edit my config to keep settings

[jobepilot]

Hi

Using PMDG747

Is there anyway I can edit my msconfig to keep my control settings. Its not saving upon exit. Even fsucpi buttons are reset, I press TOGA assigned button and it should be ac specific, but its gone, I have to reassign. I know you said before peter it was a gauge related to PMDG. But I am lost on how to find the probs.

If I load a new AC i.e. default PMDG747 set buttons all works fine, reload/restart all key buttons gone, but all control axis assign through FSX stays. But everytime I use a new AC it stays for that session.

Sorry to repost this subject, but I am starting to pull my hair out :|

[Pete Dowson]

Is there anyway I can edit my msconfig to keep my control settings. Its not saving upon exit. Even fsucpi buttons are reset

...

If I load a new AC i.e. default PMDG747 set buttons all works fine, reload/restart all key buttons gone, but all control axis assign through FSX stays. But everytime I use a new AC it stays for that session.

Could you perhaps be a little clearer about what you are talking about here? What is this "msconfig" you might want to edit? Where is it and what program does it relate to? You seem to be mixing up stuff to do with windows, FS, PMDG and FSUIPC all together and I just don't understand what you are doing or what you think is going wrong.

If you are talking about anything to do with any of my programs I need to know which one (FSUIPC presumably?) and what version. Then I need to know what you are doing with it and what you think is wrong.

If your message was a re-post as you say, why isn't it in that thread? Maybe I could follow you then?

Pete

[jobepilot]

Yeah I confused things.

All I want to do is keep my settings upon exit from FSX, I was refering to the config within FSX. not MS.

The FSUIPC is the most recent version, if I change AC and reset buttons all works fine, once I exit FSX everything resets :evil: no buttons are assigned. But all Axis work fine, because they are within FSX. But all my FSUIPC are gone. Even if I open FSUIPC and push the button it doesnt display the key commands to buttons.

Sorry about another post, but I have posted before on other forums, and peep never reply, sorry if yours differ. :-)

[Pete Dowson]

All I want to do is keep my settings upon exit from FSX, I was refering to the config within FSX. not MS.

So you are talking about buttons and keys assigned in FSX "Options-Controls-Assignments"? Or in the PMDG 747 menus?

The FSUIPC is the most recent version

And what IS that version? Please never ever just say "most recent" or "latest". It is meaningless. I've had folks saying that and when looking at the logs they supplied it turned out they were using one many versions out of date -- a year old in one case! They thought it was the "most recent" because they hardly ever bother to look for updates!

FSUIPC, like all of my program, has a VERSION NUMBER. It's a value like "4.272" (which happens to be the "most recent" one today). It is so easy for you to find out what version you are using. Look on the About tab in the options. Look at the first line in the Logs. Right click on the DLL itself and read the Version in Properties!

... if I change AC and reset buttons all works fine, once I exit FSX everything resets

Whoa! Where do you "reset buttons"? What do you mean by "reset"? Is this in FSX or FSUIPC?

But all my FSUIPC are gone. Even if I open FSUIPC and push the button it doesnt display the key commands to buttons.

So are you, all this time, talking about button assignments in FSUIPC itself? This is what I have been trying to get clear. You've never actually been explicit!

When you make assignments in FSUIPC4 they are saved to a file called "FSUIPC4.INI". You'll find it in your FSX Modules folder. Make your assignments and show that file to me. It's an ordinary text file. It sounds as if you are using the "aircraft specific" facilities by expecting the buttons assigned for one aircraft to be available for another.

But first, let's make sure you are actually really using the "most recent" version. I don't want to waste my time trying to fix anything already fixed!

Regards

Pete

[jobepilot]

Sorry Peter, its like treacle talk to me :-)

I use the PMDG 747 all the time, but when I change to another 747 PMDG model, assign keys in FSUIPC everything works fine. I exit FSX and reload, then all my buttons have gone from FSUIPC.

So to answer your questions

1) So you are talking about buttons and keys assigned in FSX "Options-Controls-Assignments"? Or in the PMDG 747 menus?

