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DVA7956
Captain, A320
OLP
Joined on November 05 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Swing on a star" Manassas, VA USA
478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online 473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS 70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 11 2010 20:11 ET by Scott Bradley
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I installed FSX and all updates. It runs very nice. I tried to install ACARS. ACARS seems to work, I can connect; but it doesn't see FSX when I start flight. I do not see the FSUIC in the add-on menue of fsx, but there is a fsuic.dll in the MODULE folder. Separate from that, when I try to load the DVA-ONLINE-SB3 software, it does not see a "valid" version of FSX'; despite that it is valid and installed. When I click on properties, everyone seems to have all priveledges. I think I am close, but something is missing. Any suggestions?
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM
Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"De oppresso liber" Surry, ME
1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs,
767.8 hours online 1,107 legs,
1,674.5 hours ACARS 55 legs,
114.8 hours event 195 legs dispatched, 134.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
January 11 2010 20:22 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
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You need to go to the Squawkbox site, and download SB4. SB3 is not compatible with FSX.
What version of FSUIPC did you install?
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DVA7956
Captain, A320
OLP
Joined on November 05 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Swing on a star" Manassas, VA USA
478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online 473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS 70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 11 2010 20:30 ET by Scott Bradley
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I checked the box in ACARS for FSUIPC 4.530. I also checked it in the DVA-FS2004-737NG install - which was the last thing I did. In the mean time I'll go get SB4.
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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DVA7956
Captain, A320
OLP
Joined on November 05 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Swing on a star" Manassas, VA USA
478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online 473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS 70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 11 2010 21:04 ET by Scott Bradley
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SB4 is installed and it shows up in the menu bar (add-on). FSUIPC does not. Now when I change planes it takes 2 minutes of the computer thinking before the selection of planes pops up. Now that has to be bad. I may just reinstall and install everything.
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM
Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"De oppresso liber" Surry, ME
1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs,
767.8 hours online 1,107 legs,
1,674.5 hours ACARS 55 legs,
114.8 hours event 195 legs dispatched, 134.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
January 11 2010 21:08 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
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Scott, do you have Acceleration? And if so, did you also install SP 1 and 2? If you did, that could be half your problem. Are you running FSX and SB (and all your FS programs) as Administrator or not?
It also appears that you are installing FSUIPC every time you install an aircraft...you only need to install FSUIPC once.
Before you go and uninstall everything and try again, what are your system specs? The SB database needs to build your plane database - just like FSInn does - not necessarily a bad thing, but if its the first time you've run it after an install - that is not abnormal.
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DVA7956
Captain, A320
OLP
Joined on November 05 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Swing on a star" Manassas, VA USA
478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online 473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS 70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 11 2010 21:29 ET by Scott Bradley
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System: I7-920 on a ASUS P6TD Intel X58 Motherboard, 6GB DDR3 SDRAM, GTX-295 Card; OS is Windows 64. I seem to be running everything as an administrator- but not confident that I would be able to tell. To be honest, this administrator business is all new to me. Should I be installing all software using the "open as administrator?". Should I always launch FSX or ACARS as an admin?"
You were right on regarding FSX having to build the plane database.
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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DVA7956
Captain, A320
OLP
Joined on November 05 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Swing on a star" Manassas, VA USA
478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online 473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS 70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 11 2010 21:51 ET by Scott Bradley
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The SYSTEM and Administrator have all permisions. The user only has Read&executable, and read permissions. Is that ok?
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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DVA7899
Captain, B737-800
Joined on October 29 2009
Online Double Century Club
Long Beach Century Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"PMDG or go home :)" Springfield, MO USA
304 legs, 743.8 hours
283 legs,
682.2 hours online 303 legs,
740.0 hours ACARS 30 legs,
47.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 11 2010 23:53 ET by Skylar Macminn
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Scott, it sometimes has issues with permissions so running everything as Admin usually fixes it.
