daveg4otu

Jose .......No Pete Can't understand what was going on - absolutely no doubt that it(the patch) was all working fine with V3.3(in spite of what you said) - flew online using SB etc. Only when I tried to swap V3.3 for 3.4 did the problems arise- mainly this "you have duplicate copies of FSUIPC" business.I think the most likely problem was - as you suggested - a damaged FS9.exe. Never mind - in the end I decided to do a new install of the whole thing - this copy of FS9 been running for 13 months and accumulated a lot of rubbish- mostly not needed for any practical purpose. So now up and running -with Patch And Latest FSUIPC Thanks for advice Dave

Installed the patch - all went very well -I was still using FSUIPC V3.3 but everything worked. Thought perhaps better update FSUIPC as V3.4 is available.Changed to the updated module- OK first time - but every time I restart FS9 thereafter I get the "you have duplicate copies of FSUIPC installed etc" message. OK if I shut down Wndows and restart - first time up with FS9 all OK but close it and restart it(FS9) gets the message again . In addition when closing down the PC after such an episode I get that FS9.exe is still running (The "end now" etc message) I suspect that this is the reason why I'm getting the Duplicate FSUIPC message as it thinks FS9 is still running - but why- all was fine before updating FSUIPC--- any ideas please? Dave

I thinks it's sort of " late Alpha" Dave

Quick update......... The problem goes away as soon as I remove the SB dlls from the modules folder so obviously the problem lies with them- somehow hanging on to FSUIPC after the fs9 software is supposedly shut down . Sorry I laid this at your door Pete and thanks for the guidance. BTW I love the wind smoothing in the latest version - really effective. Dave

Hello again Pete............. Well this is with WinXP home and tho - as you correctlysay Alt Ctrl Del enables you to close the process - I still have to reboot to get a clean start on FS9 - otherwise I get the " Duplicate FSUIPC" notice and FS9 refuses to go beyond the splash screen. However - I'm certain now that it is SB3 that's the problem rather than FSUIPC as removing SB3 removes the problem - everything else including SB2/SBRelay etc works just fine then. I 'm certain now that we've eliminated FSUIPC from the problem - must have been coincidence the problem chose that moment to show up. ( Murphy's law again) Thanks again Dave

Thankyou for the speedy reply Pete.... Further testing seems to indicate that the problem is almost certainly to do with the start up and/or shutdown of SB3 somehow preventing FS9 from closing properly. The Alt_ctrl_Del does not have the desired effect - I still need to reboot to stop the " Duplicate FSUIPC" messages- the reboot seems to" wipe the slate clean". As I said - I have added it to the SB3 bug database - let's see what comes of that. Cheers Dave

A problem has arisen after immediately installing the latest (registered) FSUIPC 3.30 yesterday . I followed my usual practice of removing the old FSUIPC module to a backup folder , and after unzipping placing the new module into FS9 /modules.. I am currently betatesting the Squawkbox 3 and I think the problem may be to do with the relationship between these two applications. What happens is this........ After starting FS9( in an offline situation) the SB3 will sometimes try start automatically ( this is something the hopefully is going to be changed). On closing FS9 and restarting FS9 I get the " You have duplicate copies of FSUIPC etc" error message - which will not go away or allow me to restart FS9 without rebooting the PC. In addition , when rebooting the PC will not shut down - saying that FS9.exe is still open- giving the usual End it Now /wait fot it to end message. Rebooting does appear to clear the situation. Reverting to the previous FSUIPC hasn't cured the problem. I haven't tried deleting the FS9.cfg so far, but I did try a system restore back to before I first installed the new module with no luck. I realise that this may well be the fault of SB3 and am posting on the SB3 bug database also. Dave