February 24, 201610 yr Hi all, Never thought I would be a victim of CTD but recently (started around 2 weeks ago) I have been experiencing P3D hangs after ~4 hours into my flight. The hangs are triggered by mouse clicking, on the PFD, ND, or just looking around with middle wheel. The hangs usually take place when I am about to (or has entered into) descend into my destination. Not too sure whether the hangs are caused by the descend, or the fact that I am approaching the 4 hours mark. Up until 2 weeks ago everything works flawlessly – this is what baffles me the most. Given I have no restore point saved, I have tried formatting my entire hard driver where the P3D is installed, deleting all P3D folders in all the places (AppData/Local, Appdata/Roaming, ProgramData…etc), and performed a clean reinstall for all software. For the first two hangs when it started happen I had these apps running: P3D v3.1 Latest version PMDG 777 FS2Crew v1.7 Latest version ASN FSUIPC v4.949f GSX v1.9 After the formatting and a clean reinstall, the first two hangs I had the same apps running as above, and in the last two hangs I had these: P3D v3.1 FS2Crew v1.7 Latest version ASN FSUIPC v4.949f To be honest I don’t think it was those apps that caused the hangs. I am suspecting it is more like conflicts between P3D/PMDG/Windows Update - because this is as far as I can recall if anything has changed between the hang/no hang situation. I will update my system spec later, but I am running P3D on Win7 SP1. Has anyone experienced the same recently? Really want to practice my landings Chi-Yueh Chen
February 25, 201610 yr do you have an affinity mask set in the cfg file? I had to change mine to 14 (even though I have a larger processor) before the freezing stopped -David Lee
February 25, 201610 yr Here's a shot in the dark! About 6 months ago, my machine also started to hang for no apparent reason. Ran a ton of diagnostics, Followed a bunch of advice (lots of bum scoop out there) and ran numerous processes, all to no avail. After going nuts for a week or so, I noticed that the hangs seemed to occur in conjunction with mouse movement. Got a new mouse and the problems have gone away. Mice do fail, so you might try another one to see if the mouse is the problem. I bought a Logitech wireless mouse and my system has been rock solid ever since. Good luck, James M Driskell, Maj USMC (Ret)
February 25, 201610 yr Author do you have an affinity mask set in the cfg file? I had to change mine to 14 (even though I have a larger processor) before the freezing stopped -David Lee I do have the affinity mask set to 144 (or 244? I forgot...got the value using the windows calculator thingy). Will give this a shot. Here's a shot in the dark! About 6 months ago, my machine also started to hang for no apparent reason. Ran a ton of diagnostics, Followed a bunch of advice (lots of bum scoop out there) and ran numerous processes, all to no avail. After going nuts for a week or so, I noticed that the hangs seemed to occur in conjunction with mouse movement. Got a new mouse and the problems have gone away. Mice do fail, so you might try another one to see if the mouse is the problem. I bought a Logitech wireless mouse and my system has been rock solid ever since. Good luck, This indeed is interesting and surprising...I will give it a try. Hoorah :Big Grin: Chi-Yueh Chen
February 27, 201610 yr Author Just an update on this issue - The hang seems to go away after I uninstall the windows update KB26780838. Will keep observing but for now I can finish a 3+hrs flight without any hang/crash/CTD. Chi-Yueh Chen
February 27, 201610 yr The hang seems to go away after I uninstall the windows update KB26780838.Can you verify the KB number? I don't find anything about it, and I think there is an extra digit in it.
February 29, 201610 yr Author Can you verify the KB number? I don't find anything about it, and I think there is an extra digit in it. Sorry guys, was too excited to be finally able to land my bird. The KB number should be KB2670838, and i read it from here: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/573125/game-crashing-stackhash-bex-error/ Give it a try and let us know if it works for you. Good luck. Chi-Yueh Chen
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