I upgraded to 6.49 last night for Prepar3D.   I uninstalled the previous version as instructed and installed the new one.  Install went 99% fine.   I noticed the uninstaller did not remove previous VoxATC entries from the panel.cfg files of my aircraft and just installed new ones.   I fixed that as it was interfering with my ability to push buttons in the virtual cockpit.   Everything looks fine except for one horrific thing that the previous version did not do.    The simulation will now pause for a second every few minutes.   All sound cuts out, all the lights in the virtual cockpit I am in will fade like there is a power problem, the VoxATC window will clear whatever text is in there and say 'Sim Paused'    And then everything will unpause and go back to normal.    It does this far to often.   It shouldn't be doing it at all.    I went into Advanced Settings and made VoxATC a High priority and even gave it 3 of my 6 cores to play with, keeping it off of the 3 cores that Prepar3D is using to avoid any simulation slow downs.  Obviously, that has failed.  Anyone else experience this kind of problem before?   Is there a fix?   

 

Also, my test flight with this new VoxATC was KMDW to KIAD.    VoxATC did great apart from pausing the sim two dozen times in the hour long flight UNTIL I got to approach control.   I switched to approach, the controller gave me my vector and altitude she wanted me at and that was the last I ever heard of her.   The VoxATC window had   'Fly the I L S 1C approach'.     The path she put me on made me cross right across the approach path  at an angle and I just kept going for about 12 NM in the direction until finally I took matter into my own hands.   I brought it around, got into the final approach pattern, locked on the ils and started my glide scope in.   Still nothing.   I got no final approach call outs, no change to the tower frequency, no cleared to land.   ???   I never had VoxATC do that to me ever.    Yeah, it would give me wrong runways to land on and the ARTCCs still love handing me off like a ping pong ball (even in this new version the do it like crazy) but  VoxATC has never just gone silent, at least not without a FatalError in the VoxATC window but that didn't happen.

 

Did the approach controller just die of a heart attack at their station and that's why I heard no more vectors to final?   That's some hardcore simulation there!   I kid!  I kid!   Anyway... I don't kid about anything else I said.   Did VoxATC 6.49 not install properly?   What settings did it set to suddenly take all the power out of Prepar3D and make it PAUSE?   If there is no answer to this I will revert back to 6.46 and live with wrong runways being assigned on final.  I CANNOT live with the sim pausing all the time.  This is how we end up in a padded cell.   Thanks everyone for your suggestions, insights, insults.   I will contact the vendor as well about this.

SOLVED:  Switched VoxATC to Above Normal priority and set it to use Cores 0,1 and 2 instead of 1, 2 and 3 in the advance settings.   It is no longer pausing and is working as it should, minus the continuous handoffs to center that have plagued it for a while now.