FSX-MS FSX Crash without a warning

[MercenaryTiger 0]

Hello guys, Happy Christmas!!

So yesterday I was flying with the PMDG T7 and on approach when I heard a flashing sound like the windows error one's but looked the source of it but didnt find anywhere and that sound came in an interval of about 15 secs for 4-5 mins and boom FSX crashed without any trace of error. Just crashed as if I "End Processed" it through task manager. Without any error. Even the OOM pop up didnt come up. Just nothing. FSX just disappeared. Happened numerous times. I even checked the VAS and I had about 1.2GB free VAS when it crashed. Thanks

[Jim Young 2,356]

Sounds like you ran out of memory.  The sound you heard at intervals was caused by the FSUIPC utility warning you that you are about to run out of memory (actually Virtual Address Space (VAS)).  Most of the time you will not see an error message and you won't even see an OOM error message in the Event Viewer or AppCrashView.  I see you are familiar with VAS as you indicated you had about 1.2GB's free when it crashed.  I hear that a lot.  When I'm on approach at FlightBeam's KIAD using AS16 in the PMDG 777 I can only hope and pray I do not run out of VAS.  I have 1GB and sometimes more than that left at the beginning of the approach and then, suddenly, I have 400MB's then back up to 900MB's and then down to 350.  Finally I land and I can hear the FSUIPC utility chiming away that things are getting scary.  In any case, I landed.  Just need to get to the terminal, then the infamous message "you have run out of memory and your program will terminate".  After I terminate, I go to the FSUIPC log in the Modules folder and see exactly how much VAS I had at the approach phase to the runway.  It fluctuates up and down, sometimes instantly, sometimes staying at the same level for a minute or more.  I usually can make it down and to a gate with 300 MB's or more remaining after landing.  But the immersion is lost when I hear the FSUIPC chimes in the background.

I have found the landing phase of any flight takes up more VAS than on any other phase of the flight.  If you have real weather and eye-candy scenery you are flying into, then your chances are less you will be successful.  It's a bummer as the approach phase is what I enjoy the most when flying into a default airport without real weather.  Wonder if you got an AppCrshView report or there is something about it in the Event Viewer?  The AVSIM CTD Guide, page 7, talks about that (link in my signature).

Best regards,

Jim

[MercenaryTiger 0]

9 hours ago, Jim Young said:

Sounds like you ran out of memory.  The sound you heard at intervals was caused by the FSUIPC utility warning you that you are about to run out of memory (actually Virtual Address Space (VAS)).  Most of the time you will not see an error message and you won't even see an OOM error message in the Event Viewer or AppCrashView.  I see you are familiar with VAS as you indicated you had about 1.2GB's free when it crashed.  I hear that a lot.  When I'm on approach at FlightBeam's KIAD using AS16 in the PMDG 777 I can only hope and pray I do not run out of VAS.  I have 1GB and sometimes more than that left at the beginning of the approach and then, suddenly, I have 400MB's then back up to 900MB's and then down to 350.  Finally I land and I can hear the FSUIPC utility chiming away that things are getting scary.  In any case, I landed.  Just need to get to the terminal, then the infamous message "you have run out of memory and your program will terminate".  After I terminate, I go to the FSUIPC log in the Modules folder and see exactly how much VAS I had at the approach phase to the runway.  It fluctuates up and down, sometimes instantly, sometimes staying at the same level for a minute or more.  I usually can make it down and to a gate with 300 MB's or more remaining after landing.  But the immersion is lost when I hear the FSUIPC chimes in the background.

I have found the landing phase of any flight takes up more VAS than on any other phase of the flight.  If you have real weather and eye-candy scenery you are flying into, then your chances are less you will be successful.  It's a bummer as the approach phase is what I enjoy the most when flying into a default airport without real weather.  Wonder if you got an AppCrshView report or there is something about it in the Event Viewer?  The AVSIM CTD Guide, page 7, talks about that (link in my signature).

