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DVA12761
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on September 14 2015

Murla, Comunidad Valenciana Spain

12 legs, 14.8 hours
11 legs, 13.0 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on October 17 2015 06:27 ET by Colin Ackerman

I do not know if anyone can help me with this but when flying the PMDG 737 my system pauses randomly throughout the flight. Everything is normal as far as the way the display looks and the sound continues as normal also. The aircraft is just frozen in time for approx 7-10 secs. After the pause everything just continues as normal. The PC does not lock up during the pauses. I have updated to the most recent display driver as I thought that might be the problem. I only have a low power system.
PC spec Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83 GHz, 8Gb Memory and NVidia GeForce 9600GT. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Regards Colin

Colin Ackerman

First Officer, B737-800

DVA10323
Chief Pilot, B727-200
OLP

Joined on November 26 2011
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"GPS, we don't need no GPS"
Gulfport, MS

1,585 legs, 1,452.3 hours
737 legs, 681.1 hours online
1,577 legs, 1,444.8 hours ACARS
41 legs, 58.7 hours event
327 legs dispatched, 343.5 hours

Posted onPost created on October 17 2015 09:46 ET by Kevin Lundy

Colin, what programs do you have running in the background? I had the same issue on my old system. I would have to close some of the applications running in the background to free up the memory before I could fly.

Kevin Lundy

Chief Pilot, B727-200

DVA9792
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 20 2011
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Cripple Creek, CO

10,818 legs, 31,374.9 hours
10,308 legs, 30,101.3 hours online
10,711 legs, 31,046.6 hours ACARS
1,535 legs, 4,172.7 hours event
0 legs dispatched, 2.3 hours

Posted onPost created on October 17 2015 10:28 ET by Jim Rose

If you are using the ACARS 'automatic flight saving' feature, try disabling it and see if the issue is resolved.

Jim Rose

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA12761
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on September 14 2015

Murla, Comunidad Valenciana Spain

12 legs, 14.8 hours
11 legs, 13.0 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on October 17 2015 10:32 ET by Colin Ackerman

Jim Rose wrote:

If you are using the ACARS 'automatic flight saving' feature, try disabling it and see if the issue is resolved.

Hi Jim
Yes, it was enabled. I will give it a go and see if that helps. Thanks

Colin Ackerman

First Officer, B737-800

DVA12761
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on September 14 2015

Murla, Comunidad Valenciana Spain

12 legs, 14.8 hours
11 legs, 13.0 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on October 17 2015 12:00 ET by Colin Ackerman

Kevin Lundy wrote:

Colin, what programs do you have running in the background? I had the same issue on my old system. I would have to close some of the applications running in the background to free up the memory before I could fly.

Hi Kevin
Yes, I do have a lot running, PFPX, ASN, FSCommander, Navigraph Charts, EZDok, Excel. Perhaps I need to get rid of some of those ;-)

Colin Ackerman

First Officer, B737-800

DVA11781
Captain, MD-11

Joined on October 03 2013
Everett 250 Club
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Quatercentenary Club

Northeastern United States

Posted onPost created on October 17 2015 14:05 ET by Joe Cappelo

Same thing happened to me and it was the automatic flight saving. disable it and just type in .save in the ACARS chat box every once in a while to save the flight.

Joe Cappelo (DVA11781)

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
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"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,307 legs, 9,292.6 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,965 legs, 8,085.7 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,343 legs, 9,427.5 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on October 17 2015 17:00 ET by Luke Kolin

If it's a 7-10 second pause, ACARS auto flight saving may be the symptom, but not the underlying cause. I have it enabled for all of my aircraft, including the 737NGX and I barely notice it. Every now and then I get a quarter second stutter that might be an auto-save (or may be something else).

I would check to ensure that you have told your anti-virus to not check the FSX directory, as well as your My Documents\Flight Simulator X files directory. You can probably also tell it not to check My Documents\ACARS, but that's pretty low volume in terms of writes.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA12761
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on September 14 2015

Murla, Comunidad Valenciana Spain

12 legs, 14.8 hours
11 legs, 13.0 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on October 19 2015 08:37 ET by Colin Ackerman

Thank you Joe and Luke. I have turned off autosave and that seems to have solved the problem

Colin Ackerman

First Officer, B737-800

Posted onPost created on October 19 2015 17:30 ET by Luke Kolin

Colin Ackerman wrote:

Thank you Joe and Luke. I have turned off autosave and that seems to have solved the problem

That's fine, just be aware you're not going to be able to restore your flights in case of a FS or computer crash. Make sure you save manually regularly via the .save command.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

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