Acars randomly paused

[Potus88]

Hello everyone, 

I’m flying with X-plane 12 and acars to register pireps for my VA, however since xplane last update, acars record some random pauses during the simulations. For a 1h flight I can get about 7 mins of pause, and this makes all my pirep rejected. 
do you know this issue and what can I do to resolve it?

Thank you

luca

Edited Wednesday at 06:55 AM by Potus88

[ProAvia]

Are you using vmsACARS?

What version are you using?

Update your vmsACARS XP plugin. 
 

I am moving your post to the correct forum. Since this is ACARS related,

it belongs in the vmsACARS forum. 

 

[DisposableHero]

On 3/26/2025 at 9:00 AM, Potus88 said:

Hello everyone, 

I’m flying with X-plane 12 and acars to register pireps for my VA, however since xplane last update, acars record some random pauses during the simulations. For a 1h flight I can get about 7 mins of pause, and this makes all my pirep rejected. 
do you know this issue and what can I do to resolve it?

Thank you

luca

 

Acars logs would be great, if you can upload them to somewhere and share a link we can investigate. (Kindly check Documents\vmsAcars\logs folder)

 

Also kindly check the AcarsConnect.txt file, which is located at the root of your XP installation, share the contents of it too

 

As far as I remember, whenever you go to any menu XP sends a "sim pause" signal, which is understandable. If this is the case, like you opened a menu and then adjusted settings or some other stuff this can happen (imagine like you do this 7 times and each is around 1 minute, then it will be a total of 7 minutes pause for phpVMS).

 

While sharing the logs, would you please think about the above logic, did you "unintentionally" paused your sim for doing settings etc?

 

Safe flights

 

https://docs.phpvms.net/help#vmsacars

[Potus88]

Dear all, version of my VMSAcars is Version: 2.0.629; Stable

Here are my logs

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_bbiALSf5HeAhAiHWwiW1tQLuHYXEV0C/view?usp=drive_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i2zQeLY6jBPvjhK3sByAJyTSISn-X7-Y/view?usp=drive_link

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As far as I remember, whenever you go to any menu XP sends a "sim pause" signal, which is understandable. If this is the case, like you opened a menu and then adjusted settings or some other stuff this can happen (imagine like you do this 7 times and each is around 1 minute, then it will be a total of 7 minutes pause for phpVMS).

 

This is not applicable, i never go to sim menus while flying, i just noticed a drop of frame rate when pause is detected. Also VMS has been freshly reinstalled deleting both software and appdata and XP subfolders too, also i have created by scratch the configuration to my VA.

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While sharing the logs, would you please think about the above logic, did you "unintentionally" paused your sim for doing settings etc?

As i said, never did that, the only thing i have changed is that i keep VMS open in a secondary screen while before it was always in background. Also i did some flight with FS2020 and i never got those pauses.

Thanks you

Luca

[DisposableHero]

@Nabeel, I noticed some unexpected pauses in my VA logs too, from XP12 as @Potus88 mentioned.

 

 

Will try to test myself during weekend (I will have some free time and public holiday afterwards)

 

 

[Potus88]

Guys, I received a message from the administrator of my VA. This random pause are common for him too, so he acknowledge the bug and reported it to acars developement. For now we have expanded the consent pause time for every flight to get around the issue and we hope it will be fixed soon by developers...

Thanks everybody for help

Luca

[ProAvia]

2 hours ago, Potus88 said:

Guys, I received a message from the administrator of my VA. This random pause are common for him too, so he acknowledge the bug and reported it to acars developement. For now we have expanded the consent pause time for every flight to get around the issue and we hope it will be fixed soon by developers...

Thanks everybody for help

Luca

 

Is this in XP only?

 

It is being looked at. It is an odd issue. 

[Potus88]

Only on Xplane 12 after last simulator update. I never issued that in FS2020