I was just looking at the list being generated for top ten add-ons and I noticed that FSUIPC was at the top, or near the top, of the majority of lists. My question is why ?

I just purchased a yoke, after years of HOTAS joystick, and am curious as to the importance of FSUIPC. I've always had it in my sim but it's the unregistered version.

What would I benefit by purchasing it outright ?

 

Thanks,

jime

The main thing I do with the registered copy is assign buttons and switches on my flight controls. Between my CH Yoke, throttle quadrant, and desktop aviator switch box, I have about 22 assignable buttons - and I use them all. Fsuipc not only allows you to assign controls, but lets you set up profiles. For instance you can have a set of controls for helicopters and another set of assignments for prop aircraft and still another for jets. You can also calibrate your axis controls to have specific null zone in the center of travel and then increasing effectiveness as you reach the limits. I used something called a "mouse macro" to assign a button to control the altitude select on the F1 ATR, which would not be otherwise possible. I used FSUIPC to set the thrust reverse on throttles, mapper throttle 1 to engines 1 and 2, throttle 2 to engines 3 and 4 on a 4 engine aircraft.

 

I'm certainly not an expert, and have probably just scratched the surface of what FSUIPC can do. Pete Dowson is the author and he provides extensive documentation and frequent updates.

 

Dale

- Different axis adjustment for different planes

- possibility to double each button on yoke or other hardware with conditional button (need some digging in doc but works fine)

- automatic start of others software

- automatic save at regular intervals

 

Pierre

 

I have never used the options you can make with the registered version. It's a very popular utility not only for FSX but for FS9 users too for a very reasonable price. I did buy the registered version only for the reason the developer came up with a solution to the G3D.dll CTD and having the FSUIPC.dll installed traps this error so you can continue your flights without a crash. It does not fix all of the g3d crashes but the g3d CTD is now a very rare event. He could have put the option only in the registered version but he didn't. I thought the developer should be somehow compensated for this major feat so I bought it. A lot of others did the same. I'm sure, by now, you have read the manual that comes with the module and have seen all that the utility can do. It does a lot but, again, I have seen no reason to use any of them at this time.

 

Best regards,

Jim

I suppose a partial alternative to FSUIPC is swapping out the Standard.xml, as some have said they do. That at least lets you assign different throttle lever and button assignments. But something else is that you can reach controls that are not otherwise accessible with standard FSX assignments. You'll be able to make your hardware and levers function in a way that most closely matches the real thing you are trying to simulate, provide multiple combination assignments (like this button does this, but when I push these two buttons together, they do that, as Kama2004 states above). That is why it is numero uno on peoples lists.

It looks like I'll have to give it a go. Thanks for all the input gentlemen.

 

 

jime

In addition to what others have said, it also does these things:

• You can assign all of your controllers in FSUIPC and completely disable them in FSX. This eliminates a problem I had where FSX kept trying to reassign my controls and button actions.
  
• You can refine how your controls work. For example, creating null zones on your yoke or pedals so that if the control leans a little bit to one side when the spring is relaxed, the plane won't turn or climb or descend with that little bit of play.
  
• You can create a null zone around a detant so that the control doesn't engage until you slip the knob out of the notch.
  
• It does some minor but, sometimes, important weather smoothing.
  
• It lets you use LINDA (a free GUI) to assign buttons, switches, etc.
  

It does lots more...a bunch of little things that add up to taking a sim to the next level.