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DVA10028
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Posted onPost created on July 03 2012 18:49 ET by Chase Parker

My flight simulator loves to crash. And for no reason with no error message. Basically what happens is FS Freezes, then if I click the simulator it says not responding and I get the little loading circle. the circle wont go away if it is over FS. To get flying again I have to force close the sim and restart FSX. Any ideas?

specs:

Laptop,
i7-2630QM @ 2.0 GHz
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560M 2.0 GB
8GB Ram
750 GB HDD
windows 7 home premium 64 bit

Chase Parker (DVA10028)

DVA8752
Captain, B767-300

Joined on January 01 2010
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Sedalia, CO

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

Posted onPost created on July 03 2012 18:51 ET by Brandon Howell

What are your sliders at? If they're anything but low, FSX can't handle it, especially with that CPU.

Brandon Howell (DVA8752)

Posted onPost created on July 03 2012 18:55 ET by Chase Parker

sliders?

Posted onPost created on July 03 2012 19:08 ET by Brandon Howell

In the settings, when you set the graphics detail.

Brandon Howell (DVA8752)

Posted onPost created on July 03 2012 19:09 ET by Chase Parker

my sliders are fairly high, I get great FPS and graphics

Chase Parker (DVA10028)

Posted onPost created on July 03 2012 19:10 ET by Chase Parker

but it crashes

Chase Parker (DVA10028)

Posted onPost created on July 03 2012 20:28 ET by Chase Parker

I do not believe it is the sliders settings because I just did a flight with all sliders on the lowest possible settings and the issue was there just as much as ever. almost couldn't stand flying with no buildings, trees and blurry textures. I forgot how flat airports are with no buildings.

Chase Parker (DVA10028)

Posted onPost created on July 03 2012 21:35 ET by Brandon Howell

Are you running as admin? Install anything new recently? Running Squawkbox?

Brandon Howell (DVA8752)

Posted onPost created on July 03 2012 22:34 ET by Chase Parker

I am running as admin, just started using squwakbox, but this problem has been going on ever sense I got the computer about 3 months ago. However, it does seem to worsen when I fly online with squwakbox as the client. I have not tried to use FsInn but seeing as this problem persisted before I started flying online, I don't think squwakbox is the issue.

Chase Parker (DVA10028)

Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 00:28 ET by Brandon Howell

D'oh! Just realized you may have a common issue...when FSX crashes, is it after you open a menu? This fix is needed to make FSX stable on Windows 7 - http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?236410-uiautomationcore-dll-version-6-0-5840-16386

Switch to FSInn too. Squawkbox is notorious for making FSX unstable.

Brandon Howell (DVA8752)

DVA10754
First Officer, MD-11
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Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 02:10 ET by Jason Chardot

Putting an older uiautomation dll in your fsx folder should fix the issue. I was having the same problem and since I replaced the uiautomation dll, it hasn't crashed once in flight. It does crash every time I exit the sim, but who cares since I'm in the process of quitting anyways.

Jason Chardot

First Officer, MD-11

DVA291
Captain, A320

Joined on September 17 2001

Cutler Bay, FL

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Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 02:21 ET by Ernesto Alvarez

if you are using squawkbox, make sure you are running it externally, not from within FSX. guaranteed to crash

Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 10:01 ET by Chase Parker

Brandon Howell wrote:

D'oh! Just realized you may have a common issue...when FSX crashes, is it after you open a menu? This fix is needed to make FSX stable on Windows 7 - http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?236410-uiautomationcore-dll-version-6-0-5840-16386

Switch to FSInn too. Squawkbox is notorious for making FSX unstable.

Yes it does, thanks for the link. I'll see of it works. I know FsInn is better, I just didn't want to deal with its complexity compared to squwakbox while learning to fly online. I will switch th FsInn now

Chase Parker (DVA10028)

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