January 21, 201313 yr Quick question, and I haven't found a decisive answer to this when searching: Let's keep it simple and just talk about aircraft add-ons. When you start FSX fresh, does it load _all_ the .dlls you've permitted at start into memory? Or does it only load those relevant to the third-party aircraft you select? Reason I ask is I was doing a fun IFR flight from KSEA to KTIW yesterday and first thought I'd do it in my A2A P-40, but then, before hitting fly now, switched to my A2A Mustang (Civilian) instead and, in heavy fog, with heavy dark clouds at altitude, with GPS on and in VC view mode, got an OOM right at landing. Exiting FSX, rebooting and just loading the Mustang (no other 3rd-party plane) before hitting fly now, was able to complete the flight with same conditions, no OOM. I know I've had OOMs when some other software wakes up during a flight and tries merrily to do its thing, but that wasn't a factor, so far as I could tell with Event Viewer, in this case. And if the former, would simply commenting out the .dlls you don't want to load in fsx.cfg prevent them from loading automatically?
January 22, 201313 yr Commercial Member When you start FSX fresh, does it load _all_ the .dlls you've permitted at start into memory? Or does it only load those relevant to the third-party aircraft you select? All the DLLs load, but only the GAUge files relevant ot the loaded aircraft do. However, most aircraft-specific DLLs won't be doing much, if anything, until their aircraft is loaded. Anyway, the amount of FSX memory they use is not likely to be significant at all compared with all of the data needed for scenery, textures and so on. Some OOMs are definitley caused by memory leaks, though -- that is allocated memory areas which are never freed when no longer needed. This is a type of bug which has always plagued the odd add-on for FS, through the ages, It's just that with FSX needing so much memory itself it tends to affect it more often. Regards Pete Win10: 22H2 19045.2728 CPU: 9900KS at 5.5GHz Memory: 32Gb at 3800 MHz. GPU: RTX 24Gb Titan 2 x 2160p projectors at 25Hz onto 200 FOV curved screen
January 22, 201313 yr Author Thank you sir, I take that as a definitive, authoritative response, rare on the Internet, and most reassuring!
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