24-10-2005, 04:03 PM
Hello!
Yesterday I experienced one of those beloved CTD. I was on the final to EDDP at 14:55 zulu time, busy lowering the gear, when suddenly I was staring
at my well known desktop icons ;-(
Fortunately it was only a short hop, so the anger about loosing another FSP flight was not strong enough to shut
down the computer like usually... I decided to do a little research. Loading myrestart (thank autosave via Autosave.dll from Peter L. Dowson) - crash
again.
Okay, trying something else, loading another aircraft directly standing at a gate at EDDP - crash again. Next step was loading Filemon.exe from
Sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com) to trace what my naughty Fs9 is doing on the harddisk. Last file was a scenery bgl. Interesting, heard sometime
ago something about seasonal cdt.
Lets give it a try. Loading again, but change to dawn. Surprise, surprise - No Crash!
The same with dusk and night time - No Crash again. Loading at Daytime - Crash.
Change the date from 23.10.2005 to 23.09.2005 - No Crash!
I remember several similar crashes at airports in the past which have not been the default ones but addon sceneries. When I deinstalled those
candidates the result was always no more crashes at the know active default ones.
My conclusion was, it must have to do something with the textures. A little research at http://forums.avsim.net/ gave the easy and finally working
solution.
Simply loading Terrain.cfg to notepad and replace all
MaskClassMap=1 to MaskClassMap=0
and all
MaskClassMap=3 to MaskClassMap=0
From this point on everthing works fine again without crashes (fingers double crossed!). Found this in a thread from 2002:
http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=s...&mode=full
Maybe this information may help some of you guys too!
Mick!
Yesterday I experienced one of those beloved CTD. I was on the final to EDDP at 14:55 zulu time, busy lowering the gear, when suddenly I was staring
at my well known desktop icons ;-(
Fortunately it was only a short hop, so the anger about loosing another FSP flight was not strong enough to shut
down the computer like usually... I decided to do a little research. Loading myrestart (thank autosave via Autosave.dll from Peter L. Dowson) - crash
again.
Okay, trying something else, loading another aircraft directly standing at a gate at EDDP - crash again. Next step was loading Filemon.exe from
Sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com) to trace what my naughty Fs9 is doing on the harddisk. Last file was a scenery bgl. Interesting, heard sometime
ago something about seasonal cdt.
Lets give it a try. Loading again, but change to dawn. Surprise, surprise - No Crash!
The same with dusk and night time - No Crash again. Loading at Daytime - Crash.
Change the date from 23.10.2005 to 23.09.2005 - No Crash!
I remember several similar crashes at airports in the past which have not been the default ones but addon sceneries. When I deinstalled those
candidates the result was always no more crashes at the know active default ones.
My conclusion was, it must have to do something with the textures. A little research at http://forums.avsim.net/ gave the easy and finally working
solution.
Simply loading Terrain.cfg to notepad and replace all
MaskClassMap=1 to MaskClassMap=0
and all
MaskClassMap=3 to MaskClassMap=0
From this point on everthing works fine again without crashes (fingers double crossed!). Found this in a thread from 2002:
http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=s...&mode=full
Maybe this information may help some of you guys too!
Mick!
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