wierd FS9 crash...

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:10 pm

windshear wrote:Try opening your case for proper cooling.
Render to texture should never be selected, if you use ANY DXT texures...

Boaz...

What's with the person saying you contaminate other boards ?
I don't get it, you seem nice and civil to me, do you have a troll that follows you around ?
Have you fixed the crashing problem ?

Longbow · Post by **Longbow** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:32 pm

i dont really dont feel like opening my case each time I fire up FS9.. and no, my card doesnt have temp monitoring.

As for specs I have a rather new system (4 months old or so) with 3.2GHz, 1.5 RAM, 2 200GB SATA HDs, ATI Radeon X300/X550 (128mb), and a 19" Dell Ultrasharp LCD monitor.

I also get a blue screen (sometimes) that says that there is problems with hardware and that the computer will shut down to prevent damage. I have way to much hardware to test which one is causing the problems.

Thanks for the help guys, I appreciate it. But for now I can live with the crashes as they dont happen often, though it would be good to know what causes them.

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:56 am

What's with the person saying you contaminate other boards ?
I don't get it, you seem nice and civil to me, do you have a troll that follows you around ?
Have you fixed the crashing problem ?t

Who says that I have contaminated other boards??
Cannot see any posts that indicate that...

I asked this question in the PMDG forum, yes, but I only posted here after I got no more answers.

I will fly a test flight today and will not use the snapshooter device, this is the long flight to Boston, that recently crashed me while landing.

Boaz...[/quote]

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:54 am

Longbow wrote:i dont really dont feel like opening my case each time I fire up FS9.. and no, my card doesnt have temp monitoring.

As for specs I have a rather new system (4 months old or so) with 3.2GHz, 1.5 RAM, 2 200GB SATA HDs, ATI Radeon X300/X550 (128mb), and a 19" Dell Ultrasharp LCD monitor.

I also get a blue screen (sometimes) that says that there is problems with hardware and that the computer will shut down to prevent damage. I have way to much hardware to test which one is causing the problems.

Thanks for the help guys, I appreciate it. But for now I can live with the crashes as they dont happen often, though it would be good to know what causes them.

The blue screen of death will give you a file name or reason for the crash, ie driver_sys_ , infinite_loop, sys32, best thing is to see what it tells you and google it.

Longbow · Post by **Longbow** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:17 pm

rgr that, will do

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:37 am

Dear all...
It crashed again.
I made it to Boston, but I think that was only due to poor visibility... Check weather for Boston yesteday.

I went into top down view after exiting the runway, and I saw what apeared to be some sort of texture flicker just right off taxi way Bravo running out of end of runway 22L.
I went into top down view to see if the entire airport was flickering, and it wasn't so I zoomed in, and as I got closer textures loading for a snap of a second, then my screen went black and my whole PC restarted!
Now I have checked my PC temp through out my flight, and for it to crash after landing and in top down view is just weird.

Martin or George, I know you are not obligated to answer, but I would like to hear from you what exactly is happening when airport textures are loading. What could this type of crash indicate. I am thinking about BEV and Fscene textuers and FScene auto gen patch to be at blame, but that is just pure speculation!

Boaz...

Post by **martin[flytampa]** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:40 am

the only "d3d9.dll" crashes I read about were related to some ATI tools/hacks but that can't be the case so I really don't know... unless you replaced an ATI card in your system and some dll remained in the system?

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:49 am

ye I heard that one as well Martin!
But I have a brand new system, nothing has been in it before...

I had saved my flight of yesterday while over Canada.
I loaded it today, and I landed flawlessly!
I tried to stress the PC taking shots and while parked at the gate, I zoomed in and out rapidly, I checked my 3D card temp and it was REALLY low.
44 degrees with a slow down speed of 115 degrees.

41 is idle temp!

I honestly do not have a clue.

I have had on board sound card issues, when I got the pc, bought a creative labs card, and I now have sound.

Could that be the cause, but why this time factor? I mean I am able to land at Boston, just not if I have been riding the plane for more than 5 horus it appears.

Boaz...

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:55 am

windshear wrote:ye I heard that one as well Martin!
But I have a brand new system, nothing has been in it before...

I had saved my flight of yesterday while over Canada.
I loaded it today, and I landed flawlessly!
I tried to stress the PC taking shots and while parked at the gate, I zoomed in and out rapidly, I checked my 3D card temp and it was REALLY low.
44 degrees with a slow down speed of 115 degrees.

41 is idle temp!

I honestly do not have a clue.

I have had on board sound card issues, when I got the pc, bought a creative labs card, and I now have sound.

Could that be the cause, but why this time factor? I mean I am able to land at Boston, just not if I have been riding the plane for more than 5 horus it appears.

Boaz...

A 5 hour flight, do you refresh the scenery before you get to the destination airprot ?
Is your onboard sound turned off in the bios ?

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:18 am

No I do not do anything, I fly that is it.

My default sound has been turned off yes.

Boaz...

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:32 am

windshear wrote:No I do not do anything, I fly that is it.

My default sound has been turned off yes.

Boaz...

I think it was here that George or Martin talked about refreshing the scenery on long flights in case of memory leaks, I know I read that on some forum.

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:59 am

Really? never heard of it! Honestly!

Wow how do one do that?

Boaz...

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:13 am

windshear wrote:Really? never heard of it! Honestly!

Wow how do one do that?

Boaz...

I use the "tab" key, but you need to assign a key to it. Start FS9 and go to the page that allows you to change key assignments, scroll down to "refresh scenery" and assign a key to it, when your flying just hit whatever key you picked and FS9 will reload the scenery.

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:32 am

For real??
I think that would solve my problems, I am not sure, but I most definately think so!

Martin/George how often do I need to do it, and why?

Wow thank you so much for that advice!

also.. My mate says that I should not activate extended textures, but I have never had any negative experiences with that!

And render to texture, needs to be on right? or is it off? I use DXT clouds so one of the render to texture settings will crash my FS9
Boaz.