cellular55 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Hi Peter, I was trying to test the ASN WX radar facility eplained in your documentation. I was not able to have it correctly running so I have red in the logging the offset 8600 that sholud be set to 1 if ASN is detected and running. I have found that even if ASN is running the offset is set to 0 and I think this is the reason of the issue. I'm running FSUIPC 4.945a and networked ASN SP3. Which could be the problem and how could I solve it? Thanks in advance and Kind regards Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 4, 2015 Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 You need to show me the FSUIPC4.LOG please, from the Modules folder. You can paste its contents here. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 Hi Peter, below the last FSUIPC log Thanks again and Knd Regards Joe ----------------------------------- ********* FSUIPC4, Version 4.945a by Pete Dowson *********Reading options from "D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Modules\FSUIPC4.ini"Running inside FSX on Windows 7Module base=25FF0000User Name="Giuseppe Rondena"User Addr="giuseppe.rondena@fastwebnet.it"FSUIPC4 Key is providedWideFS7 Key is provided 375 System time = 04/10/2015 15:38:19 390 FLT UNC path = "\\FFFFFF-PC\File di Flight Simulator X\" 437 Trying to connect to SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 ... 437 FS UNC path = "\\FFFFFF-PC\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\" 656 Finished: 0 Profile files created 1529 LogOptions=00000000 00000001 1529 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1529 ------ Setting the hooks and direct calls into the simulator ------ 1529 --- CONTROLS timer memory location obtained ok 1529 --- SIM1 Frictions access gained 1529 ASN active function link set 1529 --- FS Controls Table located ok 1529 --- Installed Mouse Macro hooks ok. 1529 Wind smoothing may be by ASN, not FSUIPC, if it is running 1529 Will switch smoothing action when ASN starts/stops 1529 --- G3D.DLL fix attempt installed ok 1529 --- SimConnect intercept for texts and menus installed ok 1529 --- All links checked okay 1529 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1529 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay 1529 Trying to use SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 1529 Running in "Microsoft Flight Simulator X", Version: 10.0.61472.0 (SimConnect: 10.0.61259.0) 1529 Initialising SimConnect data requests now 1529 FSUIPC Menu entry added 1560 \\FFFFFF-PC\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\FLIGHTS\OTHER\FLTSIM.FLT 1560 \\FFFFFF-PC\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\Aircreation_582SL\Aircreation_582SL.AIR 16755 \\FFFFFF-PC\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\feelThere pic 737-300\B737-3A00A.AIR 81230 System time = 04/10/2015 15:39:40, Simulator time = 11:55:15 (10:55Z) 82088 Aircraft="Boeing 737-300/FT" 82213 Starting everything now ... 82229 LUA.0: beginning "D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Modules\ipcReady.lua" 82229 AES Link established 82229 Run: "C:\Program Files (x86)\SerialFP2\SerialFP2.exe" 82229 Run: "C:\Program Files (x86)\SerialFP2\SerialFP2.exe" 82229 Run: "C:\Program Files (x86)\FSPS\3D Real Cockpit Effect\3D Real Cockpit Effect FSX.exe" 82229 Run: "C:\Program Files (x86)\FSPS\Dolby Cockpit Sounds FSX\Dolby Cockpit Sounds FSX.exe" 82229 Run: "C:\Program Files (x86)\FSPS\Runway Bumping Effect\Runway Bumping Effect.exe" 82229 Run: "C:\Program Files (x86)\FSPS\Frictionality\Frictionality.exe" 83477 Weather Mode now = Theme 83539 Advanced Weather Interface Enabled 253424 Setting Position: IAS=0k, OnGround=Y, Lat=45.7355, Lon=16.0638, Alt=360ft, Pitch=0.91, Bank=0.00, Hdg=136.00T 253440 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 173 secs = 43.7 fps 257917 Requested flightplan loading: "C:\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LDZA Zagreb - LIBD Bari Palese.pln" 257948 \\FFFFFF-PC\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LDZA Zagreb - LIBD Bari Palese.PLN 257948 \\FFFFFF-PC\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LDZA Zagreb - LIBD Bari Palese.PLN 4876030 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 4585 secs = 54.8 fps 5091748 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 213 secs = 44.4 fps 5371567 Setting Position: IAS=0k, OnGround=Y, Lat=41.1380, Lon=16.7586, Alt=171ft, Pitch=-0.04, Bank=0.00, Hdg=69.00T 5371583 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 277 secs = 58.2 fps 5375998 Requested flightplan loading: "C:\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LDZA Zagreb - LIBD Bari Palese.pln" 5376013 \\FFFFFF-PC\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LDZA Zagreb - LIBD Bari Palese.PLN 5376013 \\FFFFFF-PC\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LDZA Zagreb - LIBD Bari Palese.PLN 5627393 Setting Position: IAS=0k, OnGround=Y, Lat=45.7316, Lon=16.0582, Alt=360ft, Pitch=0.94, Bank=0.00, Hdg=180.00T 5627409 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 203 secs = 55.6 fps 5631964 Requested flightplan loading: "C:\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LSZB Bern - LFMP Perpignan.pln" 5631995 \\FFFFFF-PC\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LSZB Bern - LFMP Perpignan.PLN 5631995 \\FFFFFF-PC\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LSZB Bern - LFMP Perpignan.PLN 5727078 Setting Position: IAS=0k, OnGround=Y, Lat=46.9125, Lon=7.5014, Alt=1680ft, Pitch=0.94, Bank=0.00, Hdg=74.00T 5727109 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 31 secs = 54.5 fps 5733256 Requested flightplan loading: "C:\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LDZA Zagreb - LIBD Bari Palese.pln" 5733271 \\FFFFFF-PC\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LDZA Zagreb - LIBD Bari Palese.PLN 5733271 \\FFFFFF-PC\Users\ffffff\My Documents\File di Flight