CTD's due to 'controls.dll'

[gjharrall]

Hi Pete / All,

I am trying to track down a slightly annoying bug in FSX which seems to happen quite often when exiting the sim or trying to access the 'controls' menu while in flight.

The error report always points to 'controls.dll' as the culprit.

I have an unregistered version of FSUIPC 4.20 installed, UTX, GEX, FEX and the Xpack. No other addons. Does FSUIPC do anything with this .dll?

Does anyone have any idea what else could cause this crash?

Thanks,

Glenn

[Pete Dowson]

I am trying to track down a slightly annoying bug in FSX which seems to happen quite often when exiting the sim or trying to access the 'controls' menu while in flight.

The error report always points to 'controls.dll' as the culprit.

Maybe one of the files defining the control assignments is corrupt?

I have an unregistered version of FSUIPC 4.20 installed, UTX, GEX, FEX and the Xpack. No other addons. Does FSUIPC do anything with this .dll?

Only insofar as it reads the list of controls from a table embedded in that DLL, so that it can list those assignable in the Button and Keys assignments drop-down. That's done only once, at the initialisation of FSX, and cannot cause a crash. If the table is incorrect or inaccessible the only symptom you get is no FS controls assignable (in a registered version), and a warning message in the FSUIPC4.LOG.

I did recently post a version 4.206 in a different thread which also accesses CONTROLS.DLL in order to operate the controls timer, to allow control acceleration to be suppressed on panels which send too many. But there's no other access except for the table read in 4.20.

A corrupt assignments table seems to be the most likely. On WindowsXP, find the file(s) in C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\FSX - the same folder as your FSX.CFG file. Delete the files in the Controls subfolder and let FSX build them again.

Regards

Pete

[gjharrall]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the advice.

I'll give that a go and let you know how it works out. I didn't think it was FSUIPC related, but I did think you might be the guy to ask!!!

Thanks again.

PS - I'm from Stafford originally - are you a city supporter??? (please not Vale or Wolves!)

Glenn

[Pete Dowson]

PS - I'm from Stafford originally - are you a city supporter??? (please not Vale or Wolves!)

Well, Port Vale is the nearest club, but I'm not a supporter of any specific club, except England maybe (oh dear!). I enjoy watching any good game without taking sides;-)

Regards

Pete