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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | How long should I expect to fly before FSX goes "OOM!"

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Posted onPost created on September 26 2023 14:14 ET by Calvin Waterbury

Hi,

I have a-l-w-a-y-s had the dreaded message box invade my screen advising FSX has run out of memory and an Out Of Memory (OOM) condition would shut FSX down. So I was curious how much time and/or distance I should constrain my flights when flight planning.

FYI - I have tried every pathway to OOM-less flying that is out there, AFAIK. Bjote, Kostas, and Nick's "Bible" have never worked for me no matter how many times I reformatted, cleaned installed, etc. sometimes across days to ensure my compliance with the process. Mind you, I have experienced OOMs with three different laptops. So, I resigned myself to flying with a time bomb. I just want to how to fly just short of an OOM.

Thoughts?

Take care.

Calvin Waterbury

Captain, CRJ-200

DVA043
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Posted onPost created on September 26 2023 14:56 ET by Luke Kolin

It depends on scenery and aircraft complexity.

Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows, and are you using SP2?

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on September 26 2023 15:28 ET by Calvin Waterbury

For scenery I only have FScene for FSX
Aircraft: DVA 727
O/S: Win10-64.
FSX.exe File version: 10.0.62615.0
I’m using FSX-Steam

Thanks for the reply.

Calvin Waterbury

Captain, CRJ-200

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Posted onPost created on September 27 2023 11:16 ET by Mike Bell

Yes it relates to scenery and a/c thus can get OOM for every flight on approach just when you thought you'd make it or how about just after touch down yuk.
I get warning beeps for 2 minutes or so and I pause and try to disable addon scenery and move sliders left to rescue it.

Mike Bell (DVA14023)

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Posted onPost created on September 27 2023 16:01 ET by Michael Martin

when I fly with FSX, I reboot after every flight. When I use P3D, I reboot after 2 or 3 flights. Depends on distance.

Michael Martin

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on September 29 2023 20:03 ET by Calvin Waterbury

Thank you for the advice.

Calvin Waterbury

Captain, CRJ-200

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