couatl.exe crashes on P3D 2.4 with KLAS & KPHX - KDFW is OK

[sfm50]

Hello FSDT Support (or anyone else that may be able to help),

Got a weird thing happening with couatl.exe in that when I am at KLAS or KPHX the buildings will load up and P3D V 2.4 will pause for a few seconds and the buildings will disappear, and not CTD (no crash to desktop) P3D keeps running fine - it's just that couatl.exe will unload itself.

Note: KDFW is working fine! (KDFW also works with the public beta couatl.exe)

* Tried re-installing KLAS & KPHX - no worky
* Tried downloading the stand alone add-on manager - no joy there either!
* Tried using the Public Test beta Stand alone Mananger V 3.0.03 and no luck

 Also:

* No Nvidia streaming stuff running
* AntiVirus disabled for testing
* Disabled FTX Vector


A few more things that I would also mention:

Problem with couatl.exe crashing with FSDT KLAS &  Flight Beam KPHX occurred after installing P3D 2.4 (was working great under P3D 2.2)

FSDT & Flight Beam airports are all working good under my FSX Gold installation.

This Problem seems to only manifest itself with KLAS and KPHX in P3D V2.4 (Note: KDFW works great under V 2.4) using couatl version 2.0.0.2378 or the couatl Beta version 3.0.0.3028


Here is what was reported in the event viewer -

Non Beta Version of couatl.exe:

Faulting application name: couatl.exe, version: 2.0.0.2378, time stamp: 0x54bec650 Faulting module name: couatl.exe, version: 2.0.0.2378, time stamp: 0x54bec650 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x000028f6 Faulting process id: 0x240 Faulting application start time: 0x01d06fd201e4bf4e Faulting application path: G:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\fsdreamteam\couatl\couatl.exe Faulting module path: G:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\fsdreamteam\couatl\couatl.exe Report Id: 60846f29-dbc5-11e4-b2ae-180373420dbc

 
Public Test Beta add-on mgr with updated couatl.exe:

Faulting application name: couatl.exe, version: 3.0.0.3028, time stamp: 0x551be9bb Faulting module name: couatl.exe, version: 3.0.0.3028, time stamp: 0x551be9bb Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x00019413 Faulting process id: 0x1a64 Faulting application start time: 0x01d06fdc12484010 Faulting application path: G:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\fsdreamteam\couatl\couatl.exe Faulting module path: G:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\fsdreamteam\couatl\couatl.exe Report Id: 6c74f4be-dbcf-11e4-b70d-180373420dbc

[sfm50]

UPDATE:

KLAS works now (I have not tried KPHX yet)

Issue:

Active Sky Next dll may be conflicting couatl.exe when it is loaded in the dll.xml and Active Sky Next is not running. When I loaded ASN before a flight I get the KLAS airport and couatl.exe does not konk out.. I will do some more testing but I think I got a work-around now (make sure ASN is running before starting P3D, if the ASN dll is being loaded in the dll.xml)

Some more info:

P3D V2.4
Active Sky Next for P3D SP1B
couatl.exe version used for this test: 2.0.0.2378

[virtuali]

Active Sky Next dll may be conflicting couatl.exe when it is loaded in the dll.xml and Active Sky Next is not running. When I loaded ASN before a flight I get the KLAS airport and couatl.exe does not konk out.. I will do some more testing but I think I got a work-around now (make sure ASN is running before starting P3D, if the ASN dll is being loaded in the dll.xml)

That *looks* like a problem caused by a VC++ runtime libraries clashing.

The new Couatl 3 Beta uses VC++ 2013, and this should supposedly reduce the chance of these issues, since it's not (at least as far as we known) plagued by an history of clashing between subsequent versions like the 2005 version was.

[sfm50]

Update again more testing:

So I disabled the Active Sky Next DLL in the dll.xml for P3D V 2.4 and KLAS disappeared as before AND couatl.exe konked out... The dll above the ASN dll in the dll.xml file was the TacPack dll, I re-enable the Active Sky Next dll and disabled the Tacpack dll - launched a flight and the KLAS works without running the ASN weather program.. So it seems there may also be a conflict with the TacPack dll?

Note: I will need to test and see if KLAS works while running the ASN weather program with the tacpack dll disabled.

[sfm50]

More info testing KLAS with P3D 2.4:

* With the TacPack dll in the dll.xml file disabled KLAS works all the time (couatl.exe does not crash) either running Active Sky Next or not running Active Sky Next.

* With TacPack dll enabled in the dll.xml, running Active Sky Next seems to mitigate the conflict between the TacPack DLL and couatl.exe AND KLAS works without coutl.exe crashing.