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Hello

I have been doing FSX for a long long time but recently I have come across a small problem.
When I Taxi/Take off and Land I seem to freeze (Or skip) for half a second. This is very annoying and kinda ruins my experience a little. Little stuttering and skips just on this part of flight. I have done everything I can think of but still no luck.

If anyone could help me I will be over the moon

"Scuddy"

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Hi Scuddy,
Sounds like a memory problem too me, when your PC runs out of RAM it can jump a little, it happens mostly on Landing as the Airport scenery is building.
Try increasing your Virtual Memory that may help short term.

Happy Landings

M. Jordan.

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Try this. Reduce all scenery traffic etc to none. Of it continues them your computer needs either updated or upgraded. This sounds like a memory issue as mentioned above. If it goes away play with all the settings to get a setting that will work for your system. I know there's a tutorial on YouTube explaining what does what and how it effects your frame rates. Hope this helps

Thank you both for your reply
Yes It all makes sense as I have had allot of Blue screens over the past 3 months and not sure why.
sometimes when I go onto the internet It will say virtual memory reached. I should check for faulty Ram I guess.
I will use the advice and see if it works

Thank you

"Scuddy"

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You can add more RAM to your PC, it will speed it up too.

Happy Landings

M. Jordan.

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Hey Scuddy, while I agree with everyone else here, that last post you added about blue screens, (in my opinion) usually means failing hardware in cases like these.

Depending on your technical expertise, I'd advise you to do some testing. Adding more memory on top of RAM that's already bad isn't going to help with the blue screens. If it's the memory that's bad, you'd need to either completely replace the memory that's gone bad, or even check to make sure your DIMMs haven't died. One easy way to check the heartbeat in your DIMMs is just by making sure all of your memory is showing up, and that it's all usable. (You can hit the Windows key + pause/break on your keyboard in Windows 7) to pull up the system page, and check to make sure it doesn't say something like 8.00 GB installed, 7.50 GB usable.

I recently had a DIMM on one of my ASUS boards go bad a few months ago, and it took a while to even start detecting it.

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Hey 636Castle,
I have 16GB Ram installed and I checked If it said anything like what you mentioned and it doesn't.
Is there a way of checking the individual Ram at all to see if its faulty ? The only time it happens is taxiing with a few bumps, take off and landing it just seems strange. got to be a very simple fix as I have not had this before.

"Scuddy"

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Wow, 16? Do you know what speed it's running at? Are you using a 64 bit operating system?

Here's what I'd do. Open the Windows Task Manager, then load yourself up into a flight with FSX in window mode, so you can see your physical memory usage in the bottom right corner of Task Manager. Then taxi around, or do whatever you do when it normally freezes/stutters for you, and watch your physical memory usage. If it's maxing out near 100%, then that'll help narrow things down. If it's not, then it might be something else.

Testing each stick of RAM might be a little tricky depending on your system. Essentially what you'll do is remove it from your system, and try booting your computer up each time with a different stick in. If your computer fails to boot on one of them, then that stick of memory has problems. The tricky part is remembering your RAM could be fine, and it could be a DIMM problem. So use the appropriate DIMM at first, and test all of the RAM. If the computer boots up and behaves without blue screens on all of the RAM, then you test each DIMM slot on the motherboard. If the computer fails to boot with one of them in use, then it's your motherboard. There's also other things you could do, like doing custom Prime95 blend tests with 80-90% memory usage, but there's countless ways to go about doing all of these things...and I don't really want to be held accountable for things going wrong.

For right now I'd suggest doing the Task Manager/FSX test.

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Ahhh,
Awesome I will check this out asap and let you know
Thanks for all your help and all. You do seem to know allot about computers. I will try the Task Manager/FSX test first.

"Scuddy"

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Hi Scuddy,
16GB should be enough RAM I've only got 8GB, as mentioned above there's a faulty one in there or you've just simply got your graphics turned up too high. Look in your graphic card settings and if the "mipmap" settings are full up bring it down a little also the Anti-aliasing filter & Anisotropic Filter.
In FSX another huge drain on your system is traffic, I have mine about 25%, never have it at 100% at a big airport your computer will have the same "headache" as an overcrowded Air Traffic Control!

Happy Landings

M. Jordan.

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Hi mate

Yea I will look into mate. Thanks for the tips

"Scuddy"

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