Having Problem With Mr. Lyons Goose

[tcgeo]

Hi all. I’ve been monitoring this forum and reaping the benefits for some time. Thanks to everyone for your wealth of knowledge and your willingness to share it.

Now for my first post…

I downloaded Bill Lyon’s Grumman Goose, cc9gz1f.zip. When I begin a flight all seems to be fine and in working order. However, as soon as the aircraft leaves the ground and I change views, I get a CTD. I’ve searched the sim forums here and at other sites and cannot find a solution that works for my computer. This only happens when I change views and only with this plane. If I leave it in VC view I have no CTD. I have downloaded well over 100 aircraft in the past years and have never had this problem with any of them. I have tried all the suggested fixes I could find.

The CTD reports errors, Machine Check Exception 0x0000009c, 00000004, 80545FF0, 00070f0f

Here’s what I’ve tried:

Run in full screen & windowed mode
Disabled the AM radio as suggested in read me
Adjusted Target Frame Rate from 10 to unlimited & back
Moved most sliders to left and then worked them to the right
Adjusted paging file size from 2046-4092 to system managed
Slashed out // 2D Panel in Panel CFG file
Changed Ultimate Terrain USA to original FS9 scenery
Ran a program called SCANAFD to look for duplicate BGL files, found none
Had an adult beverage or two……..
Reinstalled cc9gz1f.zip
Downloaded and reinstalled Goose CFG file (Mr. Lyons, on another site said that he had mistakenly left it out of initial download at some sites)
Unchecked Render to texture
Unchecked Transform & lighting
Disabled dual monitors
Changed Display Resolution from 1600x1200x32 to 800x600x32
Re-tried several other aircraft, original & downloaded, and all work great.

I just love the Goose and so does my 5 year old Jack, especially the dog of course!
Can anyone help me on what I might be missing?

Thanks,

George

My system:

ALIENWARE AURORA ALX
ASUS A8N-SLI N-FORCE 4 SLI – (not using SLI for FS9)
ATHLON 64 FX-55 1 MB CACHE 939-PIN
CORSAIR 512MB 4400025 550MHZ XMS - (4)
NVIDIA GEFORCE 6800 GT 256MB PCIE - (2) Driver Version 71.84
ALIENWARE 20.1" LCD DISPLAY - BENQ FP2091-AW
WD RAPTOR 74GB SATA 10K RPM 8MB HD
WD 250GB SATA 7200 RPM 8MB HD
NEC ND-3520 16X DUAL LAYER DVD±R/W RECORDER - (2)
CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY 2 ZS 7.1
FS9 2004 w/patch
Windows XP Pro w/patch
DirectX 9.0c
CH Yoke & Pedals

[Admin]

I don't know but that is the 2nd case of Goose crashing so i hope someone comes up with an answer. Perhaps Bill will have an idea in the morning.

[tcgeo]

Thanks for the reply Mr. Constantine!

Geo

[Roger]

Well if ever a problem was more eloquently or politely put I want to see it now! ;D
George I do hope we can help you with this problem.
I wonder if this happens if you start with a different aircraft and change to the Goose in flight? Also does it happen if you pick one of the Goose flights?

Regards

Roger

[tcgeo]

Hi Roger,

Yes, I have tried both and the reaction is the same.

Thanks,

George

[Admin]

tcgeo said:

Thanks for the reply Mr. Constantine!

Geo

Please call me Tom... Mr. Constantine was my Grandfather.

Roger's questions are good ones. I'm falling asleep here so not much help tonight

[tcgeo]

Sir Yes Sir!

LOL

[douglas]

I had a similar problem with an unrelated aircraft. Try checking your startup fligtht, and restoring it to the default flight with the cessna, make sure you are in the 2D view when you save it.
Restart FS, change to the Goose, and see if that make a difference.
Hope it helps.

[Bill Lyons]

George, The most common problem in any of my aircraft is the radio/cd player. Make sure you take it complately out of the folder and see if that helps. If that doesn't work then maybe sounds might be the problem. Try renaming the G21/sound folder to soundB and see if you get the ctd.. Next, try renaming the panel.cfg to panel.cfb and see if you can fly that way. You might be able to isolate the problem to one area.. Good luck, Bill

[tcgeo]

Thanks for the response douglas and Mr. Lyons. I'll give both suggestions a try and get back.

Thanks again,

George

[tcgeo]

Hi douglas and Mr. Lyons, I tried all of your suggestions, this is what I found to be the problem.

Found the gstart.wav file in the sound folder to be the trouble. I played it on its own, it contained no sound data.

I disabled it by renaming it.

Went into sound.cfg - changed each STARTER group to line out the
"filename=gstart" line.

[STARTER]
//filename=gstart
viewpoint=1
link=xstarter

//filename=gstart
viewpoint=2

[STARTER2]
//filename=gstart
viewpoint=1
link=xstarter2

[XSTARTER2]
//filename=gstart
viewpoint=2

I now have all of the sounds accept for the startup sounds working and no CDT. This includes the radio/cd. I previously re-downloaded the cc9gz1f.zip and re-installed the G21. My guess is that maybe the “gstart.wav” file is corrupt some how?

Well, I can certainly live without startup sounds. All the other engine sounds are so great, and match the Goose much better than the DC3 sounds I had aliased them to.

Thanks again Mr. Lyons for your great plane and adventures (looking for the sub was a fun one).

George

[tcgeo]

EDIT ABOVE

CDT = CTD

[Bill Lyons]

Well, sounds like that file was somehow corrupted in the download.. You can dl it by right clicking on this link.. windrfters.com/gstart.wav Hope that helps, Bill

[tcgeo]

Thanks Bill, that did the trick!

George

[Bill Lyons]

Hey, Glad it worked! For some reason files once in a while get corrupted in the download process.. Best, Bill