I solved my CTD's when I adjust my Dim Voltage with Corsair memory. My motherboard had it running at 2.5v when the techs at Corsair recomend 2.8 for there memory. The MB default was too low. Overclocking a CPU is another reason for CTD's. How many of you who have CTD's are overclocking. When you start adding addons and aircraft like the PMDG, Level-D, Scenery, they will bring out the weakness in CPU's and Memory.

hello everyone ive just started to get crashes about a month ago and never had this prob before and what i have come up with is Microsoft Updates there is an update that is causing my probs how do i know this to be true cus i have reformated my fricking computer 4 times in the past 3 daysi have tried to figure out which one or how many of the updates are causing this prob now also let me say that i had all updates and sp2 installed on my puterand i also had automatic updates on and somtime in febuary or the beginning of april is when all #### broke loose the type of crash i get is fs9 just stops and ceazes and the only thing i can do is to press the reset button on my computer i can not doing any thing elseso what to do im tired now so im gonna take a break from this confusing prob and wait till i move in juse to my new place and try to do a systamatic aproach to this prob and i truly believe its the updates one at a time i for got to say why i think it is the updates cus in one of my reformats i only put some updates and sp1 and fs9 worked fine so if anyone has already found the update,updates please let me know and all others thanks in advance fabforce1

Bruce, You are partially right and partially wrong. When you say "I had a CTD at EHAM, but only at certain times of the day and night. At all other times the sim worked fine........... So it couldn't be hardware and it had to be something associated with EHAM". More than likely if you only have a crash in one location then yes it is probably something to do with that scenery but it could still be a hardware issue that is causing the problem. For example the video card, due to a bad driver, could have a problem displaying a certain texture, or a certain texture under certain lighting conditions, or a combination of certain textures at the same time. Maybe there is a certain sound associated with an airport or an aircraft at an airport that will cause the sound cards drivers to choke, there are many possiblities here. My rule is that first I check for duplicate AFCADS, second I check the forums for others that have had similar problems in the same area, next I check the AFCADS to make sure they are without errors. At this point I do not follow a "list", these are some of the things that I try, download a "fresh" copy of the scenery, uninstall the old and re-install the new making sure that everything installs as it should, try a different AFCAD file if one can be found, change or re-install drivers on my video card, change or re-install drivers on my sound card, rebuild the FS9.cfg, verify that there are no landclass files in a directory with a texture folder. There are many things to try and check but to this date I have not found one problem that I have not been able to solve, sometimes it takes a little while, I have the patience though. I guess that what I am trying to say is that you should never discount anything where FS9 is concerned. Multiple times the solution to a problem for me has been the one that I had thought was the least likely. Maybe we as a community should come up with a check list, one that we all can follow when we have a problem. Come to think of it if we did do that and then report back our findings about what worked and what did not it would shed some light on many of the issues that we face. Since we would all follow the same steps it would reveal much data on the best ways to handle problems in FS9. What do you all think??????Best Regards,Philip Olsonhttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/supporter.jpg