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Im operating on a vista, and get the error message "cfs3 has stopped working" 

this has happened many times before and is a serious problem with vista. closes every game ive used so far except CoD. Its linked to DEP and vista has problems with this, closing perfectly normal programs. The problem is temporarily fixed by turning DEP off before using cfs3. program now loads/runs very nicely (1440x900 res at max graphics settings with no lag or anything), but has issues when i select AVH aircraft.

 
i downloaded/installed:

both B17's

all 3 Lancasters

Halifax MKIII

i have weapons pack and downloaded all sound files except the halifax's.

when i try to select any of the aircraft as player aircraft, the game shuts down, yet in quick combat i can set enemy aircraft to the B17 and it works fine. i can set enemy aircraft to any AVH planes but when i click "fly" it shuts down except with the b17

anyone know how to fix this?
 

Turned out weapons files were in proper locations.

sidenote: readme is placed in the folder named "weapons" makes it difficult to find lol 

Yea. Same problem.I don't think the game well run if it is not left stock.

Does it crash whenever you select an aircraft, or do you get the error message? 

I didn"t leave the game stock very long.But it does seem that stock aircraft will not crash the game.I let the game with a f-8 bear cat, the game crashed 20 times before I could get a stock plane up (P-38) .The game will load just fine TILL the mission screen if a add-on plane is up, it might run fine,run a few minutes or  never crash. maybe we just have to go back to xp.

 by crash, did it actually crash or did you get an error message saying "cfs3 has stopped working... blah blah blah... Microsoft is searching for a solution"

error message saying "cfs3 has stopped working... blah blah blah... Microsoft is searching for a solution". yea this .Sory for the long story!

Service Pack 1 is coming out soon for vista which will make it probably at least 10x better. as with XP, it should do wonders. So ide suggest waiting for SP1 to be released before trying this meathod, but its up to you. SP1 will hopefully have a fix for this problem as it is not exclusive to any game or program. seems to affect random things, but its quite a logical explination.

your computer uses something called DEP or Data Execution Prevention (not too sure if thats the exact wording lol, but u get the idea) anyway, its designed to prevent viruses from running code masked within other programs, the only downside is the strings of code ar extremely efficient and used by some programs because of their high efficiency. as is obvious, DEP thinks the string of code is a virus and shuts down the program.

 what i did to get around this is whats shown on this website: http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=17070 infact, i found this and did just that. it works, but you have to constantly re-enter the code into command prompt every 1-5 days or so, depending. but once u enter the code ur good for mabey 2 hours of uninterupted flying. i dont know, longest i went was about that, it crashed and i decided to go do something else.

but, heres the catch: with DEP off, you run the risk of your computer becoming infected more easily. Now, if you stay away from high risk areas of the internet and are constantly updating your anti-virus software and checking for virus you should be ok, but theres always the off chance. So, use at your own risk, it works well enough, but at a price.

I STRONGLY recomend waiting for SP1 to be released, it should automatically install vie automatic update, or at least notify you its avalible. for more info, go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/sp1.mspx

 
and ok, looks like it has been released, heres the help/install page: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/Help/133c8953-c9cd-4fa5-8883-03e91bb6f2021033.mspx
 

Thanks For the reply,I think I'll wait for the patch

           You got to buy FSX now so Bill cannot go broke and buy face wipes.If you buy something you should own it and he should be more liable for its floors.

I am a capitalist by nature without a pinko bone in my body but that man is ridiculous.You dont see a buick break or lose facility or stop parts for years but MS crashes inrepairedly after, well 6 months is my longest.VAX has uptimes of 12 years. No wonder he is so stinkin loaded,he doesn't part with anything or operate according to virtuous standards,betraying all his buddies to boot. I'll be looking under his Breitlung for a skull soon.

The amount of money i have spent could of bought me a Lamborghini and that wouldn't be off the road every 3 months.

The guys here give and share like decent humans.I would lay London to a brick if you put half as much effort into hacking up flightgear we would laughin.

Sorry but i m getting really peaved about MS. My Linux partition hardly ever crashes like this one and it was for nix. We had best wake up.You should get value for your hard earned money and buildings made of steel dont fall down from kerosene fires and their $90,000,000 gold reserves dont just vanish.

NO MORE. Hate me if you wish but I have a strong feeling you are going to find out the hard way I am right.We just had to pull it.My God.

Vista has known issues with CFS3 & does not support it.

"sidenote: readme is placed in the folder named "weapons" makes it difficult to find lol "

The information on the Weapons Pack in the download section of this site say this.

"AvHistory_WepPak_041708 - unzip into the main CFS3 folder"

There is no more to it then that. The files will find there own homes in the sim.  When any zip file has a read me all you need to do is click on it to get it up on your screen.  This is outlined in the how to use win.zip, the auto unpacker in Vista & other compaction software.

When i first used AVH aircraft, something was misplaced in one of the files, an important one. cant remember which though - but the computer either unzipped it incorectly or it had  been misplaced to begin with. once this was fixed, it solved my problem - but yeah vista is pretty brutal sometimes right now.

 

to bad someone that knows vista(if any does) would or could find a fix