Plan G 3.1.1 for WINXP - FS9

[BAW9DV]

Ok,

Installed the newest current Plan G version (it does not install in the older 3.0.2 location which was the version I used before - it now defaults to C:\Program files\Plan-G v3.1.1-WinXP) and then attempted to build the database.   

All the scenery is built and processed successfully (took about 2 minutes) and then it begins to process VORs (7700 of them) then NDBs (9000 of them) then Intersections (89,000 of them) and then when it begins to process Airways (64917 of them) the program shows the error message " ... Plan-G has encountered a problem and needs to close ..."

I am unable to capture the data from the error output since copy and paste does not work, sorry.

Any ideas?

Thank you,

regards,

Lee James
West Sussex UK

[BAW9DV]

Update!

I un-installed both the newer 3.1.1 version and the older 3.0.2 version that was still installed in case there was some sort of conflict.

I then rebooted the PC, cleaned up and then installed the Plan-G version 3.1.1 (new version) again.   Install was fine and began building the database for FS9.   All went well - but again, the programme stopped with the failure error " ... Plan-G has encountered an error and needs to close ..." right at the time it was trying to write the AIRWAYS section.   It got about a third done before quitting.

Again, I un-installed it and then re-installed the older 3.0.2 version.

This version installed fine and took about ten minutes building the database - and it managed to successfully write the AIRWAYS section which caused the failure in the newer version 3.1.1.

So - I'm using 3.0.2 until the problem with the newer version is solved.

Regards,

Lee

[tim arnot]

Unless you can attach a log that shows the failure (and the Windows crash report too), there's probably not a lot I can do unless it happens here - I'd just be sticking pins in a straw heap.

But there's no need to rebuild the database between versions - it's still 100% identical to the 3.0 version. That's why it's in My Documents (You don't delete and recreate all your Word documents every time you update Word, do you?) There's no need even to uninstall the old one - so long as you install the new version to a different folder.