Hi,

 

RC4 doesn't seem to want to work with new Steam edition FSX. I didn;t have any problems before with FS9, FSX or P3D  but now it says something about bad IPC data when I try and use the new (and much better) Steam version of FSX. Is it to do with FSCUIP? Do I need to replace that with an up to date version?

 

Any help would be welcome as its back to default ATC for now. Grrr!

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

"

Install complete FSUIPC version 4.938a Install FSUIPC4938a for FSX, FSX-SE and Prepar3D versions 1.4 and 2.0-2.4

-- Deletes orphaned profile entries from INI

-- Keeps axis assignments for new profiles if so requested

-- Fixes error in Lua mouse.wheel function.

-- Provides OOMcheck=Quiet option (no audible VAS warning)

-- Single byte offset 3124 gives P3D EXE version number, 10-14, 20-24.

-- Installs and operates with the FSX Steam Edition

FSUIPC version 4.938a only, with Mouse Macro making now working in FSX-SE: FSUIPC 4.938a

-- If you already installed 4.938 you can just copy this DLL into the FSX Modules folder."

 

http://forum.simflight.com/topic/66139-updated-modules/

Thanks a lot I'll try that tomorrow.

 

Paul

I got RC working using the referred fsuipc4 in my reply.

 

My desktop is a WinXP Pro-32 with just two gig of ram.

 

At first starting RC blanked the FSX display making it transparent. I cleared out RAM of unnecessary tasks.

 

The problem was still there so I tried all with FSX windowed and it worked. I then restarted FSX-SE, went full screen, loaded a plan into a parked default B738. I alt-tabbed to the window with the RC shortcut and loaded it. I loaded the same FSX plan into RC and it worked perfectly for weather and clearance, no video issues.

 

That's all I could test at this time due right now to my cramped desk space.

 

Be sure that you display screen is filled without black curtains. If so window FSX and go back to full screen. before loading RC and starting it.

 

The order of procedure appears to be important!

 

Load your flight in FSX and then load you plan into the FSX planner to give you a nav display of your choice. Then load RC and select the plan file, followed by starting RC. Switch back to the FSX display and you should be good to go.

Hi,

 

Have it working now, thanks. Slightly different way around, have to go windowed via keystrokes, start RC, and then full screen via menu, if I do it by keystrokes, the RC window disappears. Also it only works on max resolution but great to have it back.

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

Before I proceeded with finding the video fix I detailed, I found if I alt-tabbed to another app and back, FSX blanked on return. I did not start RC for this to happen so it is not specifically a quirk in RC or fsuipc windowing's facilities.

 

I did find the video settings in FSX after the fix and they were correct. Apparently they were not correctly detailed in the Steam install process, hower I recal in installing FS9 there were similar problems.

 

I am now in the process of getting ADEX working. It appears that some elements are missing from the Steam FSX SDK specifically the BGL compiler. I do have it from FS9 SDK and it might be the same. At least ADEX loads a bgl for editing now.

 

I'll also be checking ai-smooth 1.2 since some RC users implement that to get ai protection and spacing on approach to reduce take-off queues so RC can squeeze in between approaching ai.

I have one more "eccentricity" in general I found with the STEAM environment.

 

When adding scenery, I found I needed to either install it in the existing AddOnscenery folder or my preferred method of creating my own "Common FSX AddOn Scenery folder" within the FSX folder for scenery.cfg to load it correctly.

 

Apparently any such add-ons must be within the Steam Applications FSX environment to be accepted at load time.

 

Just another FYI related to get scenery mods loaded and recognized by RC.

 

(RC does not have to be loaded into the Steam environment).

FYI:

 

ADEX will not work with the Steam version currently shipped. Components are missing from the FSX SDK. The FS9 version of bglcomp.exe will not work.

 

Currently at least the DVD containing the SDK is required to run an SDK service pack that is in Steam.

 

Steam tech support responded they are waiting until after the holidays.