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Saitek Panels cause FSX freezes?

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I recently bought the Saitek Instrument and Radio Panel to enhance my FSC experience.Both work basically - basically because I now encounter "freezes" for FSX from time to time ("The application is not responding") which vanishes again after a couple of minutes.I have no idea what could be the reason and I haven't found anything about such problems in the Saitek forums but I noticed that the Saitek software seems to use the FSUIPC interface for communicating with FSX. Does anyone see any possible reason for these freezes in connection with FSUIPC (I'm using the latest 4.53 release) because at the moment I have no idea where to look for the source of the problem. Is there a way to log all I/O that is send between the panels and FSUIPC and are there any well known log patterns that I could look for when trying to diagnose the problem?Also I'd like to know whether it would be possible to calibrate the panels using FSUIPC, because the radio frequency dial is rather coarse grained. I didn't find anything in the GUI by now, but I am an total newbie to FSUIPC, so maybe you could give me a hint what to look for and where.Thank you very much!

I recently bought the Saitek Instrument and Radio Panel to enhance my FSC experience.Both work basically - basically because I now encounter "freezes" for FSX from time to time ("The application is not responding") which vanishes again after a couple of minutes.I have no idea what could be the reason and I haven't found anything about such problems in the Saitek forums but I noticed that the Saitek software seems to use the FSUIPC interface for communicating with FSX. Does anyone see any possible reason for these freezes in connection with FSUIPC (I'm using the latest 4.53 release) because at the moment I have no idea where to look for the source of the problem. Is there a way to log all I/O that is send between the panels and FSUIPC and are there any well known log patterns that I could look for when trying to diagnose the problem?Also I'd like to know whether it would be possible to calibrate the panels using FSUIPC, because the radio frequency dial is rather coarse grained. I didn't find anything in the GUI by now, but I am an total newbie to FSUIPC, so maybe you could give me a hint what to look for and where.Thank you very much!
I have both the Saitek MultiPanel and RadioPanel. I use them for both FSX and FS9. For some reason they both like my FSUIPC 3.7 which is in the FS9 folder. If you have FS9 use that as a reference.
I recently bought the Saitek Instrument and Radio Panel to enhance my FSC experience.Both work basically - basically because I now encounter "freezes" for FSX from time to time ("The application is not responding") which vanishes again after a couple of minutes.I have no idea what could be the reason and I haven't found anything about such problems in the Saitek forums but I noticed that the Saitek software seems to use the FSUIPC interface for communicating with FSX. Does anyone see any possible reason for these freezes in connection with FSUIPC (I'm using the latest 4.53 release) because at the moment I have no idea where to look for the source of the problem. Is there a way to log all I/O that is send between the panels and FSUIPC and are there any well known log patterns that I could look for when trying to diagnose the problem?Also I'd like to know whether it would be possible to calibrate the panels using FSUIPC, because the radio frequency dial is rather coarse grained. I didn't find anything in the GUI by now, but I am an total newbie to FSUIPC, so maybe you could give me a hint what to look for and where.Thank you very much!
The panels use simconnect and not FSUIPC. The panels cannot be custom programmed or calibrated with FSUIPC. They were designed to be used with stock FSX aircraft and thus will not function as advertised with many payware aircraft.
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I recently bought the Saitek Instrument and Radio Panel to enhance my FSC experience.Both work basically - basically because I now encounter "freezes" for FSX from time to time ("The application is not responding") which vanishes again after a couple of minutes.I have no idea what could be the reason and I haven't found anything about such problems in the Saitek forums but I noticed that the Saitek software seems to use the FSUIPC interface for communicating with FSX. Does anyone see any possible reason for these freezes in connection with FSUIPC (I'm using the latest 4.53 release) because at the moment I have no idea where to look for the source of the problem. Is there a way to log all I/O that is send between the panels and FSUIPC and are there any well known log patterns that I could look for when trying to diagnose the problem?Also I'd like to know whether it would be possible to calibrate the panels using FSUIPC, because the radio frequency dial is rather coarse grained. I didn't find anything in the GUI by now, but I am an total newbie to FSUIPC, so maybe you could give me a hint what to look for and where.Thank you very much!
Hi. I have saitek multi and radio panel too. And I connected them to pc via usb hub. I use Fsuipc 4.53 too and squawkbox for online flights. And I dont know why but my radio panels and sometimes multi panel freezes amid of flight and it makes FSX freeze as well or vise versa. I see that you have similar problem too. So were you able to solve this problem or find out what causes it? If you let me know about it I will be very pleased. Thnaks from now.Guntac

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