February 7, 20206 yr Does anyone even consider the OP's environment? That 4690K takes DDR3, never mind what motherboard he is using, so I really wouldn't start pouring money in to this system. What I would do is source 16GB's of really cheap, but not low quality, RAM (used is a good option) and a decent SSD that you can eventually carry over. And then start saving for a more modern system. 16GB will be enough. If you can run P3D with 8 when no other programs are running, then doubling that amount will definitely get you where you want to be. Edited February 7, 20206 yr by Evros
February 7, 20206 yr My two cents here...first see if you can free up some room on the HDD, perhaps by moving some stuff off to an external drive. Then defrag your HDD. It's generally not a good idea to fill an HDD up past the 80% mark, because the system needs room to do housekeeping, and fragmentation of what little space is left can be an issue. An OOM is triggered whenever a *contiguous* block of virtual address space is requested but cannot be allocated. So if the system asks for 1GB of VAS, and there isn't a 1GB contiguous block in either RAM or the page file, you'll trigger an OOM, even if the total space available in the totality of the smaller chunks exceeds what's needed. I agree that investing much more in a 3-generations old PC isn't the best plan, especially w/r/t RAM, since more DDR3 RAM can't be re-used in a new system build. I think you might be able to get away with your 8GB of RAM and some more mass storage. An SSD would be usable on a new system...DDR3 RAM, not. And P3Dv4 can be configured to use add-ons spread across different drives. Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
February 8, 20206 yr Author 19 hours ago, Evros said: Does anyone even consider the OP's environment? That 4690K takes DDR3, never mind what motherboard he is using, so I really wouldn't start pouring money in to this system. What I would do is source 16GB's of really cheap, but not low quality, RAM (used is a good option) and a decent SSD that you can eventually carry over. And then start saving for a more modern system. 16GB will be enough. If you can run P3D with 8 when no other programs are running, then doubling that amount will definitely get you where you want to be. That's exactly what I did. Found some RAM so now I am at 16 and bought a decent SSD. No OOM's so far and I am running navigraph and ASP4 with P3D. P3D now boots up notably faster - less than a minute! Thanks to everyone for their input. Much appreciated. Trevor
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