Hey guys!Extremely happy with FS2Crew, I recently decided on getting the Voice edition for PMDG 747 as well. Installed fine and I performed the necessary 'clicks' in the configuration manager to make sure the aircraft.cfg is replaced and the keyboard assignments are keyed in as well. However, clicking on the 'compass' in 2D view, FS2Crew (presuming) stops responding, gives me a black screen and finally Flight Simulator 2004 crashes to the desktop. A little digging around revealed that FS2Crew config manager did not input any entries into the aircrafts cfg file and not knowing what those entries are exactly, I did not mess around and let Windows uninstall the software till I find a solution. The button edition worked perfectly with 747 but voice edition seems to be taking up a few more resources, all for nothing, apparently. Any idea what I'm doing wrong ? BIG thank you for your effortsCheers,Karan

Hey guys!Extremely happy with FS2Crew, I recently decided on getting the Voice edition for PMDG 747 as well. Installed fine and I performed the necessary 'clicks' in the configuration manager to make sure the aircraft.cfg is replaced and the keyboard assignments are keyed in as well. However, clicking on the 'compass' in 2D view, FS2Crew (presuming) stops responding, gives me a black screen and finally Flight Simulator 2004 crashes to the desktop. A little digging around revealed that FS2Crew config manager did not input any entries into the aircrafts cfg file and not knowing what those entries are exactly, I did not mess around and let Windows uninstall the software till I find a solution. The button edition worked perfectly with 747 but voice edition seems to be taking up a few more resources, all for nothing, apparently. Any idea what I'm doing wrong ? BIG thank you for your effortsCheers,Karan

Hi Karen,You mean no entries were added to the "Panel.CFG"Is your Speech Recognizer set to English - US if using Vista/Win 7. If using XP, did you install SAPI?Try re-installing... make sure you do not cick "cancel"... could be just a bad install.Best,

Hi Bryan,My bad mate, I was checking the 'aircraft.cfg' file for any additional entries. Kinda feel stupid now. Hehe. Anyways, yes the correct entries have been made to the 'panel.cfg' of the 747 and I have just re-installed FS2Crew all the way till the dialog that says it has successfully installed. The speech recognition settings are set to the U.S one (specifically Microsoft Speech Recognizer 8.0 for Windows English - US) and 'Run speech recognition at start up' is UNCHECKED and once again on clicking the compass, the complete screen turns black and after a few seconds 'fs9 crash'! I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate x64I'm down to almost taking off the last bit of hair on my head ! Haha. The panel entries seem to be okay as I am able to click on the compass but as soon as I do, 'kaboom!'I have done everything the manual has asked me to manually set but to no avail so far. Guess this has got you thinking too ;)Cheers,Karan

Hi Bryan,My bad mate, I was checking the 'aircraft.cfg' file for any additional entries. Kinda feel stupid now. Hehe. Anyways, yes the correct entries have been made to the 'panel.cfg' of the 747 and I have just re-installed FS2Crew all the way till the dialog that says it has successfully installed. The speech recognition settings are set to the U.S one (specifically Microsoft Speech Recognizer 8.0 for Windows English - US) and 'Run speech recognition at start up' is UNCHECKED and once again on clicking the compass, the complete screen turns black and after a few seconds 'fs9 crash'! I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate x64I'm down to almost taking off the last bit of hair on my head ! Haha. The panel entries seem to be okay as I am able to click on the compass but as soon as I do, 'kaboom!'I have done everything the manual has asked me to manually set but to no avail so far. Guess this has got you thinking too ;)Cheers,Karan

Hi Karan,Do you know how to use "Event Viewer" in Win 7?You can get more info on the crash.Also, be sure to run in "Windowed mode" as a test. If there's a problem with the audio engine, you should get a message box (but it's only visible in Windowed Mode).Generally, reports of CTDs are very few and far between... I'm scratching my head too.You've done a re-install?Best,

Hey Bryan,Yes I have done a re-install and I always run Flight Simulator in windowed mode. As for event viewer, this is what I could gain out of it :Faulting application name: fs9.exe, version: 9.1.0.40901, time stamp: 0x4135a208Faulting module name: FS2AUDIO.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4bb01ad3Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x0004e130Faulting process id: 0xc50Faulting application start time: 0x01cbfb5ccebc2bc5Faulting application path: D:\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\fs9.exeFaulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\FS2AUDIO.dllReport Id: abe31599-6750-11e0-8f22-6cf049513aa5Looks like it is the audio engine causing problems.Let me know if you need anything else.Cheers,Karan

