SquawkBox 3.0.2

A new patch of SquawkBox is now available. It is recommended that everyone download and install this patch. It is not necessary to uninstall the old version. The biggest change you will notice is support for much smoother aircraft motion. To enable this feature I suggest the following: go to the Advanced Options and enable "Allow Flight Simulator to smooth plane positions". Then go to the Multiplayer Options and reduce your "frequency of plane position updates" to a much lower number. I recommend 4 per second. This will shift a lot of the load of smoothing aircraft positions from SquawkBox onto Flight Simulator, which is more efficient. You should now notice that the smoothness of aircraft is now only limited by your frame rate in Flight Simulator.

Other changes in this version:

• Fixed a buffer overflow caused by addition of question mark aircraft. This was causing random crashes of Flight Simulator as well as strange behaviour with some flight controls. If you were getting random crashes this may address your issues.
  
• Heading and other data in the FSUIPC TCAS tables should now be correct.
  
• Download of the VATSIM server list should be quicker and more reliable. Those having trouble with this should see if this new build fixes your issues.
  
• FSUIPC 3.47 is now installed by the SB3 installer.
  
• SELCAL tones should now be more correct.
  

Please visit the download page to get this new version.

Posted by Joel at April 02, 2005 07:15 PM