Oliver Gates

Recently, I was flying the PMDG 777 from EGLL to KSFO (flight BA285/BAW11M), and my route took me ever so slightly south of Iceland and over the southern part of Greenland. After leaving the west coast of Greenland, I received a high VAS warning from FSUIPC, and I realised that my VAS usage was at 94%. This was significantly higher than I would have expected, and - eventually - I got an OOM error (my first one in Prepar3d V3). I honestly can't figure out what caused it; P3D handles VAS very well, and I have flown this flight once before with exactly the same scenery and settings, and there were absolutely no issues. The only difference between this flight* and my previous flight** is that this flight's route took me much closer to Iceland (further north). Therefore, I can only think of three possible causes: 1) Something in Iceland led to an extremely significant increase in VAS usage (in spite of the fact that I don't own any scenery in Iceland); 2) Orbx recently updated the Orbx Libraries, and this was related to whatever caused the OOM error; 3) I flew over Manchester, and UK2000's EGCC caused a dramatic increase in VAS usage (which I find difficult to believe). I am aware that Orbx have a free Iceland demonstration product; however, I have never installed it. I would like to emphasise that the VAS usage when I flew this flight previously was nowhere near 94% when I was leaving the west coast of Greenland, and all of my scenery and settings were exactly the same. The only difference (as far as I am aware) was the route. Thank you for taking the time to read this; I would be very appreciative if anyone could provide a possible explanation for this seemingly random increase in VAS usage. Cheers, Oliver *This route (with an OOM error): WOBUN UL10 DTY DCT SAPCO UN57 TNT UL28 PENIL UL70 BAGSO DCT ERNAN DCT BALIX DCT BREKI DCT 66N040W 66N050W DCT EPMAN NCAE YYN J530 GTF J7 LKT DCT LLC J32 FMG J94 ECA RISTI4 **Previous route (without an OOM error): WOBUN DCT WELIN UT420 TNT UL28 RODOL UM65 TENSO UL603 REMSI DCT DIMLI DCT GINGA DCT GOMUP DCT 61N020W 63N030W 65N040W 66N050W DCT EPMAN NCAE YYN J530 GTF J7 LKT DCT LLC J32 FMG J94 ECA