The control assignments in FSX stay fine, in PMDG they stay as I set them, when I go to use them nothing happens, and in FSUIPC my commands/key assignments have gone. And also

2) Whoa! Where do you "reset buttons"? What do you mean by "reset"? Is this in FSX or FSUIPC?

Sorry I didnt explain, if I reset I mean by resetting my flight in FSX, then all assignments have gone from FSUIPC

3) So are you, all this time, talking about button assignments in FSUIPC itself? This is what I have been trying to get clear. You've never actually been explicit!

When you make assignments in FSUIPC4 they are saved to a file called "FSUIPC4.INI". You'll find it in your FSX Modules folder. Make your assignments and show that file to me. It's an ordinary text file. It sounds as if you are using the "aircraft specific" facilities by expecting the buttons assigned for one aircraft to be available for another.

But first, let's make sure you are actually really using the "most recent" version. I don't want to waste my time trying to fix anything already fix

Yeah my version is different, I downloaded and reinstalled the lastest version, but I reinstalled RC and that contained another version of FSUIPC (older). weird.... I will update again, my current version is Installer for FSUIPC4.DLL version 4.152 Looking in registry for FSX install path: new version Installer for FSUIPC4.DLL version 4.26

ctrl shf 8 = AT arm

ctrl shf 7 = L CMD

ctrl shf0 = Set TOGA

ctrl shf6 = AP dicon

1=Thu 213504

2=Thu 213624

3=Thu 213934

4=Thu 214054

5=Thu 214213

6=Fri 144817

[buttons.PMDG747-400 VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS Penelope]

0=P1,18,K56,11

1=P1,16,K55,11

2=P1,14,K49,11

3=P1,17,K48,11

4=P1,1,K54,11

[buttons]

1=P1,18,K56,11

2=P1,17,K48,11

3=P1,16,K55,11

4=P1,14,K49,11

5=P1,1,K54,11

[buttons.PMDG - 747-400 GE CF6 Engines]

0=P1,1,K54,11

1=P1,18,K0,11

2=P1,16,K55,11

[jobepilot]

I have reinstalled the latest version still the same Installer for FSUIPC4.DLL version 4.26

[jobepilot]

[General]

History=0I59BH56WDG1GOL9A4XI5

TCASid=Flight

TCASrange=40

AxisCalibration=No

DirectAxesToCalibs=No

ShowMultilineWindow=Yes

SuppressSingleline=No

SuppressMultilineFS=No

AxisIntercepts=No

WeatherReadFactor=2

SimConnectStallTime=1

GraduatedVisibility=No

LowerVisAltitude=0

UpperVisAltitude=0

UpperVisibility=0

MinimumVisibility=0

MaximumVisibilityFewClouds=0

MaximumVisibility=0

MaximumVisibilityOvercast=0

MaximumVisibilityRainy=0

SetVisUpperAlt=No

VisUpperAltLimit=0

ExtendMetarMaxVis=No

OneCloudLayer=No

CloudTurbulence=No

CloudIcing=No

GenerateCirrus=No

SuppressCloudTurbulence=No

MaxIce=-4

MinIce=-4

UpperWindGusts=No

SuppressWindTurbulence=No

WindTurbulence=No

SuppressAllGusts=No

MaxSurfaceWind=0

WindLimitLevel=200

WindDiscardLevel=400

WindAjustAltitude=No

WindAjustAltitudeBy=2000

DisconnTrimForAP=No

ZeroElevForAPAlt=No

ThrottleSyncAll=No

WhiteMessages=No

ShowPMcontrols=No

MagicBattery=No

RudderSpikeRemoval=No

ElevatorSpikeRemoval=No

AileronSpikeRemoval=No

ReversedElevatorTrim=No

ClockSync=No

ClockSyncMins=5

ClearWeatherDynamics=No

OwnWeatherChanges=No

TimeForSelect=4

LoadFlightMenu=No

LoadPlanMenu=No

PauseAfterCrash=No

ShortAircraftNameOk=No

MouseWheelTrim=No

FixControlAccel=No

VisibilityOptions=No

SuppressWindVariance=No

TurbulenceRate=1.0,5.0

TurbulenceDivisor=20,20,40,40

WindSmoothing=No

WindSmoothness=2

WindSmoothAirborneOnly=Yes

PressureSmoothness=0

TemperatureSmoothness=0

SpoilerIncrement=512

ZapSound=firework

WeatherRewriteSeconds=1

[WideServer]

