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Patch ADE 1.78/9 From 32Bit to 64Bit

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The attached zip contains a simple batch file and executable (courtesy of Dick) that will change ADE 1.78 or 1.79 from 32bit to 64 bit operation. This has been tested on ADE 1.78 and ADE 1.79 installations. It is the basis that makes ADE2020 a 64 bit App

The advantage of 64 bit over 32bit is the amount of memory available to ADE. This should at the very least reduce or eliminate out of memory errors. This only needs to be used once.

PROCESS
  • Make a safe copy of your entire 1.78/9 installation in case things go wrong
  • Start ADE (not the copy) and also your task manager
  • Look for ADE in the task manager and it should show (32 bit)
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  • Shut ADE and copy the two files from the zip into your ADE main folder
  • Double click the .bat file you copied across. You will see a command window.
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  • Press any key to close the dialog
  • Run your ADE installation as usual.
  • Check the Task Manager and ADE should be listed without the (32 bit)
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This should mean that you ADE installation is now running in 64 bit mode. If anything goes wrong then simply replace your ADE installation with the backup you made and let us know what happened

This patch will be applied to future updates of ADE 1.79
 

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This certainly has eliminated the dreaded Out of Memory. However, I have run into a problem when trying to "Connect" ADE to P3Dv5.2 sim.
I have the latest FSUIPC installed.
What have I missed?
 

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Does it work for other versions of the Sim (e.g. P3Dv4)? It is possible that the FSUIPC used in ADE 1.78/9 is a 32 bit library which might not convert. Or it might relate to P3D v5.2. I might need to contact the FSUIPC developers to check what is going on.
 

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I can confirm that if you use this patch then it seems to stop ADE connecting to the sim via FSUIPC. Therefore if you do use the connection to the Sim then you will need to revert to the 32 bit backup you made.

FSUIPC is installed in the sim and isn't part of ADE. I will need to investigate this.

Meantime apologies for any inconvenience
 
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I can confirm that if you use this patch then it seems to stop ADE connecting to the sim via FSUIPC. Therefore if you do use the connection to the Sim then you will need to revert to the 32 bit backup you made.

FSUIPC is installed in the sim and isn't part of ADE. I will need to investigate this.

Meantime apologies for any inconvenience
Many thanks, I was just going to confirm that it fails the same when connecting to P3Dv4.5, but you have already determined that.
No problems...I can most certainly work without it.
Its in good hands.
Cheers
 
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Also not connecting p3d v5.1 hf1 was connecting to all versions of p3d before
fsuipc 6
Waiting on a fix if able thanks
 

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The 64-bit conversion also doesn't connect to FSX. Jon's looking at the problem. But I wonder if 64-bit is really needed for ADE. How many users have run into memory problems with 32-bit? If not, the only scare is if Windows finally switches to 64-bit only... but that's unlikely for years.
 
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The 64-bit conversion also doesn't connect to FSX. Jon's looking at the problem. But I wonder if 64-bit is really needed for ADE. How many users have run into memory problems with 32-bit? If not, the only scare is if Windows finally switches to 64-bit only... but that's unlikely for years.
ADE lags bad in big airports during editing. DD KORD. FT EHAM just some of many. And if my sim is open its very bad. 64bit fixed the performance issue.
 

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Dick is helping me to find a solution. It may be easy or not to fix
 
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I can confirm that if you use this patch then it seems to stop ADE connecting to the sim via FSUIPC. Therefore if you do use the connection to the Sim then you will need to revert to the 32 bit backup you made.

FSUIPC is installed in the sim and isn't part of ADE. I will need to investigate this.

Meantime apologies for any inconvenience
Jon, I checked this on my system and I found no problems connecting to either FS9 or FSX. The connection works just as it did before changing ADE to 64 bit. I have confirmed in Task Manager that ADE is running in 64 bit mode. No *32 behind the executable name. I'm running FSUIPC version 3.999 for FS9 and version 4.938a for FSX. Maybe this is a problem for the payware version of FSUIPC? Just thought I would report my results to you.

Ed
 

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Thanks Ed. Good point. I think there is an issue that might come from ADE but we haven't found it yet
 

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Jon, I checked this on my system and I found no problems connecting to either FS9 or FSX. The connection works just as it did before changing ADE to 64 bit. I have confirmed in Task Manager that ADE is running in 64 bit mode. No *32 behind the executable name. I'm running FSUIPC version 3.999 for FS9 and version 4.938a for FSX. Maybe this is a problem for the payware version of FSUIPC? Just thought I would report my results to you.

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Hi Ed.

I'm using ADE v179.7475 and FSUIPC v4.974 with FSX. Error as soon as I try to connect after the 64-bit conversion. I'm guessing you may have an earlier version of ADE. My 175 version works great as 64-bit.
 

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There are some coding differences noted between 1.75 and 1.78/9 in the connection handling. I am going to see if I can fix that
 
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Hi Dick,
I'm using the same ADE version that you are 1.79.7475. I don't have any other versions on my computer. I just thought it could be helpful for Jon to know that the problem wasn't universal.
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This is what I get when trying to connect to P3D version 4.5
 

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This is what I get when trying to connect to P3D version 4.5
Please see post #8 in this thread. It is not currently solved but the workaround is to turn off the ADE connection to the sim. I believe that it will then work.
 
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