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BaseCamp 4.3.1 is Now Available

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Former Member over 11 years ago
BaseCamp is 4.3.1 now available and can be downloaded here:

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4435

This release does not support XP.

Installation of this version will overwrite your existing 4.2.5 installation and replaces that version of BaseCamp.

Below is a list of changes.

Added waypoint categories to the waypoint and bulk waypoint property dialogs
Added the Task Based Startup Menu allowing users to choose what they want to do giving more help into what BaseCamp can do
Added an Address search UI that operates more like MapSource
Added “Find Intersection” to the Find menu
Added richer context menus in most tools on the map
Added feature to calculate a route that tries to match the shape of a track
Added feature to optimize routes within trip planner
Added a way to make it easier to find recently downloaded BirdsEye imagery
Added a way to filter Adventures by activity when using Find
Added indication of Adventure selected on the map
Added display of route stats while editing the route on the map
Added display of track stats while editing the track on the map
Added a device information dialog
Added support for curvy road route calculation
Added "snap to" indicator on the map when drawing new points in a route
Added ability to exclude track portions in the track join dialog
Added an "Off Road" profile and clarified the difference between Off Road and ATV
Added a prompt to preserve the original tracks when joining tracks
Added a hotkey to open and close the overview map
Added elevation statistics to the route dialog
Added statistics display to the bulk route properties dialog
Added ability to remove shaping points from routes in the data list
Added display of rubber band when moving a waypoint on the map
Added display of state and country city search results
Added ability to create lists in the "Send To" dialog
Added an "uncheck all" option when managing Custom POIs
Added support for Lat/Lon coordiantes that are missing cardinal direction indicators
Added a comment column for tracks in the data list
Added more descriptive messages if export errors are encountered
Added FIT file support to the Import dialog
Improved performance when device maps are discovered for the first time
Improved address search on device or card maps
Improved balloons on the map
Improved drawing performance of large tracks and routes
Improved performance of filtering a track
Improved waypoint search performance
Improved discoverability of Adventure Edit, Publish, and View Online actions
Improved display of individual track portions in the track join dialog
Improved device communications performance when transferring photos
Improved notification that a subscription is needed for a selected BirdsEye product
Improved recovery from corrupted cache information from device maps
Simplified default toolbar layout to exclude some editing tools
Changed the map product selection combobox to be hidden in the default layout
Fixed issue with encrypted Custom POI search (for RV and dezl devices)
Fixed issues with routes that have multiple transportation modes
Fixed device calculated ascent and descent values not being displayed
Fixed Trip Planner crash when adding food stops to trips
Fixed Basestation not updating most recent update time for contacts
Fixed issue with reading photo waypoints that had missing photos
Fixed map points remaining on the map after turning off all points
Fixed Adventure playback not taking track speed into consideration
Fixed a possible error when creating backup files
Fixed issue with inverted routes maintaining previous departure times
Fixed various language translations
Various other fixes and UI improvements

Post here if you have questions.

The non-English language version of the software will be available through our auto-update server shortly.

Before using this release, back up your data.

Please post any bugs you may find here.

Thank you to all who use our product. We are proud of this release and hope you enjoy your experience.
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    BaseCamp shows the RV settings on the Lenovo but currently not showing them on the Dell Both have Win 8.1 but Lenovo is 8.1 Pro
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    I have BC 4.3.1 installed on a Dell Inspiron win 8.1 and the program loads at a reduced size then when clicking to maximize it goes to another minimize size. Then when you click to maximize it fills the screen. However, the font is small. Then when double clicking on a route or waypoint the font changes to a larger size on the tool bars and in the file window pane
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    I haven't been able to reproduce this.... I will check on my Windows 8 machine at home. Did it just not remember your 4.2.5 placement or does it never remember your placements and sizes from run-to-run of 4.3?


    It never remembers...even if you maximize the window before doing anything it will eventually change...I can't find a common cause to make it happen but just click around on anything, also the size of the text is very small and when you move the mouse over the library list the text shrinks even smaller until you move off of it, once BC magically expands, the type becomes the correct size
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago
    I'll just add a few observations of my experiences on two win-7 Pro x64 systems. One the desktop and one the laptop.
    I am preparing the laptop for a trip away, so was carrying out a bunch of updates. I suppose I can say the Basecamp updates were less painful that Garmin Express.

    This was a day or two ago, and both systems were only offered 4.2.5 as an upgrade, but I noticed 4.3.1 on the garmin download area so I downloaded it.
    The update to 4.2.5 from within basecamp failed on the desktop because, at the time cryptolocker surfaced, I had configured the system policies to block execution out of zip temporary folders.

    I downloaded 4.3.1 for both systems.
    On the desktop I needed to manually unzip everything somewhere else in order to be able to execute the bootstrapper installer program, so I was not too surprised when the missing MVCRT90.DLL error popped up. I simply uninstalled 4.2.3 and then reinstalled 4.3.1. It worked without any messing around with deleting folders, etc. (I had not read about those instructions at that time).

    On the laptop I successfully installed 4.3.1 over 4.2.5, without any MSVCRT90.DLL problem.

    Other issues:

    Help files:
    There are none. I click on Help->Help and it takes me to a URL which replies 'file not found"'. The url is http://static.garmincdn.com/basecamp/4_3/en/Default.htm
    Even when this is fixed, it will be pretty useless, as most of the time I will be out of internet coverage.
    I really need help files to be installed with the program.

    Custom databases
    These get ignored. So the new version starts up with only the default db, which was very old and had almost nothing in.
    On one system I copied user.config under %APPDATA%\Local\GARMIN_Copr\Basecamp.exe_Url_blahblah from 4.2.5 to 4.3.1 (the new one was in a new basecamp folder, presumably because it was a new install, even though it was an upgrade. Before doing this I tried the "restore from previous version" action, but it didn't do anything I could see.
    On the desktop, before learning about the user.config trick, I simply created a new db and copied over the 4.2 .gdb and .gfi files and track contents. It seemed to work, but obviously is not an ideal situation as I don't know if the db format has changed.

    ambiguous messages
    During installation it offers to clean up backup files from old versions. This is a bit vague, as it suggests I might not be able to do a "restore from backup" if it deletes them all. That would make it a bit pointless doing a backup before the new installation.
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    Pitty 'curvy roads' still mainly uses highways (even if set to avoid).
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago
    Have you actually attached your RV device? We hide some settings if the device isn't attached.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago
    After uninstalling and reinstalling the RV settings are there. Still doesn't go to the right web page for help


    Glad you got your RV settings going. The help pages will be updated as soon as we are able. The link is correct, the server needs to be updated and we are working on that.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago
    It never remembers...even if you maximize the window before doing anything it will eventually change...I can't find a common cause to make it happen but just click around on anything, also the size of the text is very small and when you move the mouse over the library list the text shrinks even smaller until you move off of it, once BC magically expands, the type becomes the correct size


    This is strange. I am not able to reproduce, however I will continue to test.
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    This is strange. I am not able to reproduce, however I will continue to test.


    BC launches where it was last closed in the correct place, but before it can finish loading or display the map or anything, it adjusts smaller, if you click around (2x) on the map or anywhere, it will expand to the correct size and correct text size and where it was last closed.

    FYI, I changed the size of the type and font for the map as soon as I did the upgrade, changing it back or any of the display settings doesn't fix the issue. I did a reset options, that didn't fix it.

    AND while doing all this the RV height, weight, length fields went away.

    LJLAURSEN also posted the same problem and I'm also on Dell Inspiron Windows 8.1