WideFSenabled=Yes

[GPSout]

Port=

Speed=4800

Interval=1000

PosTo6Decimal=Yes

Sentences=

GPSoutEnabled=No

[AutoSave]

AutoSaveEnabled=Yes

Interval=80

Files=10

SaveOnGround=Yes

Next=5

1=Fri 171738

2=Fri 172017

3=Fri 172137

4=Fri 172416

5=Fri 170941

6=Fri 171100

7=Fri 171220

8=Fri 171339

9=Fri 171459

10=Fri 171619

[buttons.PMDG747-400 VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS Penelope]

0=P1,18,K56,11

1=P1,16,K55,11

2=P1,14,K49,11

3=P1,17,K48,11

4=P1,1,K54,11

[buttons]

1=P1,18,K56,11

2=P1,17,K48,11

3=P1,16,K55,11

4=P1,14,K49,11

5=P1,1,K54,11

[buttons.PMDG - 747-400 GE CF6 Engines]

0=P1,1,K54,11

1=P1,18,K0,11

2=P1,16,K55,11

[Pete Dowson]

Yeah my version is different, I downloaded and reinstalled the lastest version, but I reinstalled RC and that contained another version of FSUIPC (older).

Radar Contact? RC doesn't install FSUIPC4 that I know of!

my current version is Installer for FSUIPC4.DLL version 4.152 Looking in registry for FSX install path: new version Installer for FSUIPC4.DLL version 4.26

What's all that? Please just either find the FSUIPC4.DLL in the FSX modules folder, right click, choose Properties-Version, and read the version there! There should be none of that "Installer for" business. What on Earth are you looking at? The Installer log? Why? If you want the version number from the Log you have to look at the FSUIPC4.Log!

[buttons.PMDG747-400 VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS Penelope]

0=P1,18,K56,11

1=P1,16,K55,11

2=P1,14,K49,11

3=P1,17,K48,11

4=P1,1,K54,11

[buttons]

1=P1,18,K56,11

2=P1,17,K48,11

3=P1,16,K55,11

4=P1,14,K49,11

5=P1,1,K54,11

[buttons.PMDG - 747-400 GE CF6 Engines]

0=P1,1,K54,11

1=P1,18,K0,11

2=P1,16,K55,11

Well, you've set the same 5 buttons for "PMDG747-400 VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS Penelope" and all other aircraft, except "PMDG - 747-400 GE CF6 Engines", where you've only set two of those plus a third button doing nothing ("K0" is "null2, or "no key").

If you want the same 5 buttons operating the same 5 KeyPresses for all aircraft, as you seem to have programmed really (except for that latter mess), why are you bothering to use the "aircraft specific" checkbox? I suspect you are only succeeding in confusing yourself.

Just delete all of the above except for

[buttons]

1=P1,18,K56,11

2=P1,17,K48,11

3=P1,16,K55,11

4=P1,14,K49,11

5=P1,1,K54,11

And please don't come back here until you at least know which version of FSUIPC we are dealing with. I told you three ways of finding out and you did none of them! ::-(

Pete

[jobepilot]

for.

Yeah my version is different, I downloaded and reinstalled the lastest version, but I reinstalled RC and that contained another version of FSUIPC (older).

Radar Contact? RC doesn't install FSUIPC4 that I know of!

QUOTE IMPORTANT NOTE] – You do not need to purchase FSUIPC separately, RC will install a copy that will provide the necessary functionality for RC to run. If you need features that are provided by the full FSUIPC package, you will have to purchase FSUIPC. from the RC website!!!!! does install a version. I never said it installed Version 4, I quite clearly stated it installed an older version.

my current version is Installer for FSUIPC4.DLL version 4.152 Looking in registry for FSX install path: new version Installer for FSUIPC4.DLL version 4.26

What's all that? Please just either find the FSUIPC4.DLL in the FSX modules folder, right click, choose Properties-Version, and read the version there! There should be none of that "Installer for" business. What on Earth are you looking at? The Installer log? Why? If you want the version number from the Log you have to look at the FSUIPC4.Log!

