Esound and FS9.1

[Pete Dowson]

Is it possible that a lower polling rate may help?

I don't see why -- by all means experiment, though. My main testbed (not my flying PC) here is a lowly Athlon 2000, much slower than yours, so if anything a too-fast polling rate should cause more damage.

Tomorrow I'm going to buy another soundcard into it to test.

Not sure it is worth doing that, after all you said the problems occurred on both machines in any case, didn't you? Or not?

Regards,

Pete

[Andras]

Hi Pete,

Not sure it is worth doing that, after all you said the problems occurred on both machines in any case, didn't you? Or not?

Because I wanted to get a better soundcard anyway and the testing scenario gives me an excuse, so I can go ahead and buy it.

But today I couldn't get the one I was after.

Yesterday I started a flight with the default polling rate of 5 and just after 3-4 minutes into it, Fs crashed.

Today morning I did an entire flight with Polling's Var seto to 2 and there were no problems whatsoever.

regards

Andras

[Pete Dowson]

Yesterday I started a flight with the default polling rate of 5 and just after 3-4 minutes into it, Fs crashed.

Today morning I did an entire flight with Polling's Var seto to 2 and there were no problems whatsoever.

Hmmm. Very strange. The both polling rates are pretty slow in any case. There are many add-ons which poll FSUIPC variables much faster than 5 or 2 times per second.

I really don't know why it is/was crashing on your systems, and without being able to reproduce it I may never know. When I get time, if you still need me to, all I can think of doing is adding some code to trap these errors and log details. I can stop them crashing FS and things will carry on, and I can check the details in the log to see what happened. It may take a number of iterations to decide what data to log (I can't log everything) -- one of the problems with remote debugging.

If you still need me to look at this, shoot me a reminder in about a week's time, and then maybe once a week thereafter for a while. I should be able to get to it before Christmas.

Regards,

Pete