Freezing and Glitches

[aboulger116]

I'm running Windows 8 with an Intel i7 3.4GHz processor, Nvidia GTX650, 12GB ram. I also have PMDG's 737 and 777, practically the only two planes I fly.

 

Here are my issues. I fly long flights, like right now I'm doing OMAA to LAX. I get up to cruising altitude last night around 10, with UTC time to spec. I wake up around 8:30 this morning, and it had ended up freezing for a total of 3 hours. It never stays frozen, but when it freezes it just stops the game with audio on for 10+ minutes. Any solutions? I'm going to try reinstalling after this flight, is there a way to just reinstall without deleting documents and addons?

 

Also, only in the PMDG products, if I press escape, or even go into any of the other menu, I go back into the game and the scenery is all jacked up, and the cockpit disappears. I press escape numerous times and it does other scenery glitches until after pressing it 20-30 times it finally comes back. Is this a known issue?

 

I apologize in advance if I posted this in the wrong place. Any suggestions would be awesome. Maybe it's because I might have installed the service packs before loading the default flight? I just want to see if anyone has a possible solution before I have to reinstall everything.

 

Thanks

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[Jim Young]

Here are my issues. I fly long flights, like right now I'm doing OMAA to LAX. I get up to cruising altitude last night around 10, with UTC time to spec. I wake up around 8:30 this morning, and it had ended up freezing for a total of 3 hours.

Most likely high settings. There is no known bug or solution. If you put the Vista version of the uiautomationcore.dll in your main fsx directory, that could be the problem as some say it is not compatible with Windows 8. The Windows 8 version in the main Windows 8 system folders was reported to have a memory leak but this was soon after Windows 8 was released and may have been fixed by now. The longer your flights, the better the chance for your Virtual Address Space (VAS) to be depleted but you will usually get an out of memory error message. Yet, if there isn't much left, there may not be sufficient resources to continue the flight and fsx just freezes up. If you go out of FSX via the task manager, there is a known bug when trying to get back to FSX. I've been successful a couple of times getting back to the main FSX screen and continuing the flight but it is rare.

 

There is a way to monitor your VAS usage but it requires the payware version of FSUIPC. Here's where I described the process to someone else recently - http://forum.avsim.net/topic/436902-fsx-freezes-then-crashes-straight-to-desktop/#entry2943534.

 

I suggest you take a look at the AVSIM CTD Guide and look for the solutions listed for freezes and out of memory crashes as I'm almost positive you were close to running out of resources (you only get 4GB and having a ton of RAM in your system won't help). The CTD Guide can be found by clicking on the link under Hot Spots to the right of this forum.

 

For scenery glitches, make sure you have the parameter highmemfix=1 in the Graphics section of FSX. This is not a tweak but an actual fix that they forgot to put in Acceleration/SP2.

 

Your suggestion that you installed everything (service packs included) before running FSX might also be the problem but I think some have still been successful running FSX w/o problems. You have to understand that FSX came out first and none of the SP's were released until much later. You therefore need to run FSX, get it activated and your Fsx.cfg set up and then install SP1, run FSX, and then install SP2. If you cannot find a solution, then you'll need to reinstall.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Best regards,

[aboulger116]

Really appreciate the detailed response.

 

I just checked my graphics settings and a previous crash must have not saved the previous settings but my sliders were all maxed out... Put everything back on high. Should be running normal again but if it doesn't I'll download the CTD guide like you suggested

Thanks again!