have. I have the PFC Jet Console and it appears it may be causing a problem with A2A's latest release, the Piper Cub with Accusim. This problem only occurs when the PFC console is connected to the system. Whenever I move the #1 lever, (usually used for the spoilers) The Cub just noses over into a crash. This is with engine off or on. This also occurs when the Cub first loads. It usually occurs around 14 seconds after load or after the #1 lever is moved. What I am trying to find out is what commands or keystrokes are issued when the #1 lever is moved. Also are these commands also issued when the plane first loads? I would like to provide this info to A2A so they might be able to correct the problem. I have tried just using the keyboard / key but that does not seem to cause the problem. Are their any other commands given for the spoiler down, arm, Flt Detend, or up command? One other problem I have is that I can not get the Jet Console to control the throttle in the Cub even though I can use the Keyboard numpad 9 & 3 keys to control the throttle., EDit: I have the latest Vista FSUIPC 4.518 loaded and the Latest PFC driver V4.318. I am also using Vista 64 Ultimate, a Q9550 PCU, 4G Ram and 8800 GTS video cards with 640MB DDR3 ram. Thanks for your help, Tom Hibben

Hi Pete, My two cards are connected together so they work in parallel as I understand it, It is just that I can't run them in the multi GPU mode because FS9 isn't set up for it. I understand MS is working on a patch that will allow it. If I try to run in Multi mode the FS9 textures get all messed up. Another problem is I can't go any better than the 7.7.7.2 driver without messing up the textures in either mode. Hopefully NVIDIA will get that sorted out. The PFC dll and FSUIPC are both highly functional. The PFC hardware along with the Aerosoft 747MCP makes for some really enjoyable flying. Thanks again, Tom

Hi Pete, I didn't miss your point on frame rates because while I saw some drop in them when I had an extra monitor running I just couldn't get the view I wanted to stay in place. Jgar gave me a suggestion on how it might work and it did. Thanks gjar. As to frame rates, With two monitors running, both off the same card, I was getting around 18 - 20 fps sitting on the runway at Seattle facing north. This is the most fps intensive direction because you are looking at the city. In addition I have Fly Tampa Seattle installed, which is very detailed of KSEA, and I have MegaScenery PNW installed. Once I get airborne the fps increase to 28 - 30. (Max set at 32fps) Most sliders all the way to the right. Very detailed scenery. With the third monitor running the fwd right view, the fps dropped to around 15 fps and once airborne they went to 23 with no stuttering or anything unusual. This was done in slew mode so I might see some change but I have done this before and not seen any real change. Another point is I did not shut down any programs running in the background such as Norton security and antivirus and a bunch of other programs idling away. My system is pretty good with an AMD 64 3800+ 64x2 Dual core cpu, 2G of Ram and Two MSI NX6600GT PCI-E video cards. They are not in SLI mode since windows does not support it yet. Thanks for all the support you give everyone and all of your programs. I have most of the PFC equipment including the jet console and I don't know what we would do without your FSUIPC. It makes setting up the console pretty easy. Thanks again, Tom HIbben

Hi Pete, Thanks for the response. I think I need to clarify a little. Yes I do have the forward view on one of the monitors. I don't want to change it or expand it to multiple monitors What I am trying to do is add two more monitors and to fix a Fwd Left view on one and a Fwd Right view on the other. I tried to do this with one additional monitor hooked to the second card in my computer, then undock the view and move it. I was able to do this but the outside view on the main monitor went black (panel was still there) and I was not able to keep the FWD right view on the other monitor fixed in place. I do have NVIDIA drivers 7.7.7.2. I hope I am making sense. It sounds like your modules won't help. I didn't see any appreciable change in the frame rate when I did this but maybe I had better check again. Thanks again, Tom Hibben

Pete, My system has two graphic cards which will allow me to connect four monitors. I also have a second computer which I could connect. I am using two monitors on one card at present. The main monitor has the panel view and the other one is used for the overhead console, FMC etc. I would like to be able to use the two additional monitors to view the Left forward and right forward views in FS9. I also want to be able to keep the views present at all times even if I am changing views on the monitor with the Main aircraft panel view. Which one of your modules will do this for me? I presently have a registered FSUIPC. Thanks in advance, Tom Hibben

Hi Pete, With the new release of the PMDG 737NG 800/900 the PFC Digital throttle assy will no longer arm the spoilers as we were able to do with their original release. Is there anything that can be done within FSUIPC or the PFC dll to correct this? Thanks for any help. Tom Hibben

I have the PFC rudder pedals with toe brakes. Is it possible for these to have proportional braking? When looking at the PFC flight controls calibration, pressing on the brakes is either no brakes of full brakes. Thanks in advance, Tom Hibben

Thanks Pete, I should have remembered that. I have the E-Mail. Tom