FSX gold wants to CTDT if i click on anything, or choose a non default plane, or try to add weather or change views or look at the map, etc.  my specs are i-5, 16G ram, 120G ssd, 1TB storage drive, amd radeon 7950 3GB.  i have tried adding the dll, i have tried removing it. no effect. what else can i do?

 

i have considered getting another ssd and put window 7 on it but would rather make windows 8.1 work if possible.   anyone? please?

 

 

what else can i do?
i have considered getting another ssd and put window 7 on it but would rather make windows 8.1 work if possible. anyone? please?

 

You need to check out the pinned topic for the AVSIM CTD Guide at the top of this forum.  We need to see crash reports.  So, in the CTD Guide, download and run AppCrashView and paste the latest crash report here.

 

If you are not able to choose a non-default aircraft, add weather or change views or look at the map, most likely this is caused by not have all of the Microsoft Visuals and Microsoft.net framework programs installed.  The CTD Guide gives you information on verifying you have these files installed.  Another possible cause is file sharing.  You might want to download and install a neat program called TakeOwnership.  Once installed, go to the main FSX directory, right click it then select Take Ownership as one of the options.  The CMD window will open up and give you complete ownership.  Do NOT close the CMD window until it is finished (it will have lengthy pauses several times).  It will close on its own once everything has been completed.  Make sure to take ownership of any FSX addon directory's on other HDD such as one that might contain your weather program.  Scenery like FSDT or MegaScenery can be left alone.

 

The uiautomationcore.dll in the main fsx directory has been known to cause crashes for 8.1 users.  When they removed the module, crashes stopped.  Some others have it installed n their main fsx folder and have no problems.

 

I would not recommend a dual-boot system with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 installed.  If you install Windows 7 on a separate partition here's a guide - http://www.computershopper.com/feature/guide-how-to-dual-boot-windows-8-and-windows-7.  You can only boot to one OS at a time though.

 

Best regards,

i will do these things and see what happens. thanks for giving me a direction!