A new problem for me....

[Cowboy1968]

Well I have a rather unique problem with CFS2. It appears to be effecting all my installs of the game. After I updated windows one night I tried to enter CFS2. The sim loads like normal, but when I select free flight or even quick combat, the thing crashes and I get the message that Micorsot Combat Flight Simulator module has stopped working after the CTD happens.

Now when I try to enter free flight and try to select aircraft the aircraft menu opens, but the model of the plane is not in the blueish purple box and the game CTD and i get that message.

Does anyone have any idea of what is going on...

As I said this is occurring in all my installs of the sim.

I am at a loss, I have searched for answers for this all over the net, will and haven't found a thing.

Any help and thoughts would be appreciated....


Cowboy.....

 

[Blood_Hawk23]

what version of windows?
have you tried a fresh install?

I wonder if the update changed some path or file association.

Have you looked in the troubleshooting guide at Sim-V? its the first topic in the CFS2 forum.

 

[Rami]

Reply...

Cowboy1968,

I had a nearly identical thing happen to me once because of my anti-virus software. It turned out that my anti-virus software "ate" one of the module (.dll) files in my installs because it was flagged as malicious. All my installs went tits-up at the same time. It's possible that during Windows update, especially if you ran the malicious software tool, it flagged one of these module files or they got corrupted somehow. (Or your anti-virus software decided to do to you what mine did to me)

Instead of a new install, try inserting your install disk, closing out the auto-install, right-clicking on the CD-ROM icon, and click "explore." You should be able copy the MODULES folder from your disk to your desktop, and use it to try and revive your installs. Make a count of the number of modules on the install disk, and see if yours match up. If one is missing, you know which one that either Windows or your anti-virus software is flagging as malicious.

 

[Cowboy1968]

Reply...

Thanks Rami,

Rami called the problem right. I took his fix and copied module files back into each install and now they are working again. I love the knowledge base we have around here.

Thank you Thank you Thank you

I bow.....I am not worthy.....

Thanks man, you saved me a lot of frustration and a lot of time....

 

[Rami]

Reply...

Cowboy1968,

I'm glad to hear that. I think I was probably the only person who could recognize that set of symptoms and know how to fix it...I guess that's what experience teaches you when something goes wonky for no reason. When that happened to me, all seven installs from my laptop, all seven from my desktop, and all seven on my backup drive went at the same time.

Instead of panicking, I got curious and went into super-analytical mode. I figured there had to be a cause, because it was just too illogical for all installs to go kaput at the same time!

 

[Blood_Hawk23]

thats one to add to the troubleshooting guide.


Glad your all set.

 

[bearcat241]

A classic example of why i prohibit any and all AV activity on my games and sims partition...no scanning, no searching, no monitoring...nada!

Every now and again my Kaspersky AV will disregard its settings and go into the drive on a rogue mission or whatever and give me some negative feedback about the old CFS2 Combat Clouds program being a malicious trojan. I just cancel that @#$% and remind it to stay away from the drive by refreshing the exclusions settings.

My logic here is that (1) all the various resident simulator and game installs came from a safe disk and (2) any add-ons i apply have already been scanned as safe when downloaded, so there's no need to allow resource hogging monitoring activity and potential false readings from AV software when it comes to my "stuff" on this drive.