Hi all!

 

Yesterday I made a flight from Bergen Flesland (ENBR) to Oslo Gardemoen (ENGM). Both are Aerosoft airports. The weather was partly cloudy, partly rainy. I had sat my LOD radius for 6.5 just for testing. I'm also using the DX10 scenery fixer. When I was close to land, I heard the familiar ding-sound. I though, well, might swell just see how far I get. But I landed, waited for the crash, but nothing happened. I even put the bird in the sky with autopilot again for 30 minutes just to check. But no crash. 

 

Is this how DX10 scenery fixer works? Or is the familiar ding-sound I head something else now?

Ive had this in EGLL using uk2000 and the 777.. at least you can get it down and still log the hours with the va if using the acars program

The dinging sound comes from FSUIPC (I suspect this is what you are talking about). It has nothing to do with DX10 Preview or the "fixer" other than FSX is suppose to run better with DX10 enabled. If you haven't restarted FSX, you can look at the FSUIPC.log in the Modules folder and it will show you the warnings. You can also install the FSUIPC mod to monitor VAS in FSX and it will show you in the log what you started out with and what you ended up with.

 

Best regards,

I use DX 9 and find the ding sound is a warning you are running low on memory. I always get it at the end of a flight in certain areas like Seattle for instance and usually within a short period of time unless I change my auto gen other scenery settings I will run out of memory and the program closes.

Yes, the warning sound, generated by FSUIPC, doesn't mean you HAVE an OOM, but are getting into the "danger zone" of running very short of free VAS, and that an OOM is possible if your VAS consumption goes any higher.

I believe the warning is triggered when you have less than 250-300KB remaining free VAS

 

If you start getting the warning as you begin the approach - especially when landing at a commercial add-on airport with detailed scenery, then the chances are very high that you will indeed OOM, as your get closer to the runway, and increased airport ground details and autogen kick in. 

 

If the chiming starts after landing, then my experience has been that an OOM will likely NOT happen - as long as you are careful not to do anything that will increase VAS load. If I am using ASN weather, I will usually shut it down, as well as diconnecting from VATSIM if I am using it, all before taxying in to the ramp.

I never knew the ding was fsuipc, I thought it was my motherboard cpu monitor. Learn something new every day