Ok, I've about come to my wits end regarding this. Here is my situation; I will load up a flight, can be the NGX, or pretty much anything short of the default ultralight and everything will be fine on the ground; good steady (locked at 30 with) FPS, no problems... Once I take off, within a minute or two I will get a lag spike, no warning, no FPS drops, the sim will just freeze.. sound still working, and after about 1-1.5 seconds it will go back to working... any control inputs I make when frozen, will be applied during that time, so the plane will "warp" to where it should be if it hadn't been frozen for that brief moment. These lag spikes will then continue, at any altitude, at complete random, until I land. After landing, they stop.
I've tried searching every forum, and have tried every tweak from the well known (bufferpools=0, affinitymask=84, etc.) to the obscure (disabling multimedia class scheduler.) I've tried DX9, and DX10 (w/ Fixer) with the same results.. nothing helps at all. Disabling AI traffic makes no difference, lowering sliders (autogen, etc) doesn't help either, disabling scenery areas, ditto.. always the same problem, no matter what. (No, it is NOT FSUIPC Autosave, or Timesync)
I'm close to nuking my whole install and rebuilding from the ground up, but I figured I would ask the community for help in case there is one little setting or known issue that I'm overlooking. My system is not top of the line anymore (i7 OC'd to 3.8, and GTX 960) but it gets the job done very well, aside from this particular problem. Any help or advice is appreciated.. thanks.
Specs
i7 965 @ 3.8 Ghz - hyperthreading enabled
FSX install on one 200GB WD Velociraptor @10k rpm - defragged each week
EVGA GTX 960 - 2 GB
18 GB of DDR3
Saitek ProYoke
Saitek Cessna Pedals
FSX-SE
OrbX Global
OrbX GlobalVector
UTX - USA
UTX - Europe
FSGenesis Landclass project
MyTraffic 2013
PMDG NGX
Flight1 Cessna 172
A2A Cessna 182
Rex Texture Direct
OPUS FSI (have tried flying without it, problem persists)
FSUIPC
FSDST KLAS (tried completely uninstalling addon manager, couatl.. problem persists)
FeelThere ERJ
plus a few other planes that shouldn't make a difference with this issue.
My FSX.cfg:
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