FSUIPC freezes FS9

[ronindanbo]

I have a Saitek Flight system yoke and throttle combo I am currently running the non-registered version of FSUIPC but when I open it up I get a black screen and cant see the module.

I have worked around this by opening up Squawkbox first this allows me to open and see FSUIPC the problem there is when I open up the registration

and click on the registration field the whole of FS seems to freeze (cant get rid of the module screen and have to use task manager to shut everything down).

Has anyone else experienced this, I assume that this module has problems with Vista 64 or NVidia cards or both?

[Pete Dowson]

I have a Saitek Flight system yoke and throttle combo I am currently running the non-registered version of FSUIPC but when I open it up I get a black screen and cant see the module.

Is this in full screen mode or Windowed mode? Have you tried both? If it is only in full screen mode it is most likely to be a video driver problem.

There is nothing odd about FSUIPC's dialogue window, it is a standard Windows-implemented dialogue defined in its attached resources. It uses a library DLL called COMCTL32.DLL, and some video drivers notoriously replace this with psrtial implementations of their own devising.

Has anyone else experienced this, I assume that this module has problems with Vista 64 or NVidia cards or both?

It isn't the module, which is 100% proper Windows Win32 API (being a 32-bit program like FS, not 64). Mentioning Vista64 does suggest that the problem lies in the video drivers, which are still not terribly stable for Vista64 as far as I know.

Try earlier or later video drivers, or possibly just different settings.

Regards

Pete

[ronindanbo]

yes window mode alows me to see the module but everything still freezes up when I click in a registration field, I have updated my drivers several times and also applied some windows hotfixes (NVidia 8800 GTS 640MB) with no success, wonder if anyone knows of a specific driver version which works.

[Pete Dowson]

yes window mode alows me to see the module but everything still freezes up when I click in a registration field, I have updated my drivers several times and also applied some windows hotfixes (NVidia 8800 GTS 640MB) with no success, wonder if anyone knows of a specific driver version which works.

Check the mouse driver for that toothat's the only other cause I've heard of.

Pete

[ronindanbo]

yes mouse driver is the next thing I will look at

[ronindanbo]

still no luck, there is no real updates for my mouse or keyboard combo as I run MS intellipoint 2.0 explorer, has anyone else had problemns with this?

I have heard there are some real issues with NVidia drivers for 8 series cards does anyone have that issue also....

Also Peter is there any way to open FSUIPC outside of flightsim?

[Pete Dowson]

has anyone else had problemns with this?

Only when some program called "windows Blinds" was being used. It interferes with the look and feel of standard Windows dialogues and screwed the system up.

Also Peter is there any way to open FSUIPC outside of flightsim?

No, because it is a FlightSim module. And in any case the same dialogue would occur no matter what program initiated the module.

Something installed in your system is screwing up standard property tabs dialogues. I can only think of going through a process of elimination, closing down each non-Microsoft service one at a time till the culprit is found. If you close anything which then crashes Windows you can re-boot and by-pass tht one next time.

Pete