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Might be saying good bye to FSX

MS killing Vista? Sorry to say this to everyone who hates Vista, but Vista's kernels and the core of the OS will likely be MS's basis for the next 10 years. As mentioned above, Vista is far superior to XP for a power user. It will be kind of funny to watch how many people say how amazing windows 7 is and that MS "finally ditched Vista". New taskbar, touchscreen, and automatic windows resizing... other than that it's Vista SP3. With how much people are afraid of change in OS, Im surprised more people arent still stuck using Windows 98 or 2000. Go to a library and find a book like "Vista Inside Out" or "Vista Secrets" and read that over. Might as well wait till windows 7 at this point, but the advantages of running an OS based upon Vista will be very apparent. Vista's start menu alone has made a tremendous difference in my computing and Id never give that feature up for anything less.
 
as of about an hour ago I checked and checked for things and didn't find any problems. Sooo, I went and got a big box fan, open the side of the case and put it right on it. Well the heat has to be the problem somewhere. All temps seem to be normal but with the fan on it no fatal errors. I try some longer flights when I can after the little one get to bed tonight and see if the problem returns. Thank you all for the help!!!

On the XP vista thing. There is no way I would ever go back to XP from Vista. I haven't had any trouble at all with vista except right after the release of it a long time ago. All of my other games and programs run very well on it and 95% of them run 2-3 times better in Vista than they did in XP. So the XP thing is simply not an option.
 
This thread is not a Vista and Xp comparison fest but someone wanting to know what crashed his system. In my experience if a corrupted .dll or even cfg file in FSX contains bad data it can crash Vista or XP equally well!

Rob Young
 
Had the same problems recently with XP, FSX SP1 and SP2.
I deleted SP2, made a restart, reloaded SP2, did another restart and FSX was back to its best. I can neiter explain why FSX crashed nor why it recovered - my solution was an act of deparation only.

Mike
 
Headwind said:
Sooo, I went and got a big box fan, open the side of the case and put it right on it. Well the heat has to be the problem somewhere. All temps seem to be normal but with the fan on it no fatal errors. I try some longer flights when I can after the little one get to bed tonight and see if the problem returns.
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Headwind

If that seems to cure the issue, you may simply have a terminal case of dust bunnies built up inside that thing. You may want to grab a few canned air things from a local store and give the insides a good blasting. I'm pretty much a fanatic about internal case cleaning and I'm still surprised at how fast dust and fur builds up on the system boards and all of the fans. It may not be the actual cure, but it's inexpensive. I've never personallly opened up someones else's computer to work on that wasn't inundated with the warm and fuzzies inside. :)

FAC
 
FAC257 said:
Headwind

You may want to grab a few canned air things from a local store and give the insides a good blasting.
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I did that today and it really wasn't that bad, I have a huge case with a window on the side. However I did pull it apart and as you say gave it a good blasting.

I do know that it has been way hotter here over the past few days than it's been in a while. I think it's been about 104 every day for a week
 
i have used vista(how complicate user's life it's better call it) ten minutes then closed forever....i doubt xp user goes on the tunnel, most computer sales came from netbooks and they still have xp, i continue with xp and xp pro, no crashes, no aero, no problems.
 
I experienced the fatal error problem a few months back. It turned out to be caused by a problem in my FSX.cfg file. You might try this, if you haven't already. Make a backup copy of this file first, then delete the file and when FSX starts, it will build a new one for you. The downside is you lose all of your settings and it is a pain to configure it from scratch again. Another approach is to remove all of the entries for add on aircraft, because that is a likely place where the problem is. These entries look like this:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Payware\CS_C130\panel\Captain_Sim.c130.main.GAU.coebzhztnkzkqwcboriaqtelawcaaqtwiwbziiik=2

If that fixes the problem, you haven't lost all of the other settings.

I try and keep my FSX.cfg file cleaned up by editing it to remove such entries whenever I uninstall or remove an add on.

charlie
 
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