FSX crash after install of 4.939t

[iangbusa]

Hi

 

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.

 

I installed 4.939t to replace 4.939f. After this, FSX started to crash after aircraft initial movement or when dropping down Add On menu.

 

I removed FSUPIC from dll.xml and the crash did not occur. I re-installed 4.939f and, again, the crash did not occur.

 

I'm running FSX-A on Windows 8.1.

 

Is there any other information you might need from me to pinpoint any error on my part or possible other issue?

 

Thanks

 

ian

[Pete Dowson]

I installed 4.939t to replace 4.939f. After this, FSX started to crash after aircraft initial movement or when dropping down Add On menu.

I removed FSUPIC from dll.xml and the crash did not occur. I re-installed 4.939f and, again, the crash did not occur.

 

I cannot help with old versions. Please first run the installer for version 4.939u and then replace the FSUIPC4.DLL in the Modules folder with 4.939v which you can find in the Download Links folder.

 

"Dropping down" the Add-On menu is not an FSUIPC function. Nothing happens in FSUIPC until you see and select the FSUIPC entry. If FS is crashing when only dropping the menu then it's definitely a problem with your FS installation, no matter whether it occurs or not with other versions of FSUIPC. All the change of versions does is change the memory arrangement, but it cannot affect FS's ability to drop a menu.

 

I'm running FSX-A on Windows 8.1.

 

What is "FSX-A"?

 

Is there any other information you might need from me to pinpoint any error on my part or possible other issue?

 

Of course, but only with the current version.

 

First off, what other entries would there be in a successful Add-Ons menu drop-down?

Second, what other programs are loaded by your DLL.XML and EXE.XML files?

Third, and always most important, you need to provide the actual crash data, that which is recorded on any crash in the Windows Event Viewer.

 

Pete

 

[iangbusa]

Installed the latest versions following your instructions. No more FSX crashes.

THANKS!

Just to make sure I hadn't done anything stupid before, I then tried "f" again and it worked. I tried "t" again and the crashes came back. I'm now running the newest release.

Leads me to believe something in "t" had conflicted with FSX-A running on Windows 8.1 but whatever you changed in the code afterwards removed the conflict.

By FSX-A I mean Acceleration.

By the way, the Add-on Menu crash did happen only with "t", for example when doing drop down to find FSUIPC or move to [sDK] Tools memu, but did not happen with any other version installed or no FSUIPC installed, from which I can only conclude that, no matter how far-fetched it may sound, the "t" install was something to do with the phenomenon. It may have been related to my FSX install (or other add-ons in combination with "t" alone). I cannot imagine how or why.

Thanks for the help and for your dedication to an indispensable piece of software for FSX users everywhere.

ian