No online traffic in Plan-G

[mikegogs]

I can´t figure out a reason for this & would appreciate suggestions:

I run FS9 under WindowsXP on my main PC and Plan-G (0.8.1.389) on a networked laptop with Vista.  Connection is via FSUIPC/WideFS.  Online traffic is visible on the FS machine.  On the laptop, Plan-G connects, shows my a/c, collects weather, but does not show the online traffic.

The options to display traffic in the air/on the ground are both ticked, range is OK.  The log reflects the successful FSUIPC connection.

What am I missing?  ???

[tim arnot]

What refresh rate? FSUIPC can be quite slow at pulling AI back, so it can take a few cycles for them all to initially show.

[mikegogs]

It´s aircraft I´m looking for, not cycles  ;D

Refresh rate for Plan-G AI is 10 secs and I sat watching 2 a/c in FS for about 15 mins today, without them displaying in Plan-G, although my position was shown, and weather updates were coming through.  During the CI event the other night (admittedly with the previous build), not a single a/c was displayed the whole evening.

[tim arnot]

Okay. You'll need to check Traffic Explorer, as per this thread. http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=228.0

[mikegogs]

Apols for my ignorance, but what is Traffic Explorer?  Searched this forum, Plan-G manual, Googled it, looked all over Plan-G and its directory, and I still don´t know......

[tim arnot]

It's part of the SDK - tells you everything you never wanted to know about AI traffic, and more.

[mikegogs]

Traffic Explorer shows number of aircraft as 4 (at the top of the window), but only lists the details of mine.  At the same time, another online a/c is visible 200 feet away.  Out of curiosity, I ran Plan-G on my FS machine, and the traffic does not display in that config either.

My first question remains - what am I missing?

I´m not sure why I´m tugging at this particular bit of string - just hate a mystery, I guess!

[parksy]

Thank you for this AMAZING contribution to the community  8)

...similar issue here...no traffic info or mapping while connected to vatsim...everything else works great !!

Vista64
FSX SP2

running Plan-G and FSX on same machine

Version 0.8.1.389

cheers
Greg

[parksy]

+++++ SOLVED +++++

downloaded and installed latest FSUIPC V4.53 then changed connection parameter to FSUIPC in Plan-G

cheers

Greg

[mikegogs]

Well done, Parksy, happy flying!

My problem is a little different as the connection with Plan-G is clearly present - I get the weather, the instruments, my own aircraft, but not other traffic, although I see them in FS.  It´s strange that only those parameters appear not to be reaching Plan-G - why would that be?

Although I know that it´s not necessary to configure FSUIPC for Plan-G, I´ve gone through all the settings anyway, just to exclude them completely.  There may be some mileage from FSUIPC´s logging capability, but I´ll have to consult the manual first. 

As I get the same results whether Plan-G is running on a network machine or the same PC as FS, I´ve excluded anything to do with the network or WideClient, and, as FS is correctly displaying other traffic, I´ve pretty well excluded FS as well, unless there is a rogue .dll that blocks the export of traffic data (but what could that be and why would that be desirable?).

Even though I don´t use Plan-G online as a moving map/traffic avoidance tool, I´d still like to get to the bottom of this in case anyone else has the same issue.

Any suggestions?

[mhl]

mikegogs

I reported the same problem in a separate thread which I strted just over a week ago (http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=228.0), and several of my regular online flying contacts have confirmed they have the same issue.  I believe it is related to the version of Plan-G - like you, I cannot see online traffic with 0.8.1.389, but online traffic is visible with the earlier version 0.8.0.380.

I'm not sure whether Tim sees this as a significant  problem in relation to his other priorities for the development of Plan-G.  I am happy using the 380 version.

[tim arnot]

It's on the list. All the tests I have done here have the MP AI  showing up, which makes it difficult to pinpoint. Hence I'm waiting for the Traffic Explorer results to come in.

[mikegogs]

I cannot see online traffic with 0.8.1.389, but online traffic is visible with the earlier version 0.8.0.380.

I did not have traffic with build 380 either, but did no testing with that build.  My latest testing has produced more oddities, depending on configuration:

1.  With my normal setup of FS on one PC, SB and Plan-G on another, other a/c are visible in FS, but not in Plan-G.

2.  With FS, SB, Plan-G all running on the same machine there are no other a/c visible in FS, but they are shown in Plan-G.

3.  With FS and Plan-G on the same machine, SB on the other, I get the same result as 1. above.

In all cases, I'm referring to online traffic, not AI, by the way.

I'm now part way through uninstalling/reinstalling SB on both machines to see if this has an effect. 

[mikegogs]

After a reinstall of SB, there's no change to the results.  Perhaps there may be some clues in the attached screenshot - meanwhile, back to my real job for now!

[mikegogs]

Bump - in the hope that anyone has any suggestions, or spots something in the screenshot with my last post.  As you can tell, I've had no more ideas  :(