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DVA12924
Captain, B777-200

Joined on March 24 2016
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Everett 250 Club
Million Mile Club
Six Century Club

Portland, OR

670 legs, 3,196.0 hours
670 legs, 3,196.0 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 26 2016 07:29 ET by Steven Destazio

I downloaded and installed DVA ACARS V3 today and it wouldn't work with my FSUIPC so I had to redownload and install that. After that, ACARS worked fine, but now my Radar Contact 4.3 gets an FSUIPC error and crashes within a minute or 2 after I start the flight on ACARS. Without ACARS connected to FSX, RC works fine. I'm getting pretty frustrated with all this since I'm new to DVA and already have spent the last 12 hours just trying to get everything to work again. Everything worked fine before I installed ACARS. My FSUIPC worked, FSPX worked, Active Sky Next worked, all my addon scenery, textures and aircraft worked. Now since I installed ACARS first FSUIPC failed, then I got that fixed and now RC4.3 is failing. I can't find the problem so I don't know of a solution. Like I said. Radar Contact works fine without ACARS running. So far, RC4.3 is the only thing still messing up.

I've searched the forums on DVA and also RC support on AVSim and I can't find the solution. banghead

Steven Destazio

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on March 26 2016 07:34 ET by Steven Destazio

This threat is the closest I've found to my problem, but no solution was ever offered

https://www.deltava.org/thread.do?id=0x1b134

I already rebuilt the scenery DB in RC, and I already reinstalled ACARS. FSUIPC works fine on FSX. with ACARS already connected to the flight, RC opens the window as it should by sometime between WX and CDL it will stop responding and give a runtime error 76 about FSUIPC. Without ACARS running, RC does not crash and works throughout a full flight with no issues. Everything related to FSX is set in its own folder outside of Program Files (windows 7 issue) and all FSX related programs are set as Run as Administrator.

Steven Destazio

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on March 27 2016 06:11 ET by Steven Destazio

I did a full uninstall and reinstall of FSUICP, ACARS, and Radar Contact and the issue is still there. However, I've found if I rebuild the scenery database and run MakeRWYs before each flight, I do not have the issue.

Steven Destazio

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on March 28 2016 12:14 ET by Steven Destazio

Anyone???? I see all these posts in here about how a lot of people use Radar Contact on DVA so I'm still waiting for help from someone who knows what to do. Its extremely frustrating to have to try to get a flight to work with RC and ACARS and to be honest if I have to give up DVA or Radar Contact, it's going to be DVA. Radar Contact cost me real money, DVA did not. The only help I've gotten so far was to reinstall FSUIPC. I've already done that many times and it is still not working right.

I was able to rebuild the scenery DB in RC before each and every flight and then start up ACARS last and it would work, but that is no longer working

Steven Destazio

Captain, B777-200

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
US Coastal Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
US Mountaineer Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,287 legs, 1,796.9 hours
841 legs, 1,048.5 hours online
1,269 legs, 1,774.9 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on March 28 2016 16:38 ET by Andrew Vane

I made your help desk into an issue tracker to see if Luke can help us.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club

"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on March 28 2016 16:49 ET by Luke Kolin

I'm not sure what I can do. This sounds like a Radar Contact bug. Have you approached the authors of this software?

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on March 28 2016 21:21 ET by Steven Destazio

I have contacted Radar Contact developers. Since this issue only is when I use DVA ACARS, they insist that it is not their problem

Steven Destazio

Captain, B777-200

DVA13008
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on June 10 2016
B737 50 Club
DVA Two-Year Anniversary

Western United States

35 legs, 95.1 hours
33 legs, 90.0 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on June 17 2016 23:31 ET by Bj Lee

Radar Contact is kinda junk anyways. I have been using PFE for years with no problems, and it sounds and works better than RC too. Not really a solution, but I would advise using PFE for your ATC needs if you can swing the extra cash.

Bj Lee

First Officer, B757-200

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