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FSXA Ok CTD help....

JB3DG

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I have been having a rather odd CTD lately. It is somewhat random and occurs in the UI only before starting a flight. Sometimes when I start, click sounds on the Free Flight page disappear. Then when I change aircraft, it takes forever to load the aircraft(even one of the default ones) and if I press anything on the keyboard even in another program or a button on my joystick (and sometimes even if I do nothing), FSX will crash because of the DSOUND.dll. Sometimes if I wait long enough and do nothing it works fine. But othertimes not. Any ideas?
 
Did you recently add some new scenery?

Also, is your Graphics Card fan clean? I found a hidden layer of dust deep in my GTX660. Looked clean outside, but raking a Q-tip through it pulled out a TON of dust. The GC will ramp up when booting up the sim and that can cause some of those symptoms.

I have messed up planes before, doing settings on something and somehow messed up the entire sim. Repairing or restoring the settings fixed the sim. I forget what in the world I did (twice) that has done this, but it was crazy basic and it caused the entire sim to crash. I dont know if it was the sound.cfg (in a plane) or what. Also, scenery can cause this. For instance, if you just loaded up a new scenery, and you have a 'double' (like two airports named the same, both at the same location), then when you are at that location or near it (flying towards it) you will suddenly have a crash of the system.



Bill
 
No....I don't think its any of those. As I mentioned the dll listed in the error report is the DSOUND.dll.
 
Nope. Its actually been happening for months now. Happened before I had to replace my computer after it got flooded and was happening from day 1 since I got my new one.
 
Try a windows update..., with the 'non important' updates selected as well.

I faced a similar problem recently,and this took care of everything!

- Joseph
 
Naruto-kun said:
Nope. Its actually been happening for months now. Happened before I had to replace my computer after it got flooded and was happening from day 1 since I got my new one.
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Did you do a clean installation after you got it?

Tried updating DirectX?
 
Yep. And yes my DX is fully up to date....When I use DirectSound or XAudio2 my code works fine. This is a random error.
 
Nope. it happens with default aircraft and my work or addons irrespectively and randomly.
 
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