Author Topic: CTD long-haul  (Read 575 times)

DavidGee

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CTD long-haul
« on: November 14, 2023, 03:06:52 pm »
MSFS just CTD, doing a long-haul flight often near destination, 5 out of 16 flights I have crashed for the same issue
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hope the event viewer can help with the crash

virtuali

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Re: CTD long-haul
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2023, 07:31:09 pm »
This has been discussed so many times on the forum, you are being mislead by the event viewer and are assuming that, just because you see Couatl crashed, it was the cause of your MSFS crash, but it's not.

The couatl engine, as an .EXE, doesn't have ANY access to the Flightsimulator.exe process, meaning it cannot possibly cause a crash. This is granted by the OS at the lowest level, and programs that don't attach to a process like debuggers ( and Couatl surely doesn't ) and/or are not lower level services or drivers, simply cannot crash other apps.

On the other hand, when Flight simulator crashes for any other reason, it will abruptly disconnect its communication with the Couatl program, which is waiting for a proper "quit" command ( which hasn't arrived, because the sim crashed ), to exit cleanly.

So, what really happened here, is that MSFS crashed for another completely unrelated reason, and it MADE Couatl crash too, because of the unexpected disconnection, and you are being mislead assuming Couatl has something to do with it, because you are seeing it referenced in the event viewer.

You only posted the Couatl entry but, I can see you have a previous crash, 3 seconds before, which I guess it's Flightsimulator.exe itself, which indicates MSFS crashed first, and MADE Couatl crash.
« Last Edit: November 14, 2023, 07:32:47 pm by virtuali »