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DVA12924
Captain, B777-200

Joined on March 24 2016
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Portland, OR

670 legs, 3,196.0 hours
670 legs, 3,196.0 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on November 06 2017 01:34 ET by Steven Destazio

Hey everyone. So I've tried flying KATL-LFPG 2 times now and I get about 8 minutes from LFPG when I get an out of memory error and FSX crashes both time. Smooth flying with no issues and averaging 25-30fps even once OOM error happens. Up until now, I haven't seen this error in YEARS. I'm flying in the SkySpirit 777-200 and I did get an AFCAD LFPG add-on so I'd have enough gates for everyone. Keep in mind, I have everything below running for every flight I've done for a long while now and have had an issue until now since a long time ago with older system specs. I can load up at LFPG with these settings and fly patterns in the same plane for over and hour with no issues, so it's the build-up of VAS over a long flight that's causing the problem. Here are my current system specs:

FSX Acc Gold Edition
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel 15-3570k @3.4GHz
16GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 (i think this is a 1GB but its FSX we're talking about and don't really need more than that right now)

FSX add-ons running during sim:
FSX
MyTraffic 6
DVA ACARS
Active Sky Next
Radar Contact 4
ORBX FTX Global
ORBX FTX Vector
Ultimate Terrain Caribbean
Ultimate Terrain Europe
Ultimate Terrain USA
Add-on airports all over(mostly just AFCAD files)
FSPassengersX

FSX settings (***some .CFG "tweaks" were done years ago and I don't remember which they were***):
Graphics:
Target Frame rate: 40
Resolution: 1680x1050x16
Filtering: Anisotropic
Anti-aliasing: checked
Global Texture Resolution: Very High
Preview DirectX10: UNchecked
Lens Flare: checked
Light bloom: UNchecked
Advanced Animations: checked

Aircraft:
2-D Cockpit
Show cockpit Tool-Tips: Checked
high Res 3-D VC: UNchecked
2-D panel transparency: 0%
Aircraft Casts shadow on ground: checked
Aircraft casts shadow on itself: checked
Aircraft landing light illuminate ground: checked

Scenery:
Level of detail radius: Large
Mesh Complexity: 100
Mesh resolution: 5 m
Texture resolution: 7 cm
Water effects: Low 2.x
Scenery Complexity: Extremely dense
Autogen density: Normal
Ground scenery shadows: checked
Special effects detail: High

Weather:
Cloud Draw distance: 90mi / 144km
Thermal visualization: none
Download winds-aloft with real world weather: unchecked
disable turbulance and thermal effects on aircraft: unchecked
Rate at which weather changes over time: No change
Detailed clouds with cloud coverage density: Maximum

Traffic:
Airline traffic density: 75%
GA traffic density: 0%
Airport vehicle density: 0% (got tired of crashing into speeding luggage trucks that don't know an airplane has the right-of-way)
Road Vehicles: 16%
Ships and ferries: 100%
Leisure boats: 50%
Show aircraft labels: checked (model, distance, altitude)

I know some of these can be turned down/off like Lens flare off, turn the resolution down to 1024x768x32 (I'll see what that looks like), AI I can turn down to a point (i dont like empty skies and I want to see the a380s). Whatelse can I change to reduce the chances of getting OOM after a 9 hour flight without really sacrificing the visual aspects of a sim that's supposed to be realistic(ish)? Thanks for the input.

Steven Destazio

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on November 06 2017 01:51 ET by Steven Destazio

Changes I just made:

Traffic down to 33% (a380 still there and KATL is still good with traffic)
Lens flare is now off
screen resolution down to 1024x768x32
LOD radius: down to medium
Mesh Complexity: down to 51
Texture Resolution: Down to 60 cm

Don't want to start this flight all over again until I've done everything I can to avoid OOM error again after 9 hours.

Steven Destazio

Captain, B777-200

DVA10785
Captain, CRJ-200
OLP

Joined on June 02 2012
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"Established on the localizer..."
Lugoff, SC

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Posted onPost created on November 06 2017 02:58 ET by Michael Koger

Disable any scenery you aren't using for your particular flight. Cant see most of those pretty airports when at cruise anyways.

Michael Koger

Captain, CRJ-200

Posted onPost created on November 06 2017 03:04 ET by Steven Destazio

99.9% of the airports I have are just AFCAD files so they would be under the general "addon scenery" in the scenery addon list.

Steven Destazio

Captain, B777-200

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV

Joined on January 30 2006
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Posted onPost created on November 06 2017 09:32 ET by Andrew Vane

Here are my recommendations based on what you are showing:

Turn OFF aircraft casts shadows on itself
Reduce Road vehicles to 5%
Reduce aircraft traffic to 20%
Target frame rate 30

Orbx Global and UT seem redundant. I would lose one.

I also turn off within FSX the countries and regions I'm not flying to within the scenery library. Helps things get running quicker at startup.

Keep in mind also that some payware aircraft are a larger burden on CPU resources than others. Aerosoft's A320 series is outstanding but seems to bog down my system much more than the captain sim aircraft or the QualityWings 757.

I think one big change you could make is to wait for a sale and get FSX Steam Edition. I have much better performance with it than I did with FSX disks out of the box. Sometimes you can catch it on sale for $8. It will require you to reinstall everything but the performance gain is definitely noticeable.

Also, if you want to spend more money, FSX is highly dependent upon single core performance. Higher Ghz is better and all the research I've read points to 4.0Ghz or higher. Just something to consider long term. My i3 7350K 4.4 Ghz cpu runs everything much smoother than my former i7 2600 3.4Ghz with the same SSD, video card, and 8GB of RAM.

Best of luck!

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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