737NGX crashes when switching on dome light

[Driver170 42]

After a 4 hour flight i switched on the dome light and it crashed straight to the desktop with no Prepar3D has stopped working. No report in the event viewer or the appcrash!

 

Not sure why this has happened? Bad install of the 737 NGX ?

[downscc 1,327]

No, not a bad install. I've seen this as well and it's also happened randomly when refreshing scenery textures. I think it is a P3D issue, somehow loading textures causes this to happen maybe once every 20 times I use the dome light switch. Now I've become spooked by this and do a save before using that control. Happens 777 or NGX as well.

[Driver170 42]

Hi dan. Well i'm glad its not my system or only me. I've also posted it on P3D forum.

[Driver170 42]

Dan just got another crash using the dome light after a 4 hour flight. is this a PMDG bug because L/M isn't claiming responsibility

[scandinavian13 5,192]

Dan just got another crash using the dome light after a 4 hour flight. is this a PMDG bug because L/M isn't claiming responsibility

 

What is in the crash report?

 

I haven't heard of this until now. Since we'd had the NGX in P3D since v2.5 and haven't heard about it until now (v3.1), I'd imagine it came up due to updates in v3.1. That's just my initial thought, however.

[Driver170 42]

I'm not sure kyle either never had this problem with V3

 

Nothing is logged in appcrash or event viewer.

[scandinavian13 5,192]

 

 

Nothing is logged in appcrash or event viewer.

 

Frustrating, but without that, it's nearly impossible to find out where the situation lies. One might think that it's easy: you click a PMDG button and the sim crashes. The issue though, could also be that our simulation is calling something that was damaged in the update. If what we're calling the sim to display got messed up in the 3 > 3.1 update, then it would definitely also cause a problem, and one that we can't fix. They'd have to.

[Driver170 42]

Not got a clue why its not getting logged!

 

Is anyone else having this problem with V3.1 kyle?

[scandinavian13 5,192]

 

 

Is anyone else having this problem with V3.1 kyle?

 

Yours is the first I've seen. I routinely use the dome light when prepping flights in 3.1 without issue.

[Driver170 42]

After 4 hours or so?

[scandinavian13 5,192]

After 4 hours or so?

 

Yep. I use it for post-flight stuff, too.

[Driver170 42]

Should i do a clean install kyle

[scandinavian13 5,192]

Should i do a clean install kyle

 

I don't see how it could help. If it's happening only a certain amount of time, it sounds a lot more like it's a sim issue...very much like that MSVCR issue.

[Driver170 42]

hoping more V3.1 users report back if they have this issue then

[Driver170 42]

Done another test flight 5 hours now and no crash. strange