This is version 4.26 :roll:

[buttons.PMDG747-400 VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS Penelope]

0=P1,18,K56,11

1=P1,16,K55,11

2=P1,14,K49,11

3=P1,17,K48,11

4=P1,1,K54,11

[buttons]

1=P1,18,K56,11

2=P1,17,K48,11

3=P1,16,K55,11

4=P1,14,K49,11

5=P1,1,K54,11

[buttons.PMDG - 747-400 GE CF6 Engines]

0=P1,1,K54,11

1=P1,18,K0,11

2=P1,16,K55,11

Well, you've set the same 5 buttons for "PMDG747-400 VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS Penelope" and all other aircraft, except "PMDG - 747-400 GE CF6 Engines", where you've only set two of those plus a third button doing nothing ("K0" is "null2, or "no key").

If you want the same 5 buttons operating the same 5 KeyPresses for all aircraft, as you seem to have programmed really (except for that latter mess), why are you bothering to use the "aircraft specific" checkbox? I suspect you are only succeeding in confusing yourself.

Just delete all of the above except for

ok will do, dont you understand what I am saying, when I go back into FSX or your program them "buttons/mess are not appearing" Thats why I have reasigned them over and over, you know if I knew they were there I wouldnt have reasigned them, its just a lack of knowledge on my behalf, I didnt expect to have to mess about with all this when I got FSX and PMDG, if I would have known to be honest I wouldnt of bothered at all...........

[buttons]

1=P1,18,K56,11

2=P1,17,K48,11

3=P1,16,K55,11

4=P1,14,K49,11

5=P1,1,K54,11

And please don't come back here until you at least know which version of FSUIPC we are dealing with. I told you three ways of finding out and you did none of them! ::-(

Pete

Hey just hang in there brother, I am sorry to confuse you, but I am really agitated by FSX and its addons, it just hasnt worked properly since I have had it. And apart from you there seems to be no other help.......from either PMDG or FSX (MS)

You know I have loaded FSX twice and your program has gone completely, man am I starting to get angry, I would like my money back from MS, FSX sucks.

[Pete Dowson]

I never said it installed Version 4, I quite clearly stated it installed an older version.

It wouldn't have installed anything into FSX -- FSUIPC3 cannot be installed in FSX, it does nothing, and it would certainly not have replaced FSUIPC4 as the names are different.

ok will do, dont you understand what I am saying, when I go back into FSX or your program them "buttons/mess are not appearing" Thats why I have reasigned them over and over, you know if I knew they were there I wouldnt have reasigned them, its just a lack of knowledge on my behalf, I didnt expect to have to mess about with all this when I got FSX and PMDG, if I would have known to be honest I wouldnt of bothered at all..

It seems that you are messing about and not knowing what you are doing. All this works fine for many hundreds of folks. I am trying my best to help you but getting information out of you is turning out to be extremely difficult. You getting irritated and irrational won't help.

Just delete the whole INI file and start again. don't touch anything like "aircraft specific" as you obviously don't appreciate what it is for. Just keep it simple. For Pete's sake, you are only programming 5 damned buttons! It's so easy! Tell me what you don't understand and we'll go through it, step by step!

You know I have loaded FSX twice and your program has gone completely

What does "gone completely" mean? Please try to make some sense.

Pete

[jobepilot]

I never said it installed Version 4, I quite clearly stated it installed an older version.

It wouldn't have installed anything into FSX -- FSUIPC3 cannot be installed in FSX, it does nothing, and it would certainly not have replaced FSUIPC4 as the names are different.

ok will do, dont you understand what I am saying, when I go back into FSX or your program them "buttons/mess are not appearing" Thats why I have reasigned them over and over, you know if I knew they were there I wouldnt have reasigned them, its just a lack of knowledge on my behalf, I didnt expect to have to mess about with all this when I got FSX and PMDG, if I would have known to be honest I wouldnt of bothered at all..