Simulator X\LDZA Zagreb - LIBD Bari Palese.PLN 7802874 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 2018 secs = 51.3 fps 7831329 System time = 04/10/2015 17:48:50, Simulator time = 08:40:21 (07:40Z) 7831329 *** FSUIPC log file being closedMinimum frame rate was 13.5 fps, Maximum was 81.2 fpsMinimum available memory recorded was 1063MbAverage frame rate for running time of 7502 secs = 53.4 fpsG3D fix: Passes 94324, Null pointers 0, Bad pointers 0, Separate instances 0Memory managed: 3772 Allocs, 3772 Freed********* FSUIPC Log file closed *********** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 4, 2015 Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 Well this line: 1529 ASN active function link set means that if knows ASN is running and has a link to its "active" function, but it should be followed by: Ready for ASN WX radar The only way I can see that not appearing is if some of the functions needs are missing in the "as_btstrp.dll" module installed by ASN. It needs these functions or locations exposed as exports: AmbientIcing WshLat WshLon WshRange WshMinAlt WshMaxAlt SetRdrParams If any one is not, then that second message won't appear. I can't access my system with ASN till tomorrow, else I'd tell you the exact version number of my copy of that DLL, but if you'd like to ZIP yours up and send it to me as an Email attachment (you might be better renaming it from a DLL to a TXT file first, otherwise it could get stopped), to petedowson@btconnect.com. I can check it here -- but it may be tomorrow. Pete Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 Hi Peter, I just sent the DLL (renamed into TXT) to the mail address specified by you. Thanks for your support and Kind Regards Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 4, 2015 Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 I just sent the DLL (renamed into TXT) to the mail address specified by you. The DLL is okay, and the same as mine. And I was wrong in my analysis above -- I was looking at the original code which was from when the order in which as_btstrp.DLL and FSUIPC4.DLL were loaded was important. That was fixed by later changes to ASN, but I kept the code in for folks who hadn't bothered to update ASN. The only reason I can see for offset 8600 remaining zero is that ASN isn't signalling that it is active. This is a flag which is accessed through a pointer which is provided when FSUIPC calls the as_btstrp.DLL exported function isActive. I'm afraid I've no idea why that isn't getting set. Are there no errors reported by ASN? I'm not sure where you'd check, but I think it may (possibly optionally) produce a log. Best to now ask over in the ASN support forum. Let me know what response you get there, please, and feel free to quote my diagnosis from here. If you don't get an answer there within a reasonable time, let me know and I'll email my contact there. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 Hi Pete, thanks for the answer: I have opened a ticket in the ASN support and I'll let you know the answer. KR Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 Hi Pete, I have opened the ticket on HiFiSim and the result is that everything should be ok (no problems in the lof and I did a test with roland gauge that correctly runs). By the way the offset 8600 is always set to 0. Moreover I have a doubt with the radar instructions: the bitmap has to be generated by the user or is directly provided by ASN? Is there a specific location to have it generated or found? Thanks and kind regards Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 8, 2015 Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 By the way the offset 8600 is always set to 0. Well, I'll check that next time I have my system up and running. At present I'm working on some stuff in the overhead. Moreover I have a doubt with the radar instructions: the bitmap has to be generated by the user or is directly provided by ASN? Is there a specific location to have it generated or found? ASN just provides a matrix of data to FSUIPC when it asks for it, about every 2-3 seconds. FSUIPC does nothing unless you add the one or two parameters to the INI file to tell it which filetype you want and where to put it. It generates either a bitmap, or a file with the raw data, or both, and places the file in the path specified. Isn't the documentation clear enough? What are you using this bitmap or whatever with? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 Hi Peter, documentation is clear (only some doubts for me not being English my first language :razz: ) I have put: WXRADAR.LUA in Widefs directory WXRADAR.MCRO in FSX\Modules directory added row with ASNwxRadarBitmapPath=d:\FSX\Modules\WX.RADAR.BMP in FSUIPC.INI added row with Background=z:\FSX\Modules\WX.RADAR.BMP in Wideclient.ini (where z: is the networked drive for FSX) modified 1st row in WXRADAR.LUA with path="z:\\FSX\\MODULES\\WX.RADAR.BMP" but the WXRADAR.BMP file is not generated. Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 8, 2015 Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 I have put: WXRADAR.LUA in Widefs directory WXRADAR.MCRO in FSX\Modules directory Ah, you are using the demo application I provided? I tohught you were trying to enable it for ProSim or another application! but the WXRADAR.BMP file is not generated. It certainly sounds like ASN is not correctly signalling that it is active. I can check here, I'm afraid this will have to wait till I can get my system back up. And none of this has changed. Last time I used my sim with ProSim it was working fine. Whereabouts in the FSUIPC4.INI did you put the path line? