Undesired speed reduction in V 8.1 remains in V 8.4 international

[Lars N]

About 11 months ago I wrote in the old English forum about this problem (see below), and got the answer that it should be fixed in V 8.2. There was no V 8.2 international and in V 8.4 the problem still remains as far as I can see. Didn't you fix it or have I missed something?

Best regards,
Lars Niklasson

See the old conversation below:

"Undesired speed reduction in version 8.1.
I use the Win-DigiPet together with an Intellibox, and I usually drive by using the controls/knobs in the I-box and then the program is reflecting the turning of the knob. And vice versa, if I run via the program the I-box follows. But in version 8.1 a strange thing appears, when I turn the knob of the I-box one step up the program reduces the speed one step. So in order to get to step 5, for example, I have to turn the knob 6 steps quite quickly. If I turn it slowly step by step the program is quick enough to reduce one step between every turn on the knob, so I never get over zero. This happends all the time when the loco-window is open. When the loco-window is closed it doesn't happen on every turn of the knob but quite often anyway.
This only happends when the option "Display all locomotive commands if manual input on controller" is on.

Re: Undesired speed reduction in version 8.1 ( Rtidiger Dietloff | 29.10.2002 | 08:08:47
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Hi Lars,

we have already recognised the appearence you have described in your message.
It is fixed in the "free-of-charge"-version 8.2. (German version) we are going to release within the next one or two weeks. Unfortunately we recognised this after the international version 8.1 was already produced.
Beside this fix, version 8.2. includes a couple of additional nice features which will be provided at no cost for all 8.1 users. The planned timeframe for version 8.2 international is about 1st quarter 2003 (english version).  

[Dietloff]

Hi Lars,

it sounds strange. The root cause was analysed and fixed in V8.2 (and 8,4 of course).
But there are still a couple of user (incl. you) which recognise this problem - some don´t.

Due to that, it´s under investigation (again).

Regards

Rüdiger
 

[Lars N]

Thanks for the quick information!
It feels better to know that I am not alone with this problem, and I will wait and hope that you can find another reason for this peculiar behaviour.

MFG/Lars  

[Dietloff]

Hi Lars,

 

In Antwort auf:
 and I will wait and hope that you can find another reason for this peculiar behaviour

...and in the meantime, I hope you will enjoy the multiple and spectacular new features. Hope you enjoy it.

Regards

Rüdiger (...who´s just leaving with his familiy for holiday...)
 

[Lars N]

Hi Rüdiger,

I am just wondering if you have found any solution to this problem, and if the fix is included in version 8.5.
By the way, is version 8.5 coming in an international version also?

Best regards,
Lars  

[Dietloff]

Hi Lars,

the behaviour of WDP in interacting with the IB in regards to control (speed increase/decrease) locs has not been changed in V8.5.
Strange thing here is that for some user it works for some it don´t. Mr. Peterlin is in touch with the programmer of the IB-software about that.

For the moment it´s not planned to convert the V8.5 into an International version. We are forcing the development of V9.0 for end of next year with a lot of new features and a new and additional automatic operations.
Of course an International version will also be developed.

Regards

Rüdiger


 

[Lars N]

Hi again,

Since a bit more than three months have passed since the last conversation on this issue I wonder if you have come any closer to a solution to this problem yet?

Regards,
Lars    

[Dietloff]

Hi Lars,

we are working on new features for V9.0 at the moment.
Therefore there are no news from our side to your issue.
Still strange is that for some IB-WDP-combination it works for some it don´t.
But it´s still on our list to investigate and fix of course.

Regards

Rüdiger