Software "Camera" button does not work

[porterguy]

Hello everyone,

for some reason lately when I try pushing the camera button (F4 then Camera) to try and change the vantage point of the camera it crashes orbiter. I am running orbiter 2010 on Windows 7.

I have reinstalled orbiter twice and it still does this. Any help? And like I said it only recently started acting this way (Today 21/03/2013)

 

[orb]

Did you install any add-ons, or has it started crashing already in a clean installation?

 

[garyw]

And can you please post your orbiter.log after a crash.

 

[porterguy]

I have not installed anything I have not had installed before.

And there is no orbiter.log, it just freezes and I get the windows message that orbiter.exe has stopped working

 

[Face]

I have not installed anything I have not had installed before.

And there is no orbiter.log, it just freezes and I get the windows message that orbiter.exe has stopped working

So in other words, you have NOT tried it with a vanilla install yet. Please do so, it will rule out add-ons as trouble-makers.

For the orbiter log: even if Orbiter freezes there should be one. Just look for the file orbiter.log in the root folder of Orbiter and post it here between [ code ] and [ / code ] tags (without the spaces inside the bracket as shown here).

regards,
Face

 

[garyw]

For the orbiter log: even if Orbiter freezes there should be one

There will always be one as it's generated at each run - even if everything works fine there is an orbiter.log file generated.

I suspect that orbiter.log is there but that the extension is missing so it appears that there are two 'orbiter' files in the folder. One would be the .exe and have the delta-glider icon and the other should have a notepad style icon.

 

[orb]

One would be the .exe and have the delta-glider icon and the other should have a notepad style icon.

And the third would be of "CFG file" type and have blank document icon, if you haven't created any file association for it.

(I've always wondered why did they decide to hide file extensions in Explorer, and make it default.)

 

[Goth]

I've always wondered why did they decide to hide file extensions in Explorer, and make it default.

Windows tends to hide the most it can to the non-expert users. Just think about the fact that C:\ is hidden in XP until you click "Yes I know what I'm doing show me that damn folder" link.
They think that a non-expert user prefers to read "my file" instead of "my file.txt". Easier, you know. The icon shows the type of the file anyway. Of course this is bad for security, but that's why they did that confirmation window when you open executables files.