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General Category => Unofficial F/A-18 Acceleration Pack board => Topic started by: Paco on August 28, 2010, 01:36:14 pm
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Hey guys,
So I come home last night and tried to run FSX and got this.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: fsx.exe
Application Version: 10.0.61637.0
Application Timestamp: 46fadb14
Fault Module Name: visualfx.dll
Fault Module Version: 10.0.61637.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 46fadb59
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00014857
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033
Any ideas? I haven't touched or installed anything. Obviously with all the add-ons I'd rather not do a complete re-install. Any help would be appreciated.
/r,
Paco
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I had the same thing for no reason... Change your fsx.cfg's name to fsx.cfg.bak in %appdata%/microsoft/fsx/
Then FSX will rebuild the fsx.cfg, and then for me, it ran, but the animations/views/everything were FUBAR and I had to reinstall.
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Worked! Thanks. Now i have redo all my settings.
/r,
Paco
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Once you get them configured you may want to save your graphics settings to prevent this. You can grab some of them from your old fsx.cfg. I don't know what corrupts it but it does.
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Great tip, Raz ! My FSX couldn't start no matter what I tried and I was about to reinstall, when I remembered this topic. So I tried what you suggested and FSX started immediately. I didn't let it remap my keyboard settings and the graphics settings were pretty easy to return.
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Wait, what? Why didn't you let it re-map? Well, actually, I'm not sure if deleting your fsx.CFG resets your keyboard mappings, so maybe it isn't a problem.
Anyways, instead of deleting it, I'd recommend copying the contents of the [Trusted] section of your fsx.CFG to another file and saving it (as a backup), then removing it from the fsx.CFG.
What's in that section, I believe, are C++ gauges, and I'm not completely sure, but also things that load alongside FSX (stuff in the exe.xml and dll.xml files). I believe, if a C++ gauge or .dll based addon crashes, it can bring down all of FSX with it - reason being that the SDK states "The recommended method of writing an add-on is to build it out-of-process, as an application (an .exe file) rather than in-process, as a library (a .dll file). This is because out-of-process applications provide more stability, if they crash they will typically will not crash Flight Simulator..."
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I didn't delete the fsx.cfg, just renamed it. When FSX is started it asks if you want to remap your keys, but this is only about a couple of keys such as tailhook, launch bar, sling hoist, i.e. new features. Anyway, if you say no, nothing happens, the keys should work as defined before.
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Well, yeah, deleting/renaming/moving all has the same effect. The file fsx.CFG is no longer in %appdata%\Microsoft\FSX so FSX handily makes a new one for you. I just wasn't sure about the key mappings.
Anyone care to try out my theory?
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This really is a most useful post.
Can I suggest that a section be created called "Troubleshooting" which is made a Sticky and this post be in it?
Thank you for the solutions, I wil give them a go since my FSX is still not happy even after re-installing Win 7.
Thanks again,
Tregarth
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What I have found, after e x t e n s i v e research, is that this error usually shows up after a change/addition to the "Airplanes" folder, and seems to be related to the "FSX.cfg\[USERINTERFACE]\SITUATION=" section. This is the "default flight" and I found (ALWAYS BACKUP your .CFG FILE) if you delete the line after
"SITUATION="
FSX will start up. Then, if you wish, you can go back and reset your default flight via the "Free Flight\Load\(choose your flight)\Make this the default flight" menu.
Law Legge