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 Hi Pete, yes I'm trying your demo example. I put the row in FSUIPC.INI as the first in the [General] Section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 8, 2015 Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 I put the row in FSUIPC.INI as the first in the [General] Section Hmm. Something's certainly wrong somewhere. This is working here. Well, last time I used it (two weeks ago before I went on holiday), and others are reporting it as okay -- on the ProSim forum, for example, where it is used for the WX Radar on the ND displays. I'll look to see whether there's any way to get more information, but for now it is sounding like an ASN installation problem. Did you check for any ASN error log? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 Hi Pete, I sent the ASN log file to HIFISIM support and the feedback was that no errors are shown there Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 9, 2015 Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 I've just managed to run my system now. As soon as FSX is "ready to fly" and ASN is running, offset 8600 changes from 0 to 1, and the Bitmap file is created in the place I asked for it to be. This is not at all related to what you use the file for, so it is nothing to do with the Lua program or the Macro file. For some reason your ASN module is simply not signalling that it is active. I really don't know how to diagnose that -- the bit in 8600 is set when the A_BTSTRP.DLL's "IsActive" exported value goes to "true". I think we still need HiFi to sort this out, or at least tell us where to look. First though, let's compare notes. On the ASN Welcome Screen, at the bottom, the version number mine says is: 1.0.5707.28711 Yours? My as_btstrp.dll is version 1.0.0.34, same as yours. Is your ASN set for FSX, or FSX-SE? Check that this mode is selected correctly, else it almost definitely won't work. Also, I just noticed that there was a Beta update for ASN released on 30th September. Is that the one you are using? It does mention something about a WX radar change. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 Hi Pete, Welcome screen number is the same of the yours, ASN is set for FSX, I did not download the beta version. I will try to reinstall completely ASN and the as_btsrp.dll and I ll you know the result. Thanks again for your support Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 Hi Pete, also after the reinstallation the problem is still there. Really I do not know what to think now. Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 9, 2015 Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 Really I do not know what to think now. Didn't HiFi point you to anything like a log or error file to check? I'll try to remember to drop my contact there an email about it, but it'll be Monday now. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 Hi Pete, I sent to HIFISIM also the DLL's log, they say that no errors are there and everything seems fine: by the way the problem is still there. Thanks again for your help and support KR Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 I sent to HIFISIM also the DLL's log, they say that no errors are there and everything seems fine: by the way the problem is still there. I've been doing more tests with extra logging. Before I send you a link for a test version of FSUIPC, could you please find your DLL.XML file (in the same folder as the FS CFG file), and paste its contents here? There appears to be a big difference in what happens depending on whether the as_btstrp.dll is loaded before or after FSUIPC. On my system if the AS_CONNECT entry is not last in DLL.XML then I get a warning from ASN saying I must restart FSX before ASN will work correctly, and when I do I find ASN has reversed the order of the AS_CONNECT and the FSUIPC4 entries, making as_btsttrp.dll run last. When it is that way around it always worked. I managed to get it to NOT work once when I carried on and ignored the ASN warning. Judging from your log, I think you might be trying to run without the change which ASN seems to do to make it work. This part indicates this: 1529 ------ Setting the hooks and direct calls into the simulator ------ 1529 --- CONTROLS timer memory location obtained ok 1529 --- SIM1 Frictions access gained 1529 ASN active function link set 1529 --- FS Controls Table located ok 1529 --- Installed Mouse Macro hooks ok. 1529 Wind smoothing may be by ASN, not FSUIPC, if it is running 1529 Will switch smoothing action when ASN starts/stops 1529 --- G3D.DLL fix attempt installed ok 1529 --- SimConnect intercept for texts and menus installed ok 1529 --- All links checked okay If so, I'm not understanding why you don't get the warning from ASN? Meanwhile I'll try to find out why it sometimes doesn't work with the loading order reversed. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 Could you try FSUIPC version 4.947b, just released, please, and let me know? I think it must be some timing glitch between FSUIPC and as_btstrp, but with ASN actively "correcting" the loading order I found it hard to reproduce. Thanks, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 Hi Pete, thanks a lot for your attention and support !!!! I'm out of home today, but I will send you the file asap and i'll do the test with the new release. KR Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 I'm out of home today, but I will send you the file asap and i'll do the test with the new release. FSUIPC version 4.947c or d should fix it in any case, though I'd still like to see the file. Thanks. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellular55 Posted October 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 Hi Pete, BINGO !!!! The new version (4.947c) did the trick: the offset (8600) is now set to 1 when ASN is running. I did not have the time to further test the WX radar, but I'm confident that now it will run fine and I'll let you know about that asap (now in a business trip) also with the DDL.XML file. Once more thanks a lot for your great and passionate support !!!!! Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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