November 28, 200619 yr Ok so i can not figure out why this happens, anyone else have this problem?I am in "free flight mode" doing an ILS approach at night and all is going well... until.... when I am about 50-100 ft above the runway and just about to land the computer locks up and crashes (restarts) At first I though, hmm maybe just abug in the airport. I changed airports and SAME exact problem at almost the same exact point of landing in the A321.any ideas?
November 28, 200619 yr Author I have a similar problem. My pc reboot in dense fog weather, or rain+overcast, expecially with SR22 eaglesoft. I think it is something related to ATI card/drivers. What are y spec?mine:Intel Core 2 Duo E6400MB ABIT AB9SAPPHIRE ATI X1900GT 256MB2X1GB DDR2 Corsair PC5400Hard Disk Hitachi 250GB S-ATA2Igor Igor Bischi
November 29, 200619 yr what catalyst are you running? I am on the new 6.11 (crashed also on the 6.10)Core2Duo E6600 OC@ 3.2GHzAsus P5W DH deluxe2x1GB OCZ platinum DDR2-800ATI HIS IceQ3 X1900XT 512MBWestern Digital Raptor 74GB (+250GB WD secondary)Kinda a bummer it doesnt land in fog cause I love making approaches where the runway appears only seconds before landing.
November 29, 200619 yr My crashes come from airframe stress. I've been flying for a long time, IRL and simming. At my point in flight, airframe reference to the wind, and relative speed, this should not happen. It is a bug.This simulation has more "features" than did FS9 when released...let
November 29, 200619 yr Author I have 6.11, same behaviour with 6.10.As I supposed you have an ATI card, X1900 like mine. I hope there'll be a patch, either from microsoft or ati. This i a very disappointing bug!Igor Igor Bischi
December 9, 200619 yr I think I may have found an answer to this problem.I have an ATI X1800 card and I can reproduce the fog problem at KLAXjust sitting on the runway in fogged-in conditions. Interestingly, the crash (system restart) happens only in 2-d cockpit view.I suspected heat at first, but I downloaded ATI Tray Tools and adjusting frequencies and fan speed to run the card cooler had no effect on this problem. In fact, I found that I can OC the card just fine and gain about 20% by doing this.Anyhow, after days of fooling with this, it occurred to me to try FS9 under the same conditions. No crash. So it is something that FSX does and not an ATI driver issue or something that FS9 does not use in the current drivers.This lead me to "tweak" the pixel shader version down to 1.4, which solved the problem. However, I remembered seeing an "aircraft reflections=1" line in the config file and shader 2.1 is mostly used for such things. I decided to turn ac reflections off and run with the normal shader version, 2.1. This also works.So, just edit the fsx.cfg file, find the aircraft_reflections=1 statement and change the 1 to a 0. Start FSX, go to KLAX and set fogged in conditions. Taxi around, change views and see if this fixes your problem.
December 10, 200619 yr Do you have "bloom" on? if so turn it off and try.There are some bugs with Bloom and fog (low visibility condition). JMO.Mine don't crash..but I get a complete screen white out. It happened with the 7600XT card and its also happening with 8800GTX. tried different drivers.Manny Manny Beta tester for SIMStarter
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