I reported this on the HIFI forum but still no answers.

Don't report it on the Forum (either Avsim or HiFi) and expect to get your problem resolved anytime soon. Submit a ticket to technical support.

No issues with ASN SP1.  Awesome performance.

 

Windows 7 64bit i7 3.4GHz

[JOBSCHEDULER]

AffinityMask=15

Hyperthreading OFF

AMD HD7950

4 monitors

 

Sydney Turner

I know its a different aircraft but myself and a fair amount of users,,,and rising are having problems with ASN sp1 and the aerosoft 318/319....

 

no probs with asn and the 318/319,,,,,,but throw asn sp1 in to the mix and the frames bottom out....

 

just a thought for you

 

oh but with the ngx or 320/321 I don't have the problem.....I own the 777 but haven't had time to try yet

 

Andrew

I had the sim pause or CTD twice after installing SP1 when flying the MJ8 with RC4 and ASN. I completely uninstalled ASN, including ASConnect, then rebooted and downloaded a fresh ASN. Ran the install and have had no problems since (3 flights of 1.5 hrs each).

Here is my latest experience.  Sixteen hours and NO PAUSES.  (Doesn't mean the problem is solved, but looks good for now.)

 

I don't know what the AffinityMask setting is but if I do the following all 8 cores of my SandyBridge get involved in the action and NO PAUSES.  This is what I do about the affinity thing:

Start FSX getting the default Air Trike or whatever that is called and immediately go the Windows Task Manager and select the Processes tab and locate and right-click on fsx.exe. Go down to list of options and click on Set Affinity ....  I select the CPU 0 box and uncheck it by clicking in the box and go down and click OK.  Now find fsx.exe and right click on it again.  Click on Set Affinity... and this time put the check back in the CPU 0 box and go down and click OK.

 

You are now finished.  If you go to the Performance Tab and click on View then select CPU History and One Graph Per CPU you will see over time that all 8 cores are active.  As I said before, I don't know what the Affinity Mask is (maybe Sydney Turner above gets the same results) but I just know I haven't had a problem with this yet.

 

I know someone here has a final and better answer but I found this one has worked for me so far.  The PMDG sims seem to load faster and I have had no pauses since I activated all 8 cores.  Some of you have bigger and better processors and are not having a problem, but my Sandy Bridge seems to get along well with using it all.  I will be following this thread to learn how others have worked out a solution to the eight minute pause.

 

Ron Oines