Hello,

Lately I have been having CTD while I am flying. In many cases I have been cruising for more than an hour and suddenley CTD. Every time FS9 Error window provides with with two files that contains the data they are 1) FS9.cgf.txt and 2) Scenery.cfg. I have review both files but I do not have a clue how to find the problem within the files.

 

I would like to know who within the forum knows how to read/interpret the data within the files. I was able to attached only one of the files FS9.cgf.txt

 

Thnak you! :rolleyes:

Lately I have been having CTD while I am flying.

 

Is this always with the same aircraft, location, season and time of day? Do you have FS9 updated to FS9.1? Have you installed and moved scenery around in the scenery library priority settings as well as or combined with uninstalling scenery? If you have added scenery and 3rd part airport files (AFCADs) you may have a duplicate. If you have added, moved and / removed scenery the scenery.cfg text file may be in such poor order that it might cause problems. Search for "Mark Regal" here at AVSIM, he has a nice little utility that will straighten out the scenery.cfg file if needed. I looked through the FS9.cfg file and found nothing that looked fatal, just a few strange entries. You might want to make a backup of your FS9.cfg file or simply cut and paste it to a safe location ie desktop and then start FS9. That will cause FS9 to generate a new FS9.cfg file. Then you would need to copy from the back up any special key assignments etc to the new file or redo them through FS. In that manner you can quickly remove the two files mentioned (scenery.cfg and FS9.cfg) as the cause of your problem.

 

Mel

straighten out the scenery.cfg file if needed

 

By the way, may I ask a question regarding Scenery.cfg numbering - does it start with [Area.000] or [Area.001] after the [General] section?

 

Sorry to jabgba for inserting this in your thread, but it's a question which came when reading here...

Thank you!

By the way, may I ask a question regarding Scenery.cfg numbering - does it start with [Area.000] or [Area.001] after the [General] section?

 

Mine starts with:

 

[General]

Title=FS9 World Scenery

Description=FS9 Scenery Data

Clean_on_Exit=FALSE

 

then followed by;

 

[Area.001]

 

I never have any problems.

 

Regards,

Mel

 

P.S. I use FlightSim Manager to process and correct the scenery.cfg file whenever I add, move or remove scenery.

MeBull,

Thank you for your reply. I will give it a try to both sugestions.

 

GeyerH,

 

[General]

Title=FS9 World Scenery

Description=FS9 Scenery Data

Clean_on_Exit=TRUE

[Area.001]

Title=Default Terrain

Layer=1

Active=TRUE

Required=TRUE

Local=Scenery\World

Remote=

Texture_ID=1

No worries any help is greatly appriciated.

I really think that I have a computer issue. My computer is about 7 years old and it does not have the juice to handle all the things that are happening at one time specially when the weather is not good. Recently I installed ASE and the weather depiction is much better but it require more memory. I have purchase a new computer which I do not have yet. I will reseach Flight Sim Manager as well.

My current system is:

AMD Sempron 1808 MHz Clock Speed with

1024 Memory 64 bits

Video is Nvidia GeForce Ti 4200 AGP8X - 128 MB

Regards

jabgba, do you have virtual memory activated on your system?

Even with 4 GByte of physical memory (I know, XP uses only 3.2 of them...), my system occassionally runs out of memory without virtual memory. With 1 GByte of physical memory it should be necessary.

 

1.8 GHz CPU sounds few, too (I upgraded from 2.2 to 2.9 and later to 3.2, now I overclock to 3.8 and have a silk smooth FS2004) , but this shouldn't be the cause for CTD.

 

The first entries of your scenery.cfg should be o.k. The reason I asked was that I found an entry [Area.000] with some add-on scenery in the middle of my own scenery.cfg and I asked myself if this numbering is allowed. Had no problems so far with it but decided to clean up the file though.

 

Harald

Hi Harald,

I renumber the scenery file yesterday using Mark Regal utility. There were few corrections. I completed a flight from TJSJ -KMEM with no problems. I will try tonight with another aircraft.

 

In regarsd to "virtual memory activated" I do not know if I do. I will check tonight as well.

Hi,

 

credits go to Mel!

 

Good luck and always 3green!

In regarsd to "virtual memory activated" I do not know if I do. I will check tonight as well.

 

A.K.A Page file. If you are running Windows XP then the setting can be found by; click "start", right click "My Computer", click on "properties", on the System Properties window that opens; click "Advanced", the top item listed is 'Performance', click on "settings", another window labeled 'Performance options' will open, on that window click on "Advanced", at the bottom you will find 'Virtual memory', if you have a page file set it will show a value there.

 

Total Paging file size for all drives: xxxxx

 

If you wish / need to make changes then click on "change"

 

For your system I would recommend 'System managed size'

 

If you are using W7 as your OS I have no idea where or how to find this. I'm a Luddite and proud of it! I still own a slide rule!

 

credits go to Mel!

 

Thanks Harald, very kind of you. I never forget that the credit really goes to to those I have learned from and are still learning from.

 

Best regards,

Mel

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