Howdy, I posted this in the CTD forum but I have thoughts that the problem may be video card related so I'm posting it here - I hope it's ok to post here as well -

 

 

 

I'm having some weird problems with my 2 year old system since I installed the BN-2 Islander and Quest Kodiak payware aircraft.

 

What happens with the Islander is that sometimes when I change views (outside to VC or back again or other view changes), or from map view back to VC, or even when I change the date/time or location - my display becomes corrupted in a variety of ways. One way is that it looks as if the computer didn't fully redraw the display and I have to restart FSX. Sometimes with the Islander, I'd find that the VC is missing after a view change and I'm looking out at the correct scene without a VC but only with one or 2 small instruments floating in front (must restart FSX).

 

The problem with the Kodiak is that I'd be flying along and all of a sudden the computer freezes..... Hasn't happened often but enough to tell me something is wrong.

 

Those are the only aircraft I have those problems with.... All other freeware and payware aircraft don't cause any problems at all. (Carnado 185 and 172, A2A cub, Ants Sierra and Ultralight etc)

 

I fly only in ORBX North America and Australia scenery along with Tongass Fjords and Return to Misty Moorings additions. FPS is set at 20 and is smooth -

 

My computer has been excellent up to the time I started flying the Islander and Kodiak which I recently purchased.

 

I wonder if my video card could be causing the problems - since it's an oem card I don't know anything about it's specs aside from the fact that it's a GTX 460. I do know that it only has one connector to the power supply instead of 2 in branded cards. I wanted to replace the card with a more powerful branded card when I got the computer but found my power supply didn't have another connector for the card.

 

System specs as follows: I7 950 unclocked - GTX 460 oem - 1t hd - 9 gig ram - 1 monitor - Win7 64 bit

 

 

Thanks in advance for whatever help you can give me. Howard

I cannot believe that this is video card related, especially since other aircraft are OK.

 

BTW, I've got a GTX 460 and am happy with it for FSX..

 

Do you have the Highmem fix applied in the fsx.cfg file? Could possibly help the Islander issue.

 

Do you get any Windows Event Log error messages? Have a look.

Thanks Bert - I'll try the Highmem fix and will check Event log - will get back when I get more info - appreciate your help. Howard

Hi Bert - I installed the Highmemfix and it seems to have elliminated the problems I was having with the Islander. I've done a bunch of flights with it and purposely did a lot of view changes, location changes etc. with no problems at all.

 

The Kodiak is another issue. Now it seems to hang up sometimes when I'm loading a flight with the Kodiak or when I change from another airplane to the Kodiak.

 

 

 

Here's what happened:

 

1. Changed aircraft from default C208 to Kodiak got error -

2. got same error when trying to change from a location to another also with the Kodiak

3. Got same error when changing from another aircraft to the Kodiak

 

below info from Event Log

 

event 1000 Application Error

 

Faulting application name: fsx.exe, version: 10.0.61637.0, time stamp: 0x46fadb14

Faulting module name: facilities.dll, version: 10.0.61637.0, time stamp: 0x46fadb57

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x000169a2

Faulting process id: 0xba8

Faulting application start time: 0x01cde15df7af9bf6

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

Faulting module path: C:\My FSX\facilities.dll

Report Id: 519d4bc3-4d53-11e2-9172-7071bcc94d0b

 

 

 

EVENT DATA

 

fsx.exe

10.0.61637.0

46fadb14

facilities.dll

10.0.61637.0

46fadb57

c0000005

000169a2

ba8

01cde15df7af9bf6

C:\My FSX\fsx.exe

C:\My FSX\facilities.dll

519d4bc3-4d53-11e2-9172-7071bcc94d0b

 

 

Thanks Bert for your help. I'm happy that the Islander seems to be in good shape at this time.

 

Howard

Well, that is real progress!

 

As far as switching airplanes and locations... that can be tricky with add-on airplanes

and you may just have to be careful about making those kind of changes.

 

Best to start up in the Kodiak and leave it at that..

I'll give that a try and see how well it works. Thanks again your idea did the trick........ Howard