Maybe it’s just an AMD thing where they’ve removed the option to force High Performance mode. Anyone else with AMD’s experiencing this?

Hi All,

For awhile my install was working without issues. Silky smooth, all graphics up, etc. I am on a Mac Pro with Windows 8.1 installed and the workstation graphics cards, the AMD FirePro D300’s. This is/probably an issue with other AMD cards as well. Basically what I found is that recently my cards refuse to run in high performance mode. The clock speeds are 300 mhz when they should be 850+ mhz. Same with memory. When I can get them to run at full speed, the frame rates more than double, but the low activity of the gpu causes them to go back to low performance mode.

I ask that others try MSI Afterburner with its hardware monitoring to see if this is the same for other users, and to post their results below. And if so, maybe the dev’s know a fix to force high performance mode of the cards. I haven’t had an NVIDIA card for years, so I don’t know how their drivers work nowadays.

Anyways, just a thought. Hope we can all get our issues resolved. Thanks!

Thanks for the input. It seems the only way I have gotten the game landable is if I enabled F16’s only in the config program. It may not address the actual problem, but it seems to work for me. Not sure if that helps in any way with debugging.

Thanks for that tip. I did try that, tried the registry fix merge, and BMS worked alright for a few flights right after install (before a restart of the computer). Restarted, and the crashes kept happening. I am at a loss.

A quick update. I have uninstalled everything, and started installing the updates one by one. As soon as I install update 3 the crash starts happening. Everything is fine till that point. The crash log when only up to update 3 is installed is:

================================== CRASHLOG =====================================
Falcon BMS.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in:
0023:046EE5BA Falcon BMS.exe, TranslatePointData()+122 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\release\campaign\camplib\ptdata.cpp, line 152+45 byte(s)
Exception handler called in UnhandledExceptionHandler.
Read from location 0x09FD1FFC caused an access violation.
Bytes at CS:EIP: F3 0F 10 1E 8B 54 24 10 8B 44 24 14 F3 0F 59 D1

Registers:
EAX=0x00000CFD EBX=0xFFFFFFFF ECX=0x09FD2008 EDX=0x047B4870 ESI=0x09FD1FFC
EDI=0x2409E7A0 EBP=0x0AD35508 ESP=0x158BF7C0 EIP=0x046EE5BA FLG=0x00010246
CS=0x0023 DS=0x002B SS=0x002B ES=0x002B FS=0x0053 GS=0x002B

Call Stack:
0023:046EE5BA Falcon BMS.exe, TranslatePointData()+122 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\release\campaign\camplib\ptdata.cpp, line 152+45 byte(s), Parameters(0x158BF7E8 0x00000000 0x158BF7EC 0x00000000)
0023:04747183 Falcon BMS.exe, DigitalBrain::UpdateTaxipoint()+387 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\release\sim\digi\landme.cpp, line 4437, Parameters(0x4A742400 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000)
0023:047DA911 Falcon BMS.exe, AircraftClass::GatherInputs()+2417 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\release\sim\aircraft\aircraftinputs.cpp, line 462+30 byte(s), Parameters(0x208EB710 0x00000000 0x200A3838 0x00000000)
0023:047E2690 Falcon BMS.exe, AircraftClass::DoLogic()+7744 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\release\sim\aircraft\aircraft.cpp, line 2365, Parameters(0x0303526A 0x00000000 0x03035254 0x00000000)
0023:0480136F Falcon BMS.exe, SimulationDriver::Cycle()+1647 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\release\sim\simdrive\simdrive.cpp, line 687, Parameters(0x04E844C8 0x00000000 0x0479E550 0x00000000)
0023:0479EE07 Falcon BMS.exe, SimulationLoopControl::Loop()+1191 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\release\sim\simloop\simloop.cpp, line 506, Parameters(0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0479E550 0x00000000)
0023:044B1A5A Falcon BMS.exe, ThreadUnhandledExceptionWrapper()+170 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\release\falclib\ehandler.cpp, line 1550+7 byte(s), Parameters(0x0479E960 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000)
0023:0479E567 Falcon BMS.exe, SimLoopWrapper()+23 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\release\sim\simloop\simloop.cpp, line 109+17 byte(s), Parameters(0x00000000 0x00000000 0x761F7C04 0x00000000)
0023:0479E960 Falcon BMS.exe, SimulationLoopControl::Loop , e:\wip\bms\svn\source\release\sim\simloop\simloop.cpp, line 263, Parameters(0x00000000 0x00000000 0x12D3FA15 0x00000000)
0023:779CAD1F ntdll.dll, RtlInitializeExceptionChain()+143 byte(s), Parameters(0xFFFFFFFF 0xFFFFFFFF 0x779B0227 0x00000000)
0023:779CACEA ntdll.dll, RtlInitializeExceptionChain()+90 byte(s), Parameters(0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000)

It still contains the updatetaxipoint, but it is the second line. Thank you.

Hi All,

I’ve been trying to get back into Falcon lately, but on Windows 8.1, I can’t get the program not to crash once my wheels hit the ground. It just goes to desktop. I am running updated drivers, I’ve tried compatibility modes of Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. I’ve tried playing with all the graphic settings (even turning them all down with no avail). I do have Falcon installed on an external hard drive. I am not sure if that is related. Here is the top of the crash log. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Adam

================================== CRASHLOG =====================================
Falcon BMS.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in:
0023:04616897 Falcon BMS.exe, DigitalBrain::UpdateTaxipoint()+487 byte(s), d:\sandbox\bmscode_public\sim\digi\landme.cpp, line 4436+116 byte(s)
Exception handler called in UnhandledExceptionHandler.
Read from location 0x09330FFC caused an access violation.
Bytes at CS:EIP: F3 0F 10 16 8B 45 08 F3 0F 10 4D E0 F3 0F 59 4D