FS9 & Cirrus II calibration & FSUIPC3 registration i

[Roy L. McCracken]

I am a brand new participant and this is my first posting. Hopefully, I am posting my request for help correctly. I am a new user of FS9 with a Cirrus II flight console made by Precision Flight Controls. PFC 1.9 and FSUIPC 3.47 came with my Cirrus II and are installed. My computer is a 3 years old Gateway with a Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz, 2.99 GHz 1.00 GB of RAM, Windows XP Pro Version 2002, Service Pack 2, video card is an ATI Radeon X 1600 Pro running off of an AGP slot, power supply is 480 watts. Everything seemed to work reasonably well until I upgraded my ATI Radeon 9600 Ver. 110 video card to the ATI Radeon X 1600 Pro. MY PROBLEMS ARE -

(1) The PFC axis calibrations are random in getting the sliders to move when I move the contols. Calibrations that are successful don't stick for very long. I have tried using both the serial and USB ports.

(2) I purchased a registration and received a FSUIPC3 Key. However, when I entered the key in the FSUIPC module registration screen, it blanked out the PFC tab on the toolbar. Do I have hardware/software compatibility issues?

Everything actually works perfectly, but not as well, on my laptop. I have not tried to enter the FSUIPC3 key on my laptop.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated

[Roy L. McCracken]

After I submitted my post on 12/02/06, I found the answers in two of Peter Dowson's Other Downloads and Updates (28th November 2006.) By downloading and installing FSUIPC version 3.711 and PFC driver 1.999b, plus getting my serial-USB connection going, my posted issues all went away.

I'm new to simming and how to best use the simFlight Network, but I can already tell it really pays to read all of Peter Dowson's comments.

I would have just deleted my post from 12/02/06, but I thought I read where you could not do that.

[Pete Dowson]

After I submitted my post on 12/02/06, I found the answers in two of Peter Dowson's Other Downloads and Updates (28th November 2006.) By downloading and installing FSUIPC version 3.711 and PFC driver 1.999b, plus getting my serial-USB connection going, my posted issues all went away.

Good. Thanks for letting me know.

Version 2.00 of the PFC driver is available now, by the way. It isn't much different to the 1.999b you are using, but the documentation is a little more up to date, at least, and there are a few internal tweaks (which you won't notice on your equipment anyway). You can find it now on the official download site, http://www.schiratti.com/dowson

I would have just deleted my post from 12/02/06, but I thought I read where you could not do that.

Well, I could do that, but I don't unless it's offensive. It may be useful to others in any case.

Regards

Pete