Post by Travis on Jun 4, 2015 10:54:24 GMT -5
Due to the severity of some of the bugs highlighted by the 1.6.3 Beta 1 release (thankfully not all bugs were encountered by all Captains!), we have released a Beta 1 "Refresh."
Testing this week has been very successful on these issues:
- The FCDU.exe program will shut itself down if when it initializes, it does not detect a flight simulator running.
- Payload reconciliation between the manifest and the aircraft should be better recognized.
- Nearly all of the existing source code has been overhauled to reduce one possibility of a C++ buffer overrun. There may be other areas that haven't been touched, so be alert for the possibility of overruns still happening.
- FSCaptain's text configuration files have always had a restriction that the "last line" of the text file needed to end with a Carriage Return / Line Feed. This should no longer be the case.
- The routine used to detect if an aircraft is on a runway has been modified to not run nearly as often as it had been. This is believed to be the reason for the spate of recent "FPS drops while taxiing." Further, an option.cfg setting can allow all Captains to adjust how frequently this function is called - or even to disable it.
- The Beta 1 build did not display the MaxG and MinG values correctly. They were calculated & used to judge flights correctly... but the in-FCDU display was faulty.
Because the FSCaptain FTP server hates me (honest, I can't think of anything else!) I've posted the files to Dropbox again. Once Dutch or I can kick the server, we'll move the files there for permanent hosting.
5.24 MB Zip - Only for users who have 1.6.3 Beta 1 installed.
fscaptain.net/downloads/FSCaptain_163_B1_Refresh.zip
Download this ZIP, and simply copy the folders inside this ZIP over your current FSCaptain 1.6.3 Beta 1 installation, and overwrite any files within.
DO NOT copy this over an older installation of FSCaptain. This contains only the changes since Beta 1, and requires other files only found in FSCaptain 1.6.3 Beta 1.
22.37 MB Fixpack Zip
fscaptain.net/downloads/FSCaptain_Fixpack_163_B1_R1.zip
This is the standard FSCaptain Fixpack. (Without the extra FO and FA files.) Install this over an existing FSCaptain full installation. (No matter which version.)
88.40 MB Fixpack w/audios Zip
fscaptain.net/downloads/FSCaptain_Fixpack_163_B1_R1_Audios.zip
This is the standard FSCaptain Fixpack. (With the extra FO and FA files.) Install this over an existing FSCaptain full installation. (No matter which version.)