Hey Bryan,Yes I have done a re-install and I always run Flight Simulator in windowed mode. As for event viewer, this is what I could gain out of it :Faulting application name: fs9.exe, version: 9.1.0.40901, time stamp: 0x4135a208Faulting module name: FS2AUDIO.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4bb01ad3Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x0004e130Faulting process id: 0xc50Faulting application start time: 0x01cbfb5ccebc2bc5Faulting application path: D:\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\fs9.exeFaulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\FS2AUDIO.dllReport Id: abe31599-6750-11e0-8f22-6cf049513aa5Looks like it is the audio engine causing problems.Let me know if you need anything else.Cheers,Karan

Hi Karan,Did you install any available FS2Crew updates? You have the 737 or 747 version? Only other possibility is you've got something on your system that the Audio engine doesn't like.You running any software that attempts to strip DRM rights from music? Those can cause problems.Use a program like End it All and shut down all non essentially tasks running in the background.Cheers,

FS2Crew is up to date according to the configuration manager. I currently have the PMDG 747 Voice Commander Edition.Strange that the 'button edition' worked beautifully but this is causing problems. Nothing to my knowledge is trying to strip DRM rights from music. With the 'button edition' everything was running perfectly without the need to use any 3rd party softwares to end un-necessary programs mostly because there aren't any useless softwares or applications running in the background.Guess I'll just have to make the most of FS2Crew with the 'button edition' until a sure shot solution comes up. Thanks for all your help Bryan :)Cheers,Karan

Hi Karan,We have 1000's of people using the FSAudio.DLL with no issue.Again, try using End-it-All and shut down all non essential processes.Something is conflicting with it.Cheers,

Hi Bryan,Like you suggested, I did try 'End-It-All' and shut down anything that looked even remotely connected with the issue but I still get the black screen and an eventual crash of the flight simulator. However, on searching for FS2Audio errors, I was redirected back to this website where someone else was experiencing errors with the file but with a different software. Going to try and update my DirectX9 and see if that is what is causing problems. Should get back to you soon. Cheers,KaranAnd that did not work either. Same old non responsive and then CTD

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Hi Bryan,Like you suggested, I did try 'End-It-All' and shut down anything that looked even remotely connected with the issue but I still get the black screen and an eventual crash of the flight simulator. However, on searching for FS2Audio errors, I was redirected back to this website where someone else was experiencing errors with the file but with a different software. Going to try and update my DirectX9 and see if that is what is causing problems. Should get back to you soon. Cheers,KaranAnd that did not work either. Same old non responsive and then CTD

Did you install SP1?http://www.fs2crew.com/cart/pages/FS2Crew%3A-737-Voice-Commander-Updates.htmlDisregard above, you said you have the 747 version, not the 737 version.When you installed, did you click "Cancel" or did you wait for the installer to finish all the way?

I wait for it to completely install.

I wait for it to completely install.

Hi,Please contact me via the Contact page on the FS2Crew website.Cheers,

Hey Bryan,Looks like all this head scratching wasn't needed after all. Turns out that Flight Simulator [sigh!] itself has been putting up with a faulty audio.dll file that was making in-game sounds go through some trouble as well. Looks like I'll have to give it a fresh install and that should fix the problems I'm having with FS2Crew as well :)Will get back to you soon Cheers,Karan

Hey Bryan,Looks like all this head scratching wasn't needed after all. Turns out that Flight Simulator [sigh!] itself has been putting up with a faulty audio.dll file that was making in-game sounds go through some trouble as well. Looks like I'll have to give it a fresh install and that should fix the problems I'm having with FS2Crew as well :)Will get back to you soon Cheers,Karan

Cool, I hope that solves it.Cheers,

Hey Bryan,It's finally working! :) Flight Simulator hadn't been working properly and was causing compatibility problems for FS2Crew. A fresh install of flight simulator and all my addons took ages but at least I got FS2Crew to work. Thank you so much for all your help mate.Cheers,Karan