Buffer overflow with FS2Crew + FSCaptain

[Hirschi]

Hello,

I'm experiencing a really strange problem with my PDMG 747 and the above mentioned addons. I was before asking for help in the FSCaptain forums but it seems, that either fs2crew's handling of the panel.cfg or some unknown Microsoft limitations are the reason for my errors.

What is the Problem? Well, when I try to load the 744 into fsx (either freeflight or at the gates from a former loaded Cessna) with both addons, fsx crashes with a BEX (buffer overflow) error.

More detailed:

- pmdg747 + fs2crew ... works perfectly

- pmdg747 + FSCaptain FCOM ... works perfectly

- when I install fs2crew after the FCOM was installed, it overwrites all! entries regarding FCOM in the /panel.vc/panel.cfg

- when I or the FCOM installer alters the panel.cfg after fs2crew has made his entries ... BEX error

 

fs2crew is altering the panel.cfg that, in summary, 50 windows are defined. So FCOM would be No. 51 which is still well below the limit of 63 "window" entries mentioned by the MS developers. But for some reason, it doesn't work. It doesn't matter if I set Window51 + the rest of definitions manually or bei FCOM installer, BEX error. My next thought was: "Maybe 51 window entries is too much despite the limitations, try to replace a not by myself used PMDG window (in that case it was the Chronograph) with the FCOM"... no success. As soon as someone alters the panel.cfg made by fs2crew install routine... crash.

 

- pmdg ver 2.1

- fs2crew ver 1.1

- fscaptain ver 1.31

all the most recent ones

 

I even disabled the DEP in windows7 as mentioned in the troubleshooting, among the arising of several other problems it didn't help for my initial problem

 

So, i really don't know where to continue to fix that by myself, I ask for a little help.

 

Regards

Sven Hirschmann

[byork]

Hi Sven,

 

I've never used FS Captain or even heard of it so it's hard to comment.

 

Please do this:

 

1. Install the 747 plus FS2Crew, so you have the FS2Crew 744 panel cfg version only.

 

2. "Manually" by hand editing add the FS Capt panel.cfg entries to the panel.cfg file. Ensure all numbers line up in sequence.

 

A lot of program that attempt to add panel.cfg entries muck up the panel cfg file, so it might be best to try it manually.

 

Cheers,

[Theo1981]

Hello Sven,

 

I know that this topic is very old. But i´m facing the same problems right now. Was there any solution for that problem?

 

Cheers

[byork]

Did you try what I posted right above your post?

[Theo1981]

Dear byork,

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

I tried installing it this way. Then i uninstalled PMDG 747 and FS2Crew Button. After reinstalling both i don´t even get FS2Crew to run, although i also deleted both folders with the panel.cfg manually.

 

When i have a look in the panel.cfg, FSC is not installed anymore.

 

Thanks for your help.

[byork]

 

 

When i have a look in the panel.cfg, FSC is not installed anymore.

 

Be sure to run everything as an Admin to avoid write permission issues.

 

Double check the manual.

 

Run the old Start Center and press the button to add FS2Crew to the panel.cfg for the PMDG 777.

[StefWyn]

Hi there Bryan

I am also having this problem with fscaptain.  It was not always like this, two updates back it all worked fine.

I even uninstalled the newest version of fscaptain and went back to the old version to test, only to find that it works.

SO, saying that, I did all of the above and still a major crash as I load the plane, and that is without fscaptain's window in the panel.

Any Idea?

[byork]

 

 

I am also having this problem with fscaptain.  It was not always like this, two updates back it all worked fine.
I even uninstalled the newest version of fscaptain and went back to the old version to test, only to find that it works.
SO, saying that, I did all of the above and still a major crash as I load the plane, and that is without fscaptain's window in the panel.

 

Can you uninstall FSCaptain off your system.  Maybe it's still loading.