MSCAD 2005 or Mapscenes 2006 Freezes at Startup

MSCAD 2005 may freeze up at start up. You may see a white screen with no cursor or menus. You may see it stop at the splash screen. If this happens it may be caused by a user having deselected all the filters in the traverse editor. This causes a null entry in the C:\Program Files\Microsurvey\MSCAD2005\mscad\x99.dat file which causes the freeze at startup.

To correct this you need to open your C:\Program Files\Microsurvey\MSCAD2005\mscad\x99.dat file using notepad and look for an entry like this: "HIDE_EVR_FG_TYPIES=". If you see it,‚ add two‚ dashes after the equals sign,‚ so it looks like: "HIDE_EVR_FG_TYPES=--" and save your changes. Restart MSCAD.