You guys don't know what frustration is. Try taking up golf. You will learn what frustration is all about. At least in FSX, you stand a chance of becoming somewhat satisfied. Not golf!

Yeah I guess I too have to do complete reinstall of FSX now, about 30% of the time when I start FSX, then it crashes about 50% of the time when selecting aircraft/airport/time, and then if I get it loaded now I've started to get random instant CTD's at random phases of flight with any aircraft.

 

It will be a nightmare to uninstall all my +200 addons and FSX, at least I've learnt one lesson now though. After reinstall I will install only the addons that I happen to need at the moment, such as some global / major continental graphic addons & all the addons to Hawaii where I currently fly mostly and then some airports of my long haul destinations.

 

I bet loading times and everything will be over 50% lower if I do this.

 

If I get CTD's even after this I will then reinstall this whole damn OS, that better help.

 

Honestly all these problems with FSX couldn't have happened much worse time, I'm often very busy with school and tired enough already without this kind of rubbish happening.

Yeah I guess I too have to do complete reinstall of FSX now, about 30% of the time when I start FSX, then it crashes about 50% of the time when selecting aircraft/airport/time, and then if I get it loaded now I've started to get random instant CTD's at random phases of flight with any aircraft.

 

It will be a nightmare to uninstall all my +200 addons and FSX, at least I've learnt one lesson now though. After reinstall I will install only the addons that I happen to need at the moment, such as some global / major continental graphic addons & all the addons to Hawaii where I currently fly mostly and then some airports of my long haul destinations.

 

I bet loading times and everything will be over 50% lower if I do this.

 

If I get CTD's even after this I will then reinstall this whole damn OS, that better help.

 

Honestly all these problems with FSX couldn't have happened much worse time, I'm often very busy with school and tired enough already without this kind of rubbish happening.

 

Before you go to the extreme of reinstallation try this In the dll.xml file is the dll's that are installed at startup whether you use them or not, this eats up virtual address space (VAS) unnecessarily, which of course if you run out of VAS you'll end up with a CTD or an OOM! To avoid this add the following line to each of your optional addon entries in that file. Do not add it to addon dll's you use on every flight.

 

<ManualLoad>True</ManualLoad>

 

Now when you load FSX it will ask you if you want to load each of those dll's separately. Say yes only to the ones used for your flight. It's a little inconvenient, but I think it will solve many of your problems!! It did for me, and I very rarely have an issue now, even with the NGX, and I only have a 32bit system!!

Well those CTD's that I get are totally random, one of them came right after takeoff so they can't really be because of DLL's using too much memory, I think those would happen later as the usage grows over the time. So I think I will do a reinstall anyway, but thanks for the tip, I will try it if I have problems after the reinstall.

So you don't have to spend hours and days rebuilding FSX you might want to take up the habit of making backups as was mentioned by others. The price of hard drives is low enough that most people can afford an extra drive. I use a program called Casper XP to make a 100% complete and bootable copy of my drive that has my OS and FSX. I have a copy of my base FSX install in a desk drawer should I decide to start from a bare minimum state plus I make another backup again on a separate drive every so often, usually when things are working well and before making any major changes. I have used my backups on more than one occasion.

 

Rick Desjardins

Well I guess you are right, I just thought that complete clean install would be the only way that wouldn't mess something up.

It seems as soon as I solve one problem, another one pops up. My issue is that I was an Airline Pilot for many years and I expect too much from any simulation. They all have limitations and bugs, which detract from an accurate real world experience. I'm just glad I never had a CTD in the B777 over the North Pacific. It would've been a real ETOPS experience ( Engines Turn Or People Swim).

A thread like this does not make me and an FS9 user excited about upgrading for the latest and greatest add-ons. I have zero problems with FS9 and it looks very similar to FSX. For the last 5 years all I do is load up and fly... :p0504:

 

Dillon, you've been saying the same thing here for years now, over and over. Frankly it almost sounds like a guy who wants FSX but continuesly talks himself out of it by find excuses like hardware upgrades, random peoples problems with it, or any other reason i've seen you list.

 

Really I hope you just stick with FS9, because if you ever do upgrade your rig and get FSX you'll surely find reasons not to like it then post about how much it sucks and how you should have just stayed with FS9.

<br />It seems as soon as I solve one problem, another one pops up. <br />

 

Same thing here, this is exactly the thing I can't stand...

Shame on the original poster for blaming ORBX for his problems and not doing his due diligence when uninstalling.

