6 hours ago, spilok said:

Microsoft FF2 joystick is supported. 

Same here, Stan. In FSX-SE I had to disable the FF, and be very careful of moving the yoke as it disconnected the AP.

 

6 hours ago, spilok said:

I believe it is probably the future of flight simulation.

Concur with you there.

 

2 hours ago, DaveCT2003 said:

64 bit systems didn't exist when FSX was created,

Too true, Dave.

Dave,

Didn't mean to come off as "all-knowing".  I just found that frustration with FSX reached a high point.  Finding an answer given to me by THIS FORUM was well-received and most welcome.  My "finding" was just a reiteration of the many opinions of my fellow forum members.

Stan

41 minutes ago, spilok said:

Didn't mean to come off as "all-knowing".

I hear you brother, no problem at all!  I too shared frustrations with the 32 bit VAS limit at times.

Best wishes my friend.

 

I just read this thread with great interest. I have absolutely no technical expertise to offer except perhaps an observation from recent experience. About six weeks ago I had my hard drives completely wiped and a clean reinstall of Windows 10 and Office, all to get rid of years of left-behind files, corrupted registry files and other accumulated electronic junk, and to take advantage of the KILLER video card I had just installed. After loading all those mundane programs (Word, PowerPoint etc.) that allow me to claim a tax exemption for my "home office"  came the REAL thing - FSX-SE. The performance was incredible!!!! Flight sim heaven!!!

But of course, in the ensuing six weeks I have been reinstalling the hundreds of addon sceneries, AI aircraft, flyable aircraft and utilities that I previously had plus the "must have" new stuff that gets released every week.. And it takes no genius to realize that as I've done so, problems have multiplied along with the great pleasure of having so many goodies and an increasingly real and immersive sim environment.

I think that no matter what flight simulator we use, our hobby itself is going to end with us challenging the limits of both hardware and software, because almost all of us are constantly adding new features that didn't exist when that particular flight sim program, whether it is FS9, FSX,P3D etc. was released. So expecting an ABSOLUTE answer to questions like OOM errors is probably futile. Truth is, we probably all need to recognize that it's always going to be a balancing act of expanding the experiences the sim offers us (new places to go, new aircraft to fly, more realistic graphics etc.) with the technical limits of both hardware and software.

As someone above noted, in the earlier days it was simpler. We had a new iteration of our favorite flight sim about every two years and a much smaller investment in addons. So we said goodbye, sometimes with regret, (FS98) and sometimes with great relief (FS2000!) and moved on to the new one with a clean slate. Now it's far more complicated and vastly more expensive. Most of us have invested hundreds if not thousands of dollars/euros/pounds in addons and so we want to either keep the older sim functional beyond its "sell-by date" or we want a new sim to which we can migrate modified versions of the addons we already have. (As in P3DV4 currently)....

All of this to say, in a very long-winded way, that we are the victims of our own passion --- having the best sim experience possible --- along with our vices --- (an addiction to adding new goodies constantly) and the hopeless expectation that we can do so without presenting ourselves with frustrating problems.

The moral of the story? Thank goodness for AVSIM, the forums and the good-will and patience of an amazing community of people who both enable our addiction and help us to cope with the withdrawal symptoms when our latest binge causes an OOM or other debilitating side-effect....

So endeth the lesson! LOL
Cheers

Ian

I couldn't agree more, Ian.  You nailed it!

Stan