Multiple cases of FSUIPC error message

[johnty]

Hi Peter,

Had an "out of memory problem" whilst flying on-line to-day.

On restart of FS9, I had an error windo, but as far asw with the above statement .

But as far as I can see, this is not so, see attachment, I did remove one .dll shown as .OLDdll

but to no avail I still get the error message on starting FS9.

[johnty]

Hi Peter,

Problem resolved, ran a registry cleaner and FS9 started up as normal.

Still got the memory problem, but at least I can now try a few things.

Regards JohnT

[Pete Dowson]

Hi Peter,

Had an "out of memory problem" whilst flying on-line to-day.

On restart of FS9, I had an error windo, but as far asw with the above statement .

But as far as I can see, this is not so, see attachment

The multiple cases of FSUIPC error can arise from having a hung (or not-quite-terminated) copy of FS still loaded in memory. The duplicate check finds the other one, which must have been still active. You cannot have two copies of FSUIPC running at the same time as applications will not know which to attach to.

After any crash or hang, just because the FS window disappears don't assume that FS is not still running, albeit in a completely disabled state. Best thing to do is use CTRL_ALT_DEL to bring up the Task Manager, select Processes, find the FS9.EXE process and forcibly delete it.

From your second message:

Problem resolved, ran a registry cleaner and FS9 started up as normal.

I doubt if the registry cleaner did it as FSUIPC doesn't use the registry. More likely that some time after the problem first occurred the stalled FS9.EXE process did terminate. Sometimes it does take a while -- if you are using WideFS, for instance, the process isn't actually killed until WideServer has told all its clients. Other add-ons also often do tidy ups which take time.

On your main problem, in FS9 I think most out-of-memory errors occur because of Landclass scenery files placed incorrectly. You may have to go through a process of elimination to find the layer responsible. However there is, or used to be, a program which could check this for you. Sorry I don't recall the name. Best to ask on the FS2004 forum.

Regards

Pete

[johnty]

Hi Peter,

Just coincidence that the reg cleaner appeared to solve it then?, blast more money wasted!!

Thanks for the prompt reply,been chasing this OOM problem for awhile now, sods law it always comes into play

when I am online and just landed or about to land. Not I might add at the same location. Will do a search on the 2004 forum manyanah, need some sleep now.

Regards JohnT

[Pete Dowson]

Just coincidence that the reg cleaner appeared to solve it then?, blast more money wasted!!

Don't know. More likely that whatever was stopping it terminating relinquished.

Regards

Pete