fsuipc 4.15 with FSX

[PHAY]

Hi Peter

I am running FSX with Vista 64 bit, and loaded FSUIPC 4.15 so the Ifly 747 would display the gauges correctly, unfortunately FSX crashes with the following message:

Problem event name - APPCRASH

application name - FSX.EXE

application version - 100.61355.0

application timestamp - 4643ee0a

fault modual name - weather.dll

fault modual version - 10.0.61355.0

fault modual timestamp - 4643f2ad

exception code - c0000005

exception offset - 000152bf

os version - 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.2

locale id - 2057

Additional information about the problem

LCID 2057

Sorry to be long winder about it, but I have no idea what is important and what can be left out.

:(

[Pete Dowson]

I am running FSX with Vista 64 bit, and loaded FSUIPC 4.15 so the Ifly 747 would display the gauges correctly, unfortunately FSX crashes with the following message:

Problem event name - APPCRASH

application name - FSX.EXE

application version - 100.61355.0

application timestamp - 4643ee0a

fault modual name - weather.dll

...

Not sure why you are posting here about it as it really cannot be anything to do with FSUIPC.

Please make sure you submit the problem to Microsoft when the crash notification appears with that option. Also see if it happens without the "iFly" add-on, as if it doesn't you may wish to notify them, assuming they support its use in FSX.

Incidentally, the currently supported version of FSUIPC4 is 4.152, not 4.15, and there is an interim update for that (4.156) available in the FSX download announcement above.

Regards

Pete

[Pete Dowson]

... so the Ifly 747 would display the gauges correctly

I have just noticed this announcement on Avsim:

Today's Library Files Include New FSX Version of the iFly 747-400!

Maybe using the FSX version will help?

Pete

[PHAY]

Hi Peter

FSUIPC for FSX

I am sorry for wasting your time, but the request was born out of frustration after three hours of struggling with the problem. I did have version 4.152 loaded along with the FSX version of the IFLY 747.

The previously mentioned problem occurred with all the FSX aircraft even the default ones; the problem only went away when I uninstalled FSUIPC completely. This of course left me with no gauges showing on the 747.

After reading your reply I ran the diagnostics programme in Vista, and it down loaded an update for the graphics card ( NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX ) and two updates for windows. After that I down loaded a new FSUIPC 4.152, in case the original was corrupt, reloaded it into FSX and everything is working perfectly.

Weather it was these updates, the original FSUIPC or everything just decided it would work today, I do not know, the mysteries of computers

We live and learn.

Regards Peter H

:lol:

[Pete Dowson]

I did have version 4.152 loaded along with the FSX version of the IFLY 747.

The previously mentioned problem occurred with all the FSX aircraft even the default ones; the problem only went away when I uninstalled FSUIPC completely. This of course left me with no gauges showing on the 747.

After reading your reply I ran the diagnostics programme in Vista, and it down loaded an update for the graphics card ( NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX ) and two updates for windows. After that I down loaded a new FSUIPC 4.152, in case the original was corrupt, reloaded it into FSX and everything is working perfectly.

Good. You should know, however, that a corrupted FSUIPC will always be detected as it is code-signed and the signature is checked on every load, so it could not actually be a corruption of the DLL itself.

The updated graphics driver may well have had something to do with it, though the fact that your crash was in WEATHER.DLL also suggests the possibility of a faulty weather download or weather (WX) file on disk. The only reasons the presence of FSUIPC may have exacerbated such a problem are (a) that it reads the weather via SimConnect regularly, possibly unlike the other things you had loaded, and (b) that its mere presence would change timings and memory arrangements slightly, possibly revealing a bug elsewhere.

Additionally, the weather characteristics would of course affect graphics (in the cloud renditions) and this in turn relates to the graphics drivers.

Incidentally there is a later version of FSUIPC (4.156) available in the FSX downloads, above. This is a Release Candidate for 4.16, which I will be releasing properly before the end of the month.

Regards

Pete