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Two problems; 1: After a flight, aircraft is shutdown, sitting cold and dark. Avionics off of course. Headset/mic turned off -- even unplugged as a test. FSX and MCE is still active. Trav and attendant still making comments? 2: Something triggers a repeating function, approximately every 25 to 30 seconds, that causes the comment "back" to show up in the red letter area at the top left of the windscreen area. This, in turn, causes the ATC window to open. These two events keep going on and on until finally FSX and MCE are shut down.

Would be nice to include the Quest Kodiak by Lionheart Productions.

Had to do a complete clean install of Windows 10 Pro, FSX and MCE version 2.6.5.4 to solve my problem. Back up and simming as opposed to tinkering. Edwin Brown Osoyoos BC Canada

Steve Sumner, Glad to hear you've had success with FSX-Steam. I do not have FSX-Steam. Am still with the original Deluxe edition with the Acceleration pack, DX10 with the fixer and my own FSX-DX10 profile in NVidia Inspector. Am curious how the Steam advertisement got into the Windows 10 warning that comes up when trying to run MCE. Here is part of the warning message in question: "To avoid seeing this message in the future, uninstall this program or disable it's ability to start when running Flight Simulator. For more information about third-party programs, contact the publisher or see http:\www.fsinsider.com​" fsinsider.com takes me to the advertisement for the Steam edition. I am not interested in switching to the Steam edition. Don't know who is responsible for inserting the suggestion of going to the Steam site. I know I don't like it. The FS++ team from MCE has sent me several fsinsider.dll files to try but am still getting the same warnings. FSX is excellent on it's own. Edwin Brown Osoyoos BC Canada

Was running WINDOWS 7 PRO and MCE version 2.6.5.3. Went to Windows 10 Pro and lost many functions in MCE. Was advised by FS++ Team to go to version 2.6.5.4. Did so and now can't get FSX up and running at all. Get the following warning: Flight Simulator has detected a problem with a third-party software program (add-on) Name: FSinsider Version: 2.6.5.4 Company: FS++ Limited File: FSinsider.dll Do you want to run this software (not recommended) Option of yes or no Yes shuts down FSX screen and all is dead. No allows FSX startup but no MCE of course. Tried going back to MCE version 2.6.5.3 which was not working good but at least allowed FSX to run. Get the same warning and opting for "yes" shuts down FSX and all is dead. Am waiting for reply back from FS+++ Crew as to what to do now. Ed Brown Osoyoos BC Canada

OK. Not to worry about that anymore. Just have to nose up to the screen with different reading glasses on. I did read the FSUIPC guide mention of not being able to make any changes but thought that having been able to change the colour from red to white meant that something may have changed since that manual was issued and editing could now be done. Thanks for clearing that up.

Did find the help to change the RC4 menu red lettering to white. Am now wanting to know if and how the font size can be increased for better visibility? Am not a Wide FS user by the way.

ronzie, Thanks for the info. Am waiting for the RC4 CD that I ordered and hope to run it with MCE. Amazing what we put ourselves through to better enjoy FSX.

Tight Git, In full screen mode you should be able to press the alt/enter keys together to change the screen size. This combo will give you a means of being able to see your desk top icons. After you have successfully started the extra programmes you can then work your way back to full screen mode using the alt/enter combo again. Welcome to the Senior fight simming group. I turned 80 in May.

As a customer who has been trying to use MCE, since version 2.4.4.8, for ATC communications while flying small single engine aircraft and no co-pilot, I have to add my thanks to the MCE Team, Ben in particular. Have currently had my license expire but am waiting for the next version to come out before asking for a new one --- again. Edwin Brown Keremeos BC Canada.

nathanpinard, No, you don't have to buy a new license for each install -- but as you can see -- they do expire and you have to contact the supplier for a new one. FS++, Sorry to find out that I ventured into what appears to be a confidential area with such a simple question. Hard to believe that the number of installs allowed for a license is that big of a secret. Edwin Brown Keremeos BC Canada.

Does anyone know how many uninstall/reinstalls I should be able to get out of the new license I was issued on April 16 2014? I know ----- have been told a number of times ---- you don't have to do a complete uninstall for every new version. After so long at having little or no success, even with FS++ Team suggestions along the way, I finally did another uninstall/reinstall. Once again, my license has run out. I'm one of those PITA FSX users that has been trying to use the ATC only part of MCE to fly single engine small craft, VFR, no co-pilot, in and out of the small strips. Edwin Brown Keremeos BC Canada

Thanks for the clarification. Don't see any swings but do see the difference in core usage between having the "Enable Optimization" checked or not checked.

