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  1. Dear all, after upgrading my graphics card my multimonitor setup with a myriad of FSUIPC key and button assignments, LINDA assignments, .lua scripts, autohotkey scripts, PMDG key combos and VRInsight software assignments doesn't work anymore in FSX, I think I kept my monitor arrangement and resolutions in Windows 7 unchanged (4 monitors, with a driver update) but the graphics card running the 4 monitors has different connections (DisplayPort, HDMI) instead of DVI and unfortunately I forgot to save the FSUIPC.ini file before changing the card. Is there a way to get my assignments back? This would save me hours of work of setting everything up again. Strangely enough I had to reregister FSX again after the GPU change and I'm not sure whether I used the same validation key as I did some 20 years ago.... Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
  2. Hi to all, thanks to my latest discussion with Pete I'm playing around with FSUPIC offsets and event intercepting and currently I want to try out whether an engine-blow out can be prevented when for example flying in icing conditions (eg. inside a TS) as some add-ons (like FS Captain) trigger an engine blow out if the anti-icers are not turned on. In the FSUPIC offset status list I found the offset 0B6B which seems to control the fail mode bitwise for each engine. I'm testing on the PMDG 747-800i (the old version, not the QOSII) in FSX. My idea is intercepting the status change of this offset when it occurs and immediately reset it to 0 (which means all engines ok). Then I expected no more engine failures to happen or at least to see them being reset after a few seconds. But somehow this doesn't seem to work. Can this be aircraft specific (PMDG is always a little bit tricky)? or can it be that this procedure doesn't work in general (as suggested by ?SimC and ?SimE)? or am I intervening at the wrong offset? Or is my code simply wrong? function failure(offset, value) if value ~= 0 then ipc.writeUB(offset,0) end end event.intercept(0x0B6B,"UB","failure") Any help is appreciated, kind regards draci
  3. Hi Pete, log checked, lua.script tested successfully, it's in fact simply a null string being written. Thanks for your help and every thing you've done and are still doing for the community, we all owe you a lot. draci
  4. Great, thank you, I'll do a flight tomorrow and report back! draci
  5. Sorry to bother you once again, but I don't have much experience when it comes to lua programming and I'm not at my FS Computer right now. Can you please quickly confirm that the following code does what I'm trying to achieve: function flightplan(offset,value) if value ~= "xxx" then ipc.writeSTR(offset,value) end end event.intercept(0x0130,"STR","flightplan") where I replace XXX by the value which I can get from the FSUIPC logfile that EFB2 tries to write to the offset position 0x0130. The idea is to simply block the flightplan being deleted by EFB2 but still allow other add-ons to set any flightplan (and also the user via FSX menu). I appreciate your help. Best regards draci
  6. Thank you Pete, of course, your guess is right, it's EFB2 I guess the file is simply removed from use, so I will try to investigate the log file, thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I will report back. draci
  7. Hi to all, I have the annoying problem that one of my add-ons deletes the GPS flightplan loaded into FSX default GPS after landing by sending an appropriate termination command to FSUIPC as soon as the gear touches down (according to the author). Unfortunately many of my other add-ons rely heaviliy on that flight plan and therefore cease working as soon as the landing gear touches down, but, of course, I need them until the end of the flight sim session. The author is working on a solution but meanwhile I need a workaround. So that's the reason for my rather peculiar question: is there a way to make FSUIPC to ignore the command of flight plan deletion it gets from a code to which the user of the program has no access? Maybe FSUIPC could subsitute the flight plan by another (identical one) as soon as the other is deleted? Or maybe the executing program can be tricked into thinking that the flight plan was deleted by sending an appropriate command back? Any help appreciated. Best regards draci
  8. Thank you for your reply, but the default .pln file does not contain a <city> tag. Actually the problem occurs for the new Doha Airport OTHH for which the flight plan contains the correct tags: ICAO is "OTHH" and Airport Name is "Hamad Intl Airport". However, MAP! displays the Arabic name for Doha which is "Ad Dawha" and I want it to display the English translation "Doha" as the destination. The only place where I found a <city> tag that reads "Al Dawha" is in the Runways.xml file created by MakeRwys.exe. Changing this to "Doha" unfortunately had no effect on the MAP! display. So where does the "Al Dawha" String come from? Thank you for your help and patience. draci
  9. Hi to all, I've been using MAP! for years now without any major issues, but today after installing some payware scenery I encountered for the first time that MAP! displays a wrong name for the destination airport. At first I thought that this would be easy to correct but so far I didn't find any airport database (I've checked FeelThere/AppData/Documents/ProgramData Folders) where the name could be stored. My second guess was that Map! could be using the information generated by MakeRwys.exe but noticed that in the Runways.xml the airport name is correct. Can anybody out there tell me from WHERE Map! retrieves the airport names it displays and how I can change them. Any help is very much appreciated. draci
  10. After a few hours of internet research I have finally figured out what the problem is, HOWEVER STILL WITHOUT FINDING A SOLUTION TO IT: The ATICrossfireXtension tool copies fsx.exe and renames it crysis.exe which is the game whose crossfire profile the ATi card drivers will use when FSX is fired up using the ATICrossfireXtension tool. However, FSUPIC is licensed to work with fsx.exe and if I reinstall FSUIPC it will be re-regisitered for the fsx.exe and doesn't take notice of crysis.exe which I need to run instead of fsx.exe to benefit from crossfire. The main problem is that FSUIPC can only be (re-)regisierted using the installer and neither from within FSX nor its copy crysis.exe which would be needed in my case. If I only I found a way to do this, my problem would probably be solved. I hope Pete or somebody else can help me fix this without having to uninstall my whole FSX setup... Any further advice and help is greatly appreciated, thx. draci
  11. Thanks for your help Thomas. Unfortunately this didn't help.I've run ATICrossfireXtension from C:\ATICrossfireExtension and even from within C:\FSX which is where my FSX resides. I tried running as an administrator by right-click and even via the command line but with no success so far. A soon as use the Tool to launch FSX, FSUIPC runs in an unregistered version with no WideFS connectivity. It's frustrating as hell.... draci
  12. Hi Pete, For my new computer which is not exclusively used for FSX I've bought two (expensive) new ATI R9 290X Graphic cards which I've slightly overclocked and run crossfired. I was astonished when I read in the forums that FSX can indeed be run crossfired too if the ATICrossfireXtension tool is used to fire it up and if FSX is assigned to another game profile like Crysis which makes full use of Crossfire. And indeed it works and gives me marvellous frame rates I would never have dared dreaming of before (>110 fps)! But the strange thing is that if I use the ATICrossfireExtension tool to fire up FSX, my FSUIPC4 and WideFs only runs in unregistered mode where I have no more access to my axis, key and button assignments and all add-ons running on client computers do not communicate with FSUIPC anymore. If I start FSX directly, then everything works fine, but of course without the benefit of crossfire and humble frames. Reinstalling FSUIPC didn't solve the issue. Would you please help me how get full access to my registered FSUIPC version (again) if I start FSX via the ATICrossfireExtension tool? I'd appreciate your help. Best regards (and enjoy your holidays) draci
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