New XP12 OrbX True Earth GB North scenery triggering G500 to CTD X-Plane

[Matchstick]

I've run into an odd problem with the new XP12 version of the OrbX True Earth GB North and the RSG G500 which is resulting in XP12 crashing when the G500 is enabled.

I first spotted the issue when starting a flight in the HSF EC130 with the RSG G500 plugin installed with the GTN 650 and 750 enabled with direct route between EGTC and EGVA entered (neither airport is in the TB GB North region).
Shortly after turning on the avionics the sim CTDed.

I've been able to replicate the issue in a clean copy of XP12 12.0.9 with no scenery other than Global Scenery and Airports plus XP12 TE GB North and no plugins other than Gizmo using the HSF EC130, the Torquesim BN-2B Piston Islander and the default C172 G500.
The process is simply to load the aircraft at EGTC, enable the battery and avionics (if the G500 doesn't start with battery) and wait. The sim will freeze and then CTD within approximately a minute.

I've tried the same steps without the XP12 TE GB North scenery and with the XP1 TW GB North Scenery rather than the XP12 version and in both cases the sim was fine after serveral minutes.

I've attached log files for the 3 aircraft I tested with the XP12 TE GB North scenery as well as logs for the C172 G500 with no TE Scenery and with the XP11 TE GB North scenery. Additionally a scenery_pacs.ini files shows what was loaded when the TE scenery was enabled.

Log - XP12 TE Islander.txt Log - XP11 TE C172.txt Log - no TE C172.txt Log - XP12 TE C172.txt Log - XP12 TE EC130.txt XP12 TE scenery_packs.ini no TE scenery_packs.ini

[Coop]

Hm, that is an odd replication case, but good to know. If you look at Task Manager during load, is the ram or vram near maxing-out?

[Matchstick]

I'm afraid I'm not workign from hope today so I haven't been able grab any load data but I'll trry to grab that this evening

However I did notice on the FlyJSim discord there was mention that their Q4XP was also crashing with the XP12 TE GB North and one of their devs have confirmed that it's an issue with OpenGPWS which has now been fixed in the source.

It might be a coincidence that two products both using OpenGPWS are crashing with the same scenery but I do wonder if it's worth looking at.

[Graeme_77]

It is an OpenGPWS issue. I bought the TEGB update when it was released, but to my shame didn't try the Challenger in it for a few days. 

Once I'd noticed the crash the Challenger/OpenGPWS developer worked quickly to identify the issue. It has now been corrected, and the updated code is available now. I've messaged Coop directly with those details too.

Some addons like the G500 use OpenGPWS code internally so will need to be recompiled and an update issued.  Other addons, typically aircraft built with lua scripting engines, use a plugin version of OpenGPWS. The plugin version is very nearly ready for those cases too. 

[Mike710]

Interestingly I have had a couple of CTD´s using the BN-2T (G500) with Air Hauler 2 recently. Not sure If that´s related. Did post my Issue with attached logs over at the Torquesim BN-2T forum.  I also have TEGB Installed but flew there with the bare BN-2T none G500 with no Issues.  Hope It gets fixed soon as I really like all three addons.

Edited March 27 by Mike710

[Matchstick]

There was a new release version of OpenGPWS posted to the main Github repostory yesterday with the fix included and pasting the contents of that into the plugins\OpenGPWS folder of the aircraft I've been testing has stopped them crashing.
https://github.com/skiselkov/opengpws/releases

It may well be that there are other issues that will be caused by doing this so it's only a very temporary fix to get the planes up and running again until a patched version of the G500 can be released.

Edited March 28 by Matchstick

[Coop]

12 hours ago, Matchstick said:

There was a new release version of OpenGPWS posted to the main Github repostory yesterday with the fix included and pasting the contents of that into the plugins\OpenGPWS folder of the aircraft I've been testing has stopped them crashing.
https://github.com/skiselkov/opengpws/releases

It may well be that there are other issues that will be caused by doing this so it's only a very temporary fix to get the planes up and running again until a patched version of the G500 can be released.

Yes, we will be integrating this into the G500 ourselves (we build our own builds of OpenGPWS that we deploy with our products, but that is mostly a technicality). In the interim, replacing the current OpenGPWS with the one provided here should handle what you need. We don't touch the DSFs ourselves in any of our products so the bug here should be contained exclusively within OpenGPWS.

[David Edson]

On 3/28/2024 at 11:33 PM, Matchstick said:

There was a new release version of OpenGPWS posted to the main Github repostory yesterday with the fix included and pasting the contents of that into the plugins\OpenGPWS folder of the aircraft I've been testing has stopped them crashing.
https://github.com/skiselkov/opengpws/releases

It may well be that there are other issues that will be caused by doing this so it's only a very temporary fix to get the planes up and running again until a patched version of the G500 can be released.

thankyou thankyou thankyou and a million more thankyou's, I've been pulling my hair out tying to get this working. You have pulled me from the fire, awesome work.

[BurkeM]

I have recently purchased RSG G500 for use on MU2 plane. After several attempts each resulting in an immediate crash to desktop I have removed this addon.

Also failed to load the Cessna provided with the same issue.  I have attached the log from the latest attempt in the hope that  you can identify the issue.

Should I be using the patch from March or is that included in the download made this week ?

Mike

 

Log.txt

[Cameron]

3 hours ago, BurkeM said:

Should I be using the patch from March or is that included in the download made this week ?

You should be using the patch. The next update to the product will include it in the installer.

[BurkeM]

Thanks

Having opened the link I can't see what exactly I have to place in to the opengpws folder.