Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - FSX + Win7-64bit + ACARS and Squawk BOX 4 = CRASH!!

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | FSX + Win7-64bit + ACARS and Squawk BOX 4 = CRASH!!

DVA9385
Captain, B737-800

Joined on January 19 2011

Southeastern United States

25 legs, 50.3 hours
21 legs, 45.1 hours online
23 legs, 41.1 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 28 2011 01:56 ET by John Swails

I Have a powerful Quad Core System and a 1meg high end video card. I have no problems running FSX alone or FSX + Squawk Box 4 but the minute I open an ACARSS, within 10 minutes I get Sqawk Box errors saying it couldn't do something and asking me if I want to ignore, retry, or quit. If I choose retry or quit it brings my FSX session down. I have learned to say ignore and that usually buys me about 20 minutes before the error comes again or it crashes my system. I have lost several Delta flights as a result because ACARS did not release me and cannot recover the flight!

What in the world is going on?!?

John Swails

Captain, B737-800

DVA8752
Captain, B767-300

Joined on January 01 2010
50 State Club
Triple Century Club

Sedalia, CO

338 legs, 1,236.8 hours
31 legs, 181.3 hours online
37 legs, 232.7 hours ACARS
2 legs, 8.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 28 2011 02:07 ET by Brandon Howell

Are you running FSX, ACARS, and Squawkbox all as admin? I've never had a problem with SB this way.

Brandon Howell (DVA8752)

AFV313
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on June 11 2010
Diplomatic Mission
Pushing Tin Club
Online Millenium Club
Globetrotter Extraordinaire
The Penguins Of Madagascar
Double Millenium Club
50 State Club
Boeing Buckle Down
Four Million Mile Club
GVA 10 Year Anniversary

"Come fly with me, lets fly, lets fly away!"
Howick, KwaZulu-Natal ZA

2,941 legs, 9,560.6 hours
1,901 legs, 5,926.6 hours online
2,853 legs, 9,199.0 hours ACARS
58 legs, 272.0 hours event
350 legs dispatched, 155.5 hours

Posted onPost created on May 28 2011 03:12 ET by Robert Armstrong

Try opening Squawkbox from outside FS. Start --> All Programs --> Squawkbox. That solved it for me

DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on April 26 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!"
Killeen, TX USA

154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs, 218.1 hours online
153 legs, 321.7 hours ACARS
4 legs, 8.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 01 2011 11:45 ET by Kenneth Dickerson

I run exactly the same programs and have no issues. I agree, you need to have all the programs you just listed to be installed under administrator rights.

Kenneth Dickerson

First Officer, A330-300

AFV348
Captain, B747-400

Joined on April 13 2006
International Tourist
Diplomatic Mission
50 State Club
Online Two Fifty Club
Quinticentenary Club

"fly a heavy or dont fly at all"
Northeastern United States

536 legs, 1,889.5 hours
443 legs, 1,401.1 hours online
515 legs, 1,789.3 hours ACARS
20 legs, 68.7 hours event
842 legs, 2,782.9 hours total

Posted onPost created on June 01 2011 14:28 ET by Michael Schlabowske

also try running SB from outside Flight sim, I had the same issue, what cleared it up for me was A. switching to the more powerful fsinn and B when I did run SB4 i ran it from the start menu and never had any issues.

Also I too have a high end pc, sounds very similiar to yours, so i know this trick works, as its on the SB4 forums on how to "cure" your issue. I would suggest heading over to Squawk boxes website and searching/asking over there as well

Posted onPost created on June 10 2011 14:00 ET by Kenneth Dickerson

Something that I have doen recently after reading others post on the subject is to remote some of the software that FSX uses. I now have FScopilot/FSinn on my secondary computer, ACARS is running on secondary, FSX and ASE is running on my primary and is really great! FSCopit/FSInn does not need FS wide you just need to install the same program on both systems, setup a network for you two computers to talk to each other and away you go.

I had tried to get ASE to work with WideFS but no luck so I guess it will stay on my primary.

Kenneth Dickerson

First Officer, A330-300

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