Jim Young

One of the major problems with FSX is when you minimize fsx to the taskbar. It will eventually open up again like you were able to do but you were lucky. I've done it a couple of times and learned my lesson. FSX is supposed to start up from the last situation or, if you had a saved flight, back to that flight. If it is starting up in paused mode (assume this is after loading the flight to the screen), then I would delete the Previous Flight in your FSX-SE folder in the C:\Documents. You can also try renaming the logbook.bin to logbook.orig. Sounds like you have something scheduled to run, maybe your anti-virus program has to do a scan or a malware program on a certain schedule. Microsoft Security Essentials has a schedule too. Windows 10 has not been installed on my computer so not sure what it is doing. It has much more security embedded to prevent you from evil people around the world. Make sure you have Pause on Task Switch in the General settings of FSX. Doubt that will fix the problem but if it is not on this setting, then it could be this fix. When schedules are ran, it is normal for some to put all of the active programs to the task bar while it does its thing. Best regards,

What does the fatal error message state? Is there an event in the Event Viewer? Any AppCrashView report? FSX has only two disks. The third must be Acceleration. That must be inserted and the repair program ran too as it contains SP1 and it updated FSX. So all you have is FSX installed. No SP1 or Acceleration. Best regards,

I probably should have mentioned this at the beginning but looking at your OP, you should have been able to use your product with SP2 (you would need to install SP1 and SP2). Payware developers should state SP2 or Acceleration is required as SP2 is exactly the same as Acceleration except it was coded so those who only installed freeware SP2 would not have access to the products that came with payware Acceleration. So that would not make sense products would only allow Acceleration to work. Just wanted to clarify as I don't want everyone to go out and buy Acceleration. Best regards,

Hi Pete, That's correct but cgw44 wanted to know if anything would change in his FSX installation if he removed SP2 or Acceleration as the poster prior to that advised the individual he would have to remove SP2 before installing Acceleration. I assumed he was worried it would mess up his FSX.cfg, scenery.cfg, dll.xml, etc. if he did this and it will not. If you install Acceleration over SP2, it could mess up your FSX as Acceleration was released before SP2 as Microsoft was hoping to make billions by releasing the payware version of SP2 first. A few months later, they released SP2 which is the freeware version of Acceleration and is coded differently. Best regards,

That's the location for the config in FSX-SE. The OP needs the location for FSX. Please check out the AVSIM FSX Configuration Guide as it provides detailed guidance and the location. See the link to the guide in my signature. Best regards,

Usually the dinput8.dll error is caused by input from an incompatible or outdated drivers for a HID device (i.e., a mouse, throttle, or other USB device). I would recommend you download and run a driver updater. I use Driver Booster which is freeware but the program nags you to purchase a license. Still it is fully functional - http://www.iobit.com/en/driver-booster.php. Best regards,

Just a heads-up that PC Aviator now has MegaScenery Forums at their website that provides some useful tips and information about MegaScenery Products - http://pcaviatorforums.com/index.php/forum/8-pc-aviator-software-forum/. Thanks to Gartro for posting this information. Best regards,

Great memories of driving in Europe during my two military assignments there. Enjoyed the video a whole lot! Best regards,

Removing SP2 OR Acceleration will not change anything. SPP2 and Acceleration are updates to FSX. It will not touch the scenery.cfg or fsx.cfg or any of the files in those folders. Best regards,

A forum will be set up if and when DTG releases a new flight simulator. Seems we went through this when FSX-SE was released. Did we open up a P3D forum months before the release of that product? No. When it was finally released, we set up a forum. When the DTG product is released, we will consider a new forum. This is not subject to further discussion so this topic is closed. Best regards,

Split from a very old topic. There have been several other posts/topics about this new product in other forums and I have removed them as this is considered advertising/spamming. Advertising is allowed once when a new product is released as I think it is important for our members to know about new products (as well as on our front page). But posting it in several forums is not allowed. Best regards,

I did not suggest starting a new topic about the same subject (crash modelling). You were upset the topic was locked and wanted it unlocked. I said I would not unlock a topic closed by one of our volunteer moderators. That's their decision and I will not contravene. I did suggest you start a new topic if there was a question you still had not seen discussed in the crash modelling topic. I apologize if I was not clear. I will not allow you to publicly question the decision of our volunteer moderators as that is a clear violation of the AVSIM Terms of Service. Like Christopher said above, crash modelling is a touchy subject and totally agree. For these reasons, this topic is closed.

