October 19, 20241 yr Good morning, My 81 year old father loves FS 2004 and has been 'flying' for years. Recently his laptop has begun suddenly turning off in the middle of longer flights around the 2-3 hour mark. Shorter flights of 1-2 hours are no problem. At first we thought it might be a heat issue based on the Windows event logs. He's taken some steps to cut down on possible overheating. Yesterday during a flight, Windows popped up an OOM alert and exited FS 2004. This was at the three hour mark. He's in AZ and I'm in CA so my troubleshooting has been over the phone or through Teamviewer. I'm wondering if any of you experienced folks might be able to suggest a troubleshooting direction? Other than this, the laptop is running fine and has all of the latest Windows patches. His computer set up is: Dell Laptop Windows 11 Pro, i7 2.2GHz CPU 16GB RAM
October 19, 20241 yr You might suggest cleaning up the laptop using the builtin utilities or something like CCleaner. A surprising amount of junk builds up over time which may cause problems. I find periodic maintenance helps. Jim Driskell James M Driskell, Maj USMC (Ret)
October 19, 20241 yr I remember to have some OOM issues in FS2004, I fixed it with a patch, you can download here: https://ntcore.com/4gb-patch/ Walter Almaraz
October 19, 20241 yr Might be a memory leak due to having a "texture" folder in with some "landclass" files, which, apparently should only have a scenery folder, so I've been given to understand. To try to clarify that :- assuming a scenery entry for a folder called "Texas_Landclass", within that folder there should only be a "scenery" folder within which resides the appropriate landclass bgl files. There should NOT be a "texture" folder within the "Texas_Landclass" folder, even if it's empty (which it usually would be.) Has any scenery been installed recently which might have introduced a problem?
October 19, 20241 yr I second the use of the 4gb patch, that might be all that is needed to resolve the oom's. I know I used it back when I was flying FS2004 (FS9). To me it was a must have. Glenn Wilkinson SpoilerMy specs: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X @ 3.7 GHz, 32 GB 3200MHz DDR4, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB, 2TB SAMSUNG EVO Plus SSD M2, 2TB WD Black Gaming SSD M2, 8TB WD Black Gaming HDD, 4TB WD Black Gaming Ext HDD, Windows 10, X-Plane 12 + large quantity of 3rd party addons scenery & aircraft. Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Thrustmaster TFRP. It's an older machine but gets the job done quite nicely - smooth with no stutters!
October 20, 20241 yr Author 7 hours ago, jmdriskell said: You might suggest cleaning up the laptop using the builtin utilities or something like CCleaner. A surprising amount of junk builds up over time which may cause problems. I find periodic maintenance helps. Jim Driskell Thanks. He's a CCleaner faithful
October 21, 20241 yr Author On 10/19/2024 at 12:56 PM, Walter Almaraz said: I remember to have some OOM issues in FS2004, I fixed it with a patch, you can download here: https://ntcore.com/4gb-patch/ The patch is safe to use, no malware or viruses?
October 21, 20241 yr 56 minutes ago, Wingman43 said: The patch is safe to use, no malware or viruses? The file is completely safe, I checked with VirusTotal and it has no viruses or something related to it. Also installation is not required. Walter Almaraz
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