It seems that you are messing about and not knowing what you are doing. All this works fine for many hundreds of folks. I am trying my best to help you but getting information out of you is turning out to be extremely difficult. You getting irritated and irrational won't help.

Just delete the whole INI file and start again. don't touch anything like "aircraft specific" as you obviously don't appreciate what it is for. Just keep it simple. For Pete's sake, you are only programming 5 damned buttons! It's so easy! Tell me what you don't understand and we'll go through it, step by step!

You know I have loaded FSX twice and your program has gone completely

What does "gone completely" mean? Please try to make some sense.

YOUR PROGRAM HAS GONE FROM FSX FSUCPI IS MISSING

Pete

[Pete Dowson]

YOUR PROGRAM HAS GONE FROM FSX FSUCPI IS MISSING

Please do not SHOUT. That helps no one. Try to remain civil. you have great difficulty expressing yourself, it seems, but shouting makes just it worse.

If the FSUIP4.DLL is not in the FSX|modules folder, then something or someone has deleted it. Perhaps you could be clearer. How are you actually seeing that it is "MISSING"? Are you looking for it in Windows Explorer? You should note that unless you set the option otherwise, Windows has the awful habit of hiding the filetypes of DLL and EXE from you. Maybe that is what is confusing you?

Pete

[Pete Dowson]

I have reinstalled the latest version still the same Installer for FSUIPC4.DLL version 4.26

I don't want the title of the Installer, I want the version number of FSUIPC.DLL, the program.

I'll re-iterate the ways you can find this, as you seem totally unwilling to do as I asked before:

1. You can find the FSUIPC4.DLL in the FSX Modules folder. Right clicvk on it, select Proprties, then Version.

2. You can run FSX, go to the FSUIPC4 options (ALT D F) and read the version number on the About page.

3. You can find the FSUIPC4.Log file in the FSX Modules folder, and read the version number on the top line.

I have explained all these things before, but you are ignoring them.

Pete

[jobepilot]

No thats not confusing me at all, I have all files displayed, FSUIPC is not in FSX on the tab on the window bar, it is within its correct location.

I deleted the buttons I messed up, I reset them in FSUIPC they worked fine 100%. I restarted FSX and now they no longer work.

I.e.

1) I set ctrl shf 8 to button (X), button (X) works 100% Auto throttle 100% on or off no problem.

2) restart FSX, button (X) no longer works auto throttle.

3) FSUIPC sees button X as my assignment

4) PMDG doesnt see FSUIPC assignment or even the keys, if I press ctrl shf 8 on the keyboard.

5) the assignment no longer works

6) I have set these assigments fine 10 to 20 times, they have worked fine 10 to 20 times, but soon as I reload FSX they are gone.

So I guess its something to do with PMDG, and not you at all. But you are the only person who offers help, which isnt fair on you, and sorry we crossed swords, think we were talking at cross purposes. Sorry not angry at you, just getting tired of trying to use this

[Pete Dowson]

No thats not confusing me at all, I have all files displayed, FSUIPC is not in FSX on the tab on the window bar, it is within its correct location.

Ah .. you mean the Add-Ons menu doesn't appear? Or it does but FSUIPC is not listed in that menu?

This is indicating a possibly Simconnect problem. Please, when it happens, close FSX, then save the FSUIPC4.LOG file, if there is one, and show it to me.

I deleted the buttons I messed up, I reset them in FSUIPC they worked fine 100%. I restarted FSX and now they no longer work.

I.e.

1) I set ctrl shf 8 to button (X), button (X) works 100% Auto throttle 100% on or off no problem.

2) restart FSX, button (X) no longer works auto throttle.

3) FSUIPC sees button X as my assignment

4) PMDG doesnt see FSUIPC assignment or even the keys, if I press ctrl shf 8 on the keyboard.

5) the assignment no longer works

Ah, now we are getting somewhere. Some real information for the first time! Let's examine this:

Your items (1) and (2) imply that although FSUIPC does have the assignment, i.e. it is reloading it, that assignment isn't doing what it did before in your PMDG aircraft. Right?

Your (4) actualy seems to confirm that it is PMDG which isn't remembering the key assignment. You say "PMDG doesnt seeeven the keys, if I press ctrl shf 8 on the keyboard.".

