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Flightgear Crashing For no reason

Postby azouser » Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:29 pm

So it goes where I launch Flightgear and after it installs, and before getting to the first screen after airports And navigation data loads, a white screen pops up and closes flightgear completely, even before it goes to the menu, troubleshooter does nothing BTW and I have reinstalled it countless times
windows 11
latest (2020.3.13)
Intel uhd 630 graphics card
4gb ram
not related to addons, just a software bug I think
its just plain white screen with nothing in it
and flightgear ran very smoothly before all of this happened
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Re: Flightgear Crashing For no reason

Postby jtprophet » Mon Aug 15, 2022 4:37 pm

Based on your video card listing I assume you are using a laptop; id this is the case then 4 gigs of ram is very low and inadequate to run anything because the operating system is sharing the ram and this could indeed be your issue overall.

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Re: Flightgear Crashing For no reason

Postby TheEagle » Mon Aug 15, 2022 4:44 pm

Well, it could barely work if you closed all other memory-hungry apps like internet browsers, Photoshop etc., but it would indeed be a good idea to monitor your RAM usage while starting FG. If it fills up to the top then that is indeed your issue, and you need to either close more applications, buy a bigger RAM or increase your SWAP file size as explained here (you need to scroll down a bit).
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Re: Flightgear Crashing For no reason

Postby azouser » Tue Aug 16, 2022 10:14 am

but it used to work before and I'm using a computer and it doesn't use much memory, but it could be the issue
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Re: Flightgear Crashing For no reason

Postby TheEagle » Tue Aug 16, 2022 10:20 am

Well, if it worked before you need to think hard at which point it stopped working and what you did right before ! :)
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Re: Flightgear Crashing For no reason

Postby azouser » Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:45 pm

well, it happened very unexpectedly, and my system uses 3 out of the 4gb ram, and I closed every app like Chrome and stuff and it went down to 2, and still it won't launch
BTW quick note I ran flightgear using the installed directory, it launched flightgear but with the Cessna 172p, and I cant change the aircraft there
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Re: Flightgear Crashing For no reason

Postby TheEagle » Tue Aug 16, 2022 1:22 pm

Well, if you start FG with just 2GB RAM free, it just can't work. 4 is the absolute minimum, especially when using complex aircraft like the C172P - but even with 4GB free RAM at startup, you might run out of memory pretty soon, so I really recommend to set the SWAP file size to something like 8GB - for long flights, you might even need 10 to 12 GB.
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Re: Flightgear Crashing For no reason

Postby azouser » Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:24 am

Well, I do have a laptop with 8 gb ram and an i7, i guess I will just use it instead of the pc, thanks for the advise
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Re: Flightgear Crashing For no reason

Postby TheEagle » Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:17 am

Yep, that would be a good idea - I don't know that much about processors, but I think an i7 might also give you better framerates ! :)
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