Hi together!

 

First I just wanted to mention that this is one of my first posts here, so forgive me if it isn't postet in the right part of the forum.

 

The problem: My FSX always crashes after flights that include good complex addons. For example if I fly the Carenado B-200 from Felts Field to Jackson Hole (both ORBX addons) I'm absolutely shure FSX crashes after this flight as soon as I "interrupt" simulation, for example by changing the aircraft, switching between full screen and window mode, open any menu in full screen mode,...

This only happens with "complex" addons, especially it seems to have to do with HD textures (e.g. using FSDT Vancouver, some ORBX airports and aircraft like the Aerosoft A320 or newer Carenado models) and it only happens while changing any settings as discribed above after flying over areas which are "exhaustive" to the PC. It never happens simply DURING simulation, even if the FPS are quite bad sometimes.

 

My system:

 

AMD Athlon II X4 640 3,0 GHz

8 GB DDR3-RAM

NVidia Geforce GTS 450

WD HDD 1,5 TB (7.200 rpm)

Windows 7 (64-bit)

 

I know it's not the fastest CPU anymore and framerates are not that great at some places. But can this alone make FSX crash AFTER simulation??

All the other programs run without any problem, including FS2004 with the highest settings. What can I do?

Thanks in advance!

 

Regards, Dominik

Hi Dominik,

Does Windows say "your computer has ran out of memory please start etc."

I've sometimes expirience the same problem. long light, heavy model, heavy scenery.

I've set back the cloud resolution of the addon clouds by active sky. Set back roadtraffic to 23% leisure boats to 25% lowered the water setting.

Plus, I use the 4GB patch, to make FSX use some more memory space.

I don't have many crashes anymore.

Going from 1 high dense scenery to another can also be problematic.

Windows and "X" try to keep as much in it's memory as possible, But a 32bit programm is only allowed 3GB.Thus there might be to much in memmory for the space available

The affinty patch [i believe your AMD is a multi core to isn't it?] you don't have HT cores on the AMD so you should calculate a affinity setting for all cores minus number 0 core [the first core]

If I'm informed correctly the AMD's overclock very well [properly cooled of course] may be you could cranck it up to something like 3.5GHz. This won't help the crashes but wil improve framerates.

Good luck.

Joost

Plus, I use the 4GB patch, to make FSX use some more memory space.

 

What is this patch and where can I read more about it?

As long as you have SP1 and SP2 for FSX installed, FSX is then LAA and there is no need for any kind of patch, utility, snake oil, potion, or anything else.

Joost, first of all thanks for that quick and long reply!

 

Hi Dominik,

Does Windows say "your computer has ran out of memory please start etc."

 

So far it doesn't say anything but "A major error has occured - FSX is restarted now" (I don't know the exact words in the english Win7 version as I only have it in German ;-) Back to the times I used FSX in Windows XP (32bit) I did indeed get this "out of memory" message, but I thought now with the 64bit systems those times should be over (?).

Unfortunately I don't know how Win7 actually "says" what has caused a problem, but the description of your problem sounds similar.

 

Plus, I use the 4GB patch, to make FSX use some more memory space.

I don't have many crashes anymore.

 

So I'm asking the same question as fppilot :-) What patch is that? Never heard of that.

However I guess 8 GB RAM should be enough - just the problem how much RAM FSX USES actually..

 

 

Going from 1 high dense scenery to another can also be problematic.

Windows and "X" try to keep as much in it's memory as possible, But a 32bit programm is only allowed 3GB.Thus there might be to much in memmory for the space available.

 

That sounds logical and fits to the description of the problem.

 

The affinty patch [i believe your AMD is a multi core to isn't it?] you don't have HT cores on the AMD so you should calculate a affinity setting for all cores minus number 0 core [the first core]

If I'm informed correctly the AMD's overclock very well [properly cooled of course] may be you could cranck it up to something like 3.5GHz. This won't help the crashes but wil improve framerates.

 

Yes it's a quad core. But I'm not shure if I can overclock it at all - at least it's not a "black edition" (as far as I know). I've installed "AMD Overdrive", but I can't change the settings of the "multiplicator", at least I can't increase it over the default value of 15x. Nor can I find any "advanced" switch which should allow any changes at all. Might be my fault as I have no experience with overclocking CPU's.

 

FPS is a different problem. Would certanly be nice to have more :-) But most important is the elemination of the crashes, if that is indeed a seperate problem. So could you tell me more about that "4 GB patch" please?