Tony -
It's unrelated to your physically installed RAM,
it's the available heaps.
i.e.
State of RAM allocation before FSX is launched.
Can be dirty due to -
- Background tasks
- Running apps
- Previously closed apps
- Clipboard items
- Resource utilisation by other items, e.g. high-res desktop piccies
Try running a memory cleanup app
e.g. FreeRAM Pro
before you launch FS.
Under vista i fixed it with BCDEDIT command from the dos prompt box
Can't remember the exact command but a google search for FSX OOM should get you to the info
Tried it under W7 and it just didn't work as W7 Administrator mode is very limited by the Micro$haft Nanny state system to stop newbys deleting anything important
been through dozens of how to guides and nothing works
bought the memory manager and no more OOM problems apart from more than an hour flying in OZx Tazmania demo area no matter how low i set the graphics sliders (stopped me from buing full package as no point if it OOMs)
To be honest i loved W7 when i first installed it but got my first few BSODs recently and Explorer has stopped responding far too many times lately (All with a clean install too)
windows update has no new drivers (pretty sure NVidia latest drivers are my BSOD cause as they only worry about the latest cards & not the 8800GTX which is still the fastest FSX card)
Tony, if you can definately dedicate a drive to FSX.... when I was saying traffic BGL, that was on my system, the same would apply if it was a scenery bgl.
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Not Tony - it was Rick in a thread about Windows 7.
