Keep Crashing To Desktop(CTD) when entering cockpit

[Longshot6]

Hi All,

I keep crashing to desktop
I start out on the default 1st FS squadron and try to fly the first mission. It's an escort mission. The task says 'Strike' and target is 'Dong Hoi Headquarters'. By the way, the US 233rd Gun Battalion always surrenders on startup of the campaign. I installed by first installing Falcon 4.0, then deleting msvcrt.dll. Reboot. Then run the 108us patch and reboot. Unzip Falcon4_108i2.exe. Expand F4Patch_Standard_41RP5 and then point F4Patch at the 108i2 exe. I have tried to go with very few F4Patch patches applied, compared to what I normally have applied, so as to try and pinpoint where the problem is. What I have applied is...

"RP Group" Realism Patch v5.0
(i2) "RP Group" Realism Patch v5.0
RP v5.0 HotFix #01
RP v5.0 HotFix #02
RP v5.0 Voice/Sound/Comm Patch
Ship Sound fixes
Fly/Task any plane in TE and Campaign v1.4
Force Feedback fix
Fuel Gauge Fix
Fuel Plug for external tanks
MSVCRT.dll
Memory Leak sealed
Radar cursor increase patch
Sink Rates - (i2) Gear sink Rate tolerance 15 ft/s (Default)
Terrain and new Theaters - Vietnam Theater

I apply the above patches(although the Radar cursor increase patch doesn't seem to do anything when using Aeyes F4-E pit from having used it in regular Korean theater), except the last one of course, and then install the Vietnam 0.7 beta Theater. Reboot, just in case, although I don't think it's neccessary. Then I run F4Patch and apply the Vietnam Theater, then run eF4PTinstall.exe and generate the Vietnam terrain. I did not unzip the Vietnam-B7-CMP-nobridges fix as I am not trying to play a multiplayer campaign. Do I need to? Then I put Aeyes F4-E cockpit into my art\ckptart folder(this is ok I hope). Then I run Falcon and select Direct3D, 1024x768 resolution, turn up all sliders and turn on all graphics options, except I leave bubble at 3 and vehicle magnification at 1.
I am doing everything that I would do normally to play Falcon other than having only a few select F4Patches applied. I normally use the F4DX patch with the devCreateSurface patch applied. I tried to play with these applied and unapplied(although I guess I wouldn't need the devCreateSurface patch seeing how there shouldn't be any laser guided munitions) and with and without 2x FSAA enabled. I always crash to desktop whenever I am about to enter the cockpit though. I hope someone has an idea about what I can do. I think I may try a couple things like removing the F4-E cockpit and pick a different squadron to fly with, but somehow doubt that will help.

Thanks,

Jim

[Snake Man]

quote:Originally posted by Longshot6:
then run eF4PTinstall.exe and generate the Vietnam terrain.

No no no, if you are running 108i2 you are not supposed to run eF4PTinstall but the other, ntF4PTinstall

eF4PTinstall is only for eFalcon terrains.

Run ntF4PTinstall and if it still does not work, we try something else.

PMC TFW
Snake Man

[Longshot6]

Hi SnakeMan,

Ok, Thanks. I'll give that a try in just a bit here and let you know what happens. Thank you for responding so quickly.

Jim

[Longshot6]

Hello Again,

Ok Snake Man. That fixed it. I have had some problems and had been uninstalling and reinstalling Falcon a few times. I think was was mainly due to the fact that I forgot to delete the Falon4 directory before reinstalling. I had tried using ntF4PTinstall during one of the installs and still had the CTD problem. Well,I ended up finally finding out I had some filesystem corruption in the F4Patch directory, I believe it was because I had forgotten to delete the Falcon4 dir before reinstalling After fixing with Norton Disk Doctor there was a filename in the F4Patch dir that I could not delete in Windows nor with booting to a command prompt with start-up disk and going into the dir manually and using the 'del *.*' command. The only way to get rid of it finally was for me to go into Linux and then mount my Windows partition and using Linux's 'rm -rf' command. That got rid of that crap. Yeah! But then this last time I reinstalled Falcon and the Vietnam Theater I used the eF4PTinstall(even though I figured this was for eFalcon) because like I said, I had already tried using the ntF4PTinstall and still had CTD. But alas, that was becuase I had forgotten to delete the Falcon4 dir before reinstalling and had corruption at that time that I was not aware of until later on. But it looks like it's all good now thanks to you letting me know for sure that which theater installer I need to use! I'm now going to try appyling some more patches with F4Patch.

Thanks a million Snake Man!

Jim

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[Snake Man]

quote:Originally posted by Longshot6:
Linux and then mount my Windows partition and using Linux's 'rm -rf' command. That got rid of that crap.

Linux fixes many windows craps

PMC TFW
Snake Man

[Longshot6]

Greetings Snake Man,

F4Patches are working great now, and I think the Vietnam Theater is great even at version 0.7! Good job and Thank You to all who worked on it.
Yeah, Linux rocks. I love it. I am currently a Sair Linux/GNU LCP, Linux Certified Professional, and going for LCA, Linux Certified Administrator, by myself on my own time.
Glad you like the little bombing dialog. It is a slight variation of a dialog from a Harrison Ford movie called Clear and Present Danger.

Cheers,

Jim