Major problem with CFS2

[Tango_Romeo]

You did not answer my questions.

[investdude]

Yes, TR, I did set Stress Damage=False in the CFS2.cfg file.  At the moment the problem is not happening except with the CA-27, after a reinstall.  I thought it was Nibbio's effects I had installed but now I'm not sure.  I'm trying to find the effects so I can properly remove them.  Not sure if I've found them yet.  Everything had been working fine for a long time, so I now don't think it is a problem with CFS2 itself, I think it may be a computer issue. :-/  I'm working on it.  Thanks for all the help.

[Tango_Romeo]

OK, just trying to make sure the bases get covered.   Troubleshooting via board posts is not the best way to go about it. 

Keep us posted on your progress. 

[investdude]

UPDATE

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[The_Editor]

[quote]UPDATE

After 3

[investdude]

Have you seen this thread?

Yes, but it pertains to FS9 and the link to another copy of acontain.dll doesn't work, so no help.

[H]

[color=#003300]This may not help but this type of problem isn't restricted to CFS2 (although I don't play CFS2 so often and it hasn't occured while doing so) -- I've encountered it a number of times with CFS1 missions (rarely engage Quick Combat). Sometimes I could play through the mission after a mission restart, more often needing a CFS restart, sometimes needing to reboot the computer to play through. I'm not sure it is of note but it seems to have begun only after connecting the computer to the internet (in the past I've had at least two used computers that I'd revamped -- new or reformatted hard drives -- and the game computer was never online and I don't recall any such problem). However, during this time I'd also added other programs to the system, so it may not be on-line internet related (unless you disable your network connection you may still be connected to the internet) but quite possibly some programs will take advantage of in stealth mode.
Basically, as has already been suggested, there may be a resource issue;

[Dirtman]

Yo investdude:

I'm getting in here a little late but a few things have come to mind after reading the previous posts in this thread so I've got some suggestions.

[investdude]

Thanks for your input Dirtman!

I did as you suggested and here are the results:

(2) I checked all my aircraft folders.

[H]

Has this happened to you in mission play?

8-)

[investdude]

To H:

Yes, it's same problem in missions.

[H]

Just a thought... if you get a unit load error report, open the mission (.mis) file and see if it's listed and what the unit is.

8-)

[Dirtman]

[quote]Thanks for your input Dirtman!

I did as you suggested and here are the results:

(2) I checked all my aircraft folders.

[investdude]

Durt,

I started to follow your suggestions, flew a KW mission till I got a kill and the Sim crashed.  Then I noticed that the error.log file was dated middle of July and had not changed.  So I deleted the error.log file, assuming a new one would be generated at the next crash.  I flew a QC mission and killed 2 migs without a crash but on the next kill the Sim crashed.  But there was no error.log file regenerated.  The events.log file was current and correct.  So I don't understand what's going on.  I'm at work now, will be too busy to do anything for a day or so but I will keep working on it, try all your suggestions and report back ASAP.  Thanks for all your help.

[investdude]

Had a little bit of time today so here's what I've done:

I don't think the error.log file previously posted means very much since it was dated the middle of July. The question for me is why doesn't the sim generate another error.log file when it crashes?  I looked at the CFS2.cfg file under Preferences and it gives:
ERROR_FILE=
It should read ERROR_FILE=ERROR.LOG
so I changed it to read ERROR_FILE=ERROR.LOG and flew a QC, sim crashed but no error.log file. I have a backup copy of CFS2.cfg, so I checked it and it also showed under Preferences, ERROR_FILE=

I deleted all the CDPs in the OBJECTS_DP folder, all the filelist.dat files in SCENEDB folder and the 6 INDEX files.  This time when CFS2 was run it did NOT crash when it regenerated the 6 INDEX files. But otherwise there was no change.  I ran another QC and the sim crashed as usual.

BTW, I have a force feedback joystick and when When the crash occurs the force feedback runs continuously so at one time I thought it might be a forcefeedback problem but I got a non-forcefeedback stick and tried it and there was no difference except of course that the FF didn't run.

So it seems to me now that in order to be able to move forward I have to get the Sim to generate an error.log file so we can see what's happening but I don't know how to do that. Could it be that as far as the Sim is concerned the acontain.dll is doing what it's supposed to do and therefore there is no error?  I just don't know what's going on.