October 13, 201213 yr Hello all I've updated my GeForce 8800GTX card and now the PC crashes when FS is running. Normally just after take off. I haven't ventured off my normal routine i.e start up taxi etc. The previous version was 285.58 and the newer version is 306.81 I've also updated FSUIPC to 3.999w Two days previous I upgraded the memory from 2GB to 4GB (acceptable) according to Dell but didn't experience any issues with this. I have a Dell XPS 710 Quad Core. If anybody has any ideas what may be causing this CTD or can point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful. Thanks in advance Al W
October 13, 201213 yr Why don't you try replacing one thing at a time then test FS for crashes Bill McIntyre Asus StrixB650E-F Gamer, AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D, Corsair Titanium DDR5 64GB, Samsung 990 PRO-4TB M.2, (4) 2TB SSD's, Corsair H1150i liquid cooler, RTX 2080TI Founders Edition, (2) LG 34" HD Curved Monitor, Sound Blaster Audigy X, 1Kw PC Power & Cooling Power Supply, Corsair Obsidian Full tower Case. MSFS 2024, WIN11 Pro x64
October 14, 201213 yr The latest version for the 8800 is 306.97 WHQL. You might want to download AppCrashView - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/app_crash_view.html, run it and see what caused the crash. So many possibilities. Look for a faulting module. You FS9.cfg may not be 'seeing' your video card since you updated drivers. Renaming the fs9.cfg and restarting FS9 and letting the config rebuild might help. If it doesn't then you can go back and rename the old cfg back to fs9.cfg. Best regards, Jim Jim Young | AVSIM Online! - Simming's Premier Resource! Member, AVSIM Board of Directors - Serving AVSIM since 2001 Submit News to AVSIMImportant other links: Basic FSX Configuration Guide | AVSIM CTD Guide | AVSIM Prepar3D Guide | Help with AVSIM Site | Signature Rules | Screen Shot Rule | AVSIM Terms of Service (ToS) I7 8086K 5.0GHz | GTX 1080 TI OC Edition | Dell 34" and 24" Monitors | ASUS Maximus X Hero MB Z370 | Samsung M.2 NVMe 500GB and 1TB | Samsung SSD 500GB x2 | Toshiba HDD 1TB | WDC HDD 1TB | Corsair H115i Pro | 16GB DDR4 3600C17 | Windows 10
October 14, 201213 yr The problem could also be that memory upgrade, no matter what Dell says, that is, if you had, say, a 2GB stick in your machine and added another, newer, 2GB stick recently. Even when RAM modules come from the same manufacturer, you can run into problems from modules produced during different production runs. That's why it's usually safer to buy all the RAM you plan to put into a computer in one go, and the fact that you didn't experience problems with that upgrade outside of FS9 doesn't really prove anything either. Software like FS9 will produce a lot more memory usage--a lot more 'throughput,' one might say--than simply runhing software such as a Windows desktop, maybe a word processor... that kind of thing. If there is some kind of memory fault, or simply two modules which for some reason can't co-exist peacefully, FS9 would be one program I'd expect to bring it to the fore. I might try taking that new 2GB of RAM out of there, then run FS9 and see if you still get CTDs. If not... problem solved.
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