Tired of CTD's and OOM's

[FS20 3]

I would recommend binning FSX and buying X-plane... no more OOMS or CTDs!

[cannonplug 126]

I would recommend binning FSX and buying X-plane... no more OOMS or CTDs!

Not the most productive comment, don't you think? People want to run their PMDG products and can't because of some of the most frustrating issues in computing, which I'm fortunate enough not to be experiencing myself. This just adds to that frustration, even if it was meant to be lighthearted.

[Paul_Smith 92]

Because none of the addons the OP mentions that he wants to use are available in X-Plane. Clearly he wants advice about running FSX with his new system.

These would be the add-ons that cause the OOM's and CTD's that he is so tired of?

 

My point was not that he move to X-Plane, it was that he give proper thought to what it was he was trying to do and what he should reasonably expect as a result. If he was not prepared to put in that thought, by moving to X-plane he could not run the add-ons that cause him issues. Problem solved.

[kevinh 409]

These would be the add-ons that cause the OOM's and CTD's that he is so tired of?

 

My point was not that he move to X-Plane, it was that he give proper thought to what it was he was trying to do and what he should reasonably expect as a result. If he was not prepared to put in that thought, by moving to X-plane he could not run the add-ons that cause him issues. Problem solved.

The problem had a constraint, which you are ignoring. The OP said "I want to use AS Airports and my PMDG Aircraft,NGX737, 747-400,800,Dream,MD-11,B777". As those addons don't exist in X-Plane the problem is not solved by switching to it. No OOMs certainly, less CTDs maybe, but no addons that the OP wants to fly are available in X-Plane.

 

Your solution only creates a new problem.

 

OOMs and CTDs are not inevitable when running Aerosoft Airports and PMDG Aircraft. Far from it.

[pp0W0qq 0]

hi

you can try the free version of Ramdisk and "mklink" some of your FSX folders to the Ram-Memory, it helped me alot. link to a tutorial (sorry i only know this german one, maybe you can use googletranslate) http://www.forum.eulenandfriends.de/index.php/Thread/10856-FSX-oder-P3D-mit-RAM-Disk/

i had no CTD's since i setup this... running same fsx-install since 2 years, and errors are very very rare. (but im still fighting whit the FPS in FSX... whit the NGX i reach at least 24fps when im lucky, around 20fps is the centerline...)

 

folders i "mklink" :

Animals

Autogen

Boats

Effects

Gauges

GroundVehicles

Misc

Texture

Weather

[Jude Bradley 659]

The OP title was (is) Tired of CDT's and OOM's therefore using X-Plane will eliminate OOM's therefore a viable solution to the title in the forum.

He can also run DX10 which at least makes FSX flyable and reduce the OOM count.

Most of the solutions above are viable.

 

 

[Paul_Smith 92]

The problem had a constraint, which you are ignoring. The OP said "I want to use AS Airports and my PMDG Aircraft,NGX737, 747-400,800,Dream,MD-11,B777". As those addons don't exist in X-Plane the problem is not solved by switching to it. No OOMs certainly, less CTDs maybe, but no addons that the OP wants to fly are available in X-Plane.

 

Your solution only creates a new problem.

 

OOMs and CTDs are not inevitable when running Aerosoft Airports and PMDG Aircraft. Far from it.

I am not ignoring it in the slightest, I am merely choosing to give precedence to his choice of topic title. He did not say he wanted to run PMDG etc without CTD's, he said he was so tired of CTD's that he was doing a fresh build. Only then did he mention what he wanted to do on it, and while PMDG do not (currently) offer their products on X-plane, there are plenty of tubeliners that are available on that might match the OP's requirements.

 

I absolutly agree that OOM's and CTD's are not inevitable, and have already mentioned how few I have had over the years. What I was attempting to say (badly) was that to avoid them requires thought and care, not a fresh build. If you  consider using another platform, then you have to make decisions about what is important to you and what comprimises you are willing to make, and what you expect in return. Apply that same reasoning back to FSX and you will easily reduce CTD's and OOM's to the level yo are willing to accept. 

