Well i love my NGX and over the years my wallet has been used alot so the add-ons has 50+ in the FSX scenery and airplane folders.

 

But it seems it has a price on my system(read OOM). If you dont install airplanes or regions of scenery i am getting lesser and lesser OOM. So i would state that even if you do not use your add-on it takes up some of the FSX memory on load.

 

Just a thought on the ever compromises to make in FSX

 

Favorits

 

REX E (sometimes 4096HD but NOT around Heathrow for instance :-) )

AS2012

UTX

GEX

FS2CREW

 

 

 

Thanks

 

Michael Moe

I usually minimize FS every now and then but my flights usually don't go over 8 hours and this is with a ton of sceneries, airports, and planes installed. Never had an OOM issue.

Well i love my NGX and over the years my wallet has been used alot so the add-ons has 50+ in the FSX scenery and airplane folders.

 

But it seems it has a price on my system(read OOM). If you dont install airplanes or regions of scenery i am getting lesser and lesser OOM. So i would state that even if you do not use your add-on it takes up some of the FSX memory on load.

 

Just a thought on the ever compromises to make in FSX

 

Favorits

 

REX E (sometimes 4096HD but NOT around Heathrow for instance :-) )

AS2012

UTX

GEX

FS2CREW

 

 

 

Thanks

 

Michael Moe

 

I totally agree with you.

What i sometimes do is this.

 

Lets say im flying from EMA - CORFU

 

all other scenery airports i will uncheck them in the scenery library

 

This does work for me seems pointless in asking fsx to load them when i wont be using them for this particular trip ..

Steve

So I do. With GEX you can leave as well the regions (p.e. west-europe) unchecked, with no loss of ground textures.

People sometimes underestimate the fingerprint left by GEX and especially UTX. Both can put stress on system resources, and what is available from that to the simulator. If you do like me and now fly IFR at high altitude exclusively, with the 737NGX (and occasionally the JS4100), then consider to fold over these UTX/GEX addons, since at 25K+ altitude they mean little to your eyes anyway.

 

And traffic, both AI planes and sea and road traffic - these are potential sim killers. Running FSX with PMDG planes, AS2012+REX2, and plenty of Aerosoft Airport sceneries, and owning an i5 2500 at 3.3 GHz with 8 GB and Win7Pro-x64, I initially often ran into system freezes and CTDs, even when having AIO traffic at less than 5%. But since I turned all traffic off (except airport-related ground services), all system crashes are a thing of the past, and even hours-long flights work flawlessly now since months. I have frames externally fixed at 30, use an auto-tweaked config, have visual settings at max, and clouds at full display. No problem. Switch AI plane traffic to 2 or 5% - and some minutes after getting airborn, CRASH.

 

Little sacrifices, leaving me with what is really important: marvellous cloud and weather envrionment, and two fantastic PMDG working places. UTX, GEX and AI traffic therefore not in use over here anymore.

I run on the same machine (check my specs) FSX with NGX, some kind of scenery (Heraklion, Athens, Stockholm etc) as I fly to addon airport scenery, FS Real Time, GSX, UT2 (100% traffic), REX textures, Aivlasoft EFB (monitor 2), AS2012 (monitor 2), I connect my Saitek X52pro and sometimes (rarely) I also surf the net. I always fly in windowed mode as I switch between FSX and EFB a lot and I get between 10 to 20 fps near the ground and much more at cruise...

 

How I do this? Bought 64bit Win7...

 

I know the fps are not good, but it's still well flyable without losing the eye candy, but with 64bits OOMs are over for ever! One of the best, easiest and cheapest upgrades I've ever done in any of the PCs I have had during the last 17 years!!!

I never had such problem

To get rid of OOM's.

Windows 7 64bit (Windows XP 64 bit works too. Don't ask about Vista.)

You may also need to add himemfix to the FSX.cfg.

 

To fix low fps.

More money. An i5 3770 is a good start. 8GB of ram (FSX will only use 4 of this 8GB, but Activesky, FSinn, Browser, etc isn't FSX.) Match it with a good video card. GTX650 or so aught to do the trick.

 

Blurry textures and "No texture" VC's when switching views? Fast HardDrive. SSD's are thousands of times faster than a Hard Drive, but tend to be smaller (or more expensive, or both).

 

Jagged edges on straight lines? use nVidia Inspector.

 

But basically. 32 bit Operating system = FSX Crashing to OOM's.

 

64 bit OS's still have FSX crashes, but usually not because of OOM's.

 

if you have 4mb ram, the NGX will "hang" - sometimes for minutes at a time. Your mouse will stop responding and alt-tabbing will do nothing at all. Sound will continue playing even after you mute or task-switch... then all those keystrokes will all happen at once some 2 minutes later as your Hard Drive completes swapping those 4GB of processes that should have been in the RAM.

Get 8GB ram.

 

Trent Hopkinson

Add the following line to each of your addon sections in your dll.xml file that you don't always need loaded. (Mostly your aircraft addons such as PMDG, CS, Wilco, Feelthere, etc) If the line is already there but set to false change it to True.

 

<ManualLoad>True</ManualLoad>

 

This will cause on start up of FSX, to ask if you want to load the corresponding DLL or not. Click no to all the ones you are not using on this flight. This way only the DLL's you are actually are using get loaded. I find this is the best way to prevent OOM's when flying the NGX. It also seems to makes performance in FSX smoother too.

Add the following line to each of your addon sections in your dll.xml file that you don't always need loaded. (Mostly your aircraft addons such as PMDG, CS, Wilco, Feelthere, etc) If the line is already there but set to false change it to True.

 

<ManualLoad>True</ManualLoad>

 

This will cause on start up of FSX, to ask if you want to load the corresponding DLL or not. Click no to all the ones you are not using on this flight. This way only the DLL's you are actually are using get loaded. I find this is the best way to prevent OOM's when flying the NGX. It also seems to makes performance in FSX smoother too.

 

 

 

This i also use with my maddog and other add-ons . But even on my Velocity Raptor Windows 7 64 bit 6gb you will get OOM in EGLL for sure with HD4096 textures and the NGX. Compromise is to be made. (20% UT2 traffic and 1024-2048 HD textures will do the trick)

 

Thanks

Michael Moe