Ok. Tested this further. As I said. Click FIND, AIRPORT and blam! display driver stopped and recovered. This is if I have AA and AF enabled in ATI Control Pannel.

Set AA and AF to application controlled and no such issue.

Not sure what AA through ATI's driver has to do with the FIND, AIRPORT function or at least the pop up dialogue. Also I noticed in the Windowframe that I get black checkers or sqaures when this happens with AA enabled in ATI driver/CP.

Charles.

I have had this problem for a while now. Ever since version 2.0 released I think.

Start Plan-G. Click FIND, AIRPORT and click in ICAO field and screen freezes for a few moments and then I get something about the display driver stopped responding and recovered. Then Plan-G starts working again. It comes and goes.

I just now rebuilt my FSX machine. Fresh install new hard drive. All the latest drivers. The moment I install Plan-G and it asks for database and I select FSX and it goes to look for airports, it did the same error. Recovered and went along it's business.

Computer Details

Intel 2600K
4GB RAM
Win7 Business x64
ATI 6870 1GB video
Creative Labs SB Audigy.

I have this exact issue. Not in previous versions but lately on this current version.

If I click FIND and AIRPORT and usually as I click the ICAO field, the screen will go grey and the computer will freeze. Moments later I get the "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered".

I have an ATI 6870 running the driver prior to the current one on the AMD site. This did not happen before with my 4870 as far as I can remember.

Win764. Plan-G 2.0.5.493

Charles.

I am a member of the AOPA (although still a pre-student using the sim kind of guy) and Plan-G would make real world pilots jealous versus the planner I see in AOPA member area used in real world planing.

Navmonster and Plan-G together help me to link real world to sim world. I love it. Keep up the great work here!

Charles.

Drool.  8)

Can't wait!

I too would like to say a big THANKS!

Quote from: tim arnot on January 01, 2010, 07:44:26 PM
Nobody's voted for Plan_G though...  :'(

Just tried Plan_G and it's even better than Plan-G!!!

I voted for Plan-G because it was slightly better than Plan-G. Plan-G was a close 1st. though.

To be completely honest, I even use it WITHOUT the plane following "connection". Just to practice Navigation!

A cool feature would be Nav training mode where you could tell Plan-G to track the plane with a trail but not to show you. Basically operate normally but keep the moving plane and track hidden from you until you click show me. That way you could evaluate your navigational performance.

Charles.

Quote from: realatp on December 27, 2009, 11:24:14 PM
o man I screwed up, all my FSx icos in the folder have little locks around them saying I don't have permission to use them and I did all this secutiry crap

OS? WinXP? Win7? Vista?

Try to describe what you were doing before the locks on all your fsx files appeared and what "folder" are you talking about. Plan-G folder? what?

What is it.

Quote from: tim arnot on December 22, 2009, 09:13:15 PM
Glag you have it sorted. I have P-G installed on a memory stick - that way I can run it pretty much anywhere...  :)

Hmm... Cool! :)

Wish I had some buddies as into FSX as me locally. It would freak them out for me to show them this. Just walk up and plug it into whatever computer in the building and let others watch the flight in Plan-G from across the room from a flash drive. They would think I was some kind of mastermind hacker dood.

All I would need to know quickly is the IP address of the target computer and the port in the Simconnect.XML file. :|)

Charles.

All I can tell you is this...

I know ZERO about simconnect or what it was for in the first place. At least not until I tried to set up Plan-G. Even then it took some figuring out what it was for.

Per the instructions...

10.2 Connecting to FSX from a Networked PC with SimConnect 10.2.1 FSX with SimConnect
There are two steps required to connect the two PCs with SimConnect. Don't be put off by the seemingly technical instructions which follow – The procedure is actually quite easy: -
 Create or modify a special file ―Simconnect.xml‖ on the FSX PC
 Configure the SimConnect parameters in Plan-G to match those in SimConnect.xml.
Plan G User Manual V 1.2 November 2009
Page 39 of 49
Note: You do not need to build a SimConnect.xml file if you are running FSX and Plan-G on the same PC.

Firstly... Just installing the Plan-G on the computer (basically my FSX computer) and expecting to connect direct, it did not work. Bah. Darnit! Whatever. I will install it on my wife's computer next to me and do the network thing. The SimConnect.XML file was not on my FSX computer (looking in the location where my FSX.CFG file resides as per the instructions in the manual for Plan-G) so that was not successfull. I have NO idea why. No XML file whatsoever. Then I googled around and found that free SimConnect Tool. Thank God because I was not in the mood to learn about making an XML file in notepad and all that crap. I get enough IT hardship at work as I am a computer systems administrator in the education field and look after end point management systems and so on. I just wanted this to simply wortk for as little effort as possible.

Again... Right here... Very safe and easy to use. http://simconnectconfigtool.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=10386

I installed that tool and set up 2 modes from it's "drop down templates" and simply changed on the IP address entry for each (using the IP address of my FSX computer) and made note of the "PORT". Went back into Plan-G and set up the FS Connection TAB in Plan-G and entered the IP address for IPV4 and set the port to what the tool defaulted to. 9 thousand something or whatever. Aside from paying attention to the "type" of connection you are setting up and making note of the IP and port in that tool, it is dummy proof.

Both locally connected, from the wife's computer and from my laptop over the network all work now. Beutiful! I have it set to 1 second update. Groovy. Google Earth based GPS with FSX waypoints all throughout and AI traffic in real time. Could it be any more cool than this?! The flight planner I cannot do with out now. Oh but to get the FSX waypoints and nav aids plotted on the two non-fsx computers I had to find the MDB database files from my Plan-G folder on the FSX computer and simply copy those MDB files to the same folders on the wife's and my laptop and those items are all displayed.

Genius. Simply Genius. :)

I would have just been happy with the moving Google Earth Map! This is crazy awesome to have all this other stuff built in and so damn simple. Great work!

Charles.

You have no idea how badly I wanted something like this.

Just a little trickier than I expected for connecting to  FSX. Had to use a SIMCONNECT configuration tool to make FSX "ready" to use SIMCONNECT. Not sure why it was not. Simple once I got the tool opened. Not sure how simple for others mind you. Unless it just worked for them.

I love this product. did I say that?

Over the network was a little tricky too. Unless I missed the step by step in the manual.

Basically I got Plan-G running on my main FSX box. Did the "build database" thing on fist startup so it would add the FSX items (airports, WP's nav aids and all that) overlay to the map so the Google Earth map would not be empty. That worked fine once FSX was talking but I was alt tabbing out alot to look at the map.

Then I understood I could network a computer to monitor my FSX in real time and show me my aircraft flying litterally over the map like a GPS. But I could not figure out how to get the FSX objects showing on the map on the laptop I was using. Last resort was I copied the Plan-G folder from my FSX box to my laptop deskop and ran it and connected and poof... It was perfect.

Great work!

Charles. 

To beat this I had to use the free simconnect configurator tool. http://simconnectconfigtool.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=10386

Made 2 situations... 1 for local and 1 for networked.

Now  I can connect locally or over the network from my laptop. I can use the laptop like a GPS. :)

Charles.

WinXP SP3 (.net current per manual) and FSX Gold edition and latest Plan-G...

I extracted the Plan-G zip into a folder on my desktop.  Ran it. Built the FSX database. The Options for FS Connection are currently at default.
 
I run FSX and start free flight for instance. Go to windowed mode and run plan-g shortcut I created. Hit Connect. It fails out and says "Unable to connect to Flight Simulator blah blah blah... check the log".

Log says...

10:48:20 PM RibbonButton_Click_ConnectFS
10:48:20 PM SimConnect.Connect
10:48:20 PM SimConnect.Connect - local
10:48:20 PM SimConnect Connect failed: BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect+SimConnectException: Pipe Connection Failed ---> System.IO.IOException: You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network. Go to System in Control Panel to change the computer name and try again.

   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.Pipes.NamedPipeClientStream.Connect(Int32 timeout)
   at BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect.Networking.Connect()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect.Networking.Connect()
   at BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect.OpenCommon(String strAppName)
   at BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect.Open(String strAppName, String strHostName, String strPipeName)
   at BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect.Open(String strAppName)
   at FS._SimConnect.Connect()
10:48:20 PM FSUIPC.Connect
10:48:20 PM Error opening FSUIPC: FSUIPC.FSUIPCException: FSUIPC Error #14: FSUIPC_ERR_RUNNING. FSUIPC is not running.
   at FSUIPC.FSUIPCConnection.Open(FlightSim RequiredFlightSimVersion)
   at FSUIPC.FSUIPCConnection.Open()
   at FS.FSUIPC.Connect()

I want to make sure that if I am not happy with the tool that it has not done anything to FSX or modified the default behaviour of the MAP and flight plan tool in FSX in anyway.

Is it completely external?

Charles.