So, how is this "Ctr Shft 8" assigned in the PMDG aircraft? Are you sure you don't actually have to go into a PMDG menu and explicitly tell it to save your assignments?

If not, are you by any chance using Vista and have FSX installed in its default location, in Program Files? If so I suspect that the problem is that anything PMDG wants to write back to its folders is being stopped -- Vista write-protects all folders in Program Files against normal applications.

To verify the latter you could try running FSX "as administator" (that is right click, select Run AsAdministrator". This would allow it, and PMDG software, to write to the folders.

So I guess its something to do with PMDG, and not you at all. But you are the only person who offers help, which isnt fair on you, and sorry we crossed swords, think we were talking at cross purposes. Sorry not angry at you, just getting tired of trying to use this

Okay. See if any of the above helps.

There is an alternative now, which might work for you. If you download FSUIPC version 4.272 from the FSX Downloads announcement above, you will find an added facility for "Mouse Macros". There is documentation inside, and it isn't too hard. You can add new controls to FSUIPC based on mouse clicks on the panels (only add-on panels, in general). Then you can assign those to buttons. Try it and let me know.

Pete

[jobepilot]

No thats not confusing me at all, I have all files displayed, FSUIPC is not in FSX on the tab on the window bar, it is within its correct location.

Ah .. you mean the Add-Ons menu doesn't appear? Or it does but FSUIPC is not listed in that menu?

This is indicating a possibly Simconnect problem. Please, when it happens, close FSX, then save the FSUIPC4.LOG file, if there is one, and show it to me.

Ok Log

Running inside FSX (SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07)

Module base=61000000

Wind smoothing fix is fully installed

DebugStatus=15

1500 System time = 20:44:40

1500 FLT UNC path = "E:\Documents and Settings\JETP\My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\"

1500 FS UNC path = "E:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\"

4156 LogOptions=00000001

4156 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay

23015 Running in "Microsoft Flight Simulator X", Version: 10.0.61637.0 (SimConnect: 10.0.61259.0)

23015 Initialising SimConnect data requests now

23015 FSUIPC Menu entry added

23250 E:\Documents and Settings\JETP\My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\newconfig eham.FLT

23250 E:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\PMDG747-400\B747-400.AIR

28234 Weather Mode now = Custom

81281 System time = 20:46:00, FSX time = 20:45:00 (18:45Z)

81797 Aircraft="PMDG747-400 CATHAY HONG KONG"

85922 Advanced Weather Interface Enabled

113609 E:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\B737_800\Boeing737-800.AIR

114984 Aircraft="Boeing 737-800 Paint2"

135390 FSUIPC Display Title set = "Radar Contact"

228703 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 110 secs = 10.5 fps

235750 E:\Documents and Settings\JETP\My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\EHAM-EGLL.PLN

809890 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 568 secs = 8.6 fps

817765 E:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\b747_400\Boeing747-400.AIR

818875 Aircraft="Boeing 747-400 Paint8"

922312 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 101 secs = 10.3 fps

927047 System time = 21:00:05, FSX time = 20:58:07 (18:58Z)

927047 *** FSUIPC log file being closed

Average frame rate for running time of 781 secs = 9.1 fps

Memory managed: 434 Allocs, 434 Freed

********* FSUIPC Log file closed ***********

I deleted the buttons I messed up, I reset them in FSUIPC they worked fine 100%. I restarted FSX and now they no longer work.

I.e.

1) I set ctrl shf 8 to button (X), button (X) works 100% Auto throttle 100% on or off no problem.

2) restart FSX, button (X) no longer works auto throttle.

3) FSUIPC sees button X as my assignment

4) PMDG doesnt see FSUIPC assignment or even the keys, if I press ctrl shf 8 on the keyboard.

5) the assignment no longer works

Ah, now we are getting somewhere. Some real information for the first time! Let's examine this:

Your items (1) and (2) imply that although FSUIPC does have the assignment, i.e. it is reloading it, that assignment isn't doing what it did before in your PMDG aircraft. Right?

Your (4) actualy seems to confirm that it is PMDG which isn't remembering the key assignment. You say "PMDG doesnt seeeven the keys, if I press ctrl shf 8 on the keyboard.".

