Author Topic: MSFS CTD Couatl64_MSFS.exe  (Read 2232 times)

kev649

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MSFS CTD Couatl64_MSFS.exe
« on: April 04, 2023, 05:40:28 pm »
Hi Umberto

Just started having this problem today where after firing up the sim, it crashes to Desktop with the following Event Error:-

Faulting application name: couatl64_MSFS.exe, version: 4.8.0.5140, time stamp: 0x6418adcf
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.2130, time stamp: 0xb5ced1c6
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x00000000000ff6a9
Faulting process ID: 0x494c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d9670a80977d39
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\couatl64\couatl64_MSFS.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report ID: d3de2f33-8283-4c62-8e5e-347a290be702
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:


I read in the forums the post were you talked about Couatl64.exe being in compatibility mode for Windows 8. I changed that and took the tick out for compatibility but still i'm getting CTD's with the same error. I tried uninstalling GSX completely and re-installing it nut i'm still getting the same error as above.

Can you help with this please

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Re: MSFS CTD Couatl64_MSFS.exe
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2023, 06:29:44 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.

As discussed in this other post:

https://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,29540.msg191735.html#msg191735

If you checked the timestamps of the Event, it's likely you'll see that Flightsimulator.exe crashed BEFORE Couatl64_MSFS.exe, which means it was the simulator that made GSX crash, not the other way around.