Looks like you've zeroed in on the problem Craig! Way to go. I wonder how many other Bojote Tool users have the same issue? I found it made my system worse so I don't use it.

 

Vic

A little update from me. Still no freezing on the NGX. Have made several succesful medium range flights with turnarounds etc etc. No problem there. However, I took the PMDG 777 out on a long-haul flight from RJAA to KDTW yesterday. Decided to really put it to the test.

 

Got two 8 minute freezes in cruise. The first one after 6:10 and the second one a short while before TOD. Total flight time was over 11 hours. 

 

I am currently flying YSSY - KLAX on Vatsim after doing some research and made some adjustments. I will come back with the results and what I did when we touch down in So Cal (hopefully...). 

 

See yah

Ok, bad news.. We didn't make it to LA.

 

Good news is that it was the captain's call due to real-life things to do. So we diverted to Hilo, Hawaii (which really isn't a bad place to be in January either).

 

Furthermore, not a single freeze. Took off in Sydney in the afternoon, watched the sun set over the Pacific, maneuvered in and around some really bad TS weather over the Fiji Islands, completed a fuel jettison and landed successfully in Hawaii without incident. Flying time was 10:33 wheels up to wheels down.

 

I am 99,927% certain that the freezes in the 777 have been taken care of now (as this is the first long flight without freezes). For sure, time will tell. 

 

What I did on my PC:

 

1. Updated the Realtek HD Sound driver to the latest one. 

 

2. In Device Manager, I disabled the Nvidia HD sound units. Leaving Realtek HD Sound as the only one enabled. 

 

For some reason I can't explain there seems to have been a major issue with loading sounds which, in turn, causes FSX to freeze up. 

For what its worth, could anyone running win7 check resource monitor disk activity section. I observe that ASN is the first addon ever to require more disk bandwidth than FSX itself inside the FSX folder.

 

Would be nice for hifi to make the location of as_svr folder optional, so that FSX texture load disk bandwidth can return to top of disk access list, rather than nearly 10th place it is with ASN running.

 

THis could be another major cause of stutters. AS2012 was smooth and it never installed folder accessed as much as as_svr inside FSX folder.

 

Suspect Hifi products will be much smoother if location of folders accessed heavily can be made optional thereby freeing FSX and OS drives.  

 

That said its been a bit smoother since I changed my strategy from starving ASN of system resources using process laso, to a strategy of making it above normal and gave it access to all cores. But still not as smooth as AS2012, and as_svr disk bandwidth requirement being more than fsx seems to me an obvious problem. Folks with numerous drives could do with option to move hot addon folders away from os and fsx disk drives.

 

 

The combination with asn /rex4 is nice, but might be bringing back as2012 a bit for smoother flights. Also my stutters with ASN seem to happen when Xgauge is updating its map, and its a more detailed map than as2012. Giving ASN more system resources reduced effects during map update, but still not as2012 smooth.

 

 

My suggestion would be to allows folks options to move HOT ASN folders to prefferd location and maybe options to tune real-time resource requirements of ASN, so user can fine tune away any stutters as per each system. Example ,map detail, amount of detail in each update period etc.