Hi all,

 

I experienced an odd behaviour in the sim last night. I was on the return leg of a flight from Napier NZ to the Chatham Islands (NZNR-NZCI-NZNR), already in the descent. I went to plug in my headphones and the moment I did, the whole sim froze. I could still hear the cockpit and engine sounds, but I couldn't pan around the VC, or manipulate any controls. In the end I had to force close the application.

 

This is on Windows 7, btw.

 

I'll have a go at replicating this tonight but in the meantime has anyone else experienced this with the Q400?

 

Cheers

Mark

 

PS: Posting here because the MJC forums are not playing nice with my phone!

 

 

 

I'v had this issue with FSX on all sorts of aircraft including 737NGX's MD11's and so on.

 

I suspect it's more of a "FSX" than "Q400" problem.

 

My headphones are USB (they make their own sound device). I suspect that when Windows sees the new sound device, FSX panics and thinks it has to change your whole sound setup... freezing the program.

 

Sometimes it recovers after 'pausing' for a few seconds, sometimes it doesn't. Depends on how much memory is being used at the time I suspect. High quality (memory intensive) aircraft and/or scenery might make it hang and crash (white screen or CTD.) The fact that I'v seen this happen on other aircraft makes be think that Majestic won't be able to fix it, and the best work around is ... don't plug and unplug stuff in to your PC mid-flight.

 

Otherwise Majestic will have to modify things that Windows and Microsoft did. Which is probably illegal as well as difficult. They didn't make Windows or FSX afterall.

Thanks Trent,

 

To clarify my experience with this issue, I have not encountered this with any other aircraft, and my headphones are a 3.5mm jack type, as opposed to USB.

 

It may well have been entirely a coinicidence that FSX froze the second I put the headphones in, so I'll need to test further to see if there's any repeatability. If no-one else is seeing the issue it makes me think the headphones aspect is a bit of a 'red herring'.