Best regards,

Jim

Thanks for pointing it out sir. But there is nothing related to the error in the Event Viewer (Not during that time). Can you say which FSUIPC4 log should I check? Anyways I am posting the FSUIPC4 log (This is not the paid version)

 

********* FSUIPC4, Version 4.971 (16th August 2017) by Pete Dowson *********
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit with SP 1.0 reported as Build 7601 (OS 6.1)
fsx.exe version = 10.0.61637.0
Reading options from "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Modules\FSUIPC4.ini"
Running inside FSX on Windows 7
Module base=16A70000
User Name=""
User Addr=""
FSUIPC4 not user registered
WIDEFS7 not user registered, or expired
        0 System time = 24/12/2017 22:29:51
        0 FLT path = "C:\Users\Twin7\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\"
        0 ------ Module Version Check ------
        0        acontain.dll: 10.0.61637.0
        0             api.dll: 10.0.61637.0
        0        controls.dll: 10.0.61637.0
        0      fs-traffic.dll: 10.0.61637.0
        0             G3D.dll: 10.0.61637.0
        0        language.dll: 10.0.61637.0
        0            sim1.dll: 10.0.61637.0
        0        visualfx.dll: 10.0.61637.0
        0         weather.dll: 10.0.61637.0
        0          window.dll: 10.0.61637.0
        0 ----------------------------------
       63 Trying to connect to SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 ...
      141 FS path = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\"
      905 LogOptions=00000000 00000001
      905 -------------------------------------------------------------------
      905 ------ Setting the hooks and direct calls into the simulator ------
      905 --- CONTROLS timer memory location obtained ok
      905 --- SIM1 Frictions access gained
      905 --- FS Controls Table located ok
      905 --- Installed Mouse Macro hooks ok.
      905 --- Wind smoothing fix is fully installed
      905 --- G3D.DLL fix attempt installed ok
      905 --- SimConnect intercept for texts and menus option is off
      905 --- All links checked okay
      905 -------------------------------------------------------------------
      905 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay
      905 Trying to use SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07
      905 Opened separate AI Traffic client okay
     4368 Running in "Microsoft Flight Simulator X", Version: 10.0.61637.0 (SimConnect: 10.0.61259.0)
     4368 Initialising SimConnect data requests now
     4368 FSUIPC Menu entry added
     4400 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\FLIGHTS\OTHER\FLTSIM.FLT
     4400 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\Aircreation_582SL\Aircreation_582SL.AIR
   101947 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\PMDG 777-300ER\B777-300ER.AIR
   101947 c:\users\twin7\documents\flight simulator x files\azul.FLT
   105208 User Aircraft ID 1 supplied, now being used
   105239 Aircraft loaded: running normally now ...
   238932 System time = 24/12/2017 22:33:50, Simulator time = 23:19:00 (18:19Z)
   256435 **** Restarting traffic scanning due to non-reception ****
   260507 Starting everything now ...
   263907 Advanced Weather Interface Enabled
   543758 Weather Mode now = Custom
   544288 Weather Mode now = Theme
   544350 Weather Mode now = Custom
   600027 Weather Mode now = Theme
   600027 Weather Mode now = Custom
   669916 Weather Mode now = Theme
   669916 Weather Mode now = Custom
   693862 Weather Mode now = Theme
   693862 Weather Mode now = Custom
   968813 Weather Mode now = Theme
   968813 Weather Mode now = Custom
  1008485 Weather Mode now = Theme
  1008485 Weather Mode now = Custom
  1008500 **** No SimConnect events or states being received! Re-connecting now ... ****
  1008594 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay
  1008594 Opened separate AI Traffic client okay
  1008641 Running in "Microsoft Flight Simulator X", Version: 10.0.61637.0 (SimConnect: 10.0.61259.0)
  1008641 Initialising SimConnect data requests now
  1008641 FSUIPC Menu entry added
  1008641 User Aircraft ID 1 supplied, now being used
  1008734 C:\Users\Twin7\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\Previous flight.FLT
  1009249 System time = 24/12/2017 22:46:40, Simulator time = 23:30:50 (18:30Z)
  4065527 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 3055 secs = 21.7 fps
  4065558    Max AI traffic was 0 aircraft