Upgrading Radar Contact from P3Dv4.5 to v5.4

[Thunderbolt44 4]

After our recent move to Texas and using RC in P3Dv4.5, I have looked at all the different programs and have transferred to P3Dv5.4.  I think it's great. Now, as always I leave installing RC for last.  I've just finished reading through the Forum and it appears I should be able  to upgrade it.  Presently, I have RC installed for P3Dv4.5.  I have gotten rid of all my 4.5 stuff although I still have RC and can easily open it.  What am I looking forward to here, should I uninstall my 4.5 RC and do a fresh reinstall to my 5.4, or can I use stuff from the 4./5.  I intend to review the RC Manual too, Any general guidance or suggestions are appreciated. 

Mike Nicholson, Jetline Systems PC. 64bit. 

 

[Ray Proudfoot 9,024]

2 minutes ago, Thunderbolt44 said:

What am I looking forward to here, should I uninstall my 4.5 RC and do a fresh reinstall to my 5.4, or can I use stuff from the 4./5. 

Absolutely no need to uninstall and reinstall. Just point RC4 to the folder containing your plans and also to the root folder of v5.4.

Your plans are compatible. What you need to check is FSUIPC. v5 worked with P3D v4 but won’t with v5.

FSUIPC6 works for both and the free version is adequate for RC4.

[Bob Scott 7,732]

Don't forget to run MakeRwys after you have all your scenery add-ons installed into your P3Dv5 installation, then rebuild your scenery database in RC4.  Make sure to run a recent version of MakeRwys if you have any scenery installed via the xml method, as older versions will only see sceneries listed in the scenery.cfg files.

P3Dv5 includes a fairly significant rework of the airfields, and some of the ATC freqs changed as a result, so you should also manually copy the f4.csv file created by MakeRwys to your radar contact ..\data folder after running MakeRwys.  For whatever reason this doesn't happen automatically when updating the RC4 scenery database as it does with the runway file.

[Thunderbolt44 4]

Hi Ray and Bob,

I was happy to see you pretty much told me what I thought might be the way to go.  I had installed both FSUIPC6 and knew I would have to point RC4 to the plans and also to the root folder in V5.4.  I did this and took a short 350 nm IFR Radar Contact cross country.  It worked perfectly.  Before this flight, I had run Make Runways and updated it in 5.4 and Radar Contact.  I manually copied the f4./cvs after running Make Rwys to the radar contact data folder.  Its always a relief to get it working.  It sure makes one a happy camper.  I'm still not too relaxed with this moving of the f4./cvs file.  Never even heard about it before.

By the way, can you give me a link so I can download a RC Manual.  I had it, but must have deleted it while getting rid of my 4.5 stuff. 

Thanks again, Mike Nicholson

 

[Thunderbolt44 4]

Forget the Manual.  I found it.  Mike Nicholson

[Ray Proudfoot 9,024]

Glad you’re up and running Mike. I have RC4 on a separate PC and use a batch file to copy the f4.csv across after every run of MakeRwys.

[Thunderbolt44 4]

Hello Bob and Ray, 

Initially, after I had replied in the Monday response above, I flew several IFR cross countries and everything was working fine.  Then I decided to copy the F4 file from Make Runways and install to the RC4 Data file.  This actually installed into the F4x Data file as a .cvs file. On the next flight, I got to RC handing me off to departure, and it would not bring up the required radio freq and RC froze up. 

From that point on, it has just gone from bad to worse.  Let me try to explain where I am now.  I had rerun the Make Runwys .exe file. I have not added any additional scenery add ons and don't plan to. I copied the F4 file and dropped it into the rcv4x Data file. Now, when I try to open P3D v5, I get a window reflecting "the code execution cannot proceed because the fe.dll file was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem".  Not sure if I am being told to reinstall Radar Contact or reinstall P3Dv5.  On top of that, just before this latest happened, I got a Runtime error 6 window.

So, I've dug myself a hole I can't seem to dig out of.  I'm tempted just going back to P3D v4.5.  Ran RC for a long time and had a lot of add ons too.  In addition, 5.4 did  shut down because of a VRAM problem during my trying to straighten my mess out.  Never had that problem with 4.5.  So, as always, any ideas will be appreciated, Mike Nicholson.

Jetline Systems, GB Z690I Aorus Ultra DDR4jkl, Intel Core i7 12700K, 5.0GHHz 12-Core, 64 GB Corsair DDR4 SDRAM 3600MHz RAM Ultra,    8GB Nividia GeForce RTX 3070 Graphics.

[Thunderbolt44 4]

OK - I've run a Repair installation of P3D v5  and P3D is running fine now although I am not a fan of their ATC.  My current problem is Radar Contact won't load it's flightplan due to a Runtime 6 problem.  I'm working on that now.  Mike Nicholson