great advise Ryan ensure, the system is stable for troubleshooting

If you want/need to lower the settings, you can, then you also don't need 4096. If you want high-res, then you do.

Word Not Allowed, of course I followed some extensive discussion here in the Forum and it was quite clear that something around FSX wants to reset sometimes higher settings to 1024. For this reason I'm now using the somewhere recommended tool tml.exe ("Texture Max Load Editor") checking the setting and insisting on 4096. It works nice for me as it seems.

Word Not Allowed, of course I followed some extensive discussion here in the Forum and it was quite clear that something around FSX wants to reset sometimes higher settings to 1024. For this reason I'm now using the somewhere recommended tool tml.exe ("Texture Max Load Editor") checking the setting and insisting on 4096. It works nice for me as it seems.

Every time you go into settings and your OK them, it's gonna reset TML.You can make yourself configs that you can load and save inside of flight to change whatever you like, incl. TML, LOD...

Steve,This isn't a "freeze" as we define that term - the freezes that we fixed in SP1 were the ones where the instrument panel stops updating but the sim keeps running fine. What you've got here is a hard lockup of the sim - that's almost always some kind of hardware or driver related thing.The #1 place I'd look based on what you've said here is at the stability of your overclock and your CPU temps while FSX is running - I would lower the OC (maybe even back to stock) and see if you're still getting issues - if not you'll know that's the cause.

Ryan,While flying the new -600 I've had a quite short freeze of this type as I posted already elsewhere here. I called it "micro freeze" as it took about not more than 1 to 2 seconds. But, as I wrote as well the cause could have been an aircraft change at the beginning of the session (F1 ATR to NGX). There had been no other events during this flight with the exception of a crashing FSX when shutting it down at the end. After starting it up again it was impossible to load the last automated safe (each 3 minutes) done by UIPC which crashed the sim when trying it (likely an aircraft state after shutting down the engines) but there was no problem with the one before.

Steve,This isn't a "freeze" as we define that term - the freezes that we fixed in SP1 were the ones where the instrument panel stops updating but the sim keeps running fine. What you've got here is a hard lockup of the sim - that's almost always some kind of hardware or driver related thing.The #1 place I'd look based on what you've said here is at the stability of your overclock and your CPU temps while FSX is running - I would lower the OC (maybe even back to stock) and see if you're still getting issues - if not you'll know that's the cause.

Thanks Ryan, I'll look into that. Maybe it's just a coincidence but have never had any freezes before.

Steve,This isn't a "freeze" as we define that term - the freezes that we fixed in SP1 were the ones where the instrument panel stops updating but the sim keeps running fine. What you've got here is a hard lockup of the sim - that's almost always some kind of hardware or driver related thing.The #1 place I'd look based on what you've said here is at the stability of your overclock and your CPU temps while FSX is running - I would lower the OC (maybe even back to stock) and see if you're still getting issues - if not you'll know that's the cause.

Backed off all the way to stock and I'm still getting FSX crashes. Not ctds, the sim just freezes. What should I try next?