If you don't want to right click every time you start FSX, then Right Click>Properties. Under that go to the "Compatibility" tab. Hit "Run as Administrator" and apply/ok it. That way it will open as admin, give you the annoying "are you sure" popup, and then you are set
Google it, but you can disable User Permissions so everything runs as admin (kinda like XP without the annoying popup asking if you REALLY want to run as admin for the 10th time ^_^)
Edit: nice system btw. I'm building something similar for around $2000 ^_^
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DVA7956
Captain, A320
OLP
Joined on November 05 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Swing on a star" Manassas, VA USA
478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online 473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS 70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 12 2010 18:45 ET by Scott Bradley
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Phew....got it. ACARS is talking to FSX. It may have been the Admin issue as I ran everything with those permissions, but what really got it was the new version of FSUIPC 4.57. I went directly to the website/person that developed it as opposed to the version that was loaded from the fleet library. Thanks Andrew and Skylar.
Skylar - you can be sure that the system I have is nice. I'm pretty sure you were making a joke cause you may remember I leveraged your expertise and bought the same system you specified in your threads. I never built a computer before, but I'm good at reading manuals and following directions - the jargon is a bit confusing. Building was straight forward. The tricky part, I thought, was going to be installing the OS. I just happend to remember the OLD days of dos and early computers. I remembered that the computer bios needed to be told to look for the boot up disk. I assumed the Windows 7 disk was also the boot disk. [Gulp] It was and all was good. What is new (from the old days) is that the bios seems to come with its own operating system. Apparently I could have gotten on the internet and played games strickly from the Bios OS.
Only for the seasoned pilots - Here is fact that some of you know or can appreciate. I paid the same amount for this computer as I did for an PC/XT 486 in the late 80's. We are talking like 100-1000 times more speed and memory between the two. And $2000 meant way more back then, than now. Ok - $2000 is still a lot of money.
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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DVA7899
Captain, B737-800
Joined on October 29 2009
Online Double Century Club
Long Beach Century Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"PMDG or go home :)" Springfield, MO USA
304 legs, 743.8 hours
283 legs,
682.2 hours online 303 legs,
740.0 hours ACARS 30 legs,
47.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 12 2010 20:33 ET by Skylar Macminn
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Scott Bradley wrote:
Skylar - you can be sure that the system I have is nice. I'm pretty sure you were making a joke cause you may remember I leveraged your expertise and bought the same system you specified in your threads. I never built a computer before, but I'm good at reading manuals and following directions - the jargon is a bit confusing. Building was straight forward. The tricky part, I thought, was going to be installing the OS. I just happend to remember the OLD days of dos and early computers. I remembered that the computer bios needed to be told to look for the boot up disk. I assumed the Windows 7 disk was also the boot disk. [Gulp] It was and all was good. What is new (from the old days) is that the bios seems to come with its own operating system. Apparently I could have gotten on the internet and played games strickly from the Bios OS.
Well, you went with a more expensive graphics card than I am ending up going with, but other than that looks to be the same Glad it's working well! I haven't purchased all of the parts yet (awaiting money from selling my current rig to finalize the sale), so it's good to hear it's working well -- but now I am far more impatient than I was ^_^.
PC/XT 486 was around that price? That is crazy! Makes the new one you got look super cheap (even though its not!).
Did you build it yourself or enlist the assistance of someone else? I personally haven't actually BUILT a computer myself yet, for fear of breaking something (I am sadly notorious for braking things).
Glad to hear it's working out! I'd def. be interested in the settings you have FSX running at. If you ever have time, i'd love if you could shoot me an email with how you have your FSX settings, and the FPS you are getting Just to kinda benchmark and know what to expect when I get my machine.
Do enjoy the new system, and if you have any other issues feel free to ask, I'm sure someone around here has a solution; the members here are rather intuitive!
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DVA7956
Captain, A320
OLP
Joined on November 05 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Swing on a star" Manassas, VA USA
478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online 473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS 70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 12 2010 20:51 ET by Scott Bradley
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I might be confused, XT may have been 286 or 386. I built it myself. I built a plane - I figure a computer can't be that bad. It wasn't. I'll test and send you e-mail. It looks like I am running 30-40 fps with all settings up at max, but I need to be more systematic in testing parameters. I am not sure if fps are affected by the complexity of the city scape on my approach and landing. I am not running with any FSX extras. Interestingly, when I ran FSX (before installing the 2 updates) I was only getting 18 fps. I haven't overclocked --- yet.
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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