So, how is this "Ctr Shft 8" assigned in the PMDG aircraft? Are you sure you don't actually have to go into a PMDG menu and explicitly tell it to save your assignments?

Instructions:

• Run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.

• Load the PMDG 747-400 and enter the simulator.

• Pull down the PMDG menu, then select GENERAL and KEYBOARD COMMANDS.

• In the “Command Category” drop down menu, select “MCP”

• Scroll down to item number 55 “MCP Set TOGA” and enter a key command such as

CTRL+Z

• Move the item number 56 “MCP Abort TO/Discon AT” and enter a key command such as

CTRL+X

• Note: These are the key commands that I use on my setup- and they do not conflict with

any other key commands that I have established on my rig. You may need to establish

your own settings…)

• Now, in the “Command Category” drop down menu, select “YOKE”

• For “Yoke – Press AP Discon” enter the Z key.

Now, you simply need to map each of these three key commands to a different button on your

hardware, and you’ll have the Autopilot Disconnect, TOGA button and A/T disconnect buttons at

your fingertips just like the pro’s!

(If you map these key combinations to your joystick’s buttons, pressing the button will trigger the

key command as if you had typed it in yourself. When our simulation sees these key commands

it will respond appropriately! If you absolutely cannot figure out how to map a key combination to

your joystick buttons,

If not, are you by any chance using Vista and have FSX installed in its default location, in Program Files? If so I suspect that the problem is that anything PMDG wants to write back to its folders is being stopped -- Vista write-protects all folders in Program Files against normal applications.

No using XP

To verify the latter you could try running FSX "as administator" (that is right click, select Run AsAdministrator". This would allow it, and PMDG software, to write to the folders.

So I guess its something to do with PMDG, and not you at all. But you are the only person who offers help, which isnt fair on you, and sorry we crossed swords, think we were talking at cross purposes. Sorry not angry at you, just getting tired of trying to use this

Okay. See if any of the above helps.

There is an alternative now, which might work for you. If you download FSUIPC version 4.272 from the FSX Downloads announcement above, you will find an added facility for "Mouse Macros". There is documentation inside, and it isn't too hard. You can add new controls to FSUIPC based on mouse clicks on the panels (only add-on panels, in general). Then you can assign those to buttons. Try it and let me know.

Ok will try that out ty

Pete

[Pete Dowson]

Ok Log

Oh dear. You cut off the first few lines. I was really really hoping to see confirmation there of the version of FSUIPC4 you were actually using, at last. :-(

Anyway, that log is not of a session in which the FSUIPC menu entry didn't appear, look:

23015 FSUIPC Menu entry added

Anyway, I'm sorry I cannot help with your PMDG problems. Best to visit their Support forum for those. Maybe it is something simple, like somehow you have got their parameter file marked as "read only" so your assignments don't get saved?

Pete

[jobepilot]

ok many thanks Peter

heres what I have done.

1) removed all FSX software, FSX deluxe and Acceleration :twisted: :evil: :evil: :evil:

2) removed all addons, PMDG, FSUIPC, active sky, fs2crew etc (late night :roll: )

3) reinstalled FSX deluxe only

4) reinstalled PMDG, FSUIPC etc

5) reassigned my buttons

6) everything now works fine. restarted FSX all works, buttons stayed cool :P

So I am assuming that either FS2Crew was causing my problem or Acceleration was. Everything is working as it should now.

I am sorry I got frustrated with you, but I knew how simple it was to use addons, and somehthing was very wrong with my install.

FSX is highly tempermental and will crash and stop functioning at the slightest error.

Thanks for your help :wink:

[Pete Dowson]

So I am assuming that either FS2Crew was causing my problem or Acceleration was.

More likely FS2Crew. Maybe some or all of the key combinations you chose were already allocated to it? Maybe which module got the keypresses first depended on load order.

Everything is working as it should now.

Good. Happy flying then!

Pete

[jobepilot]

Just an update, everything is still working well, FSUIPC is doing its job and so is PMDG and FSX, still got Accelerator removed and FS2Crew. :D :D :D