P3d Disappearing After Start Screen

[HitomiNeko 0]

Hi everyone!

I'm sure I'm beating a dead horse but... Like the title says P3d disappears after the start screen. I've tried deleting P3d and starting with a fresh copy of P3d I've downloaded all my planes back into P3d and my planes work fine until I download Navigraph 1802 rev 1 to my PMDG planes, then everything goes south in a hand basket. Before that when I installed the Navigraph update into my Carenado planes and PMDG planes I got a black screen. I've been at this all day and I'm about ready to take a #6 ball peen hammer to the whole blasted computer. I've tried deleting the Prepar3d.cfg file and the Prepar3D_Default.fxml and  Prepar3D_Default.wx. Other than starting over (again), there has to be a way to fix this without going to extremes (again). I really appreciate any help that anybody could give me at this point.

Edited February 27, 2018 by HitomiNeko

[jjf 23]

I had this issue and narrowed it down to RAAS module. Try editing the dll.xml and exe.xml files to make each module disabled (set disabled to true) and then enable them one by one, loading P3D in between

[Bob Scott 7,720]

Which version of P3D, what operating system, which airplane(s)?  Any other add-ons?  Have you tried loading a default plane, and if it loads OK, switching to the addon of choice?

 

[Romeo_Tango 143]

Do you use SpadNext? I had a similar problem. It was associated with this app .

Link to fix http://www.spadnext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4198.

Hope this helps.

[HitomiNeko 0]

I'm using Prepar3d v3.4.22.19868 and the following add-ons:
PMDG 737-800/900 base pack
PMDG 737-600/700 expansion pack
PMDG 747-400 Queen of the Skies II
Carenado Beechcraft King Air 350i
Carenado Beechcraft 390 Premier 1A
Carenado Hawker 850 XP
Carenado Piper PA-42 Cheyenne III
Carenado Piper PA-46 Malibu Meridian
Carenado Piper PA-46 Malibu Meridian Navigraph Extension Pack
REX 4 Texture Direct with Soft Clouds

I'm running a Lenovo 700-25ISH (everything is stock like the day I bought it)
Windows 10 Home Edition
Intel Core i5 (6th Gen) 6400 / 2.7 GHz
8 GB DDR4 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB of memory (I know it's not the greatest video card but it was running Prepar3d just fine until this hiccup)
I have plenty of hard drive space if you were wondering if I might be low on hard drive space.

Now I did run Soft Clouds and all of the textures that I downloaded to Prepar3d worked fine. That was the first thing I installed, after that it was the PMDG and Carenado planes and after every subsequent install I'd run Prepar3d to make sure it worked. The moment I tried to install Navigraph either in just the PMDG aircraft or the Carenado aircraft or both PMDG and Carenado aircraft, that's when everything goes awry. I can't for the life of me figure out what or where the problem lies. If anyone is more adept than me I'll gladly give them full credit for rectifying the problem.

Edited February 27, 2018 by HitomiNeko

[vgbaron 3,620]

Try installing an older Navigraph airac - if that works - then your problem is with the new cycle. Possibly redownload?

Vic

[Bob Scott 7,720]

Ensure that your Win 10 is up to date...there was an update to WIndows released back in Oct that caused 32-bit P3D versions to crash right after the start screen as you describe...it was fixed in the Microshaft monthly update released on 12 Dec 17.  If your OS updates come through the OEM (Lenovo) rather than Microsoft, you could still be affected if they're running behind.

Regards

 

[Jim Young 2,356]

21 hours ago, vgbaron said:

Try installing an older Navigraph airac - if that works - then your problem is with the new cycle. Possibly redownload?

Vic

Navigraph and AIRAC stuff does not even think about loading until the flight is loaded.  Just the modules in the dll.xml and default stuff.  So it is most likely a bad module in the dll.xml.  To quickly identify whether it is one of the two dll.xml's, you rename each to dll.xml.off, restart and see if that fixes the problem.  If so, it is one of those modules.  There are more possibilities outlined on page 32, AVSIM CTD Guide (see link in my signature), Application Will not Start.

[HitomiNeko 0]

Jim Young,
You were right it was a dll.xml file.Thank you so much for the help I really appreciate it. I found out it was the dll.xml file in App Data\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3d. Now what do I do about the corrupt dll.xml file? And now my Carenado and PMDG planes say "Loading Database" but nothing seems to be happening. With the Carenado planes I have the load window but with the PMDG planes I have nothing to gauge if it's trying load or not.

Edited February 28, 2018 by HitomiNeko

[HitomiNeko 0]

This is the contents of the dll.xml file that I disabled App Data\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\ Prepar3d. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with it? Also, I'd like to amend my previous post in which I said that both PMDG and Carenado both state that they're both "Loading Database". It's only Carenado that's giving me the message, PMDG's FMC  seems to be working fine.

 

<SimBase.Document Type="Launch" version="1,0">
  <Descr>Launch</Descr>
  <Filename>dll.xml</Filename>
  <Disabled>False</Disabled>
  <Launch.ManualLoad>False</Launch.ManualLoad>
  <Launch.Addon>
    <Name>PMDG_HUD_interface</Name>
    <Disabled>False</Disabled>
    <Path>PMDG\DLLs\PMDG_HUD_interface.dll</Path>
    <DllStartName>module_init</DllStartName>
    <DllStopName>module_deinit</DllStopName>
  </Launch.Addon>
  <Launch.Addon>
    <Name>RAASPRO</Name>
    <Disabled>False</Disabled>
    <Path>.\RAASPRO\RAASPRO.dll</Path>
    <DllStartName>module_init</DllStartName>
    <DllStopName>module_deinit</DllStopName>
  </Launch.Addon>
  <Launch.Addon>
    <Name>PMDG_Interface</Name>
    <Disabled>False</Disabled>
    <Path>PMDG\DLLs\PMDG_Interface.dll</Path>
    <DllStartName>module_init</DllStartName>
    <DllStopName>module_deinit</DllStopName>
  </Launch.Addon>

   <Launch.Addon>
      <Name>Carenavigraph</Name>
      <Disabled>False</Disabled>
      <Path>.\Carenavigraph.dll</Path>
   </Launch.Addon>

   <Launch.Addon>
      <Name>CMeteoXml</Name>
      <Disabled>False</Disabled>
      <Path>.\CMeteoXml.dll</Path>
   </Launch.Addon>

</SimBase.Document>
 

[vgbaron 3,620]

The dll looks fine as far as context. What you need to do is disable all the addons and enable them one by one until you find which is the culprit.

 <Launch.Addon> is the start of each addon

in each block you'll see this  <Disabled>False</Disabled>

change False to True to disable the addon and change it back to false to enable,

Vic

 

[HitomiNeko 0]

Everything seems to be running fine now since I disabled CMeteoXml. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that this finally fixed the problem. Thank you everyone for all your help!

[Nemo 1,305]

4 hours ago, HitomiNeko said:

Everything seems to be running fine now since I disabled CMeteoXml. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that this finally fixed the problem. Thank you everyone for all your help!

CMeteoXml, from where does it come? I had it at in my dll.xml too, but deleted it because I did not know from where it was. No problems with addons so far.

Edited March 1, 2018 by Nemo

[fluffyflops 1,858]

https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=122680.

 

seems like a weather dll