PMDG 737NG driver for OpenCockpits' CDU B737 released

[Delvos]

Hi Neale,

this is a very strange behaviour; i've never heard of that before OK, let's do the following:

• re-initialize the .ini file, so that the position is 0,0
• start FS, load your flight and attach a screenshot of the whole desktop to an email
• move the CDU window to OC CDU display and attach another screenshot to the email
• un-pause your fs and attach one more screenshot to the email
• close fs
• attach oc73pcdu.ini to the email
• send this email to the following address: webmaster@cea-va.de

Do you run FS9 or FS9.1?

Regards, Michael

[Delvos]

Hello Neale,

i've taken a look at the screenshots and the .ini file.. The .ini file seems to be the problem: it must not be located in the PMDG aircraft folder! There is another PMDG folder, located directly under FS' root folder; e.g. 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS9\PMDG' - this is the correct location...

Check this out and tell me...

Regards, Michael

[stanhargs]

Michael,
I've sent screenshots and my .ini file to you as requested,
many thanks,
Neale

[stanhargs]

All,
Michael very quickly sorted out my problem, and if you read the thread, the problem was my own stupidity in making an assumption upon reading the OC CDU manual. Just in case anybody ever has a similar problem, the manual refers to placing the ocpmdu.ini file in the PMDG aircraft folder - the mistake I made was 'assuming' this was the \FS9\Aircraft\PMDG700 (or 800/900 etc) sub-folder. It actually says it clearly in the manual to put it in the \FS9\PMDG folder - so it was my fault and Michael expertly sorted this out. I spent three days trying all kinds of other things, so if you ever see this with your own setup hopefully you'll read this!
So I'm all fixed and the OC CDU is excellent. My next task, as PMDG has to run in the un-docked, non full screen mode to run the CDU, is to try to get the outside visuals in full screen to make best use of the hardware acceleration on the PC - I've thought of running the external visuals through another linked PC via WideView or FSExpand but not sure if the update rate might make the external view 'lag' behing the instruments - if anybody has any suggestions please let me know,
Once again, thanks to Michael,
Neale

[stanhargs]

Michael,
Is there any way the PMDG OC CDU driver you developed can be used in Full Screen mode? In windowed mode all my undocked PMDG panels on the MIP are displayed with blue borders and also the graphics do not make best use of the hardware acceleration from the graphics cards.
Am I doing something wrong or does your CDU driver have to always stay in Windowed mode?
regards again,
Neale