D3ERR_INVALIDCALL 13 years after it was originally reported

[SeltzerWadder]

Introduction: I reached out to Real Flight support and haven't heard back so I'm looking for help here. I do not play games and only downloaded Steam for Real Flight Evo. Laptop is about a year old and I don't use it much. Got it to run Fueltech software which is a tuning product that controls a stand-alone ecu for drag race cars/motorcycles. The sim worked fine until I made changes to the settings.

Problem statement: Enabled full screen and increased the graphics quality to high because I was using my TV as a second monitor. Now the game will not load and only goes to a black screen and renders my laptop worthless.

Troubleshooting done: I uninstalled the game and Steam, rebooted/installed again. Disabled MS Defender and followed steps to Verify Integrity of game files. Then uninstalled RF/Steam, updated my os because I was behind one update. Graphics card drivers say they are up to date. Rebooted after os update and installed again.

My question: Why does the error reference a d:\ that doesn't exist on my machine? How can I fix this? Are the game settings cached somewhere that I can delete and install again so it pulls up in the factory settings? I only have a c:\ and just want to install this fresh with no settings.

Suggestion/Complaint: Can't you write a method that checks the users hardware and either set the quality that is supported by their hardware? Or you can just write a method to check the user hardware and make suggestions for max quality settings? It's pathetic this is coming up for new users when the I see others reporting the same thing in 2010. I can't recall an application I've used in the last 8 years that allowed me to just break the entire thing and not let me sort it out with a kb article and forces me to post on a forum to get help. Had I known that increasing the picture quality would break the game I wouldn't have touched it.

Thanks for your time- Tony.

My machine:
Asus TUF Dash F15
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11370H @ 3.30GHz 3.30 GHz
16.0 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

Also read here: https://forums.realflight.com/index.php?threads/d3derr_invalidcall.26295/
DXDevice.cpp appears because the program ( Realflight ) was told that the video card has certain capabilities. Realflight tried to take advantage of these capabilities, but the device was unable to comply with the request.

 

[Ryan Douglas]

The issue is probably the change to fullscreen mode. On some people's systems it seems to have issues we do not experience.

I recommend changing back to windowed mode and seeing if that gets you going again. If you want to try keeping all your other settings, use this method:

1. Locate the settings file on your disk in <Documents>\RealFlight Evolution\RealFlight64.ini.
2. Open it in your favorite text editor (Notepad works great).
3. Search for "WindowState".
4. Change the value to "2". The complete line should look like this:
   WindowState=INT:2
5. Save your changes.
6. Run RealFlight.

If that doesn't work, you can rename or delete RealFlight64.ini to reset all settings back to default.

You can ignore the D:\... file path. It is not saying anything about your system.

A couple more things to note:

We have released a DirectX 11 public beta for RealFlight Evolution.

We are in the process of revamping how RealFlight's fullscreen mode works.

 

[SeltzerWadder]

That fixed the issue of the game not loading!! Sweet and exactly what I was looking for. but now the plane has partial throttle and the left/throttle stick doesn't get recognized at all. I have an nx10 transmitter that I'm learning to use and is connected via USB.

On the transmitter I calibrated the sticks/sliders/knob. In the game when I try to re-calibrate the transmitter the throttle/left stick doesn't calibrate on the Y-axis but it does recognize left/right inputs. makes no sense to me.

 

[flightengr]

Might you have Throttle Cut configured on the model you're using on the NX? That could be causing trouble like that if it's turned on.

I've got a writeup here on how to use NX via USB, including how to configure the model on the NX side. An NX10 is going to work pretty well with 10 channels.