FSX Crashes in Vista on "End Flight"

[JSpal]

Anybody else run into this?

I upgraded to Vista Ultimate yesterday. I have FSX and Acceleration installed.

Whenever I end a flight, invariably FSX crashes. I get a message box that says "Fatal Error Occurred. Windows is check for a solution to the problem." I get a status bar, as though it's actually looking for a solution, but it never says anything more.

FSX instantly restarts itself.

A little searching on line, it seems that it may be related to the video driver and running dual monitors, but I don't even know where to go from here to try to trouble shoot it.

Does FSX keep a log somewhere that I can check to see if it mentions what it was trying to do when it crashed or something like that?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[RyanJames170]

first some system specs please along with drivers for you gpu plz
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[JSpal]

Asus P5Q Deluxe
E8400 (C2D) running at 3.6ghz
OCZ Fatal1ty 8GB ram (4 sticks x 2gb)
Asus EAH4870 (running stock speeds)

In device manager, it says my driver is Version 8.600.0.0 . I tried to use the driver update tool in Windows and it said that I have the latest version.

 

[harleyman]

First off get and use the new ATI driver 9.5.

Second, you are running a socket 775 chip with a high OC and lots of memory..

If the new driver does not fix it i would run memtest to test your ram and prime 95 to test your OC,,


If you need help installing your driver just ask....

 

[JSpal]

First off get and use the new ATI driver 9.5.

Second, you are running a socket 775 chip with a high OC and lots of memory..

If the new driver does not fix it i would run memtest to test your ram and prime 95 to test your OC,,


If you need help installing your driver just ask....

Thanks for the advice!

I've run memtest on the ram at stock speed and it passed perfectly. I've tested the OC in Prime95 for a few hours and it returned no errors. I'm going to run a longer (probably 10-12 hours) test today while I am busy with other, non computer related, things and see how it does in a longer test.

I'll try the new driver tonight and see if the problem persists.

I had the same rig running XP X64, same OC settings, for months with no problem. But being the eternal tweaker, I decided to throw away a good thing to give Vista another go since my computer is much more powerful than the last time I had Vista on it.

The more I think about it, the more I suspect it's the driver. It seems to crash when Vista goes back to Aero display mode when coming out of full screen mode in FSX. Maybe I need to disable Aero display in Vista??? I wouldn't really miss it.

Also, can I run Prime95 in the background while I do other things with the computer? I've seen people say they ran it for 24 hours or more. I can't imagine being without my big computer for more than a day...

 

[JSpal]

Ran Prime95 for 11+ hours today. No errors, temps maxed out in mid 50's according to RealTemp

I intalled ATI driver 9.5, rebooted, FSX still crashed ending any flight.

Turned off Windows Aero, rebooted, FSX still crashed ending any flight.

Also noticed that ocassionally, seemingly without rhyme or reason, when I load up a flight, the main model of the plane doesn't show up. The animated parts are there, like the canopy, bits of the flap system, bits of the landing gear, but no fuselage.

I started thinking that maybe it was overclock related even though it passed the torture test with flying colors, so I shut down, reset the bios to factory settings and rebooted. It still crashes ending any flight.

Ugh. Frustrating...

 

[Roger]

Have you tried a new FsX.cfg? Can't do any harm and you can keep your old one as a backup. If it isn't the cfg you could try a "repair FsX".