BMS crash after completing a mission

[seojoonho001]

Hi pilots,

I have a question about this crash I get time to time after completing a mission in a campaign.

So I would complete a 1.5 hr mission, all done correctly and objectives earned. I land and hit ESC and then E to end mission.

Most of the time it takes me to the normal briefing board where I get a great satisfaction for completing the mission.

But sometimes, right when BMS is going from 3D to 2D, it crashes, and there is (almost) nothing more annoying then bms crashing after completing a long mission.

The message reads like this:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Falcon BMS.exe
Application Version: 4.12391.0.0
Application Timestamp: 527f97ae
Fault Module Name: Falcon BMS.exe
Fault Module Version: 4.12391.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 527f97ae
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00113370
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 8d13
Additional Information 2: cdca9b1d21d12b77d84f02df48e34311
Additional Information 3: 8d13
Additional Information 4: cdca9b1d21d12b77d84f02df48e34311

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My system spec is windows vista 64bit, i3, and gts250 (yes I could use an upgrade but my $ is a bit short now).

Any idea as to why I am getting this crash time to time? Anybody knows any solution?

Thanks in advance,

Joon

[Dram]

I periodically had similar crash issue, but not for some time. I believe it might have been caused by holding the brakes on at the time you end mission. Unsure of this but have not had the issue since ensuring brakes released on exit.

[EDMARTICK]

Are your graphic card drivers and other drivers ok? is the first question.

[justanothernoob]

Ok, this is a long shot, but:

http://www.windowsbbs.com/legacy-windows/40538-what-causes-exception-code-c0000005-access_violation.html

Apparently, “Exception Code: c0000005” is caused by Falcon BMS.exe attempting to access a non-existent location, so I suspect either memory problems
or a shortage of memory. How much memory do you have?

(There is a trick to allow BMS or other 32 bit programs on 64 bit systems to use more than 2GB addressing space, don’t know if this will solve anything, but still:
1. download CFF Explorer, it is free
2. go to your BMS folder, Bin, find the Falcon BMS.exe file and make a backup of it
3. open CFF, open Falcon BMS, go to Nt headers=> File headers, in the bottom right on the right part of the screen, in the
last row, “Characteristics”=> click on “Click here”, set the “App can handle more than 2GB adressing space” on, save file, confirm that
you indeed want to overwrite Falcon BMS.exe (this is why you have made a backup for safety))

You mention the problem occurs after long missions.
Especially if you, by accident or on purpose, have a lot of long ACMI recordings, during that mission, it will take some time to process those
and you will see the waiting screen (“exiting cockpit” or something like that) for a long time (but it will return to the 2D map after some time).
Too much ACMI could overflow the available memory ?

[seojoonho001]

Thanks a lot for the replies guys. I think my videocard driver is fine. Sinc the newewst driver has issues I am sticking with an older version.

I doubt it may be a ram issue because I have 8gb of ram. I did play around with some files in the cockpitartn/cockpitart folder. Maybe this is an issue?

And very interesting thing about the cff explorer. Ill give that a try.

Thanks a lot for commenting guys.

[justanothernoob]

Well, I also thought RAM issues were a bit far-fetched, but what can we do…

In the past, I’ve had the same problem you describe, but that was most probably due
to my attempts to modify things, as I’ve never had it with a 100 % stock install.

Can you confirm that you’ve never had this problem with short missions (long mission = 1-2 hours?) That might be a hint.

[seojoonho001]

Yeah I also think that it’s because (or partially at least) of the modifications I have made/added.

Recently BMS has crashed during short missions as well.

When it crashes during flying, it tends to happen in the beginning of the campaign, where a lot of blue and red team are in the air. FPS drops down to avg. of 20 or so, and then it crashes. When it is not crashing during flying, it most often crashes when switching from 2D to 3D, and vice versa. Maybe there is something wrong with my graphics card/driver… I would so like to upgrade my comp but ugh no moneys yet.

I might try clean install and go from there.