Horrible things are happening

[EHM-2097 Andrei]

Hi all,

My FS9 is in deep... trouble and I don't have any clue what to do. It starts, shows the splashscreen for 20 secs or so, and then shuts down without any message, warning or the such.

After this happened for the first time yesterday, I got mad and spent half of the night to reinstall FS + a lot of necessary stuff. After doing so, everything was going on normally but today the same happens again!

Is there any means of getting a log or crash report from FS9 so that I can have an idea which is the offending add-on - if any?

Any help would be much appreciated. It's finding a solution or quitting the flight simulation business...

Thanks
Andrei

[EHM-1997 Alexander]

Where were you flying when the crash happened? Might be a corrupted scenery file.

[EHM-2097 Andrei]

Don't think so (I only use TWO sceneries, for EHAm and LROP   ) but thanks for mentioning it, I will give it a try.

In fact nothing bad ever happened during flight, it's when starting FS. Moreover, it looks like the crash occurs quite early in the startup sequence, that is before loading the current situation and the such.

Andrei

[EDIT] It's not the scenery indeed, after I manually disabled add-ons in scenery.cfg, FS9 rebuilt its index database THEN stopped.

[EHM-1997 Alexander]

What did you change before the issue started?

[EHM-1465 Dominic]

My FS9 started to quit before fully loading after I installed FSX - there was a conflict between the registry entry for the new Flight Simulator location and one of my addon payware aircraft for FS9 which meant it shut down FS9 before it loaded. But I did get an error message...

Have you installed any new addon planes recently?

[EHM-2097 Andrei]

Thanks guys for your suggestions.

Meanwhile I "kind of fixed it" so now the situation is no longer horrible but VERY bizarre.

The good news is that it works again and I know what I did so it's all repeatable. The bad news is that it makes absloutely no sense (and I know what I mean, I have my daily share of software that behaves inexplicably)

So... after dismissing the scenery possibility, I focused on the module DLLs. And I focused brutally, by moving these (a little randomly, I admit) to a brand new "disabled" subfolder. Of course this made FS9 mad, but at least I got a different behaviour (huge step forward).

By following FS9 complaints about missing DLLs I relocated these one by one to the "Modules" folder until there was no more error message... and FS9 loaded successfully. I thought my culprit was one of the 6 DLLs remaining "disabled", so I "enabled" these one by one. And every time, FS9 started normally.

Eventually, I also re-activated the scenery (thus bringing FS9 in the VERY SAME configuration as the faulty one) and now everything works fine.

So here I am, happy flying but very, very puzzled.

Andrei

P.S. If anyone wonders whether I tried restarting the computer while FS9 was not working, to see what it gives, let me say OF COURSE I shut the thing down, I am a professional or what?

[EHM-1001 Robert]

I realized that FS can change its config files during start-up, or loading in things - I do not think about the obvious scenery library scan. Maybe, when you disabled the Module DLLs it came back somehow to a good configuration and this resulted now the stable running. Hopefully real stable

[EHM-2097 Andrei]

Hopefully real stable

I'll know tonight, that's for sure 

Andrei