Every flight I still get msvcrt.dll errors.

 

The dll belongs to the Microsoft Visual C++ program. It's either the wrong version on your system or corrupted. MSV's are not backward compatible. I recently read over in the flightsim forum where an individual decided to remove his MSV's and started getting the crashes so he's in the long process of reinstalling all of them.

 

Best regards,

Jim

After a complete reformat on computer, the error is still showing up. I wonder why this is givening me so much problem. Does it have anything to do with FSX Deluxe version or Windows 7?

Do you have FS Inn installed? FS Co-Pilot? The fact it is still crashing with the same error after reformatting your system and reinstalling Windows 7 and FSX indicates to me an incompatibility between FSX communicating with VATSIM. I doubt the PMDG MD11 is at fault. It requires FSX w/at least SP1 installed. I read where someone was having a similar issue but had the program VRoute installed and his flights on VATSIM were always crashing with the MSVCRT.dll error. Turned out he had not enabled the Windows Media Player. Something simple. That's what we are looking for here. Something simple.

 

Make sure you have all of the MSV's installed as shown in my post #12. I say this again as the MSVCRT.dll version you showed in the error report in the OP is an earlier version than the one on my system. My msvcrt.dll in the SysWOW64 folder is 7.0.7601.21878. Yours ended with 17744.

 

You might check out the following link and look at the Microsoft resolution they gave to fix a msvcrt.dll error - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190536. There's another link there to the Microsoft Libraries update.

 

Let's hope this fixes your problem. Let me know soonest if you have FS Inn and/or FS Co-Pilot installed though.

 

Best regards,

Jim

No FSinn or copilot installed. No addons at all. Just bare minimums and still get crash.

It's hard to believe you are still having this problem. I feel for ya! You are constantly getting the Memory_Access_Violation so I suspect a problem with your computer's memory. You do have SP1 and SP2 installed?

 

Best regards,

Jim

Yessir, SP1 and 2 are installed for FSX.

Does anyone know of a service that could help me with my PC remotely?

Hi, Citation Guy: don't give up yet!!

 

Coupla things - would you please post your overclock BIOS settings for the P8P67 here?

 

Secondly - in post #17, you said - "After a complete reformat on computer, the error is still showing up". Sporadic crashes - especially after you've rebuilt the entire operating system point to a hardware issue, and this, to me sounds like your pc's memory is acting up. To verify this, go here and buy ($14) (sorry!) the Deluxe version of MemTest. It must be carried out before the OS starts, so you will create a bootable CD which will intercept the OS boot process, and will launch Memtest. It will then tell you precisely if you have any memory issues.

 

This is a snippet from the site:

"The Deluxe CD package ($14) includes the Windows native Pro version. It adds a 32-bit and 64-bit version of MemTest that runs directly from a bootable CD. This version can be run on any PC and does not require any sort of installation. Use it to check the RAM quality of any PC, whether it has Linux, Windows, or no OS at all. Plus, since it does not load an OS, it can directly access and test all of your RAM. This is a great disk for any computer technician to carry around. It also uses the rate that memory is checked as a basic speed benchmark. This can be useful if you are trying different BIOS settings. Not only will MemTest tell you if you RAM is still stable, but it will also indicate if the tweaks you have made improve RAM performance. "

 

Let's do this as a first step before looking at FSX. OK? :good:

Thank you for the post Paul. My overclock is default. The memtest completed with no errors. Great news but on to the next idea :(

 

 

I have read a lot on the Internet about your crashes and I have not seen anyone fix the problems unless completely reformatting your HDD and reinstalling Windows. You need to go back to basic FSX with no addons and slowly reinstall everything. I am also getting random crashes while running FSX and so far I'm finding the fixes but the one last night where the sim just froze with the sound and picture still running indicates something major is happening so think it's time to clean up the system and do some major reinstalling! Good luck!

 

Best regards,

Jim

There is one more thing you can try before reformatting and reinstalling everything. Remove all your Startup Programs. They are not needed to run Windows or any application. Not sure of your expertise but the process is simple through the Run Command. Click on the Start button and click on Run. If Run is not there in the menu, click on All Programs>Accessories>Run. Once the Run command is open, type msconfig and click on OK. Click on the Startup tab and uncheck everything then restart your computer. If you contact Dell or any other PC maker for support, this is one of the first things they have the person do and most of the time it works. It could be activating a schedule of some sort that decides to do its thing while you are flying with FSX and this causes a conflict of some sort. It's one more easy attempt to fix.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Jim, I shutdown all start-up programs and fired up the sim. Flew to an airport (30 min flight), everything was perfect! Then, departed for a longer flight to see if it really worked, but as soon as I departed, it crashed! :( I just don't know what in the world would cause it to crash at different times. It is never the same, sometimes it lets me fly for 5 mintues, other times an hour. Guess I will have to wipe everything out again and start over. Before I do that, I need to figure out exactly which C++'s I need to install after the clean Windows 7 reinstall, to include links, it seems there are very many to choose from within the 2005,2008, and 2010. Hopefully I can get this thing squared away sooner or later or I may try to sell this computer. Thank you everyone for trying to help.

