1.78 Gig RAM USAGE, and climbing! I DID it! I broke the 1.33 max RAM barrier!!!!

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

Hi Tim!You are preaching to the choir with me, LOLOLOL!JUST to confirm that this is the most SINGLE important thing you can enable as far as FSX is concerned, I turned off CACHE FILE performance (where you state) and turned back on PROGRAM performance...did a reboot......fired up FSX..and it was the same blurry-textured, stuttering DOG of a program, that is was before this morning when I turned on the RAM performance feature..and thought that someone had replaced my store-bought copy of FSX with a 'in-house' copy that worked like there was no tomorrow, LOLI place my faith on up-to-date Catalyst drivers, and the fact that M.S. went GOLD with this feature in place. They didn't have to. It has a purpose if you have the RAM to offer it...My FPS didn't go up..but the ENTIRE sim went GOLD at 2000 percent!It is NOW...finally NOW...as 'real as it gets'. :))))Enjoy...we might be besides GEOFA, the only three to fly..and not stumble....through the thing...Mitch R.

[virtualstuff 770]

>**WARNING**>>This is NOT a new tweak, but it is a very volitile one not>recommende for use. This tweak is designed specifically for>servers not running any regular user applications or drivers>such as thoses used by your GPU, soundcard, etc.Yep this one is as old as XP :-lolBut indeed could trigger an unbootable system ;-)Very dangerous setting at your PC and used for servers ;-)Just skip this one if you want to have a stable system...Be prepared to restore form backup ;-) or image....Andr

[timest 473]

Hi Mitch lol... this really is a great tweak. I am running the latest catalyst drivers as well.. and I cannot believe how smooth things are running. And yes, my pc here is dedicated ONLY to fsx :) So I am pretty darn happy at this moment. In major cities and airports before the tweak, I only got about 12fps max. Now I get about 16-20. And it FEELS way smoother. Anyways thanks again for this. No go have fun! :)Tim

[Guest mariosunshine]

I have a FSX dedicated machine, so if it goes down, I real don't care apart from 4 hours of reinstall. Does this tweak have any effect on XP64 or does the 64 bit version anyway manage memory diferent? I remember the largest mb use I saw was about 1.45 GB with 2 GIg's of ram

[Buckster 0]

nice tweak - does make things a bit smoother - BUT I have 2 gigs of RAM and max usage is only 800MB :( Gothic 3 I've seen up to 1.4 gig !Mark.

[Guest charlesk]

I have 1.5 megs of ram.....am i going to benefit from this tip?

[Buckster 0]

nice tweak - but still can't get FSAA or AF to work properly with my X1900XT :(not a patch on Vista RC2 + ATI RC2 driver - visuals better at much higher frame rates.only have FSX on my Vista install -but enjoying it to the maxMark.

[Guest Rake7575]

Here's some more info on programs v systems cache so simmers can make an informed decision themselves.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895932Rake

[clayton4115 56]

i have 2 gigs of ram will this help me?

[Guest Rake7575]

Here's some more info on programs v systems cache so simmers can make an informed decision themselves.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895932Rake

[clayton4115 56]

It says In the Memory usage area, choose one of the following configurations:

[Guest Rake7575]

And...a useful link for more XP tweaks if you're so inclined:http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1590Rak

[W2DR 1,860]

You may never have a problem. Most systems don't. But that doesn't negate the fact that you're continuing to promote a change that has been proven to be problematical. Good for you that you haven't had a probem, but this "tweak" had been a disaster for some folks here who have blindly followed some really poor advice. You'd be doing everyone a favor by just quietly enjoying your good fortune and stop encouraging folks who may not know of the risks involved.Doug

[Guest CHRISH]

Thanks Bruce very interesting!But how do you access the registry key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl Session ManagerMemory ManagementSometime did tell me but I have forgotten.Best Wishes,ChrisEGBB UK

[Guest FxF3]

So far FSX has run great for me out of the box. The only tweaks I have done is the cfg. tweaks. I would never try anything that would mess up your computer. I'm not sure of this ram thing. I think 2gb is the limit for FSX. I have never seen mine climb pass 1.3gb I even turned ever thing to max got in the 747 and thats what My ram usage was with 384mb video memory.