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