 

Hunter

Hi Hunter,

 

I found my issue of my flight freezing at exactly the same spot in-between Los Angeles and San Francisco. I'm pretty positive it is a background ATC program I was running. It is probably one bad sound file that caused the crash. Anyway, I flew the whole way this time w/o incident. It's just little things like that that could be causing your issues. In your case one of the Microsoft Visuals files caused the crash. This is mostly from one of your addons not being installed properly or that addon is calling for a file or texture and cannot find it. So you need to do like I did and look at everything that is running when you fly. The aircraft, the weather, the scenery.

 

Here's how the MS Visuals are installed: When you install FSX, the 2005 MSV is installed. When you install Acceleration, it will install as it found the 2005 MSV alreadly installed. However, Acceleration was released before a fix to the 2005 MSV was made so you also need to install 2005 SP1 (that has to be done manually; Microsoft might download and install it in an update but it didn't for me). Any addon after Acceleration will either install with the 2005 MSV installed or, if they used the 2008 MSV during the development of their product, they will install the 2008 version. And so forth. I think most products, except for the latest products used MSV 2005 so that one is the most important one. It appears from your previous posts that you have them properly installed but they could have somehow got corrupted especially in the system registry. An addon will look in the system registry to find out where fsx is installed so they can properly install their product. If it is messed up in any way, then your product will not install properly. I think what your MSV error report is telling us is that something is not installed properly. It could also be a simconnect issue too.

 

Overheating and overclocking can cause errors like this too because the system could get so hot, it has problems running the product properly. Same with overclocking (apologize, I can't see the previous page to see if you are overclocked). Computers try to process the code the best they can but if something is not properly configured, it will cause a crash.

 

I wish there was a magic bullet like the fix for the g3d.dll crashes but there is not. I would leave those startup programs disabled and watch it occasionally as programs try to enable them.

 

If you haven't, you need to run a system cleaner and registry cleaner. The one I use is Advanced SystemCare - http://www.iobit.com/. It does a great job cleaning the registry and even has an option to defrag the registry for better performance. It will also optimize your system and repair your system configuration. It gets rid of invalid shortcuts and deletes the stuff in temporary and Internet temporary files. I use mine at least once a week. The one file they do not touch (and should) is the temporary file located in C:\User\(your name)\AppData\Local\Temp. That files gets crammed full of stuff and every thing under the Temp folder can be deleted. Whenever you install a new program or delete one, this is the temp directory used to temporarily store information until the install or uninstall is complete. A good system cleanup may be just the thing needed. You can also use the FlightOne Registry Repair Tool - http://www.flight1.com/view.asp?page=library to make sure the FSX entries (not your addons) are properly installed.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Here is a log of the several hours I have spent last night/today.

 

Reformat harddrive and reinstalled windows 7

Installed drivers along with newest NVIDIA driver

Installed FSX to C:/FSX

installed Direct X

Installed 2005 C++ SP1 (replaced original 2005 C++ listed in add/remove programs)

Installed Nvidia inspector

SP1 and SP2 with start at default flight and restart computer for each

Installed UIAutomationcore.dll into FSX directory

Flew test flight with NO addons for 1.3 hours with a success!

Installed 737 NGX and flew 45 minutes with success!

Started flight this morning and within 5 minutes got the crash! Exact same crash that I have been getting.

I am completely clueless! This is getting out of hand.

 

Faulting application name: fsx.exe, version: 10.0.61472.0, time stamp: 0x475e17d3

Faulting module name: msvcrt.dll, version: 7.0.7601.17744, time stamp: 0x4eeaf722

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x00009b60

Faulting process id: 0xde4

Faulting application start time: 0x01cdafa473c11ac5

Faulting application path: C:\FSX\fsx.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\msvcrt.dll

Report Id: 5e9a9329-1b99-11e2-97c6-8c89a51936bf

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\msvcrt.dll

 

Found your problem! FSX is a 32 bit application running in a 64 bit environment. The 64 bit version of MS Visual C++ crashed! You need the 32 bit (x86) version of MS Visual C++2005 SP1. Download, install, and Go Fly!

 

Best regards,

Jim