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.

 

Here you go:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/fs-sceditor/

 

Your P3D scenery is located on your C: drive typically in the ProgramData directy in the root under Lockheed Martin.  SceneryConfigEditor will look for your FSX by default.   Just click on the FIle menu and select Open Other and go to your P3D Scenery.cfg file and you will see all the crap that is loading every time you boot up.   

 

Turn Off:

o - Airports you will not be flying too

o - World scenery you are not flying too.  If you are flying in America, turn off all the Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia stuff.  If you are flying in Europe, turn off america, etc.

o - If you are flying with MegaSceneryEarth, turn off everything that is not MegaSceneryEarth.  Do not fly with FTX Global/Vector and MSE turned on at the same time.  You are just eating up VAS for no reason.  One or the other, never both.

o - Follow Robs guide on getting your flight prepared.  I don't have to do that but it never hurts to get a little extra VAS is you are struggling badly.  Do not click on any plane but the one you intend to fly. (at least until v2.5 comes out and fixes the bug)

 

Give it a shot.

 

PS - Your main scenery file is  SCENERY.CFG    Any other scenery was probably created as a backup from one of your addons.   SCENERY.CFG is the file that P3D reads on boot up.

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Here you go:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/fs-sceditor/

 

Your P3D scenery is located on your C: drive typically in the ProgramData directy in the root under Lockheed Martin.  SceneryConfigEditor will look for your FSX by default.   Just click on the FIle menu and select Open Other and go to your P3D Scenery.cfg file and you will see all the crap that is loading every time you boot up.   

 

Turn Off:

o - Airports you will not be flying too

o - World scenery you are not flying too.  If you are flying in America, turn off all the Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia stuff.  If you are flying in Europe, turn off america, etc.

o - If you are flying with MegaSceneryEarth, turn off everything that is not MegaSceneryEarth.  Do not fly with FTX Global/Vector and MSE turned on at the same time.  You are just eating up VAS for no reason.  One or the other, never both.

o - Follow Robs guide on getting your flight prepared.  I don't have to do that but it never hurts to get a little extra VAS is you are struggling badly.  Do not click on any plane but the one you intend to fly. (at least until v2.5 comes out and fixes the bug)

 

Give it a shot.

 

PS - Your main scenery file is  SCENERY.CFG    Any other scenery was probably created as a backup from one of your addons.   SCENERY.CFG is the file that P3D reads on boot up.

Does P3D load scenery differently to fsx? If it doesn't then only photo scenery needs to be disabled 

These are great tips, but still not enough for my system.

 

Just flying in a straight line at 200 kias at 10.000 ft with fair weather will result in an OOM within 1 hour.

Ag set to sparse, no car/boat traffic, cloud distance 70 mls, only cloud shadows.

One wide view of 3 monitors is enough....

Gerard, I can fly much longer than 1 hour and I'm on a 4K monitor.

 

List what's in your DLL.XML and EXE.XML and list what 3rd party you use and list your graphics settings.

 

3rd party products I have confirmed will trigger OOMs on my setup are:

1.  GTN 750 with world terrain database (there is a 1.05 update I have yet to test)

2.  UT2  (this is an FSX product) -- also be aware that UT2 sometimes does NOT unload on exit (stays running)

3.  FB's KSFO + Orbx NCA

4.  Orbx NCA (if I don't disable specific BGL files)

5.  KMCO (flytampa again FSX product) 

 

Cheers, Rob.

Rob, I made some progress by setting the LOD radius back from 5.5 to 4.5...

 

Now I had P3D running for 2 hours without an OOM.

I had the aircraft flying at 7500 ft / 200 kias with real weather ( lots of clouds ) and every 20 min I made a 45 degree turn to the left and after 2 min a 45 degree to the right.

 

It is a pity I had to back down on LOD radius, but I still have the other eyecandy.

I am curious if I can make a landing at Frankfurt with the city nearby.

More interested in what 3rd party you are using ...  

 

1. Road traffic at moderate levels (<20%)

2. 1024 textures

3.  Building autogen normal  (trees can be anything)

4.  AI traffic <40% if default, if 3rd party <20%

 

I'm running max LOD radius without issue (with the CS 777 as my long haul aircraft and it comes with weather radar fully functional which is another signification VAS drain).

 

Cheers, Rob.

More interested in what 3rd party you are using ...

 

1. Road traffic at moderate levels (<20%)

2. 1024 textures

3. Building autogen normal (trees can be anything)

4. AI traffic <40% if default, if 3rd party <20%

 

I'm running max LOD radius without issue (with the CS 777 as my long haul aircraft and it comes with weather radar fully functional which is another signification VAS drain).

 

Cheers, Rob.

These are the same settings I use for tubeliner flights (LOD at 5.5, cloud shadows, WOAI at 40%). Two days ago I flew from Simwings Heathrow Extended with the Aerosoft A319 to Aerosoft Munich. 1:40 hours flight. No problem.

I suspect it you guys use 1 screen as outside view.

Using just 1 screen I also can use high settings without to worry about OOM ( have to use a saved flight though )

 

Here I have 3...

I suspect it you guys use 1 screen as outside view.

 

No, I do use 3 screens at 1080p with NVidia Surround plus a fourth screen for 2D pop panels.

 

Maybe the iFly 737 is the problem in your setup? Just a thought....

No, I do use 3 screens at 1080p with NVidia Surround plus a fourth screen for 2D pop panels.

 

Maybe the iFly 737 is the problem in your setup? Just a thought....

As I do not have the flight displays on my p3D pc I do not think that that is the case.

Probably that I only use photo scenery is.

 

 

Not sure what is causing my VAS to go up that high, instantly.
 
Anyone has any thoughts?

 

Yep, clearly something's very wrong w/ your configuration.

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.

Absolutely.  This has been my experience until just the other day when installed FSDT's Hawaiian Airports and ouch, first OOM ever.   Haven't had one again since I uninstalled it.   You might be able to get thru a flight in FSX w/ the same add ons, but visually from my recollection it was far inferior to what I see in P3D.

I suspect it you guys use 1 screen as outside view.

Using just 1 screen I also can use high settings without to worry about OOM ( have to use a saved flight though )

 

Agree, I don't run multiple views at the same time, this will obviously increase VAS usage as you have to maintain an entirely different view in addition to your other views ... I guess I missed where you mention that earlier.  If you plan to use this approach, you might want to look into two licenses and run multiple PCs and use the other PC to do the external view.

 

 

Maybe the iFly 737 is the problem in your setup? Just a thought....

 

I would agree here, the iFly 737 P3D version doesn't appear to be any different than the FSX version.  There are certain views and panels I have to avoid with the iFly 737 or they will cause either an OOM or a d2d.dll error.  Yes I was a little disappointed that I paid $80 for a P3D version of iFly 737 that frankly "sorta works" in P3D but has a lot of issues and as far as I can tell it was just an installer change (I'd love to be proven wrong here).  

 

I'm hoping the iFly 747 for P3D (whenever it's released) is not just a port of the FSX version because my experience with the iFly 737 for P3D has left me cautious to future iFly P3D products.

 

Cheers, Rob.

The Ifly is running on my server without any instruments shown...

So no views or panels I have to avoid.

Never had a d2d.dll error either.

Also I do not have any issues ; all hardware instruments / displays are working correctly.

 

Jouni Tournanen, who made IflyToFsuipc , also has a real size cockpit and tested the P3Dv2 thouroughly and found no memory leaks or other issues, except for the nav lights on the external model ( workaround described at the Ifly P3D site )

But that is only an issue for everyone using it, which I do not.

The VC is also turned off as it is not being used.