Joystick Calibration Page Draw Problem

[Guest jcardana]

Hello Mr. Dowson,

I'm using Win2k, FS9 SP1 and FSUIPC 3.9.

I'm getting a draw problem with the Joystick Calibration tab.

This first image shows what I get after a few seconds of waiting for the tab to draw or display, I don't know what term you use.

Knowing you have buttons and text boxes in the tab I can get them to show by clicking on them.

Have you encountered this before? I don't have problems with the other tabs.

Your old friend, Joe (Mr. GFDisplay nut)

[Pete Dowson]

I'm using Win2k, FS9 SP1 and FSUIPC 3.9.

Win2K still? Phew. There are more and more things not compatible with that these days.

This first image shows what I get after a few seconds of waiting for the tab to draw or display

You have to wait a few seconds? That's a sure sign something is wrong -- or do you have a very large FSUIPC.INI file?

Knowing you have buttons and text boxes in the tab I can get them to show by clicking on them.

Have you encountered this before? I don't have problems with the other tabs.

No, I've never seen anything like that before. The dialogues are standard Windows API-drawn so I don't understand how they could avoid appearing. there are a few things I'd like to check though:

1. Full screen or windowed -- both the same or not?

2. Tabbing out and back -- does it fix it or not?

3. Video drivers -- have you access to older or newer ones you can try?

4. Could any other add-ons you have be corrupting run-time memory in FS: what is also running in FS at the time?

5. Can you Zip up your FSUIPC.INI file and send it to me at petedowson@btconnect.com, in case it is related to some parameters.

Your old friend, Joe (Mr. GFDisplay nut)

Ah, hiso not a new user, exactly! ;-) Have you not visited this Tab before, or has it been okay then suddenly gone this way? If the latter, do you know what you changed?

Regards

Pete

[Guest jcardana]

I'm using Win2k, FS9 SP1 and FSUIPC 3.9.

Win2K still? Phew. There are more and more things not compatible with that these days.

I can't afford anything new.

This first image shows what I get after a few seconds of waiting for the tab to draw or display

You have to wait a few seconds? That's a sure sign something is wrong -- or do you have a very large FSUIPC.INI file?

I only have to wait a few seconds after selecting the tab. The ini is only 4kb

Knowing you have buttons and text boxes in the tab I can get them to show by clicking on them.

Have you encountered this before? I don't have problems with the other tabs.

No, I've never seen anything like that before. The dialogues are standard Windows API-drawn so I don't understand how they could avoid appearing. there are a few things I'd like to check though:

1. Full screen or windowed -- both the same or not?

2. Tabbing out and back -- does it fix it or not?

3. Video drivers -- have you access to older or newer ones you can try?

4. Could any other add-ons you have be corrupting run-time memory in FS: what is also running in FS at the time?

5. Can you Zip up your FSUIPC.INI file and send it to me at petedowson@btconnect.com, in case it is related to some parameters.

The window capture is from windowed mode. I get better results when running full screen. Tabbing in and out had no affect. I'll conduct a reboot into my "Gaming" mode and try again. This mode is bare bones with only 7 applications and services running. I'll send my ini file asap. My video card is designed for Win Vista so I had to resort to drivers for another ATI card. I've had no problems with this card or drivers.

Your old friend, Joe (Mr. GFDisplay nut)

Ah, hiso not a new user, exactly! ;-) Have you not visited this Tab before, or has it been okay then suddenly gone this way? If the latter, do you know what you changed?

I've been out of it for a year or so and I'm just now getting things up and running again. I don't remember having this problem. The only change in my systems config is the video card.

[Guest jcardana]

Here's the services and programs I have running while in game mode.

While in Game Mode everything works fine whether full screen or windowed. So, I don't believe it's anything on your end. I just wish I had thought of using Game Mode before bothering you. :roll:

[Pete Dowson]

While in Game Mode everything works fine whether full screen or windowed. So, I don't believe it's anything on your end. I just wish I had thought of using Game Mode before bothering you. :roll:

Well, it would be nice to know what it is running in your "non-Gaming mode" which is doing this. Not something like "Window Blinds" is it? That and a few other utilities like it can mess about with other folks dialogue windows.

Regards

Pete

[Guest jcardana]

Well, it would be nice to know what it is running in your "non-Gaming mode" which is doing this. Not something like "Window Blinds" is it? That and a few other utilities like it can mess about with other folks dialogue windows.

Well, here are my lists, but I don't want to take the time right now to figure out which one it is. Maybe tonight or tomorrow morning. Appreciate your interest though. Would you like a short description of what I have running?

[Guest jcardana]

I've tracked the problem down to my trackball drivers.

I just remembered I had a problem with them before with FS2004. When ever I moved the mouse, the graphic display would stop. I contacted Kensington and they could not provide a solution.

By killing the processes, FSUIPC draws the controls just fine.

Problem solved.

[Pete Dowson]

I've tracked the problem down to my trackball drivers.

I just remembered I had a problem with them before with FS2004. When ever I moved the mouse, the graphic display would stop. I contacted Kensington and they could not provide a solution.

Ah, there have been odd problems with FS and Kensington mouse drivers for many years. It used to be one of the first questions I used to ask when FS tended to hang when opening dialogues like FSUIPC's. I've not seen an oddly corrupted display like yours before so it didn't connect.

As far as I know, all of Kensington's mice work okay with the standard Microsoft drivers in any case. Maybe you lose some fancy facilities, but they are not worth the pain of such problems, for sure.

Thanks for letting me know.

Regards

Pete

[Guest jcardana]

Maybe you lose some fancy facilities, but they are not worth the pain of such problems, for sure.

Well, I refuse to own a $120 "mouse". Shutting down the processes does not remove the button/acceleration programming. I'm really confused about what they're for. So everything balances out... I still get my four button trackball and Kensington doesn't mess up my display.