These are the kinds of freezes I am talking about. Most of the time everything is still on the screen but not moving and the sound is still on, keyboard, mouse and joystick are not working. I can do ctrl-alt-del and stop FSX which is not responding then everything is working again. With the other kind, the screen just suddenly goes black, the sound may still be on but very distorted or sounding like it was stuck. The only way out of this is shut down and restart with the button. Even the reset button does not work.  Sometimes these freezes happen right at the beginning of the flight and other times much later or not at all. I have monitored the temp on my CPU and graphics and it doesn't seem to be a factor. Before I start FSX I do a ctrl-alt-del and turn off some of the running processes. I also put Norton in quiet mode. I also had this problem with my previous computer which was running Windows xp 64 bit and had an ATI graphics card and Pentium processor. That computer was the reason I built the new one. I wanted to be able to run FSX all out. I didn't have the freezing problem for about the first year.

If temperatures seem not to be a problem, could be a software problem, or conflict. Try using FsAutoStart to wipe as clean as possible the memory while running FS and updating video and audio drivers.

If it continues we fall in memory fault territory. Try running Fs with part of the whole physical memory (removing physically the memory sticks) and eventually swap banks.

You didn't by any chance tweak the memory timings in the BIOS, did you? If you did, put everything to default and try running FS again.

Let us know.

Strategic Retreat wrote on Nov 9^th, 2011 at 3:31pm:

I haven't tweeked any memory settings. Right now my computer is running completely stock. Using FSautostart and AlacrityPC did not stop the freezing. I have taken the memory down from 12 GB to 4 GB two sticks at a time and shuffled them around in the slots. After each test I still had the problem. I also ran MemTest86 and the system passed witout any errors. So, I am ruling out memory problems. I think my next move is going to be re-installing FSX. Has anyone had experience with Abacus products. I have their Flight Deck, Extreme Scenery, and a couple of their airplanes, F-14 and Connie plus all the ones that come with Flight Deck.

Nah, I aint gonna be doin' any re-formatin'. That's way too much work. I don't have any trouble with anything else except FSX. I might go aheaad and re-install that.

BigT-65 wrote on Nov 15^th, 2011 at 10:46pm:


So good for you to have joined that club. Hardly a secret, as Fozzer remarked, that FSX, beside its long standing tradition of performances issues, it's infamous to be quite the very reliable source of problems.

I wish you good luck with finding a solution. Not much more I can do for you (especially with today's continental drift fast forum server).

I am wondering if can get better graphics card for my 2year old  Wired2fire Hellspawncrossfire computer . I have windows 7 64 bit computer with 2 of 1tb drives raid 0, graphics card ati hd 4800 series with fsx gold and the computer gas been overclocked by supplier to intel core i7, CPU 860 @2.8GHz 3.41 GHz, with 8gb RAM .Advice would be appreciated but I do not want too spend silly money.
I am also trying to make use of tileproxy addon with limited success.It runs but also seems to give errors in loading and graphics not as good as believe can be achieved

Take a look here for comparisons of graphic cards http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Graphic-Cards.130.0.html and here for advise about laptops and what works good with them http://www.notebookcheck.net/Purchase-Advisory-Market-Overview-of-current-Gaming...

Hope this helps.

I have a HD6770 and get quite decent frame rates (varies between 30fps in very dense areas to around 70fps).
I have heard that FSX is CPU intensive (is that correct?) and so more money should be invested in the fastest CPU you can afford rather than the video card ie you get better results from a faster CPU - is that correct?