Fsxse Ctd When Clicking Link On Home Page

[Jordan Chin]

Hi Lefteris,

As per title, I'm getting a consistent CTD when I click links from the FSXSE home page. This is the data from event viewer:

Faulting application name: fsx.exe, version: 10.0.62615.0, time stamp: 0x559f9a9aFaulting module name: FSLPreloader.dll, version: 10.0.61355.103, time stamp: 0x565c888aException code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x0000e8e1Faulting process id: 0x1ca4Faulting application start time: 0x01d13df239eca5d8Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\fsx.exeFaulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\FSLabs\FSLSpotlights\DLL\FSLPreloader.dllReport Id: 866c6965-a9e5-11e5-87bf-d05099296958

[Lefteris Kalamaras]

Can you please download the latest spotlights and test with those?

Also- please ensure there are no two entries for spotlights in dll.xml.

[Jordan Chin]

I'm running the latest version and can confirm I only have a single entry in my dll.xml file.

[Lefteris Kalamaras]

Hi Lefteris,

As per title, I'm getting a consistent CTD when I click links from the FSXSE home page. This is the data from event viewer:

Faulting application name: fsx.exe, version: 10.0.62615.0, time stamp: 0x559f9a9aFaulting module name: FSLPreloader.dll, version: 10.0.61355.103, time stamp: 0x565c888aException code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x0000e8e1Faulting process id: 0x1ca4Faulting application start time: 0x01d13df239eca5d8Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\fsx.exeFaulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\FSLabs\FSLSpotlights\DLL\FSLPreloader.dllReport Id: 866c6965-a9e5-11e5-87bf-d05099296958

Your event viewer is reporting version .103 of the preloader.dll. Latest version is .105.

[Jordan Chin]

Correct, but I updated to 105 shortly after and still noticed a CTD if I hit one banners from the home tab. Here's the event viewer details for v105.

Faulting application name: fsx.exe, version: 10.0.62615.0, time stamp: 0x559f9a9aFaulting module name: FSLPreloader.dll, version: 10.0.61355.105, time stamp: 0x56792e4bException code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x0000e981Faulting process id: 0x1600Faulting application start time: 0x01d13f7db290e273Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\fsx.exeFaulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\FSLabs\FSLSpotlights\DLL\FSLPreloader.dllReport Id: 20b1102b-ab71-11e5-968a-d05099296958

[Lefteris Kalamaras]

I tried latest Spotlights on FSX Steam and could not reproduce your issue... all clicks on the Home page opened their corresponding URL in my browser.

[Jordan Chin]

That's strange. I disabled all the dll's except Spotlights and uninstalled the dx10 fixer but I still get a crash on the homepage. Anything else I can try to figure this thing out?

[Lefteris Kalamaras]

Can you clear your shader cache perhaps?

[Jordan Chin]

Bringing this thread alive again. Getting CTD's again on startup. Fault module is the preloader. I just started getting them today. Tried the regular suspects, but nothing works. If you're available we can do I teamviewer session to let you see what's happening.

Faulting application name: fsx.exe, version: 10.0.62615.0, time stamp: 0x559f9a9a



Faulting module name: FSLPreloader.dll, version: 10.0.61355.139, time stamp: 0x575bdaf1



Exception code: 0xc0000005



Fault offset: 0x0000e9c1



Faulting process id: 0xdb8



Faulting application start time: 0x01d2000e800e7691



Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\fsx.exe



Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\FSLabs\FSLSpotlights\DLL\FSLPreloader.dll



Report Id: d3646b57-6c01-11e6-aa35-d05099296958

I get a script error then a CTD when it loads the web content on the "Home" tab in FSXSE.

 

 

[Jordan Chin]

I fixed the CTDs using this method a few days ago:

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If you want to get rid of the "Home page" - the link is in Dialogs/gshome.spb.

 

1. You get a small tool from flyawaysimulation called "spb2xml".
2. You decompile the dialog file: "spb2xml gshome.spb gshome.xml"
3. You edit the resulting xml - you can put any link in there that you want ("_blank" is a good idea...). The home page is the tag <HtmlDocument id="urlLive">
4. You move the xml file to the SDK into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Core Utilities Kit\SimProp"
5. You recompile it using the SDK: "simpropcompiler 2spb -symbols "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\propdefs\*.xml" gshome.xml gshome.spb"
6. You copy the new gshome.spb back into the Dialogs folder

from here: http://www.avsim.com/topic/474277-home-page-tweak-tip-on-starting-fsxse/

Hopefully FSLSpotlights can be modified to fix the CTDs when there's a script error.

Update:

Turns out that you'll only get a CTD with FSLSpotlights if your running below IE11. I had IE9 and the problem completely goes away when you're using IE11, no need for the above method. This can be marked as resolved and added to the FSLSpotlights FAQ. IE11 is required for FSXSE.

[Lefteris Kalamaras]

Jordan,

this is curious because I tried your exact steps:

1) made www.fsxworld.com match 127.0.0.1 so that my FSX-SE thinks it's offline

2) Changed the gs01.htm page to refresh into www.avsim.com

3) Loaded FSX-SE with Spotlights, to get the crash

Instead, all I got was the expected script errors... no Spotlights crash.

I tried this both in DX9 and DX10.

[Jordan Chin]

It only happens with IE9 installed. That's the only other variable. For now it's resolved.

[Lefteris Kalamaras]

Ah - I will have to go back to IE9 - not sure if that's doable in Win10.

[Jordan Chin]

Doubt it. You could add it to the FAQ for Win 7 users that they need at least IE11 to prevent the crash.

[Lefteris Kalamaras]

I'll try to find a Win8.1 machine - it makes no sense that IE9 would crash spotlights.