by Steve Waite » Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:00 am
IF utilises core operating system features, a lot of different types of resources, reading files and registry data, and obtaining information by running FS code. It reads everything in the simulator, other add-ons don't do it at this scale or gamut. If there's anything under the hood in Windows or the simulator that's even slightly amiss, it's not going to be noticed by adding a plane or airport.
However, IF is likely to run into that error. In the logs, indexing and flight generator, the app will report what it can't do. That is, if it is still running to report it.
In this instance in all the reports the kernel zero thread has stopped and Windows blue screens with a user enforced resource limit error. That doesn't mean the PC user went and set something, but it could.
More likely an app that doesn't work right perhaps mis-set something, and Windows crashes as a driver attempts to create the resource data. Or it is the result of malware attempting to read or infect something.
IF creates 100+ jps and bitmaps and html files and so on during installation and indexes the scenery and planes ok, and builds flights ok.
Then at some point during use of IF, a flight generate is creating six jpgs for the airport maps in the briefing.
During or around that few seconds period in the build process, over half a minute in total, something starts up in the background and hangs the PC.
The only difference with those jpgs is, they are also accessing some addon scenery during their construction.
Could it be malware checking out the sim folder for opportunities? Or some app or driver doing something in response to those jpgs arriving?
I can't see how reading the scenery files does anything. They have all been read-in during indexing without fuss anyway. Although the full dataset had not been extracted from the files.
Well, a kernel error IF is incapable of doing. There's no mention of IF running, or any of it's dlls and exes in the logs. It seems IF was just a passenger when the PC crashed.
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