Problems with FSUIPC 4.11 - Rudder and brakes decalibrate

[chrisworld]

Hello Peter,

first of all thank you very much for your fantastic programs.

I have a little problem with my rudder and my analog brakes.

Each time I restart FS2004 the calibration I did is gone. I have to recalibrate each time I start FS. Sometimes Ialso have to calibrate during flight when I do many approaches (but that may be a problem of my memory (512 MB)

I use both the actaul versions of FSUIPC and WIDEFS, and FS2004 (inkl. Patch 9.1) and EPIC USB. My rudder are conected to the EPIC USB.

Here are the values I see when I start FS:

Rudder: 2976 9354 16383

13602

Left brake: SET -8192 8192 AXIS NOT PROCESSED

Right brake: SET -8192 8192 AXIS NOT PROCESSED

The analog brakes always have to be activated.

Thank you for your help

Greetings

Toby

P.S. The spoilers don´t retract when they are on down, too. :cry:

[Pete Dowson]

Each time I restart FS2004 the calibration I did is gone. I have to recalibrate each time I start FS. Sometimes Ialso have to calibrate during flight when I do many approaches (but that may be a problem of my memory (512 MB)

There's no reason memory would do that. If the calibration is "going off" during a session it sounds like either the pots in your controls are failing, or more likely shifting. I had such problems with my old Thrustmaster pedals, years ago -- the pot was seated in the centre, between the two footrests, but somehow it lost its fixings (the plastic lugs just sort of wore smooth) and it used to gradually turn in use.

Here are the values I see when I start FS:

Rudder: 2976 9354 16383

13602

The upper limit of 16383 seems suspicious. that's the highest it can possibly be. Are you sure you calibrated correctly in the first place?

Anyway, those values aren't the important ones. They aren't going to change at all. They are read from the FSUIPC INI file, where they were written when you last calibrated.

The important values are what your pedals are showing at each extreme and in the centre, NOW -- i.e. the IN and OUT values. If those are different each time, you have a hardware problem.

Left brake: SET -8192 8192 AXIS NOT PROCESSED

Right brake: SET -8192 8192 AXIS NOT PROCESSED

The analog brakes always have to be activated.

The -8192 and +8192 values are too exact, too clinical, to be true calibrated values. It really looks like you have't calibrated them correctly. Try going through the ennumerated steps in the documentation.

If you have pressed the "set" button (so that it now reads "reset") for each axis you are using through FSUIPC, and confirmed (pressed OK, not Cancel, close or ESCape), then the calibrated values and the fact you've calibrated them will be written to the FSUIPC.INI file to be read next time. Are they? Check! Is your FSUIPC INI file write-protected, perhaps? That will certainly prevent ANY FSUIPC options sticking.

Regards,

Pete