Hi,

 

From Flightbeam KPHX to default KSEA, could land the 777 after 2:45hs, again high framerates and no FSUIPC bells. VAS was between 300MB and 400MB, but just after cutting off engines I switched to outside view - and I know this is one of the VAS killers.

 

Fact to evaluate:

 

The successful flights KMEM to KPHX and KPHX to KSEA were all done during daylight hours. What could sacrifice VAS more: day or night or dusk flights?

 

Settings I changed (FSX.CFG):

 

1. POOLSIZE=390000000 [it was 0]

2. AFFINITYMASK=14 [it was greater than this. Now I turned off Hyperthreading in my BIOS and followed Word Not Allowed's suggestion]

3. FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.25 [it was 0.15, but ORBX lands need 0.2 or higher]

 

Settings changed in FSX:

4. AUTOGEN: Sparse (I intend to turn it off this week to see what happens)

 

Settings changed in REX Texture Direct:

5. Waves: OFF (Clouds were already with low resolutions)

 

Settings changed in ASN:

6. Nothing - I refuse to reduce my 6 clouds layers.

 

Conclusion:

My first FS was the Microsoft Flight SImulator Version 1 (I still have the manual). That time Windows was not born and the first color monitors were being manufactured with a resolution being a Greek tragedy. But we had lots of fun because there were not such things as CTDs or OOMs. After Windows, the first problematic FS was the FS95 - it died without anyone discover its constant and anoying CTD's cause. 

 

So, I can say I have some experience at least in the use of the FS software and its development along all these years. In my view, the actual and biggest problem is the overload of addons and the amount of conflicts inflicted between each other and the FS environment. During the last two years I purchased an average of 2 addons monthly. My FS behavior fluctuated all this time from really nice times to complete frustration and back. Now, I have to live with a bipolar creature on its way to schizophrenia.

 

This FS addon industry is characterized for its extremely addiction for new and short timely versioning, which has a great probability of conflicts injection. The scenery industry is the winner in killer artifacts. In doubt, please install a fresh FSX and test the framerates. Then install the excellent FS Global (Pilots and FTX) and go fly to see your framerates dropped by 50%.

 

I am seriously thinking about, from a FSX stable platform, simply stop installing anything during 6 months, evaluating its behavior daily, statistically annotating each flight and the problems. I know it will be hard to resist a new and divine aircraft, weather or scenery candy and its never before offered features.

 

Thanks again for all for the opinions and suggestions. A special thanks goes to Jim.

 

Best regards,

I'm glad we didn't lose you totally as a member and as an FSX'er.  From your post above, you seem to have grasped the issues confronting us in these days of super computers.  I like the way you are doing some serious testing knowing almost exactly what your limitations are and the settings you can live with.  FSX and FSX-SE will never get better with the use of multi-cores and highly overclocked systems.  Like Clint Eastwood once said, "man must know his limitations".  If P3D is ever converted to 64 bit and the Lockheed Martin techie's can get the program to use more than one CPU core, then things will get exciting.

 

Thanks for your kind comments.  Just remember you will still get an occasional CTD or freeze but now I think you know exactly what caused it and that's a major accomplishment.

 

Best regards,

@the OP

 

Are you perhaps seeing symptoms similar to this thread?

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/455526-777-oom-depleted-vas-my-brand/

 

Where, in short, you may appear to see a VAS depletion at a rate of about 200MB/hour while using ASN and the 777? Which would lead to an OOM in about 3-6 hours, depending on other factors.

Hi Kyle,

 

Great post! Thanks. Just some comments:

 

The system in discussion in that post:

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I am on Windows 7 64bit, and I use:

Many ORBX regions and airports as well as Global and Vector (not updated yet)

FS2 Crew (NGX & 777)

GSE

UTX

ASN (networked) w/ REX 4 textures (1024 x 1024)

My LOD is set at 4.5 and I use DX-10 (Steve's DX10 fixer)

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Well, very similar to mine. I only disagree on the simultaneous use of Vector and UTX. I don't use UTX.

 

Tonight, when back from work, I will uninstall ASN and reinstall it, and promise to be back here describing the results on VAS.

 

​The best part was the threatened monitor ;-)

 

Best regards,