I am turning here because the forum was of great help with past issues I had, (missing landing gear on CS aircraft), anyway, my latest issue is this;

 

My FSX seemed pretty stable under Windows 7 Professional 32 bit.  I had just purchased PMDG 737 NGX and the 600 series add on a few days later and it seemed to install and run well, but I got part of the way through the first tutorial and the sim locked up.  Probably out of memory due to the 32 bit limits, (I have 8 gig on board).  I did some preliminary checking of the fsx.cfg and other things, but did not change anything, (99 % sure, but may have inadvertently mouse clicked on something),  The program wouldn't work after that, initially, it ran and opened, but you could not see the twirling aircraft that you selected, just a black screen, then FSX wouldn't open at all, opening FSX screen, stop with fatal error, closing fsx.  Haven't been able to get past it.  I used my FSX disks to attempt a reinstall, but only the repair feature, no joy, today I did a windows restore back to when the 737 600 was installed, ( I know it worked then), but again no joy.  I am pretty feed up but really want to get this fixed, In the near future, I am looking to install a faster hard drive, maybe SSD or SSHD and go with Win 7 64 bit.  I assume that should help the memory issues.  Now as an aside in case it helps any diagnosis, I also have Train Simulator 2014 that CTD as well, but it is a notoriously buggy program and that is a battle for another time.

 

Mike

 

Windows 7, 32 bit does not "see" as much memory as Windows 7 64 bit.  More info at the following topic - http://forum.avsim.net/topic/389704-fsx-oom-apidll-patcher/.  If I were you I would install Windows 7, 64 bit.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Thanks for the response, I believe the 64 bit is the way I will go, I will put the new O/S on a new drive and boot from that, using my old drive as the backup source.  I did manage to get the FSX running again, careful uninstalling of SP1 and reinstalling got everything back to a working state, I would appreciate advise on running with the memory resources that I do have until the 64 bit upgrade.  Last night while giving it a test run, a QW 757 was only able to taxi to the active runway before it crapped out, but I did have IE open at the time.

Mike

 

 

I would appreciate advise on running with the memory resources that I do have until the 64 bit upgrade.

 

The best place to get this information is published in the AVSIM Software and Hardware Guide which you can get to by clicking on the Content Tab above and selecting the AVSIM Software and Hardware Guide.  Look at pages 9, 10, and 11 mostly.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Thanks again.