FSUIPC 7 takes a long time to start

[kaha]

In the log between the two lines

 

Simulator detected

Trying to connect...
 

there is a long gap. Please see the attached log file.

 

Karl

FSUIPC7.zip

[John Dowson]

1 hour ago, kaha said:

Simulator detected

Trying to connect...
 

there is a long gap. Please see the attached log file.

This is because you have a very large DetectToConnectDelayAuto set:

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      938 Auto-started via MSFS.bat with DetectToConnectDelayAuto=390, InitialStallTime=15

Auto-tuning is gradually reducing this:

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   394016 **** Auto-start tuning complete: DetectToConnectDelayAuto reduced to 380. Auto-tuning will run again on next auto-start.

but it will only reduce by 10 seconds at a time.
This high value was probably set via auto-tuning when MSFS took a long time to load (for some reason).

Try manually setting that value to 30 in the [General] section of your FSUIPC7.ini file. If that is too low, auto-tuning should increase this to the correct value, which will take effect on the next restart of MSFS.

See the Advanced User guide section Auto-tuning of initial start-up ini parameters on how this works, or the following FAQ entry: 

John

[kaha]

Thank you John, I will do as you advised. Anyway, I did not make changes to my ini file lately, so I'm wondering why this stats to happen now.

 

Karl

[kaha]

DetectToConnectDelayAuto=30 did it.

 

Thank you,

Karl

[John Dowson]

53 minutes ago, kaha said:

Anyway, I did not make changes to my ini file lately, so I'm wondering why this stats to happen now.

Auto-tuning continually monitors for connection errors/timeouts during start-up, and if any anomalies detected it will flag auto-tuning to be ran on the next FSUIPC7 auto-start.
So you must have had a value set that caused some issues, and when auto-start ran the next time it either took a long time to get to the main menu, or possibly you passed the main-menu state before FSUIPC7 connected, and so a large DetectToConnectDelayAuto time was set.

You can prevent auto-tuning doing this by setting:
    StartUpTuningDoneVersion=-1

If you do this, probably also a good idea to increase the initial stall time, i.e. also set
    InitialStallTime=30

John

[kaha]

Thank you, John!