FSX is like... a thin glass.

[BMagann 11]

I am one of those folks who has been very lucky with FSX. I have never had an in-flight software crash. It has always been rock stable for me. It has plenty of annoying issues, but stability has never been one of them for me.

 

Today I had the first OOM I have ever had. It was in P3D v2.1, running no add ons. Go figure.

[SteveW 1,792]

...addons must be developed properly to ensure a stability in sim...

 

+1

[xplanery 250]

FSX hasn't crashed for me in months, even with all those things you named.

 

Same here, even if it crashes I don't feel to bad as FScaptain + FSUIPC autosave allow me to restore the flight completely. 

[SolRayz 392]

If your careful with how you handle FSX, it is trouble free imo.

[magnetite 38]

FSX has been very stable for me. Only real issue is the texture loading when switching views, but that has something to do with my hardware and not FSX. Other programs have similar issues. The PCIe bus isn't fast enough so there's a bit of a lag when loading textures. I don't get any stuttering, OOM, crashes, or anything like that.

[TheGeek56 0]

Its the unfortunate state of FSX, fragile.

[BIGSKY 317]

374 hours on PMDG 777,No crashes.

[Pe11e 812]

Same here, even if it crashes I don't feel to bad as FScaptain + FSUIPC autosave allow me to restore the flight completely. 

 

Didn't know that you can save the FSCaptain flight, seriously! How to do that with FSUIPC?

[metalmike 34]

As crazy as it seems, I have never had a crash or OOM in FSX.

[vortex681 806]

Based on some of the comments here I must be the luckiest FSX user in the world! I've got quite an old, very modest system (no overclocking anywhere), FSX Gold Edition but with quite a few new add-ons including recent Realair and Ant's aircraft, FTX scenery and only one tweak in my fsx.cfg (HIGHMEMFIX=1). It's even installed in the default location on my C drive (shock, horror). Admittedly I'm only running it at 1680x1050 (my monitor's native resolution) but I get an average 25-30FPS with no stutters and I've never had a freeze, crash-to-desktop or OOM error - I've tried 1920x1080 on a borrowed monitor with no apparent loss of performance. I use FaceTrackNoIR with PointTracker as a cheap TrackIR replacement (highly recommended) with no FPS hit. Not sure why it all works so well but I'm definitely not complaining!