 

All the unistall guides for ORBX products are found here in their FAQ section: http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/forum/25-faq-answers-to-frequently-asked-questions-here/

 

If you have a question or problem and dont even take the step by asking the developer how to remove their product then the blame can only be yours. Had you asked them they would have pointed you to their unistall guides if you didnt have the ability to find them on your own.

Orbx is the least of our problems...in fact, Orbx has taken FSX further than Microsoft could have ever imagined.

 

And I would rather deal with OOM's and CTD's all day than play golf. :lol:

Shame on the original poster for blaming ORBX for his problems and not doing his due diligence when uninstalling.

 

All the unistall guides for ORBX products are found here in their FAQ section: http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/forum/25-faq-answers-to-frequently-asked-questions-here/

 

If you have a question or problem and dont even take the step by asking the developer how to remove their product then the blame can only be yours. Had you asked them they would have pointed you to their unistall guides if you didnt have the ability to find them on your own.

 

Shame on you for the condescending tone of your post. Uninstallation documentation should always be included in user manuals. Expecting someone to find some random topic on a forum is just making things more difficult for people.

 

 

Shame on you for the condescending tone of your post. Uninstallation documentation should always be included in user manuals. Expecting someone to find some random topic on a forum is just making things more difficult for people.

 

Shame on you for shaming me. Look, my post may have sounded condescending, but sometimes it hard to sugar coat the truth.

 

The OP should have asked for guidence from ORBX before he did what he did. They would have pointed him to the guides, which are not hidden or random.

 

If I have a question on a product I have for FSX and cant find the answer I do what I consider is the most logical thing, ask the developer, simple.

Dillon, you've been saying the same thing here for years now, over and over. Frankly it almost sounds like a guy who wants FSX but continuesly talks himself out of it by find excuses like hardware upgrades, random peoples problems with it, or any other reason i've seen you list.

 

Really I hope you just stick with FS9, because if you ever do upgrade your rig and get FSX you'll surely find reasons not to like it then post about how much it sucks and how you should have just stayed with FS9.

 

I have bounced around back and fourth with the should I jump into FSX or should I not. Post like this are very discouraging when I have something that works flawlessly when I load it up. I just want something that functions, looks good, and not have the kinds of issue that take away from flying years after release and support is discontinued. One thing I can say about Flight is it looked and performed better than FSX default on day one and ran well on all systems of the day. Even systems that were 2 years old when Flight was released had no issue. The bottom line is the issues reported in this thread is appalling for a software package release by one of the top/largest software manufactures in world with billions of dollars in capital. Like it or not the last stable release of Flight Simulator is FS9. That happy we've seen this before doesn't apply with FS9 6 to 7 years after it's release, only FSX.

 

I feel bad for people who force themselves to put up with tweaking instead of flying and have continuous problems. After flying real world Level-D sims it's truly about flight and not software problems (graphics are second tier to flying as well). A Level-D 744 simulator's graphics is very poor next to FS2k2 let alone FSX standards. They still train pilots without issue. If the thing doesn't run and in a smooth trouble free manner it's not much use as a flying simulator. You can't have a captain training at $37,000ft with a OOM error on every other flight. You can't have a slide show coming into KEWR in cloudy turbulent weather. The original poster said he spent the last 3 years tweak for the most part instead of flying FSX. What I've done for the last 3 years concerning Flight Simulation was just flying, period. It's all in what your willing to deal with. If you have to have graphics above all else more power to you. All the same FS9 is nothing to sneeze at:

Dillon, you also have to remember there are a ton of people using FSX problem free with addons. Its just that in the nature of the FSX forum people come here for help more often than just to post saying that they fly FSX with no problem. If they said the latter what would we have to talk about?

 

The FS9 forum is the same, people only post about problems or to bring attention to new products, but not to just say "hey guys, my sim runs great, thanks.", just like here.

 

The only reason it may seem there are a lot of people posting FSX problems is because there are probably a lot of people entering FSX from FS9 or are new to flight sims completely anf the bucket of FSX users is now bigger, hence the reason more people seeking help.

 

Years ago I got help from a fellow who recently passed away named Michael Greenblatt from FS-GS. He set up FSX on my rig and hundreds of other users and none of us have any problems you see posted here and the reason you never see us complaining or seeking help. So, when people have FSX running fine you rarely here from us, leaving only those that need help to post their problems.

 

FSX requires more diligence to set up correctly and some things done you rarely see posted here, on top if that users with the latest and greatest rigs often try running extended LODs and higher res textures like 4096, and put sliders to far right and end up in trouble. Run the sim correctly and dont try to extend it further than it was designed and it works like a charm.

 

To add to that, set FSX to the same LOD, autogen, and texture resolution of FS9 and it runs about the same.