FS9 crash

IS there a maximum number of sceneries that can be "active" when running FS9?

I am having problems with FS9 "shutting Down" when I try to create a new flight.

It seems to be regional, in that I can create and open a flight almost anywhere in the world except the USA.

It is sometimes only regional in the USA

 

I have a lot of sceneries loaded and quite few AI airlines active as well.

 

It also seems to depend on the time of day that I select.

 

If I watch FS9 loading progress, it seems to crash when it is loading traffic

What's the last thing you installed? Scenery? Airport? Ground textures? Clouds? And of course most obvious, AI?

I'll have to look and see.

I am always tweaking things and have updated several AI airlines recently.

I guess I can start disabling various things to see if that does it.

This is why the good lord gave us SceneryConfigEditor v1.1.9 - seek it out. It is good for FS9, FSX all varieties and P3D all flavours. Then with a simple interface you can deselect or select sceneries as the mood takes you.

IS there a maximum number of sceneries that can be "active" when running FS9?

None that I know of. You can certainly exceed 1,000.

 

John

There is a limit to the number that can be loaded into the Scenery Library, as I recently discovered. I realised that new entries were not appearing so I grouped existing airports geographically into, for instance, RW western Canada, and made space for new items. I currently have 1,010 library items so maybe the limit is 1,200?

I have 1400 layers in the scenery.cfg with no problem.

If you edit the scenery.cfg manually or use a tool like FS Scenery Manager it is okay.

 

But there is a limit if you try to use fs9 for activating new sceneries.

I guess I can start disabling various things to see if that does it.

 

Best you save the location as Flight where you get the CTD. Then deactivate traffic files, reactivate them step by step while starting with rhe saved flight.

I was always under the impression that the sim only loads the scenery you are flying in.

So as mentioned above by JSMR, a crash is usually the last thing you installed, it may not be the scenery but an aircraft or a bad texture.

 

Col.

there is a handy program called flusifix that can check numerous items for all your aircraft including ai aircraft, some of which may cause a crash when trying to load ai. For instance it will check if there are duplicate title= entries in the aircraft.cfg files, it will check if there is a correct model= entry in the aircraft config, and several other things that could cause issues. one thing it won't check, i think, is the model.cfg file. for example, if your model file is 737.mdl your model.cfg file entry should be normal=737. If it says normal=737.mdl it will cause issues. i think you can get it here... https://flusifix-2006.software.informer.com/6.5/

If I watch FS9 loading progress, it seems to crash when it is loading traffic

If you get a windows crash message, use the option for greater details to see which DLL has failed.

 

Then check my site to see if it is listed there:

https://adventure-unlimited.org/faultfinding.php

 

Hopefully that will really help you know where to be looking.

 

John