MeatWater Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 weird, weird! I have a PFC throttle quadrant connected via a USB2SERIAL adaptor plugged into one of my boards native USB ports. This setup worked just fine. As I own several quadrants the day came when I mounted a different one to the base unit, and when I called up the PFC menu, the COM port setting read NONE (with the quadrant still working!) After I tried to alter settings within the PFC menu (set up a new quadrant), the reminder window popped up stating that I should set the correct COM port, but the drop down menu didn't offer ANY available port. Closing the menu and shutting down FS results in the CONNECTION entry beeing deleted from the PFC.ini file When I manually enter the correct one and startup FS, the connection checker gives me greens on the quadrant. But whenever I open the PFC menu, the COM port and thus the quadrant gets lost. I did try to: - reinstall the USB adaptor - replace PFC.dll with older versions (deleting the ini file each time) I am using FS9.1 along with the latest registered versions of WIDEfs, PFC.dll and, of course, FSUIPC please help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 As I own several quadrants the day came when I mounted a different one to the base unit, and when I called up the PFC menu, the COM port setting read NONE (with the quadrant still working!) That sounds very much like you have two PFC drivers installed at the same time. One is getting the COM port (the frst one loaded) whilst the other is overriding the menu. Never rename previous versions and leave them in either the FS Modules folder or the main FS folder. Regards, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatWater Posted July 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 I think I found the bugger: PFC.dll doesn't seem to like COM port numbers above 10. I re-set the COM port number to 2, and everything works again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 I think I found the bugger:PFC.dll doesn't seem to like COM port numbers above 10. I re-set the COM port number to 2, and everything works again. Oh, it certainly shouldn't mind. I'll check that. Thanks. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 PFC.dll doesn't seem to like COM port numbers above 10. I re-set the COM port number to 2, and everything works again. I think I've found the reason, and fixed it. Odd that it's never been reported before. The problem is not so much in the actual program but the dialogues -- it was only looking for COM1 - COM8. If it is not too inconvenient for you to try your earlier COM port number again, but with the attached version 1.942, and confirm, please, that it is then okay, I'd be most grateful. Thank you. Regards, Pete PFCDLL1942.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatWater Posted July 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 There's always a first time ;-) Will try that tomorrow, thanks Pete for looking into it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatWater Posted July 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 works fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 works fine! Great! Thanks! Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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