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For me, this has been the Lost Weekend, but there was no drink (or women) involved. I have finally spent some quality time with a quaility sim. I was one of those grumbling few who, from the delivery of the NGX in August, and through th various hotfixes thereafter, suffered chronic problems with panels freezes and OOMs. I'd only managed a handful of flights over the last two and a half months, and indeed, after HF4, I couldn't take off; hence, the NGX was parked up in anticipation of the SP!Now, with its arrival, it's a ;''game changer', and I can now see what most people on this forum were enthusing about all along. SInce i installed SP1 on Saturday morning, I have managed 9 faultless flights across Europe, through increasingly heavy weather and scenery systems, and the plane just purrs along. Well done to RSR and the team on a remarkable piece of software engineering. Now where did I leave that weekend?David PascoeIntel i7-870 o/c 3.6ghz, 4GB Ram, GTX460 1gb, Benq 21" Monitor, XP64

I've had the NGX now for almost 3 weeks, and, for the record, in that time, I've managed to complete a single flight, the tutorial from EGKK to EHAM, which I managed with the first hotfix. Certainly, even in the compass of that short flight I saw what the simulation could do. I was amazed at the fidelity to systems described ; and even flying into EHAM with Aerosoft'sMEga Scenery and UT2, I was getting FPS of 20. However, that flight took several days to achieve since, for the first few days, (and for the first time since I switched to XP64 a couple of years back) I was experiencing OOM problems, often as the plane was loading. However, folllowing the advice of one forum member, I disabled prefetch, and was able, at least, to take off, Then I started to experience the freezes, and despite the application of 3 hotifixes and the reinstallation of the RTM I've so far experienced 26 of them; so, for much of this holiday month, my simming has been a complete waste of time. Obviously, I've been watching to forums here since day 1, But I've not yet put any support tickets, since PMDG are clearly swamped by them, and are devoting huge resources to sorting this out.No one can accuse the team of being in denial about this -- 3 hotfixes this month attests to that -- and they are clearly baffled by the fact that these issues didn't show up in beta testing. However, I wish to take issue firstly with the suggestion that it's a small minority who are suffering these problems, since there will be many experienced simmers ( like me) who have decided not to join the fray and lodge a support ticket but wait, in silence, and in expectation, for the industrial strength fix which surely will come from the team. I agree with Ryan's assertion in this thread that that it is not a matter of 'code flaw'. What we're dealing with here is not a simple bug, it's a syndrome; and, by their very nature, syndromes, in programming and in medicine, are always tricky to diagnose since there are so many variables lying behind the code I have tried to eliminate all kinds of 'variables', running FSX without add-ons -- ASE, UT2 -- and reducing the sliders to the far left, reducing the texture size from 4096 to 1024, but no real pattern has emerged, other than first, the freeze 'sometimes' happens after I switch views to external, and the back third of the fuselage is transparent / skeletal; secondly, it sometime 'happens' when the joystick is moved and AP disconnects; and thirdly, 'sometimes' there is a strange feedback noise. But again, no strict cause and effect. I can only sympathise with PMDG, since they are in unknown territory with this. Clearly, as ths and other threads show, there are a lot of people who are now beginning lose patience; and there many others, like me (and several others who I have spoken to in my community), who are just sitting by waiting for solutions. David Pascoe i7870 2.93 GHz | 4GB DDR3 1600MHzGTX 460 DDR5 1GB | WinXP 64bit