wierd FS9 crash...

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:04 am

Weird thing happened to me twice!
I have a brand new PC and have not flown more than those two times.
I have how ever looked at scenery and so on.

I flew from Tel Aviv to Frankfurt, and had a go around while on manual approach, then on my second and instrument approach it crashed.
It crashed when I went to spot view, to take screenshots, then the aircraft kinda blinked, then disapeared and I got a end program note...
But this also happened on short final to George's Boston V2

The error seems to be caused by a "d3d9.dll" which I found out, could indicate somekind of problem with DirectX...

Yesterday I flew test flights from Tokyo to Seoul, while that went ok, my flight back nearly crashed!
I was at around 200-300ft and I took a screenshot, and FS9 froze! Then came alive again with the airport ground textures loading!!!
I had truned down anti strophic filter and autogen had been turned down a well as MIP quality.
I do not blame PMDG, but maybe it is something you can help me with.

my system:

Asus A8N-SLI/Premium, nForce4, S939
Chill Innovation CP-520A2, 520W, ATX2.2
AMD Athlon64 FX-57, S939, BOX
Plextor PX-750A/T3K, DVD±RW 16X, Bulk
Asus EN7800GT/2DHTV/256M, 7800GT
2X Maxtor DM10 250GB, 7200RPM, 16MB, SATA
NZXT Lexa, Aluminium Black/Silver
Zalman CNPS 9500 LED, Multi Cooler
Corsair TWINX2048-3200PT, 2x1024MB
Windows XP Home Edition DK, OEM
Boaz...

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:53 am

Have you tried to reinstall DirectX ?
You can also run dxdiag to see if you get any errors.

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:30 am

I have a brand new SP2 included win XP, which has DirectX 9C already included, so I cannot uninstall it as it is.
I did run DXDIAG, but no errors.

The wierd thing was that both crashes happened at around 300ft radio alt. it is approximately there that there occurs some kind of airport texture loading on a massive scale. On my old PC that would simply load and maybe jerk the plane a bit then continue, were as it crashed the whole of FS9 twice... But since I degraded the 3D card setting quite substantially, no crash, but a strange pause at 300FT just as I had taken a screenshot.

this is the screenshot.

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:46 am

There was a DirectX update in December, I had problems with Call of Duty 2 crashing, and I had to install the DirectX update a couple of times to fix it. Do you get a CTD, or BSOD crash ?
This could be a hard thing to figure out I hate to say, is your video card overclocked ? I would try some different forums like major geeks for help.

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:11 am

Ye I think it is hard to answer...
I have this friend whom noticed that I took screenshots just before the crash.
I was using SnapShooter I said, and he wrote ah haaa...

He said that he thinks that some 64bit processors might have a problem with that shooter.

My 3D card is not overclocked.

I get a "flight Simulator has encountered a problem" notice.
and it states:
ModName: d3d9.dll
ModVer: 5.3.2600.2180
Offset: 0002d133

then it wants to send an error report...

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:42 am

I would reinstall DirectX, and try a different screenshot utility.

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:45 am

How do I reinstall DirectX if it came with windows XP?

Many thanks!

Boaz...

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:54 am

windshear wrote:How do I reinstall DirectX if it came with windows XP?

Many thanks!

Boaz...

You can't uninstall DirectX, just go here and download and install to get the latest version.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:00 am

wow thanks mate!

Never found that one before!

Greately appreciated!

Boaz...

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:05 am

windshear wrote:wow thanks mate!

Never found that one before!

Greately appreciated!

Boaz...

Glad I could help, things got a little crazy here the last two days. I hope that works for you, but this could be a hard issue to resolve.

Arkangel · Post by **Arkangel** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:17 pm

Hi Windshear

PMDG's 747 have had some issues with CTD'S.

http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az= ... 7950&page=

Ark

Longbow · Post by **Longbow** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:35 pm

also: in the display option the "render to texture" discription says that that option may cause some systems to be unstable. I myself often get crashes.. but its not CTD the computer completly crashes.. only way to fix it is to reboot the computer. I greatly reduced the number of these crashes by unchecking the "render to texture" option and by downloading a new gphx card driver. The crashes still happen though.. and i still dont know why. (help!?) I read somewhere that these crashes can be caused by the card overheating.. but I dont OC my card and it isnt ever above 70 degrees in my household..

windshear · Post by **windshear** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:02 pm

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

Boaz...

paavo · Post by **paavo** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:06 pm

Longbow wrote:also: in the display option the "render to texture" discription says that that option may cause some systems to be unstable. I myself often get crashes.. but its not CTD the computer completly crashes.. only way to fix it is to reboot the computer. I greatly reduced the number of these crashes by unchecking the "render to texture" option and by downloading a new gphx card driver. The crashes still happen though.. and i still dont know why. (help!?) I read somewhere that these crashes can be caused by the card overheating.. but I dont OC my card and it isnt ever above 70 degrees in my household..

What are you system specs and do you have temp monitors for the cpu and video card. RAM timing can also be a factor, I have all 4 RAM slots populated on my mobo and I have to back off on the RAM timings, stock settings caused crashes, another thing is bad RAM, I was getting a lot of BSOD, and it turned out to be bad RAM.