FSX Pgm Crashes

For some time now, I have been plauged with sudden and undeterminable crashes in FSX. I would be flying merrily along using FSX as I used it in Windows XP for some time and under that (old) OS I had no problems other than the PC I had at the time was not a good PC and I could never tweak the graphics up the way I wanted. In fact, I couldn't tweak them up at all unless I didn't mind flying with framerates that were 2-5 FPS. It sort of reminded me of flying FS on the very first IBM compatable that I owned - the good-ol' TwinSpin that idled along at about 25Mhz processor speed, had a 30M hard drive ( WOW! That would Never get full) and I believe the Trident video adadpter and the RAM - WOW - it was a whopping 1Mhz. Well - that was then - this is now.

My new PC Has all kinds of horsepower and I could not fathom why I should be getting these crashes. The more it happened, the more I cussed Windows 7 and doubted my decision to move to a new PC. Then after a few GOOGLE searches, I ran across posts that blamed a .dll file - uiatomationcore.dll - that is supposed to be the culprit. This file is in the Windows\System32 folder and FS reads this file do do some of its "stuff" and aparently, when one messes with (looks at) the FS menus - either at the top of the screen or the one that appears with a mouse click - too many times, this crash takes place and you are offered choices to search the internet for a cure (useless) -r restart the program or to close the program.

So, winding up here, I downloaded the version of the .dll file that was suggested, and placed it in the root folder of my FSX installation (in my case it is C:\FSX) and after a few hours of flying and manipulating the menus to no end, I have not had a reocurrance of the crash.

The uiautomationcore.dll file is available here for you to download and try should you experience this irritating FSX program crash