Keith Cocker

Thanks Pete - email is keith@development-alternatives.co.uk Look forward to trying it out. Best wishes Keith Cocker

Hello Pete, Is there any possibility that the latest version in causing my FS2004 to crash when I am using FSUIPC allocated buttons on my yoke. I have used programmed buttons via the facility in FSUIPC succesfully since I don't remember when. :D But in the last few days I have been getting random CTD's when I press a button on my yoke that has been programmed to a FS function via FSUIPC. :cry: Any thoughts - can I rule out the latest version of FSUIPC? Thanks Keith Cocker

Hello Peter, I make quite a lot of use of the User Config's for Throttles in PFC. Would It be possible to have the facility to assign a Title to Each Config rather than just User Config 1 - 2 etc?I would find it helpful rather than trying to work out which was which. (Forgive me if the facility is already there but I'm too dim to find it!!) Best wishes Keith Cocker

Hi, Works fine for me for FS2004. I just changed the reference in the ini file to the new FS2004 location for Flight Plans. Best wishes Keith Cocker

Hello Pete, Just for the record the problem was being caused by the network Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). Disabling ICS made it go away. And now that I have Broadband with the Zoom Modem you recommended I don't need ICS. (There are other oddities now with Browsing the Internet!! but that's another story and probably to do with Firewall's etc) Many Thanks for your help and the others who contributed Best wishes Keith Cocker

Pete, Thanks, that's very helpful. I got a Zoom ADSL Modem from PCWorld this afternoon (its the X4 rather than the X3 which was out of stock. It has an additional USB port as well as the Ethernet Connection but its use is optional and they said that otherwise it was the same as the X3) I've just looked over the Manual for the Zoom and I must say I feel a little daunted. The ISDN Line is being replaced by Broadband next Thursday so I may need to take up your kind offer of some configuration help! Best wishes Keith Cocker

Pete, I've now decided to go with BT Broadband and it is being installed next week. Is there a particular reason for not using the BT supplied modem - which I'm aparently getting free. I would want to use two desktops and a laptop in the network to access the ADSL. If so could you let me know the model of Zoom you have. Thanks Keith Cocker

It shouldn't. Make sure you have assigned 192.168.0.1 to the ICS host machine (the one that's connected to the Internet), and 192.168.0.x to all the others (ensuring of course that's it's unique). You'll also have fewer problems if you make sure that the host is running Windows XP. On the clients, you need to enter 192.168.0.1 as the default gateway and also as the DNS server (without the latter DNS won't work!) Jamie, Thanks. Adding the DNS information on the client did result in the ICS remaining available on the client and programmes on the client can start the ICS on the host. However, they don't seem to be able to use it!. For example. I start Internet Explorer on the Client and it automatically starts the Internet connection on the Host machine. But it doesn't get any data through. It tries to find the site and then I get a "The page cannot be displayed message" This applies to all sites through the client machine but I can access the sites through the host - so they aren't down or a problem with my ISP. Are there other setting I should be looking at in Internet Options or other areas? Both machines are running XP home by the way. Thanks for your help Keith Cocker

Pete, Thanks. It seems that assigning IP stuffs WXP's Internet Gateway Internet Connection Sharing. If anyone else knows whether this is a limitation that can be overcome I would love to know. Can I ask - do you have Broadband through your router or ISDN or ordinary analogue dial-up. We live in the Styx north of Manchester and Broadband is just about to reach us so I'm a bit baffled by it all. We have ISDN and I don't really want to change.I talked to BT and got a spotty youth who really didn't inspire confidence that I should go to broadband! But I'm not clear on what is possible with an ISDN line and a network. Best wishes Keith Cocker

This sounds very much like the action of Windows when you have left the IP address for Windows to obtain automatically. Check that you've assigned a specific IP address to each PC. To do this go to Network Connections, Properties, select the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and its properties, and choose the "Use the following IP address" section. Allocate something like 192.168.0.N (where N is up to you, a unique value for each PC) and a mask of 255.255.255.0. Pete, Thanks very much - this was the problem. One Computer had an assigned address, the other was automatic and putting both to assigned solved the stutter cycle. However!!! - it introduced another problem. With the previous auto setting my second computer could access the Dial-up Internet connection on the First computer. Switching to assigned numbers in TCP/IPC takes this away. It disappears from network connections on the second machine and running a programme that requires internet access.g Internet explorer or FSmeteo on the second machine no longer starts up the dialup on number 1. Even starting the dial up on number 1 doesn't seem to allow No 2 to useit. Is there a way to get this facility back that you are aware of? Thanks very much for your help Keith Cocker

Hello Peter and other networking experts, I thought this was a FSUIPC/Widefs problem at first but now I'm not so sure - and I wondered if it rang any bells with people. I have set up a network (winXP TCP/IPC) with two computers through an Etherfast 10/100 Workgroup Switch. FS2004 on 1st computer and running FSmeteo, FS Flight Keeper etc on 2nd Machine. I have Registered and latest copies of FSUIPC and Wide FS. I am getting short but very severe stutter every 2 minutes (normal fps of 22 rock solid diving to 1-4fps every 2 minutes) Stutter only last for a second or so but cause very visible hesitation. Then everying returns to normal for aboyt 2 minutes. As i say I thought this might be FSUIPC, Wide FS or FSMeteo related. But I have eliminated each of them in turn and it seems as though I get this without WideFS etc operating. And it seems to stop its regular cycle if the 2nd Computer is off. (At least that's my provisonal finding.) I am not a networking expert and wondered if this sounded familiar to anyone? The 2 minute cycle is quite predictable. Any suggestions on what this might be in the network and where to start to look for a solution. Many Thanks Keith Cocker