FSUIPC 3.30 Problems with Real Weather

[ilya1502]

Hello!

I would like to apologise in advance for my English, if it can be considered poor.

I would like to report a problem, which happens to my FS2004 after

installing FSUIPC 3.30.

After I have installed it the Static Real-World Weather option in FS2004

refuses to work. It loads the weather from the Internet, then loads it into

FS and the system "freezes", so only Reset button helps me to restart it.

I revealed that the FSUIPC is the reason, because after deleting the DLL

everything works fine.

I'll be very thankful to anybody who will help me to correct the problem.

Thanks.

[Pete Dowson]

After I have installed it the Static Real-World Weather option in FS2004

refuses to work. It loads the weather from the Internet, then loads it into

FS and the system "freezes", so only Reset button helps me to restart it.

I revealed that the FSUIPC is the reason, because after deleting the DLL

everything works fine.

I'd need to be able to reproduce this to know what is going on. There have been no other similar reports. Have you set any FSUIPC options? Try deleting your FSUIPC.INI file so that everything returns to default first.

Also, please try adding this to the FSUIPC.INI file (before running FS):

[buttons]

PollInterval=60

If you are using Win98 or WinMe or earlier this could be the answer -- in the next version of FSUIPC I am doing this automatically on these operating systems.

It may also be dependent upon other things -- aircraft panels (does it do it with all aircraft, or only some? Does it happen with any default aircraft?).

The main likelihood is that with FSUIPC enabled some aspects of the weather are generating more load on the graphics and the graphics driver is failing, so another option is to try different video drivers. The most usual reason for solid hangs needing a hardware reset are drivers -- graphics or sound. In fact it is really impossible for an application level program like FSUIPC, which doesn't actually touch any drivers, to hang the system solid like that.

Regards,

Pete

[ilya1502]

Thank you, Mr. Dowson!

Adding the lines by your recommendations into FSUIPC.INI resolved the problem.

I really run FS on the Win Me. The problem occured with FSUIPC unregistered, so I couldn't change any options. I have also tried to reproduce it with other scenery and aircraft. It still occured.

Only those lines made Real-World Weather option work.

Thank you again.

[Pete Dowson]

Adding the lines by your recommendations into FSUIPC.INI resolved the problem.

Ah, right. For some reason the faster button scanning in versions 3.22 and 3.30 does seem to clash with something in Windows Me and 98. It's perfectly okay in Win XP. Very strange. I think it is something to do with the rather weaker USB support in the earlier Windows versions.

This is the first time I've seen it reported when loading weather, though -- usually it has either simply stopped FS loading at all, or it has hung when entering the button programming options in FSUIPC.

Really, for an unregistered copy, there's no need for me to scan buttons, since you cannot program them in FSUIPC in any case. However, the scanning involves a separate thread and I find the system is stabler and more efficient if all the threads I need are created on start up and killed on closing FS.

Anyway, I will fix this in the next version so that that parameter is assumed if you are using WinMe, Win98, or even Win2000 (which I believe may also have weaker USB support).

Sorry for the hassle, and thanks for confirming the fix.

Regards,

Pete