Hello Everybody!

 

I have received a new laptop recently (specs below) however still with great aircraft such as the NGX and scenery such as FSDT KLAX the screen will go black after returning from a map or Alt + Tab and that is basically a CTD due to OOM however on Windows 7. Without altering the global texture resolution (as I know that eats up memory insanely fast), what are the most problematic scenery settings in terms of OOM (out of memory, followed by crash to desktop)?, such as maybe water, AI (I know that's a big one), scenery, whatever. Thank you very much!

 

 

 

 

-DMac10121

Add this to your FSX.cfg:

 

 

[GRAPHICS]

HIGHMEMFIX=1

 

This should stop the OOM errors and also increase performance, too...

Thank you! I will try it. thanks for this!

Does anyone have any other settings to lower?

I have added the HIGHMEMFIX=1 statement to the fsx.cfg file, and I suffered a CTD on Saturday during a test run from UK2000 Heathrow Xtreme. I started the Flight1 Citation Mustang from a business jet stand, taxied to the runway, departed on runway 27L, headed straight out until I was asked to contact Heathrow Approach, made the 180 degree turn to the left to get downwind......and suffered a CTD before I had even completed the turn. This was with VFR London X enabled, and everything at EXTREMELY DENSE scenery complexity, UT2 AI airliners @ 100%, REX2 clouds, Treescapes, FSX Power Project, UK2000 VFR Airfields, UK2000 Gatwick Xtreme and London City Xtreme all active at the same time. AA was @ 8xS, AF @ 16x, and SS @ 4xSparse Grid.

 

So you see, you can still get CTDs with HIGHMEMFIX=1 enabled. In fact, I am not even sure how much of an improvement it has made, but I will continue to experiment.

HIGHMEMFIX doesn't stop CTD's, it stops black screens and disappearing textures/elements. For example, if you are landing at an airport and you get a black screen, the airport terminal is missing or your aircraft is partially invisible, you need HIGHMEMFIX.

 

Have you applied the UIAutomationCore.dll fix? If you have not, you may get CTD's when you enter the menus in flight.

You can reduce memory usage by reducing your LOD_RADIUS (if you have increased it beyond the normal maximum of 4.5) and reducing autogen_density

Where can you get the UIAnimationCore fix? As for the LOD Radius and Autogen density I will try that - thank you all!

Where can you get the UIAnimationCore fix?

 

You can get it on this page,together with a whole bunch of other "tweaks":

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/370594-read-before-posting-software-hardware-guide-for-fsx/

CTD due to OOM however on Windows 7

 

Windows 7, 32 bit is still susceptible to OOM's. It's rare with Windows 7, 64 bit. If you have the 32 bit version, you should employ the /3GB switch so FSX can see and use more memory. See NickN's article on Setting up FSX and look under FSX installation for details on how to employ this switch - http://www.simforums.com/forums/topic29041.html. Use the directions for Windows Vista. You might also peruse this article and look at his excellent suggestions for tuning FSX. Srdan Word Not Allowed, here at AVSIM, has an excellent article on settings for FSX pinned at the top of the Hardware forum.

 

Best regards,

Jim