I just want to write about my experience the last week with FSX.
Just as I got my new Beech B200 I started to get crashes of different kind. Sometimes my controllers would loose connection with FSX, sometime I would crash out of FSX completely. The windows Event Viewer gave clues to the modules crashing, but it turned out to be all kinds of modules, so I concluded that it was the module that was used at the time of the crash that got the “blameâ€.
One of the first things I heard was that Windows would power down the USB controllers after some time and make them loose connection. The most obvious solution to this was to disable power management to everything USB. Another solution I heard about was FSUIPC. This program could take over control over the controllers and give better control, make Autosaves and a lot more.
After disabling power management on the USB ports, I still had the crashing, but now only on long flights in the B200. Like the ENBL-ENGM for the January event . So I just had to test the FSUIPC program and see if that would fix anything. It did not. I still got crashes. But now I could resume the flight from a autosave. Every time I could land normally. Sometime I ran a program called Plan-G. I disabled that. I closed the browser I used to have running….. No difference.
But now I saw something. It only crashed when approaching ENGM, and several times I was zooming in to locate the Airport. Could it be some graphic bug. I knew my drivers was up to date so that was not it. I was using a program to make FSX run in a borderless window, so I tried another one, and even with borders without those program. The problem was the same. What could I do? I had been looking for an excuse to buy EZDok so I just had to try it to see if that did any difference. It didn´t. All I could conclude was that my joystick problem was solved. But what was happening with the crashing to desktop?
Could there be other things that was under “power management� So I went in and checked the advanced power management. And there it was staring me right in the face. I have 3 disks on my system. One SSD primary that I used for racing, and now the space games, and two spinning disks with my steam library. Both of the normal disks was set to spin down after 20 minutes or so. The problem was that when FSX was trying to read the scenery at ENGM after a 30-40 minutes flight it got some kind of timeout and crashed. I adjusted the power-down time to a few hours, and I have made a couple runs to ENGM now and no crash. "Knock on wood"
Looking forward to the flyin now.... :-)
justa quick one mate, what version of fsx are you using? if its the steam edition thet put in some stuff to stop that. maybe lower the gfx slider a small amount as that has been know to cause this ctd
That was with the Steam Edition. I also have the disks somewhere. I tried to take down the graphic sliders too. No change. I'm confident it was the disks.
Hi Vobler,
Can you give us a step by step of the fix please?
I get this occasionally as well, it's better now with the steam version but it was horrible with the Gold Edition previously.
I changed my USB power saving setup but if you've found another source of the issue then I want to try that as well to be safe.
I did most of what is mentioned here.
http://forum.avsim.net/topic/421313-possible-solution-windows-8-and-81-joystick-solution-for-fsx-and-prepar3d/
I now run FSUIPC so I'm not sure what fixed it. The program or the settings.
Edit: This is the Joystick disconnect.
The crash was the disks spinning down.
fsuipc will fix the usb disconnects and a few other little buggy things, some addons have it built in having but usually an old version so having the most up to date copy is a good idea