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Offline hitech

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CTD With Planes
« on: August 17, 2015, 12:15:20 PM »
For those of you with ctd when spawning airplanes.
Can you check if either of the 2 files exists?

\windows\syswow64\D3DCompiler_43.dll

And

\Windows\system32\d3dcompiler_43.dll


I believe your direct x is out of date And I missed shipping the compiled version of the pelxi glass shader.

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Re: CTD With Planes
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2015, 03:39:51 PM »
If you do not run the full DX installer download from Microsoft, for Win7 64bit at least, this file will only exist in:

C:\Windows\system32

Recently I made a change to my bios which resulted in the wiping out of my boot sector and had to perform a new install of Win7. And I CTD in alpha70 trying to launch aircraft. I downloaded and installed the DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) .

Now the file in question is located in both:

C:\Windows\system32
C:\Windows\sysWoW64

The Aircraft spawning CTD no longer happens.

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Re: CTD With Planes
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2015, 04:39:58 PM »
Yep, they're both missing on my machine. I can't do anything about it atm but unless you hear otherwise, I believe that will fix me up. Typical USER ERROR LOL.

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Re: CTD With Planes
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2015, 04:51:13 PM »
I show both but as _47dll instead of _43dll. I am using W10 if that makes any diff.
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Re: CTD With Planes
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2015, 06:42:20 PM »
Neither one exist on my system.

Did as Bustr said, downloaded DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) . I can fly planes now !! :x
« Last Edit: August 17, 2015, 09:06:49 PM by JimmyD3 »
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Re: CTD With Planes
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2015, 09:28:27 PM »
Couldn't get it to install. Oh well. It keeps asking for a path and I can't get it to accept one.

Edited to add: I reverted to W7, went to the Microsoft download site (knew I had the right one when they tried to get me to add the Bing bar with the SysX bit), downloaded, installed and voila, it now works. Yay!
« Last Edit: August 17, 2015, 10:54:38 PM by Snork »
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Re: CTD With Planes
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2015, 10:40:02 PM »
Couldn't get it to install. Oh well. It keeps asking for a path and I can't get it to accept one.

Yeah, I read that to mean it wants to install a SDK. I installed a manual update, KB2670838, that MS said would install the D3D files. If it did, I can't find them and wonder what the thing really installed.

I use Firefox and Thunderbird. I found both versions of the 3D3 on my HD by doing a search. I copied both _43 and _47 into my C:\Windows\sysWoW64 (64 bit) folder, they do work for my 64bit machine in sysWoW64. They didn't work in my System32 folder.

I hope that helps some people.
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Re: CTD With Planes
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2015, 12:14:32 PM »
While I can fly planes again, I did notice some minor stutter at low alt and details enabled. Turned Details off and stutter goes away. :headscratch:
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Re: CTD With Planes
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2015, 03:46:19 PM »
Installed the DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) as bustr suggested. Now no more ctd when launching planes.  :rock

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