Hello all,

 

I'm running FSX with DirectX 10 with aome of the modifications listed on the "How-to" doc, plus with the UIAutomationCore.dll placed on the FSX root folder, and with the sliders tuned down as per this post: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/403943-maiden-flight-in-dx10-and-pc-crashed/

 

With all that done (I believe I have more hours tuning FSX than actually flying it), the sim is running beautiful and smooth, until I get to 30 minutes of flight. I was going from Skagit Regional to Seattle International in a Carenado's C152, when the screen went black with the sound running on the background.

 

Maybe it has to do with my bad habit of checking the map and the flight plan during the flight. I did that three times when the problem ocurred. Also, it ocurred at other time when,during the flight, I entered on the A2A Accu-feel setup for the aircraft I was flying.

 

Now, on to my question: being FSX a processor bound application, is there any other trick that one can do to help the processor handle FSX? I mean, in order to play the old original Splinter Cell game in a quad core computer, you had to set the processor affinity to one of the cores, so the game would run properly. Is there any similar solution to be used to FSX?

 

 

My specs:

i7- 2600 k  @ 3.4 Ghz;

16 GB RAM - DDR 3;

ZORGIS 9800 GT- 1GB RAM

Win 7 -Home Premium - 64 bit

You might want to try FSXAssist from the AVSIM Library. It will give you an easy means to try alternative priorities on FSX as well as add-ons and also the affinity mask. FSXAssist by Jim Allen: http://library.avsim.net/zipdiver.php?DLID=175414.

 

It helped me make some final tweaks and get a fairly smooth running FSX.

 

Happy Simming!!

Thank you, man.

But it seems to affect negativelly my frame rates.

Came back to use the regular FSX program, now without any problems.

 

I believe I sorted out the hang problem: too many programs working in the background.

Nothing that a visit to msconfig wouldn't solve.

 

Now I' flying steadly at 30 fps, with the eventual drop to 20-25 near clouds.

Thanks to all community for the invaluable help.

I'm having the best sim expereince with FSX in a long time.

Hi all - FSXAssist has been in continual improvement since its original release with many improvements implemented.  At any rate PLEASE do not use the original AVSIM library beta release as it has some significant defects that have since been resolved.

 

The current payware ($12.95US) version of FSXAssist is 1.04 and can be downloaded here.

 

A new build 1.05 is pending release in the next few days and fixes an issue with loading FSX modules that one user has reported and also changes the reload timings for FSX crash detection.

 

Regards

Jim Allen

SkyPilot Software