Hey guys!

 

I've gotten past the "noob" stages of switching to FSX and there is one question I can't find an answer for. I don't get very many OOM's often but they are annoying when they do happen. My question is, when FSUIPC starts dinging, how can I avoid the upcoming crash? As soon as I hear the ding start up, my textures will stop loading and a lot of times I can still land and taxi in without a crash. But should the memory usage go back down after being at the airport hence everything return to normal?

 

Thanks!

I do not know of anyway to stop the dinging.  I have tried to save my flight from an OOM crash too.  I suspect you can try doing a ctrl-alt-del and open up the task manager and see what is taking up so much memory.  Most likely cause is the LOD_Radius setting.  If it is set above 4.5 in your fsx.cfg, it is likely the culprit.  Having a high Texture_Max_Load above 2048 will create the OOM too. 

 

Best regards,

Jim

The only safe way to save that particular flight is to actually save that flight, shutdownd FSX, reload saved flight and continue. 

 

To reduce VAS usage in that moment without restarting FSX,  you can try to disable AI traffic, "aircraft casts shadows on the dround", and "high resolution 3-D virtual cockpit". I don't know exactly about AI traffic, but last two will reduce VAS usage by at least 200MB. The first solution, after restarting FSX you can reduce VAS by arround 1.5GB

 

To avoid OOM errors  in general, look for advices in this thread http://forum.avsim.net/topic/417303-confused-about-virtual-memory-size-recommendations-oom-issues-what-is-the-best-size-for-the-paging-size/

p.s. Jim, you are really fast now  :lol: