Mysterious Crashes

[frankturley]

For some time now I have been experiencing Plan-G crashes when mid flight. My usual action has been to re-start Plan-G, and continue, and this seems to work, and often, when re-starting, the flight plan will be already loaded, so I've been ok.

Anyway, it struck me that maybe I should be letting you know about this, so I took a copy of the log file immediately after the crash, and then another copy of the log file for the re-start. I was surprised to see that the 2nd log included the 1st one.

Logs attached for your perusal.

[tim arnot]

The FSX simconnect library in v3 is known to be flaky - it appears to be lacking some internal error trapping. Sadly there's not much I can do about it.

You could try v4, which gives a choice of Simconnect libraries...

[frankturley]

OK. I had been putting off the change, but I guess I have to bite the bullet............

[tim arnot]

All your v3 stuff is preserved, so you can keep using it in parallel...

[frankturley]

OK, version 4 installed on the Flying PC and the Plan-G PC, FSX and P3d databases renewed.
Tried FSX and P3d, both ran crash free on a short test, will try longer tests later.
Both tests were running with the SimConnect 2 option (FSX/MSFS), I did try the option 3 (P3d) when running P3d, this didn't work.
I see we have Config Index Nos., I haven't puzzled out what these are for, sorry, that may explain the P3d not working.

[tim arnot]

P3D and FSX/MSFS option 1 use the "traditional"  simconnect.cfg/simconnect.xml file combo. Config indexes only come into play if you're trying to do things with multiple applications. If you haven't discovered you need to mess with indexes, then you don't need to mess with indexes! (i.e. leave it at 0)