please help Pete, i cannot download 4.946

[rod321]

Hi Pete and Supporters

i have a registered FSUIPC4 (i.e. I've purchased the key) version 4.945a (?24.9.15). I have recently realised i can update this to 4.948. BUT there is a note on the FSUIPC page/ "site" saying you have to have installed 4.946 or later. When i look for 4.946 i get a "server .... not found" screen. What do i do next? e.g. do i just install 4.948 without 4.946? Would that be a problem free step? I am non-tech. So i don't mind asking a silly question and receiving very obvious replies.

Keep up the good work!

Rod 

Birmingham

[Pete Dowson]

BUT there is a note on the FSUIPC page/ "site" saying you have to have installed 4.946 or later. When i look for 4.946 i get a "server .... not found" 

 

4.946 is not available now there's a later one. 4.948 IS later than 4.946!

 

It seems you haven't actually read what it says? Here, I'll reproduce it for you with the parts you missed in BIG RED text so you can't miss it! ;-)

 

Install complete FSUIPC version 4.948 Install_FSUIPC4.948 for FSX, FSX-SE and Prepar3D versions 1.4, 2.0-2.5 and 3.0

See included document for main list of changes

-- Automatically assigns missing joystick IDs (like JoyIDs) -- now improved!

-- Fixes problem in Lua with keycode 135 used in event.key function

-- Adds offsets for the three wheel RPM values

FSUIPC version 4.948 only, for those with 4.946 or later already installed FSUIPC 4.948

 

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

The only part you seemed to have read is the bit without the installer and documentation, which you can use if you already had 4.946 or later installed!

 

Pete

[rod321]

Thanks Pete for speedy reply

 

Q. so i can go ahead and install 4.948; to update my version 4.945a ?

 

I enjoy FSX so much that i want to be absolutely clear and not cause a problem to my system Even prepared to further humiliate myself!!

 

Grateful,

 

Rod

[Pete Dowson]

Q. so i can go ahead and install 4.948; to update my version 4.945a ?

 

Yes, of course! With the Installer download, NOT the separate small file. You can ALWAYS install a new version of FSUIPC, even if you've not already got even one! That's how new users get it too! (How else?)

 

Pete

[rod321]

Eureka Pete, 

many thanks for trusting me, i got there (even though i didn't know what was "a separate small file" and what was the "installer download").

So i downloaded both; couldn't install the dll, realised it was SMALL , so installed the other one. To then see that Bullguard had 'quarantined' it. But i have worked around that and now successfully updated to 4.948. Excellent!

FSX, via FSPS Booster, now runs fine; particularly enjoying A2A Piper Commanche.

Largely through self-inflicted confusion, senior moment etc, but partly in the position of one comma in the simflight forum 'advertising your upgrade'

"... 4.948 only, ....".

 

Privileged to have correspondence, Pete. Congratulations on this worldwide success! 

 

Rod

(Stoke 4 : Aston Villa 1)

 

Eats shoots and leaves.

Eats, shoots and leaves.

[Pete Dowson]

Largely through self-inflicted confusion, senior moment etc, but partly in the position of one comma in the simflight forum 'advertising your upgrade'

"... 4.948 only, ....".

 

Oh dear. You STILL don't get it, do you? That comma is IMPORTANT. the file it refers to ONLY contains FSUIPC 4.948. Just the program. no installer, no documentation, no updated plug-ins. Just the program for installing all by yourself. It is truly "FSUIPC 4.948 only". And so it is for those already having up to date other bits.

 

Obviously, if like you, one doesn't know what they are doing, one should ALWAYS download the Installer package.

 

Pete

[rod321]

Hi Pete,

 

re "Oh dear. You STILL don't get it, do you?"

 

In that context Pete, you have been really patient with me.

 

Though have to correct you, tongue in cheek, because NOW, BY JOVE, I DO GET IT! Finally!!

 

THANK YOU for spelling it out in your last post. I can now infer which part of your unclear announcement is the 'INSTALLER PACKAGE'. 

 

Yes, i know its taken eons for the penny to drop.

 

This will help me for the next update (I must have fluked the previous ones) of your product which i immensely value.

 

Best wishes,

 

Rod

 

Harry Potter 5 : Aston Villa 2

[Pete Dowson]

re "Oh dear. You STILL don't get it, do you?"

 

In that context Pete, you have been really patient with me.

 

Though have to correct you, tongue in cheek, because NOW, BY JOVE, I DO GET IT! Finally!!

 

 

Okay. Good. Sorry if I came over too rough in my last message. I re-read it and was going to change it but you were too quick!

 

Pryr

[rod321]

Hi Pete,

 

So kind of you to reply.

 

Again, many thanks for your generosity with time AND for setting me straight. Great!

 

Bye for now.

 

Rod