Simulator crashs .... (does it come from "god rays")?

[choregie7]

Hello there,

I am a user of Skymaxxpro, I just go to the 10.30b7 a few days ago  and I crashes since ...
I discovered when activating or deactivating "godrays", the simulator immediately crach even having just been loaded ...
I looked in the relase notes for future 10.30b8 and I found here:
"Fixed crash When loading a custom scenery with user-created spill-lights with normal non-normalized vectors."

http://www.x-plane.com/?article=x-plane-10-30-release-notes

Does my crash problems could come from there?

[JohnMAXX]

Post ur crash logs and we can take a look  

[choregie7]

hello there,

Sorry it took so long to answer you, I had no time at all, and since installing XP-plane 10.30b8 and Sky maxx 2.00, I had no crach when selecting god rays .
Thank you for offering me  this great version, like many, I have no words to thank you !
I had just one desktop return by making a flight just now (but I have done several flights with no problems at all), but .log does not indicate what has crached , would you still interested in the .log in order to track down any bugs?

here it is :

Log.txt

 

have a nice evening ....

Edited August 11, 2014 by choregie7

[sundog]

Not a whole lot to go on in your log - all I can do is offer an educated guess.

 

It doesn't indicate that Skymaxx Pro or any other plugin caused the crash, so the crash itself happened inside of X-Plane. You are running a beta version of X-Plane, and you're flying in really stormy conditions as well which will put the most pressure on your available memory due to the large number of clouds involved. Plus you may be flying over photoscenery which also stresses your available memory. I suspect the problem is the combination of the three - you ran out of memory, and the beta version of X-Plane didn't handle it well. (Be sure to send in a crash report to Laminar if prompted! Only they can tell for sure.)

 

I would start by configuring SkyMaxx Pro to use less memory; the best way to do this is reducing the "cloud draw distance" and/or "cloud detail" settings in SkyMaxx Pro's configuration panel.

 

If you're running with SkyMaxx Pro, you may as well set your "cloud detail" setting in X-Plane's render settings dialog to 0 as well. That also might conserve some extra memory that's going to waste.

 

Going back to 10.25 until 10.30 is final might not be bad advice either - if you run beta software, you're kind of agreeing to the risk of crashes. Removing the photoscenery or buying more RAM may also help, but of course those are last resorts.

Edited August 11, 2014 by sundog

[choregie7]

Hello there,

Thank you for your reply; I did some tests yesterday, I had no crach in several flight, remaining around 20-30 fps ....
I lowered the clouds minimum and maximum slider , cloud coverage remained satisfying and beautiful.
Increasing the maximum details of clouds does not affect , nor godrays, I have no drop in performance, it seems that only the number of clouds makes my fps drop (i have detail at max , reflections, god rays , high res everywhere) ...
It must be said that there were many  stormy areas these days (I'm using only real wheater), it immediately triggers a mini freeze and slowdown my FPS ....

 

I have X-Plane 10.30 b8, HDR on détail max, jar a 320 and photosceneries X16 everywhere ( X17 in airport areas)....

 

My config :

 

I5 3550 3,3ghz

radeon 7950 3 Go Vram

8 Go Ram.

 

I am not sure that the overall issues from other users are essentially due to ram....

Edited August 13, 2014 by choregie7

[sundog]

Well, the people reporting things like crashes and framerate dropping to near-zero have all ended up having other issues going on that were unrelated to SkyMaxx Pro. What you're reporting is expected - when a very large number of clouds need to be generated, such as upon entering stormy conditions, you will see a small pause in framerate while SkyMaxx Pro "grows" those clouds. It shouldn't be much however. And, the more clouds you have in the scene, the more they will impact performance. Our clouds are very efficient compared to X-Plane's default clouds, but they still don't come for free.

 

John wrote up a guide for tuning SkyMaxx Pro's performance further that you may want to check out: http://forums.x-pilot.com/topic/7093-adjusting-skymaxx-pro-for-better-performance/#entry77614 In your case, the first thing I'd try is reducing the cloud draw distance setting, especially if you've adjusted it upwards at all.

[choregie7]

All I can say , is that I'm very satisfied by your product   , it doesn't matter me to turn cloud drawing down, there are still enough clouds and no more performance problems for me (and by the way I keep the res at max )...

The thing I will try is to slow down thee draw distance like you are advising me when it come's to stormy weather and then it should be fine....

 

ps: sorry for my english, it is a melt of ggole traductor and my poor knowledge of shakespeare's language

 

In all case, thanks for your help , have a nice day ....