I have FS 2004. I have had problems running a few new add-on aircraft that my friend gave me. The new aircraft would load onto my computer and the FS program fine, but when i went to select the new aircraft to fly, the whole program shut down, went to the desktop. My friend seem to think that this problem is due to a shortage or RAM. I currently have 512MB of Ram, although i am about to upgrade to 1GB of Ram. Do you think that this would help solve my problem? I would appreciate any comments or suggestions. :-)

Probably not, but any excuse to get up to 1 gig-O-bit-O-ram is worth considering. Spend the 20 bucks and see if it helps. It'll Definitely help your Entire experience with the rest of your applications.

I've tracked my ram usage with FS9 at about 55%, using 2GB of ram, flying the PMDG 744F, with RC, AS and my VA's pirep program. The upgrade to 1GB will help alot. I'd go with 2GB (2x1GB sticks) if you can afford it, especially if you run 3rd party ATC and WX. Not much difference between 1GB and 2GB, as far as FS9 is concerned. 512 is barely adequate, IMHO. You might want to run MemTest, to see if you have a bad memory stick, if you haven't done so, already.EwingKATLAlcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a store, not a government agency.MSI K8N Neo2 PlatinumAMD Opteron 185 2.6 Ghz Dual Core2GB Kingston HyperX (2X1GB) Dual Channel DDR 2-3-2-6 @ 1TXFX nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 256MB DDR3 AGPSound Blaster Audigy LSSilverStone Decathlon 750W +12v@60A +5v@30AFS9 on WinXPPro (SP1)

I'm running FSX in Vista 64 with 4 gigs. I'm well into the 3rd gig all the time. This stuff is so cheap, I Seriously thinking of going all the way to 8.If you feed it, it Will eat.

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This problem would not be caused by a shortage of RAM (physicalmemory). I assume that you have let XP/Vista handle your swapspace (virtual memory), but you could check - set this to somethinglike 2G or let the OS set it. If you have set your virtual memoryto something too small (800 meg) then you would get an out ofmemory error.This is a classic CTD, and there a 1001 different reasons for a CTD1) hardware : bad DIMM, though I doubt this as FS9 will easily useall the physical memory you have - so you would hit this with justusing vanilla FS92) The new addon aircraft have bad textures/modules, or something else. You could have empty texture folders, or miss-named files,or the gauges were put in the wrong directory - did you followthe install to the letter. The files must go in the right placeor a new aircraft may CTD.3) 999 other problems, though my guess is 2.RegardsTom

This happened to me just today, I tried to load a plane which didn't have any textures in the preview, and when I push "OK", my computer CTDs. I agree with Tom about a faulty texture set.I also have 512 MB RAM, and I kept getting CTDs a long time ago whenever I hit the "Fly Now" button, went into the NavLog, or tried to access the kneeboard. The problem turned out to be IE7, but now everything works fine.:-jumpy lol

Hi tom, Thanks for the input. I got this 727 from a friend of mine, its in a .exe file format, so it pretty much loads itself onto the computer. I must try to install it again and see where the installation sends the files. This 727 was a product of "Flight one." are you familiar with those?

I am familiar with flight1, but don't know about the 727 product. I cannot therefore comment why this commercial productis giving errors - surely others would complain.You could look on the flight1 forum see anyone else has had problemswith the 727 product.Tom