Thanks for the recommendation. Eaglesoft has their own forums and we have respective forums to discuss this product in the FSX | FSX-SE and/or the P3D Forums, depending on where you installed the product. Like RealAir, REX, GEX, UTX, Aerosoft, etc., we (okay I) do not see a need for another forum to discuss these products. If they want to set up or move their forums to AVSIM, they are most welcomed to do so as it is a free service here at AVSIM. We did set up some forums against the developer's wishes and these are unofficial forums but these are rare exceptions. For instance, at one time, members complained about Captain Sim not providing support on their website for their products so we set up an unofficial forum as they had a lot of products and there was a huge need for support. That has changed somewhat and Captain Sim now provides support for their products on their website and consequently, our Captain Sim forum is seeing less and less use. Best regards,

I think what you are looking for is the d3d9.dll or the d3d11.dll both of which are used for SweetFX or the ENBSeries Modules. They are not needed for FSX and are safe to delete. In my FSX folder I do have a d3dx10_34.dll which was is dated 1/13/2014 but it is not part of FSX or Acceleration. It may have been installed by PMDG as they run a DX10 installer during their installations or it could belong to the DX10SceneryFixer program (payware). It is not required for a normal installation of FSX/Acceleration. Best regards,

That's a super tough question as there really isn't much guidance in flight simulation for setting trim. My recommendation is to follow the setup in the following video where the author provides detailed instructions on setting up the Carenado EMB 505 Phenom 300 for flight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pNI7vfmTs8. He starts the setup procedures at about the 8:10 mark in the video. I personally do not set trim but I do lower the flaps a notch or two depending on the weather and the length of the runway. Best regards,

Most likely you ran out of VAS. When you run out of VAS (an OOM), there may or may not be an error message. Any flights over 4 hours take up an enormous amount of virtual memory and, when descending or landing, you will begin to run out of memory. There is no fix for this problem with P3D, FSX, or FSX-SE. I monitor my VAS usage using the FSUIPC utility where I can watch how much VAS has been used throughout the flight. If I am starting to run low on VAS, I will usually turn off things I don't need like ASN or MyTraffic6 and also turn down my P3D settings. Sometimes this will work. Sometimes not. I would not recommend anyone taking a 4 hour plus flight in P3D, FSX, or FSX-SE as most likely you will be extremely disappointed when you get a crash. I keep all of my flights to 2 hours or less and, even so, I see a dramatic decrease in VAS when descending into a commercial addon airport. Best regards,

Most of the time, this is caused by a bad entry or module in the dll.xml. Move the dll.xml to a temporary folder and see if this fixes the problem. The dll.xml is in the same folder as your p3d.cfg. If P3D starts up okay after moving the dll.xml, then you can try disabling each entry one by one to see which one is the culprit (see page 2, AVSIM CTD Guide)(link in my signature). Best regards,

I'll pin this for a while so that others have a chance to see this. We use to have a Links Section but we did away with it due to a lack of interest (plus it was very difficult to maintain as many links went dead as members quit FS). Best regards,

I've seen those anomalies with SweetFX or the ENBSeries installed. Best regards,

The AVSIM FSX Configuration Guide (see link in my signature), provides detailed guidance for tweaks and FSX settings. Best regards,

Try the suggestions in the AVSIM CTD Guide for freezes/stops working while loading FSX or during a flight randomly. Link to CTD Guide is in my signature. Best regards,

Unfortunately I have no additional suggestions except for - make sure you have Microsoft.net 2.0 installed (this manages the memory and the running of FSX)(see page 7, AVSIM CTD Guide for links and more information) make sure you have Microsoft Visual C++2005 w/SP1 (see pages 6 and 7 of the AVSIM CTD Guide for a picture of the required Visuals and their versions as shown in the Add/Remove Programs). For FSX, you need Microsoft Visual C++2005 w/SP1 and 2008 w/SP1. Any others will not be used while using FSX but, if they are required, the software addon will install it if needed. increase heap limitations (see page 7 of the AVSIM CTD Guide) I'm not going to recommend or say anything about the uiautomationcore.dll in your main FSX folder as discussed on page 7 of the AVSIM CTD Guide. I'll let others make that recommendation as I do not believe in this potential fix (I have never used it and my FSX has run perfectly since 2006 except for a few crashes that were unrelated). It could do more harm that good and, if it is in your main fsx folder, then you should move it to a temporary folder. Link to the CTD Guide is in my signature. I hope one of these works as I'm running out of ideas. If it was a common crash, I think I would have seen more discussions here at AVSIM or at other Flight Simulator websites but I do not see anyone else with the problem. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right places... Best regards,

Also, when you go to "programme the GPS" is that to a default aircraft or the Aerobus. If it is the Aerobus, then I would reinstall that too. A repair of FSX will change the fsx.cfg and scenery.cfg to the default so best you keep a backup of the scenery.cfg (you probably already have several backups in the folder). Make sure you repair all of FSX (i.e., FSX and Acceleration OR FSX and SP1 and SP2). Best regards,

I would delete or move your fsx.cfg to a temp folder, restart FSX and let the config rebuild. It may still be trying to detect the AMD card. You didn't have a crash, just an event 1000 which is common. They usually go away pretty fast after your computer syncs. Best regards,

If your anti-virus program was enabled during the installation of FSX and any addon, like German Landmarks, then that could be the problem as anti-virus programs have been known to have "false positives" and not install a required registry entry or .dll as it thinks the file or program is a virus. Make sure you use Admin Rights and UAC and any anti-virus program is disabled when you install the product. I have searched the Internet relentlessly for other individuals posting this crash and cannot find any like what you are experiencing (search term - Aerosoft German Landmarks X Crash). Best regards,