NZFF

Posted: **Fri May 20, 2011 11:31 pm**

Hi Robin, I hope it is o.k. to post this support issue here - but I have not been able to find a more closely related thread. My problem is that after purchasing VLC last month and following the installation instructions carefully (including such things as putting VLC DTM below VLC in the FSX scenery library) I find that after about twenty minutes flying time [either north from Wellington or South from Keri Keri] that my system comes to a grinding halt, and all that I am able to do is stop FSX running through the Task Manager. When I made the initial installation I also included the Wellington dtm scenery and when I first experienced the crash I removed Wellington thinking that it was the problem, but it does not seem that way now. However, I will be eternally grateful to you if you can help me sort this out. Best Regards, gary moore

Posted: **Sat May 21, 2011 12:12 am**

What are you flying in Gary? I have the same problem no matter where I am flying in NZ (with VLC) if I am flying a payware plane like a Level D 767, and if I am switching views frequently, taking screenshots etc. Always after about 20 min. I figure it's more a case that my PC is being run to the limit and can't take any more so FSX gives up. I'd be interested to hear what Robin or Timmo have to say about this one either way, as it's fairly similar to what I see.
Might help them also for you to post up your system specs?

Posted: **Sat May 21, 2011 1:13 am**

Hey Gary (great name by the way, do you play guitar by any chance

Not sure what sort of rig your running, but its possible your experiencing an out-of-memory condition, leading to the crash. There are a number of guides out there for tuning and configuring your FSX install, and generally you want to be careful to not change too many things at once, but take a look at the following as an example, an in particular the OOM error section. I was having the odd crash on my XP machine and havent had anywhere near as many since making the boot.ini change mentioned:

http://www.simforums.com/forums/setting-up...topic29041.html

Be careful though, the boot.ini one has the potential to screw up your PC startup, if your not sure what your doing, you probably should avoid dong it

Posted: **Sat May 21, 2011 10:08 am**

Ive been having the same problem but in NZ only. After 10 to 30min Fps fluctuates wildly and freezes then have to taskmanage out of FS. Been doing many tests over the last week to find problem and trying every tip and tweak I can find. Only seems to happens in NZ. Have flown to different areas for 2 to 3 hrs straight with Orbxs PNW USA Canada and Australia without a prob then I shut down FS,reboot, de frag, then start up FS ,reset scenery library, choose my test craft (in this case Quest Kodiak), make a flight plan between Whakatane to Wellington (my test flight for this excercise) and jump in and fly. 10-20min later crashed again (for about the 15th time). Have been disabling sceneries one by one up to this point and Im now going to try the default scenery alone today. Ive recently done a complete reinstall of FS and addons and had been running sweet up to about a week ago.This problem as well as the invisible wall around Auckland has made NZ almost unflyable for the moment. Its a very slow process of elimination unless someone finds the majic bullet.

B-RAD

Posted: **Sat May 21, 2011 11:03 am**

AlisterC wrote:
QUOTE (AlisterC @ May 21 2011,12:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What are you flying in Gary? I have the same problem no matter where I am flying in NZ (with VLC) if I am flying a payware plane like a Level D 767, and if I am switching views frequently, taking screenshots etc. Always after about 20 min. I figure it's more a case that my PC is being run to the limit and can't take any more so FSX gives up. I'd be interested to hear what Robin or Timmo have to say about this one either way, as it's fairly similar to what I see.
Might help them also for you to post up your system specs?

Hi Alister

Are you using Vista or Win 7 64bit? if so, are you using the 'uiautomation.dll' fix? ..... sing out if you need a hand with this, but it does address the crash that comes from switching views .... did for me anyway.

Regards Dave

Posted: **Sat May 21, 2011 1:07 pm**

QUOTE

This problem as well as the invisible wall around Auckland has made NZ almost unflyable for the moment[/quote]
What do you mean by this wall ,are you talking about the crash boxes if you have the detection on which is been explained in FSX and is recommended to have it turned off .
I have the random crash when changing views and sometimes aircraft ,i have 64 bit and will try the above fix ..

NZFF

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