X-Plane or X-Plane Installer - No Window

[flyingpauls 66]

I can no longer open X-Plane 12, nor the X-Plane-Installer. They start and hang without showing a Window. I can kill them in Tast Manager. It might be a Geforce issue, because I recently updated to the newest drivers.

Any ideas?

[Jean Paul Reuland 14]

many viewers and no answer! either they don't have a clue either they don't give a d....! :-)) Sorry I can't help at my old age 77!

JP Reuland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[GoranM 3,799]

These kinds of questions are usually better suited to Laminar support.  

But I'll give it a shot in the dark.  

Turn off any internet security you might have and see if it works then.  Sometimes, an overly aggressive firewall can cause this.

Download a fresh installer from the Laminar website and try a clean install of the demo.

Failing this, send Laminar a support request.

I just tried it now, and everything loads up just fine.

[Jean Paul Reuland 14]

Hi Goran

Thank you very much for your kind attention. It's a good idea to give a try since it costs nothing! Have a nice day.

Regards

JP Reuland

[Jean Paul Reuland 14]

Well Goran you were right! It worked for my post. Disabling temporarily firewall and I could searched again for any updates on X-Plane. I have no idea why this happened suddenly since it was working fine for years now with firewall open?

Thank you

Have a good day

JP Reuland

[Pivot 154]

22 hours ago, flyingpauls said:

I can no longer open X-Plane 12, nor the X-Plane-Installer. They start and hang without showing a Window. I can kill them in Tast Manager. It might be a Geforce issue, because I recently updated to the newest drivers.

Any ideas?

You may try running the installer as ADMIN, or if it is already set to Run as ADMIN, untick and try normally. If that doesn't work download the latest version of the installer and try it. Good luck, I just had the new updates from Win11 recently but haven't used the installer in quite some time, program still runs fine though.

[flying_carpet 670]

@flyingpauls

Does X-Plane create a log.txt even if you don't see a window starting up?

[flyingpauls 66]

Yes. it does. But no problem report. My guess is that X-Plane opens an invisible window. Most likely, a Vulkan issue.

To @Pivot : Of course, I tried starting as administrator. And yes, I also tried the recent installer.

 

[flyingpauls 66]

@GoranM : I also disabled any internet security.

I did not yet file a bug request. I made the experience that there is absolutely no point in doing it. But I will, nevertheless. 

I did start a problem thread on the X-Plane forum. No ideas there yet.

[flyingpauls 66]

Bug is filed.

[Pivot 154]

6 hours ago, flyingpauls said:

Bug is filed.

That really is a odd bug. I hope you get it worked out and if so, by all means let everyone else now what it took. Good luck FP.

[flyingpauls 66]

Let me add two pieces of information:

I had another program which did not open its window. That was the Creativ Cloud app which installs and updates Adobe's suit. I did not relate this to Vulkan, but I learned that the solution was to rename vulkan-1.dll to vulkan.dll in the Adobe Common Files folder.

Then, I learned that the non-opening of windows in Vulkan apps is a common problem. Usually, it gets sorted out by the software that uses Vulkan. Why it happens on some machines and not others isn't clear.

[flyingpauls 66]

Another information: I de-activated the Intel graphics card too hoping that X-Plane simply opens the wrong driver. But that did not work either.

[flyingpauls 66]

As expected, no reaction by Laminar Research on my bug report, only the auto-generated reply. I know that this kind of problems are difficult to analyze, although I cannot imagine that nobody else has this problem. My system is pretty standard. 

[mjrhealth 850]

On 7/17/2023 at 4:42 PM, flyingpauls said:

Another information: I de-activated the Intel graphics card too hoping that X-Plane simply opens the wrong driver. But that did not work either.

How did you deactivate the intel GPU.?? Is this a laptop PC ??