Well, not that we welcome it; but, can you believe I am getting OOM almost instantly on my sim, now. So I'm in the process of installing my add-ons to P3D, and almost anywhere I go and fly it's an instant 3.5+ load on VAS...add some clouds and bam, crash with OOM. And, I'm like WT wrong with this. This wouldn't happen in FSX ...the exact same add-ons, and the exact same settings. ORBX and high-end aircrafts. By-the-way, the only shadows I use id for clouds and my aircraft at medium.

 

Now, so far I have tried lowering the graphic settings to medium and low range; no traffic,  LOD 4.5, max resolution to 2048, fair day. I have also done the MS "fix it" for VAS. Not sure what is causing my VAS to go up that high, instantly.

 

Anyone has any thoughts?

 

Also, I'm  trying to understand  more  on how VAS works. Using Process Manager, I can monitor my VAS usage for P3D. Are all  other applications  (or processes on my computer competing with P3D for that 4 Gb max VAS, simultaneously?  If yes, does anyone knows of a program that will close unnecessary processes automatically?

 

I got Windows 7, 2700K @4.5,  8 Gigs of RAM, NVidia 780 with latest drivers

Hi i use Process explorer to monitor VAS and process management and i also use FSUIPC to display the remaning memory available

and for the OOMs, well where all in the same boat with big airports and complexe aircraft

Hi i use Process explorer to monitor VAS and process management and i also use FSUIPC to display the remaning memory available

and for the OOMs, well where all in the same boat with big airports and complexe aircraft

 

It's this bad for everyone? Damnn, this will kill my experience.  Now, I did notice this started around the time I added HIRes Mesh. I will uninstall that and try. It can't be this bad; I refuse to accept...wouldn't want to give-up and go back to DX10. Though, I must admit DX-10 was Super duper on my system.

It must be sth with your settings. I have OOMs but very rarely. I am flying MJC400 in ORBX areas like UK/IRE including AS Dublin. Also flying several times with MJC400 from ORBX KPSP to FSDTs KLAX. No OOMs.

 

I have FSGlobal Ultimate active together with FTX Global and vector and FTX regions and several Aerosoft/FSDreamteam/UK2000 and FlyTampa airports. Main difference seems to be that I only use 1024 textures.

 

 

So I'm in the process of installing my add-ons to P3D, and almost anywhere I go and fly it's an instant 3.5+ load on VAS...add some clouds and bam, crash with OOM. And, I'm like WT wrong with this. This wouldn't happen in FSX ...the exact same add-ons, and the exact same settings. ORBX and high-end aircrafts.

 

Are you only installing P3D compatible addons and aircraft or are you using a migration tool?

I have yet to have an OOM while flying.  Now my longest flight in P3D so far has been 4 hours but I still stayed stable the entire flight and I have a ton of add-ons running; FTX Global, MSE, ASN, my aircraft, Accu-Sim, FSCaptain, VoxATC, FS2Crew and GSX.    I have Normal Autogen, Complex Scenery on Max, all graphic sliders maxed but mesh resolution (10m) and have a lot of shadows turned on running about 20% air traffic through VoxATC and 15% road traffic with Dense airport vehicles running.     P3D can handle it.  Something must be clogging up your pipes but I can't tell you what it is.

I've posted about OOM solutions many times, I guess I probably should make a web page and link to it.

 

Some items to do to avoid OOMs:

1.  Never "browse" (as in select aircraft) in the Vehicle Selection screen, just pick the one and only one you want (bug in P3D).

2.  Setup your "pre-flight" ... meaning pick your location, pick you aircraft, pick your time of day, set weather to clear (if you plan to use a weather engine) and then save the flight, now exit P3D

3.  Double click on your saved flight (.xml) and it should load up P3D with your flight set

4.  Go fly

 

Other tips:

1.  Use 1024 textures (important)

2.  Use 512 textures for clouds (if you use REX)

3.  Check your DLL.XML and EXE.XML ... see what's being loaded (disable items you don't need for the flight)

4.  In your scenery library, uncheck any scenery you might not be using for the area you plan to fly

 

Every single one of my OOMs has always been related to a 3rd party product with the exception of the bug in the Vehicle Selection screen (which will be fixed for v2.5).

