Troubleshooting Sound

Some key's might cause conflict with Flight Simulator or some other program. If you have problems with your PTT, you might test a different selection. Many people reports problems with the CAP's lock key as a choice.

The sound quality can be checked by making sure you have the correct speaker configuration of the sound device drivers matching your physical speaker layout. If you have your sound device configured 7.1 surround sound to a physical sterio (only two speakers) setup the quality will be affected. You might not even hear anything or faint output.

Check also the mixer equalizer options also for bass and trebble settings. Some sound driver software has many options such as choosing the type and size of the room, choosing headphones over speakers and type of sound (voice or music).

Troubleshooting Sound Output

Check the device settings for Headset and Speakers.  You can actually specify the same or difference devices for the two.  For each check and verify each device you have available for both the wave and directsound mode.  Ensure that all volume controls are set sufficiently to the right.

If you have echos, check that you have muted your mic playback open via Windows Mixer. You won't to have the recording option turned all the way up and the playback (the local playback) muted.

Check Network connectivity (if you can't hear ATC or Vice-Versa)

Check the bars in the VVL panel. You can get to this panel by clicking from the Inn Control Panel -> Advance -> VVL. When you switch to a frequency you.ll see three horizontal bars. The middle bar will show your connection to the Voice Status. Green will indicate you.re successfully connected to the voice server. You can point to it with your mouse cursor and it will indicate to you the function. If you have a problem with connection, check your network connectivity, firewall and antivirus configuration. A most common problem is a third party firewall/antivirus block.

A plane follows me

Disable Automatic P2P establishing. This allows you to easily fly P2P with pilots of your choice and not have the problems with clients with faulty configurations.

Inn Control Panel -> Set -> Network -> Peer To Peer -> (Check) Disable Automatic Peer to Peer establishing.

After this setting you can selectively P2P connect to each plane and identify the culprit to eleminate.

Installing the Loopback adapter alsoresolves the issue and retains the benefit of P2P. Please test this and report the results to the forum (instructions for installing loopback adapter in question #4).

P2P which is enabled by default allows faster updates (realtime) and a more fluid motion. This is especially benificial when flying formation.

I keep getting disconnected (Or Can't Connect)

I'm Seeing only Default Aircraft

FSinn uses whatever Aircraft you have installed on your computer for displaying when on VATSIM. This includes all AI both default AI, any commercial AI packages, as well as any freeware AI installed.

To have more variey, install more AI packages.

My VIP/MPP isn't being displayed

FSInn Stays Amber when I click it (Multiplayer/Lobby Connection failure

This is a symptom of a corrupted FS9 registry. Either of the following sould resolve the issue. The first one would most likely be the easiest.

Addons (LevelD Aircraft, other Aircraft, panels and gauges, and Scenery) Fail when FSInn is installed

(An FSX issue)

Move the FSCopilot entry to the bottom of the dll.xml file. To locate it, type this in the "Run" field of Windows Start Manu:

%appdata%\Microsoft\FSX

Tips for Enhancing FSInn's Performance (Increase FPS)

You can increase your FPS by changing some of the default settings:

1. Adjust the MP range down from the default 150 miles to a far lower figure.
   (Found in the Inn Control Panel under Mulplayer)
   
   
2. Increase the Weather refreash rate from the default 5 seconds to something in minutes.
   (Found in the Inn Control Panel under Weather)
   
   
3. When you have high detailed third party addon aircraft installed such as the PMDG and LevelD, FSInn might resolve other planes in the area as those high detailed models and eat up system resources displaying them. Verify to uncheck (unchecked by default) Resolve to exact model priority.

   You can also check "Only use lowres Models" (unchecked by default).

   These settings are located at Inn Control Panel -> Set -> Various. You can make the changes on the fly without disconnecting from VATSIM and immediately see any difference they make.

4. Turn off FSInn Graphical borders.
   (Inn Control Panel -> SET -> General -> (Uncheck) FSInn Graphical borders.)
   
   
5. Exclude your high resolution Addon Planes such as PMDG and LevelD.
   (Create a file named FSInn.CFG with the content in the box below. Put a copy of this fine in the root directory of your high detailed addon aircraft.)
   
   

   [FSINN] IGNORE=1



6. Run FSInn/FSCopilot on a remote machine rather than the FS machine (see FAQ question #8).

How can I change my default callsign?

There are two ways to change your callsign. One way is to change the callsign entry in Inn Control panel's Network configuration. This immediate way will override the default callsign, staying permanent for VATSIM unless you change it usign this same procedure:

Inn control panel -> Set -> Network -> VATSIM -> [type in Net Specific Callsign]

A more portable way would be to leave this Net Specific Callsign field blank. With this being blank, the callsign seen at the bottom of the Inn Control Panel will be the one that will be effective when you connect to VATSIM.

You can easily change it here just by typing over the callsign on the bottom of the Inn Control Panel and pressing ENTER.

A quick VATSIM/FSInn Install Guide

Where can the latest version of FSInn be downloaded?

The latest version of FSInn is FSInn1.3B2_3. FSInn requires the FSCopilot API (FSCopilot1.7B2_4).

ATC and Pilots can see me, but I can't see Aircraft On VATSIM

The most likely culprit is your third party firewall/antivirus program.

ATC and others can't see me

Ensure you haven't put a check mark under observer.

This option is found where you put your Name and homebase information.

The Load Servers Button Fails

Running FSInn From a Remote Computer

Running FSInn on a remote computer is simple. Just install FSInn on the remote computer in your local network and run it. Follow the normal installation instructions for the install. Everything else is automatic. There.s nothing special that you have to do.

Of course you will have to install FSInn on both computers (the FS computer and the remote computer) but after you.ve performed your installation, just choose which computer you want to run FSInn and start it on that computer.

If you have FSInn and Flight Simulator installed on more than one computer in your network you can specify the hostname or IP of the Flight Simulator instance you want to connect to:

FSFDT Control Panel -> Config -> FSCopilot -> (tick) Specify -> (Type in hostname or IP of FS computer)

There are two components for using FSInn on VATSIM. They are run from the start menu.

The FSInn Control Panel
     called "FSInnUI"

FSFDT Control Panel
     (called "Control Panel", resembled a traffic light in the task tray).

If you run both these programs from the remote computer rather than the FS computer you'll get the maximum FS performance.

Make sure you have Flight Simulator running on the FS machine when you perform key assignments.

Sound on the Remote Computer:

To have full sound on the remote computer, use the option to disable sound on the current FS computer and enable sound on the remote computer. (FSFDT Control Panel -> Voice -> VATSIM -> (Check) Enable VATSIM Voice on this computer

This is covered on page 11, section 1.4 of the FSInn manual (Installation on a remote computer).

A new version of FSInn is Available (error)

Unselect FSInn Internet Online mode ( Inn Control Panel -> SET -> General - General -> (uncheck) FSInn Internet Online Mode).