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Apr 11^th, 2010 at 11:40pm

Barbr Offline
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Hi guys:

My husband got sick of hearing me complain about the computer having errors when I'm using it for FSX, and so he borrowed a friend's "graphic card" and told me to also ask people here what they thought. Specifically, he said that our current computer is:

Intel 5-750
4 gigabytes of memory
Nvidia 9600 graphic card
Windows XP

Right now the computer has a "5850" graphic card in it. I'm not sure it is that much faster, but I guess now I can turn on bloom and it looks a bit nicer. Here are some test pictures (but FSX is still crashing Cry

Cry

):

He said that otherwise we can try more memory instead of the new graphic card. What do you guys suggest? I just want to be able to land at different places with the PMDG planes and not have the program quit on me at random.

Thanks for any advice!
-Barb

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Reply #1 - Apr 11^th, 2010 at 11:51pm

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1. Are there any associated messages with the crashes? Also, does the program freeze, go to a black screen, or go instantly to the desktop?

2. Have you tried doing a fresh install of the program and defragging the hard-drive?

3. Are you using XP 32 bit or 64 bit? If using 32, adding more RAM won't matter, since you are already at the maximum amount that the 32 bit version will recognize.

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Reply #2 - Apr 12^th, 2010 at 12:59am

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Two more..... I also feel like now the disk has to read a lot more and there are some long pauses once in a while Huh

Huh

...

-B

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Reply #3 - Apr 12^th, 2010 at 1:02am

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Quote:

1. Are there any associated messages with the crashes? Also, does the program freeze, go to a black screen, or go instantly to the desktop?

2. Have you tried doing a fresh install of the program and defragging the hard-drive?

3. Are you using XP 32 bit or 64 bit? If using 32, adding more RAM won't matter, since you are already at the maximum amount that the 32 bit version will recognize.

1) Normally it's when I am doing something like switching between views, from 2D cockpit to virtual cockpit... then it keeps loading from the diskdrive and doesn't do anything. Then when I hit "escape" it is re-starting FSX Angry

Angry

. Or, it has some small window that says something about how FSX crashed and do I want to restart it...

2) We just reinstalled everything 1-2 months ago...

3) Yes, hubby mentioned something about going to Windows 7 and adding more ram. Would that help? I guess this Graphic Card thing didn't fix the problem... ?

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Reply #4 - Apr 12^th, 2010 at 2:03am

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While I can't provide any assistance regarding your problems, that last shot is absolutely incredible!

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Reply #5 - Apr 12^th, 2010 at 9:41am

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Just curious - was it doing this prior to your PNW installation or after? Reason I ask is I had a virtual memory problem with PNW and hopefully fixed it by adjusting the pagefile amounts.

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Reply #6 - Apr 12^th, 2010 at 9:43am

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Great shots indeed.

I'm just guessing here, but just to start eliminating possibilities, you might try to download and run memtest.

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Reply #7 - Apr 12^th, 2010 at 11:02am

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olderndirt wrote on Apr 12^th, 2010 at 9:41am:

Just curious - was it doing this prior to your PNW installation or after? Reason I ask is I had a virtual memory problem with PNW and hopefully fixed it by adjusting the pagefile amounts.

This has been happening for a long time before PNW even came out. It seems that it happens when I fly from one complex airport to another, with a payware aircraft (especially PMDG), with REX and FSPassengers. And it always happens near landing. It happened more when we turned the display settings higher. Huh

Huh

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Reply #8 - Apr 12^th, 2010 at 12:28pm

SeanTK Ex Member

Might be your virtual memory allocation....

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Reply #9 - Apr 13^th, 2010 at 9:43am

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Barbr wrote on Apr 12^th, 2010 at 11:02am:

olderndirt wrote on Apr 12^th, 2010 at 9:41am:

Just curious - was it doing this prior to your PNW installation or after? Reason I ask is I had a virtual memory problem with PNW and hopefully fixed it by adjusting the pagefile amounts.

This has been happening for a long time before PNW even came out. It seems that it happens when I fly from one complex airport to another, with a payware aircraft (especially PMDG), with REX and FSPassengers. And it always happens near landing. It happened more when we turned the display settings higher. Huh

Huh

Perhaps switching to win 7 may help as there might be something wrong with the xp installation but I run xp with the 9600GT and FSX does not crash that much. Perhaps you shoud try to avoid using any of the third party apps?

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Reply #10 - Apr 13^th, 2010 at 10:18am

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Might be your virtual memory allocation....

Next time you run FSX, load your heavweights and bring up 'taskmaster' - click 'performance' to see how close your 'peak' is to the 'limit'. You may have to go into 'system properties/advanced/performance settings/advanced/virtual memory/change'. Try increasing the allocated amount.

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Reply #11 - Apr 13^th, 2010 at 1:03pm

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olderndirt wrote on Apr 13^th, 2010 at 10:18am:

Quote:

Might be your virtual memory allocation....

Next time you run FSX, load your heavweights and bring up 'taskmaster' - click 'performance' to see how close your 'peak' is to the 'limit'. You may have to go into 'system properties/advanced/performance settings/advanced/virtual memory/change'. Try increasing the allocated amount.

Thanks! We're going to try that. Otherwise we might do this Windows 7 "64-bit" thing.

Last night I was trying a PMDG 747-8i flight from KSEA to KJFK and, near the final approach, it had this loud "BONK" sound and all of the sudden FSX stopped. There was a "FSX Error" window but no matter how many times I tried to click on it it wouldn't display (so I can't read the error message and post it here) Sad

Sad

. I pressed "Esc" a few times and then it restarted FSX. Sigh. Out of memory?

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Reply #12 - Apr 13^th, 2010 at 1:25pm

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Barbr wrote on Apr 13^th, 2010 at 1:03pm:

olderndirt wrote on Apr 13^th, 2010 at 10:18am:

Quote:

Might be your virtual memory allocation....

Next time you run FSX, load your heavweights and bring up 'taskmaster' - click 'performance' to see how close your 'peak' is to the 'limit'. You may have to go into 'system properties/advanced/performance settings/advanced/virtual memory/change'. Try increasing the allocated amount.

Thanks! We're going to try that. Otherwise we might do this Windows 7 "64-bit" thing.

Last night I was trying a PMDG 747-8i flight from KSEA to KJFK and, near the final approach, it had this loud "BONK" sound and all of the sudden FSX stopped. There was a "FSX Error" window but no matter how many times I tried to click on it it wouldn't display (so I can't read the error message and post it here) Sad

Sad

. I pressed "Esc" a few times and then it restarted FSX. Sigh. Out of memory?

Where did 'dis loud "bonk" come from, speakers or the tower? Shocked

Shocked

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Reply #13 - Apr 13^th, 2010 at 7:04pm

Barbr Offline
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Groundbound1 wrote on Apr 13^th, 2010 at 1:25pm:

Where did 'dis loud "bonk" come from, speakers or the tower? Shocked

Shocked

Grin

The speakers, silly!

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Reply #14 - Apr 13^th, 2010 at 7:25pm

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Great shots

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