Hi, Pete new to this forum.
First off let me say that it's awesome :cool: that you not only created this program, but also follow up with updates and help with problems and questions. Kudos to you my friend!
Now that I've buttered you up.....
Here is my issue. I have been using MSFSX, FSUIPC4 and FSXpand for almost a year now and have had no problem with everything working together. Recently I purchased 737PIC from FeelThere and installed it. Due to it being summer time and me being away, I didn't get a chance to actually try out this program for about three weeks, so when I returned from holidays, (like day before yesterday) I set it up and loaded MSFSX. As soon as I went to connect the FSXPand program, an error appeared.
"FSUIPC Connection failed: IPC request contains bad data."
Now, I'm not sure if it was the install of the 737PIC that has caused this error, or if something else on my system has created an issue with either the FSUIPC program, or the FSXpand program, but now it will not connect.
I went and un-installed the 737PIC program, thinking that that was the culprit, but the error has not gone away.
Let me list the proceedure that I usualy use when going to do a flight. I start both my computer systems, (main system for FSX and FSXPand, and then my secondary computer that runs all my guages on my MIP)
Then I load FSX
Then choose the 737, the pre-created flight, like CYVR to KSEA for instance. Then before I choose fly now, I start up FSXpand.
Once loaded, I choose "fly now" and I'm in the cockpit at the gate ready to start my pre-flight.
The error appears as soon as I start up FSXpand now.
Have you had any other issues with this combination of programs? Or have you heard from anyone having this error? I have read some forums on using FSWide or something and people were getting this error, but I don't use that so I'm not sure if it would be ths same issue as mine.
So, my questions are these:
1) Should I try a reinstall FSUIPC4 (which I have purchased a license for) and try it again? and if so can I reinstall this directly over the original version FSUIPC or do I have to uninstall the original version before I re-install it?
2) Could I need to re-install FSXpand? (which I also have a license for)
3) Should I upgrade to the latest release of FSUIPC and try that?
Sorry this is so vague, but I have not had any problems with these programs and truly love flying my sim but I cannot get my guages to appear on my MIP without some help.
Here are the specs of my systems:
1st system - main:
AND Quad Core 945 Black edition processor
Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 MB
16 OCZ gigs Ram
MSI 560TI OC Video card
Corssair 850 PS
running 3 Viewsonic LCD 19" monitors
OS- Win7 Home Premium Edition
2nd system - guages (MIP)
AMD dual core 3800 Processor
Asus MB
8 gigs of OCZ ram
Radeon HD 6770 Video card
Corrsair 650 PS
running 1-15 inch Viewsonic LCD screen and 1 - 19 Inch Acer LCD screen
OS - Windows Vista (I know......don't laugh!)
In any case, I have had 100% complete success and many hours of flying since I first started, but suddenly now my airline is grounded due to this technical issue. Any help you or anyone out there could supply with this error would be fantastic, as it's costing me thousands of passenger dollars having my 737 sittiing at YVR and not flying.
Thanks in advance and keep up the gredat job!
Sincerely,
Mark Teel