It has been discussed on various forums including this one, but I am curious about the screen freeze in FSX. After doing all of *******'s tweaks, I got a big boost in performance as well as graphic quality improvement in FSX. However what has happen is that during climb out with my LDS 767 between 20-30K feet I will get the proverbial FSX pause. Some time ago I thought I had a screen freeze and would go to Task Manager to free up things. I found out one day by accident that it was not a freeze but a VERY long pause. :( I have posted to others to just sit there and wait and do nothing. Works every time for me but is so annoying. This long pause caused Radar Contact v5 beta to put a notice of did FSX stop running. As soon as FSX starts to work again I have to go from full screen to window to answer RC and say NO. At that point every thing goes back to normal and runs find until the end of the flight.Does anybody have a clue on what causes this and if so, what can be done to minimize this. My guess it has something to do with texture reload or a scenery update. I have an nVidia 8800GT card, but have seen people with all the latest cards talking about the same thing.Maybe ******* or Word Not Allowed have a clue, if so please share your thoughts.After all the tweaks FSX sure does run goon on my system, so enough tweaking and a lot more flying. :( ThanksBob JohnsonDetroit

Does the screen go black during that pause? If so, make sure you aren't using triple buffers in your video card settings.

Bob Johnson

Hey there cousin! Go to Microsoft and download the Vista version of this file:-UIAutomationCore.dll version 6.0.5840.16386.. and put it in the root of FSX...and I think you can get it here....http://www.search-dll.com/dll-files/downlo...oncore.dll.htmlPaul Johnson, Toronto :(

It has been discussed on various forums including this one, but I am curious about the screen freeze in FSX. After doing all of *******'s tweaks, I got a big boost in performance as well as graphic quality improvement in FSX. However what has happen is that during climb out with my LDS 767 between 20-30K feet I will get the proverbial FSX pause. Some time ago I thought I had a screen freeze and would go to Task Manager to free up things. I found out one day by accident that it was not a freeze but a VERY long pause. :( I have posted to others to just sit there and wait and do nothing. Works every time for me but is so annoying. This long pause caused Radar Contact v5 beta to put a notice of did FSX stop running. As soon as FSX starts to work again I have to go from full screen to window to answer RC and say NO. At that point every thing goes back to normal and runs find until the end of the flight.Does anybody have a clue on what causes this and if so, what can be done to minimize this. My guess it has something to do with texture reload or a scenery update. I have an nVidia 8800GT card, but have seen people with all the latest cards talking about the same thing.Maybe ******* or Word Not Allowed have a clue, if so please share your thoughts.After all the tweaks FSX sure does run goon on my system, so enough tweaking and a lot more flying. :( ThanksBob JohnsonDetroit

Hi Bob,I have never experienced the "long pause" where you can wait and do nothing and FSX will eventually begin working again. I think you are experiencing another FSX anomaly. I have never ever read of anyone freeing up FSX by going into the Task Manager. What did you turn off in the Task Manager to stop the pausing? And how did you get into the task manager as usually, if there's a freeze or pause, you can't do anything except shut down the system or try to close FSX and restart it again. CTRL+C will shut it down without going into the Task Manager but even that usually doesn't work if you get a freeze. Of course, I have not experienced a freeze since moving up to Windows 7, 64 bit AND applying the tweaks you mentioned. They are both awesome fixes for FSX and I, for one, am very appreciative. With the 32 bit system I had, I was getting frequent freezes but they seemed to become less with the /3GB switch or the userva= switch for Vista and Windows 7, 32 bit systems. So, to me, you are experiencing another anomaly with FSX. Do you have the 64 bit system or the 32 bit? Are you keeping your FSX sliders to modest levels or are you cranking them up thinking you'll get some extra eye-candy (you won't; it's all in the eye of the beholder)? I've read reports with people with the latest and greatest Intel and AMD chips and they still get freezes because they crank the settings all the way up and overclock their systems beyond the systems/hardware capabilities. Thanks for your post!Best regards,Jim Young

Hi Jim; This is/was a fairly common post: I think Mitch was the first to identify it as a separate issue - no black screen, still can control Ctrl-Alt-Del, sound still there - and it would clear itself if you waited anywhere from 30 secs to 1 -1/2 minutes. I had it many times, and it was either wait for it to get on with the flight or quit! I found that just by the act of initiating the three-fingered salute - before you had a chance to kill it - the screen would return back to the flight as if nothing had happened. Nothingh to do with sliders or memory - it's a Microsoft Win7 bug. If you do a search on "freez" all kinds of posts show up. Anyway - the cure is to place the Vista 64-bit copy of the UIAutomationCore.dll in the FSX root folder. This is normally resident in the System32 folder, but FSX looks in it's own folder first. No more pauses!

Does the screen go black during that pause? If so, make sure you aren't using triple buffers in your video card settings.

Hi Vod, no the screen never goes black, just sits there with sound and my cockpit view. About two minutes or so later it starts back upBob

Hi Bob,I have never experienced the "long pause" where you can wait and do nothing and FSX will eventually begin working again. I think you are experiencing another FSX anomaly. I have never ever read of anyone freeing up FSX by going into the Task Manager. What did you turn off in the Task Manager to stop the pausing? And how did you get into the task manager as usually, if there's a freeze or pause, you can't do anything except shut down the system or try to close FSX and restart it again. CTRL+C will shut it down without going into the Task Manager but even that usually doesn't work if you get a freeze. Of course, I have not experienced a freeze since moving up to Windows 7, 64 bit AND applying the tweaks you mentioned. They are both awesome fixes for FSX and I, for one, am very appreciative. With the 32 bit system I had, I was getting frequent freezes but they seemed to become less with the /3GB switch or the userva= switch for Vista and Windows 7, 32 bit systems. So, to me, you are experiencing another anomaly with FSX. Do you have the 64 bit system or the 32 bit? Are you keeping your FSX sliders to modest levels or are you cranking them up thinking you'll get some extra eye-candy (you won't; it's all in the eye of the beholder)? I've read reports with people with the latest and greatest Intel and AMD chips and they still get freezes because they crank the settings all the way up and overclock their systems beyond the systems/hardware capabilities. Thanks for your post!Best regards,Jim Young

Jim, I went to the Task Manager the first time I saw this happen. As I said in my first post, by ACCIDENT one day I waited and FSX started back up by it self. I am running a 32 bit version of Vista and will be moving to 32bit Win7 soon. No my sliders are at "default" level, so I am not overtaxing my system and both the CPU and GPU are NOT overclocked. The system runs like a clock, I get an average of 20-30fps 99 percent of the time even with dense clouds as I had today coming back into Detroit during a thunderstorm. I use realtime weather via ASE.No this is some type of system anomaly that hopefully the file that Paul J suggested will help too. This problem has been reported many times before, just looking for some update info.Thanks for your reponseBob