Problem solved. MultiCrew Experience team sent me a new fsInsider.dll and the ATC menu now shows up as it should at the small non-towered strips. Thanks to all.

charliearon, Thanks for the pictures. Have tried to post my pic here but following the Avsim instructions for posting just hangs my computer. Obviously I'm not doing something right or am following the wrong instructions. In any event, my picture shows different numbering and different options. Choose an option for L08 Traffic on 122.800: 1-[ Tune L08 Automated Weather on 126.575 ] 2-Announce Taxi 3-Announce Clear of Runway 4-Announce Takeoff-Remain in Pattern 5-Announce Takeoff-Depart Straight Out 6-Announce Takeoff-Depart North 7-Announce Takeoff-Depart South 8-Announce Takeoff-Depart East 9-Request Taxi-Depart West <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 0-[ Select a Runway for Takeoff ] I use MultiCrew Experience for my ATC and while troubleshooting my setup one of their team got the same weird menu item for #9. I get the same at ALL small strips so something has gone wrong fairly recently. Have no idea when this happened and sure don't know what to do to fix it. Am afraid to go through the FSX repair operation because that really buggered things up last time I did that. Hope someone can jump in here and suggest what I have to do. (Other than the FSX repair -- which I won't do again!)

Thanks for the explanations. Next question (which I should have included in my original post). Having 2 monitors I am able to watch all the core activity on one monitor and FSX in windowed mode and MCE running on the other monitor. When the "Enable Optimization" check box is checked or unchecked should I be able to see the changes take effect on the core readings? Edwin.

David, Thanks for the reply. I'm in totally uncharted waters here so please bear with me on this. See my sig for my setup. Am I to believe then that the MCE prog can take over control of core usage on my i7 970 6 core CPU and do a better job than my Windows 7 64 bit OS? Seems to me I recall having selected the Windows 7 64 bit OS because of it's superior capabilities in regards to multi-core CPUs. Edwin.

In regards to ATC menu selections at small non-towered strips. Has anyone come up with a fix for the wrong wording in the ATC menu for West departure or was this a hard coded error made by the ACES? North, South and East departure all look normal.

Would someone please explain what the two following MCE UI Options are expected to do. How do they improve the MCE/FSX performance? "Enable Optimization" & "More Responsiveness". Edwin Brown Keremeos BC Canada

FS++ got back to me with some new files and no more alarms on shut down.

dental12 You are not alone in the frustrating struggle to get what you expected out of MCE. Have been trying for 3 years to get successful simple VFR flight in the single engine Default FSX Cessna with no copilot. All I wanted was to broadcast blind at non-towered strips and the usual communications at towered strips. MCE comes up with all kinds of weird ATC happenings that make no sense at all. Best I ever had was a long time ago when forum member Dick B came up with his No Copilot Wanted fix. The FS++ Crew has had all kinds of suggestions but no luck so far. Hate to give up but I'd rather be flying than chasing down mysterious problems. Edwin Brown Keremeos BC Canada.

Sorry to report that the same error beep is back and I have no idea why? Went through the Active Sky Next x-gauge uninstall again but no luck this time. No error shows if I don't start/use MCE? Event viewer data same as before -- fsx.exe & panels.dll. No big deal but it means something is not right and I'd like to find out what it is.

Believe I have found the reason for the shutdown error message etc. Active Sky Next has an option to install their X Gauge and I had elected to install this on ALL the FSX aircraft. As soon as I uninstalled these through the ASN options panel I got no more shutdown errors. ASN must have gone into the panels.dll and made the changes that caused the problem as far as I can tell. Thanks to all and specially the FS++ Support Crew. Edwin Brown Keremeos BC Canada

Thanks for the heads up. I used to be on the MCE e-mail notification some time ago but maybe they have stopped this practice. Downloading now.

Made a number of flights with several default FSX aircraft and fsInsider disabled. No errors on shutdown of FSX. Today I enabled the fsInsider and got the Windows error beep on shutdown of FSX. Just the beep --- no other error popup window. Also had the very same poor ATC voice connection as before. Part of the event viewer data description shows: "faulting application name: fsx.exe, version: 10.0.61637.0, time stamp: 0x46fadb14" "faulting module name: panels.dll, version: 10.0.61637.0, time stamp: 0x46fadb50" I have no idea what this means but obviously I have a problem when trying to use MCE. Not sure what to now? Should I e-mail FS++ with the event viewer data as an attachment? (Don't know how to copy and paste here).