Well it's good to be back. I have been out of the Flight Sim community for quite some time. But I got a faster processor and a new video card and I'm back! :)Anyway, I got an AMD XP 3000+ processor and an ATI 9800 pro video card. I installed FS9 and here is what's happening.I load the game and create a flight, loading real weather. I get on the runway and notice that the needle on one of the dials flashing in and out, and also I get some flashing of the scenery. I start to take off, and within a minute I get an error telling me that FS9 ran out of memory, please check available RAM and hard drive space, which it says could be full.Well both are wrong. I have over 10 gig free space and over 350+ ram unused.At first I thought it was the ATI card. I have been an Nvidia man for years and figured I'd try ATI. BIG mistake. I've had nothing but trouble with the 9800 pro with various things since I got it. So I returned it and got a BFG 6800 OC card, which rocks BTW.Anyway, it is still doing it. This is with a format and clean install of WinXP and everything.I am a bit stumped on what is causing it. I have my page file set at a static 1 gig.As far as I know nothing is wrong with my system. FS9 worked fine with my GF TI-4600 way back when. I upgrade my system and now it doesn't work.The only thing other than the hardware that has changed is the addition of SP2 for WinXP.My system is basically in a nutshell is a AMD XP 3000+ processor, 512 meg of ram, 30 gig HD, Nvidia 6800 video, TurtleBeach Santa Cruz sound card.Any suggestions or solutions would be MUCH appreciated.

Welcome back.Plenty of info in the archives about your problem. Here is one thread:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...ing_type=searchGreg

Well I read that whole thread, thanks for pointing it out.The only thing on that thread that would have pertained to me, being that I just installed FS9 and no extras yet, is the page file.I am not a fan of having windows manage the page file, so I upped my static from 1 gig to 2 gig, and after a 10 minute flight I didn't get any out of memory errors.I don't know why I would have anyway, while FS9 was running, I went to the task manager and checked memory status, and I had over 100 meg free, yet increasing the swap file size seemed to work. Can't figure that out.Anyway, I am still getting the flashing scenery and some needles on the guages. So I am still trying to figure that out.I am using the 66.00 Nvidia drivers also.

"Anyway, I am still getting the flashing scenery and some needles on the guages. So I am still trying to figure that out."Which is why I left nVidia for ATI. You should try different drivers. Also, make sure you have the latest version of DirectX (9.0c).Use this to clean your system of the previous video driver version. Follow directions in the Readme and it will do a nice cleaning job for you. http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/Hard to say what's going on with your out-of-memory situation. Requires a thorough system look-see to pin down.Greg

Well I am still battling this problem.Tonight I put on a different set of drivers for the video card, still same thing. Also I started getting the out of memory crashes again. Of course I still am getting the flashing scenery.I know it can't be the paging file. When you set the paging file to automatic, it sets it to a minimum of 766 meg and a maximum of 1586 meg. So by my setting mine static to 2048 meg(2 gig), that shouldn't be a problem since I actually have it set to higher than it would be on auto.So next problem. The flickering. I doubt it is the Nvidia drivers, cause it was doing the same thing when I had the ATI 9800 pro in the machine.So simple deduction would rule out the paging file and the video card drivers.The only thing that changing in my system, outside of the faster CPU and different video card, is SP2 for WinXP. But if that was the case you would be hearing of others with the same problem.So I am still trouble shooting. So far I know what is NOT causing it, but still trying to find what is.

Paging file cannot be ruled out. The paging file itself may be corrupt. Delete the paging file, reboot Windows, defrag the hard drive, reinstate the paging file, reboot.Allcott

>Paging file cannot be ruled out. The paging file itself may>be corrupt. Delete the paging file, reboot Windows, defrag the>hard drive, reinstate the paging file, reboot.>Very good answer, but I can rule that out.When I still had the ATI 9800 pro I had the same problem. Since I exchanged it for a Nvidia 6800, I have reformatted and reinstalled Windows. So everything is fresh, just the same problem.

Where do u find the paging file to delete it?