Post by Travis on May 26, 2015 23:40:28 GMT -5
Captains,
After far too long, the FSCaptain 1.6.3 Public Beta is now underway.
You can read the main change list and my ramblings in this updated as of an hour ago post.
But if you want to skip that for now, just know there was The Great Big Bug, then a lot of smaller and easier to deal with Bugs. And many new features!
So that was then, here is now. (??) Speaking of here, here are some pre-install notes everyone should pay attention to:
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General Testing Notes for 1.6.3 BETA 1 -- Please read before installing
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1. FSCaptain now uses the Visual C++ 2013 RTL libraries which earlier testing has shown that not all Captains have. To check, you should run the Administrator and see if it crashes. If it does, you most likely need the Microsoft VC++ 2013 libraries (the x86 version we believe) which you can download from here: www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784 - once there, just click Download and then select the x86 version. (And if that doesn't allow you to run Beta 1, go back and download the x64 version from the same page.)
2. In the Administrator, you may experience messageboxes that claim "ICAO [your departure or destination or alternate airport] is not in the Airline database" but then proceed to generate a flight for you. Ignore them - I was super paranoid about changing the structure of the airport database so each time that the Administrator goes to fetch some data, it could generate a warning. I'll tone down these warnings during the Beta Testing phase.
3. Bug #80 which is reported on the fix list as "fixed" sometimes still occurs. It's about the looping sounds that haven't stopped in the FCDU for several versions and it's on my list of things to squash.
I've moved these two Fixpacks to the FSCaptain download area, from their initial placement on Dropbox.
Two Fixpacks??
Two Fixpacks!!
Now these are standard FSCaptain Fixpacks - using the same type of FSCaptain installer as all prior versions.
The difference between the two is that one includes the four new Voice Packs for Lucy, Peter and Regina.
If you've already downloaded them, then you only need the smaller (22.4MB) Fixpack:
fscaptain.net/downloads/FSCaptain_Fixpack_163_B1_R1.zip
If you don't have our new flight crew members, then you can download this 88.4MB installer:
fscaptain.net/downloads/FSCaptain_Fixpack_163_B1_R1_Audios.zipYou only need one of the Fixpacks of course....
Please report any issues, glitches, etc in the Support Forum, or via email.
You will be asked for your newer ADMIN / FCDU / FSCAPTAIN logs, so be prepared to ZIP and email them. 
Happy flying with ACME!