Hi,I have a weird problem. Every so often, my framerate will plunge when I have a 2D panel open. If I open an alternative view, the framerate recovers, but if I then go back to my 2D panel, it plunges again. I can recover the framerate by flipping to full screen and back again, or resizing the panel. A quick black flash, and the framerate is restored.I have been trying to troubleshoot this for a week now, because it's a real pain.My specs are an i7-3960x 4.2ghz, GTX560Ti 1.25Gb, 16GB Quad channel RAM, 512GB SSD. I have the CH kit all plugged in to it as well, and run at 2560x1600 on a Dell 3007 30 inch screen. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.As I said, I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a bit. Reformatted the hard drive, followed Nick N's installation to the letter (twice), tried different nvidia drivers, tried different resolutions, different combinations of fsx.cfg, various bios setting, another video card (1GB GTX560Ti), different sound cards.... Arghhh!The symptom is the fps dropping to around 2 to 4 fps on a panel... Usually a full screen panel. It happens on default aircraft and usually only occurs after a bit of panning around and flicking the panel on and off.When it happens, MSI Afterburner is showing high GPU usage, and low fps. GPU memory usage varies, and it is not always near the limit.CPU usage is also very high when it's underway. 5 cores chug away at around 100% trying to do who knows what.I can recover it pretty easily. Switching to full screen, Ctrl-Alt-Delete to task manager, resizing the panel, or switching filtering methods will restore the framerate with the panel up. But, gees, what a pain to have to do this all the time.Anyway, I'll leave it there. Very, very keen for thoughts and suggestions. Thanks,Bryn

Well, back to FS9 for me... again.

Constantly drawn back to FSX by the promise of the NGX... But I still get this 2D panel crash (with all aircraft).

 

Switching to usepools=0 helps, and I get it far less frequently with this config setting. But it still happens.

 

Bryn.

Your post is confusing. You say frame rate crash yet you state only a 2-4fps drop, that's not much at all to complain about. Or as your title suggests, is the game actually crashing back to desktop after this 2-4fps drop happens? Or does the whole game simply get stuck at 2-4fps after you open and close, say the 2D GPS?

Or does the whole game simply get stuck at 2-4fps after you open and close, say the 2D GPS?

 

That's it :-)

Post your fsx.cfg here, please Bryn.Before you do that - copy it to 'somewhere' and then delete the original - then re-start the sim, to see if it happens with a fresh config file. Then report the results back here, posting you saved cfg at the same time.You can cut out these parts which we don't need:- [Trusted] [sound] [Panels] [Controls] {TextInfo] [DynamicHeadMovement] [userinterface] [ATC] [AContain] [MapViewMap].

OK?