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robase123

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fsx crash when changing from full screen to windowed mode
« on: October 25, 2018, 12:56:30 pm »
hi. i have kmem and it crashes when changing from full screen to windowed mode. any ideas.

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Re: fsx crash when changing from full screen to windowed mode
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2018, 04:06:21 pm »
You don't say which simulator you use, but I guess you use FSX, since P3D4 doesn't have a "real" full screen mode. Have you added any tweaks to the FSX.CFG ?

The PoolSize = 0 in the [BufferPools] section of the FSX.CFG file, in particular, is VERY dangerous. If you have it, remove the whole [Bufferpools] section from the FSX.CFG, which is the default setting.

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Re: fsx crash when changing from full screen to windowed mode
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2018, 10:39:47 pm »
Hi. Yes I'm using FSX. I dont have the bufferpool entry in my .cfg file. After changing views from full screen to windowed mode my game crashes and the event viewer states this:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          10/25/2018 3:31:39 PM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Robase-PC
Description:
Faulting application name: couatl.exe, version: 3.2.0.4050, time stamp: 0x5bbcc967
Faulting module name: ucrtbase.DLL, version: 10.0.14393.2247, time stamp: 0x5adc1a6f
Exception code: 0x40000015
Fault offset: 0x000891fa
Faulting process id: 0x1538
Faulting application start time: 0x01d46ca07d42c1b9
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\couatl\couatl.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\ucrtbase.DLL
Report Id: f9430c79-d894-11e8-b25a-f46d0497d9e6
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Application Error" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>100</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2018-10-25T20:31:39.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>461322</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>Robase-PC</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>couatl.exe</Data>
    <Data>3.2.0.4050</Data>
    <Data>5bbcc967</Data>
    <Data>ucrtbase.DLL</Data>
    <Data>10.0.14393.2247</Data>
    <Data>5adc1a6f</Data>
    <Data>40000015</Data>
    <Data>000891fa</Data>
    <Data>1538</Data>
    <Data>01d46ca07d42c1b9</Data>
    <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\couatl\couatl.exe</Data>
    <Data>C:\Windows\system32\ucrtbase.DLL</Data>
    <Data>f9430c79-d894-11e8-b25a-f46d0497d9e6</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

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Re: fsx crash when changing from full screen to windowed mode
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2018, 10:50:18 am »
Hi. Yes I'm using FSX. I dont have the bufferpool entry in my .cfg file. After changing views from full screen to windowed mode my game crashes and the event viewer states this:

The issue is that FSX is crashing, so it's *causing* Couatl.exe to crash because, it couldn't receive the command from the sim to close, because the sim crashed abruptly when going from full screen to windowed mode. So, the real problem is the FSX crash, the Couatl crash is a consequence, not the cause.

I tried doing the same, but I cannot replicate the problem. Went from windowed mode to full screen a dozen times, no issues. I'm using FSX:Steam Edition. Which version you use ?

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Re: fsx crash when changing from full screen to windowed mode
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2018, 11:42:20 am »
I'm using fsx acceleration version. Ok well there's something else going on here so I'll do a few more test and see what the event viewer picks up if the crashes continue