[kevinh 409]

I am not ignoring it in the slightest, I am merely choosing to give precedence to his choice of topic title. He did not say he wanted to run PMDG etc without CTD's, he said he was so tired of CTD's that he was doing a fresh build. Only then did he mention what he wanted to do on it, and while PMDG do not (currently) offer their products on X-plane, there are plenty of tubeliners that are available on that might match the OP's requirements.

 

I absolutly agree that OOM's and CTD's are not inevitable, and have already mentioned how few I have had over the years. What I was attempting to say (badly) was that to avoid them requires thought and care, not a fresh build. If you consider using another platform, then you have to make decisions about what is important to you and what comprimises you are willing to make, and what you expect in return. Apply that same reasoning back to FSX and you will easily reduce CTD's and OOM's to the level yo are willing to accept.

Please read the opening post properly and not just the thread title. OOMs and CTDs aren't mentioned until the last sentence. Clearly, running the addons mentioned in FSX is his first priority. Advice on this was sought, not a recommendation to switch platforms.

 

As for the idea that considering X-Plane will make you rethink your FSX installation in a better way, words fail me.

[Paul_Smith 92]

Please read the opening post properly and not just the thread title. OOMs and CTDs aren't mentioned until the last sentence. Clearly, running the addons mentioned in FSX is his first priority. Advice on this was sought, not a recommendation to switch platforms.

 

As for the idea that considering X-Plane will make you rethink your FSX installation in a better way, words fail me.

 

1) Read the opening post in the context of the thread title. That is what most people do.

2) This is the internet, nothing is ever clear.

3) Advice was requested and offered. This is the internet, nobody said it had to be good or right. 

4) Nobody really cares whether or not you agree with the advice, but we are happy to listen to your alternative suggestions, if you have any.

5) You changed platform to Win64 to reduce OOM's, what is your objection to the OP switching platform to X-plane to eliminate them?

6) If you have a problem considering alternatives or consequences, then it is your problem, no one elses.

[kevinh 409]

You changed platform to Win64 to reduce OOM's, what is your objection to the OP switching platform to X-plane to eliminate them?

 

Actually I changed to Win 7 64 bit because PMDG no longer support Win XP and I was having problems with the Operations Center. The 777 works well enough under XP but I upgraded in case the 747v2 doesn't. I wasn't getting many OOMs anyway, but I haven't had any since upgrading.

 

Paul, I don't have any objections to the OP switching to X-Plane if that's what they want to do. The point is they stated explicitly they wanted to stay with FSX. You keep ignoring this fact. Therefore advising them to switch to X-Plane does not satisfy their requirement and is useless.

[Nyxx 6,993]

Have a look thought the link in my sig it might help?

[Peter22 0]

I would recommend binning FSX and buying X-plane... no more OOMS or CTDs!

what is Xplane with out PMDG?...just a nice road traffic simulator....

[bob34 124]

When I stopped using tons of AI traffic and started flying on VATSIM, the stability of FSX suddenly went through the roof.

My headaches went away with the removal of AI traffic.

 

I know that's not a good option for many, but perhaps if you can't figure it out, turn your traffic down to 0 and see how well your system performs. A large commercial AI traffic package running at 40% traffic was the culprit in my case.

[Paul_Smith 92]

 

 

The point is they stated explicitly they wanted to stay with FSX.

You really should read posts more carefully yourself before you criticise others for not reading them. The OP did not mention FSX at all, let alone explicity. Everything after that is your interpretation, and as we have seen before, what you think someone elses has said often differs from reality.

[Victoroos 205]

You should consider networking, only using your flight sim pc to run flight sim, and using a laptop to run other programs like active sky or any acars programs, also for browsing the Internet which I'm sure most people do.

 

The plain and simple truth is that the flight Sims are not the memory hogs, it's not the flight sim that runs out of memory it's your computer, ive never seen my sim p3d consume more than 3 gig of its available 4 gig of memory with vector FSDT and PMDG on a 10 HR plus flight, I did however see my computer up and around 90% memory usage, then I moved alot of third party software to a laptop and networked it all, I saw my VAS usage drop a good 20-25%.

 

Wait.. and that really works. VAS is per program I thought> So p3d has 4 gb vas.. ASN has 4gb vas etc.. right?