 

With this approach I've done long haul flights 4 hours+ in CS 777 along with complex airports and even using GSX at departure and destination.

 

Cheers, Rob.

It must be sth with your settings. I have OOMs but very rarely. I am flying MJC400 in ORBX areas like UK/IRE including AS Dublin. Also flying several times with MJC400 from ORBX KPSP to FSDTs KLAX. No OOMs.

 

I have FSGlobal Ultimate active together with FTX Global and vector and FTX regions and several Aerosoft/FSDreamteam/UK2000 and FlyTampa airports. Main difference seems to be that I only use 1024 textures.

 

Yeah, this sounds  more like what I it should be in general- well, at least for most. So, I'm thinking something is wrong somewhere in my set.

Rob speaks great wisdom.   That's the thing I do that probably saves me; I use Scenery Configurator before every flight to turn off and on only what  I need for my trip.   

 

Rob, I actually encountered that OOM bug the other side while flipping through the tons of ERJ's and 737 liveries.   FSUIPC started dinging and I was like; But I haven't even loaded in yet!?  lol

 

I've posted about OOM solutions many times, I guess I probably should make a web page and link to it.

 

Some items to do to avoid OOMs:

1.  Never "browse" (as in select aircraft) in the Vehicle Selection screen, just pick the one and only one you want (bug in P3D).

2.  Setup your "pre-flight" ... meaning pick your location, pick you aircraft, pick your time of day, set weather to clear (if you plan to use a weather engine) and then save the flight, now exit P3D

3.  Double click on your saved flight (.xml) and it should load up P3D with your flight set

4.  Go fly

 

Other tips:

1.  Use 1024 textures (important)

2.  Use 512 textures for clouds (if you use REX)

3.  Check your DLL.XML and EXE.XML ... see what's being loaded (disable items you don't need for the flight)

4.  In your scenery library, uncheck any scenery you might not be using for the area you plan to fly

 

Every single one of my OOMs has always been related to a 3rd party product with the exception of the bug in the Vehicle Selection screen (which will be fixed for v2.5).

 

With this approach I've done long haul flights 4 hours+ in CS 777 along with complex airports and even using GSX at departure and destination.

 

Cheers, Rob.

 

 

Rob, I actually encountered that OOM bug the other side while flipping through the tons of ERJ's and 737 liveries.   FSUIPC started dinging and I was like; But I haven't even loaded in yet!

 

Yep that's the bug, it's being addressed in v2.5.

 

Cheers, Rob.

If yes, does anyone knows of a program that will close unnecessary processes automatically?

 

 

I use the free iobit Game Booster  http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.php  You can configure it as you wish although it seems to work well out of the box. 

 

In Process Explorer, sort the VAS column to see what processes are using the most VAS. I find that Firefox will easily use over 500MB and that is one of the  processes that is turned off with Game Booster. Never have had an OOM.

 

Lyn

Are you only installing P3D compatible addons and aircraft or are you using a migration tool?

 

 Most of the addons are P3D. However, I am using the migration tool to move over several FSX stuff.

Yep that's the bug, it's being addressed in v2.5.

 

Cheers, Rob.

 

Good info Brother thanks for the heads up as I thought it was me - the only problem I have is selecting certain payware aircraft in the Vehicle Selection screen causing out of memory - I will so it in game I think that solves it - 2.5 bring it on LM

Yep that's the bug, it's being addressed in v2.5.

 

Cheers, Rob.

 

Rob, I'm not sure where you get the time to help with all these issue; but, it is greatly appreciated. Your input to the community is incalculable.

Thank you, very, very much!  (and to the other guys, as well)

 

I will try these suggestions later today.

Rob speaks great wisdom.   That's the thing I do that probably saves me; I use Scenery Configurator before every flight to turn off and on only what  I need for my trip.   

 

Rob, I actually encountered that OOM bug the other side while flipping through the tons of ERJ's and 737 liveries.   FSUIPC started dinging and I was like; But I haven't even loaded in yet!?  lol

 

 I will install Scenery Configurator. What is the exact path to link it to? Is it to the Scenery CFG? I seem to have 2 scenery CFGs.