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I've been flying the Strato quite a bit & I love it. I've encountered a problem with FSX crashing after about 60 minutes into some flights. usually this is when I open up the nav window pop-up several times. I can't say this is certain but it's looking a bit like the cause. I'm thinking that as I only have 2gb ram (win xp sp3) I might need a bit more (ram). The nav pop-up module is slow to update & I am thinking that might be a lack of system resources. Other than a new computer the only things I can think of to help are:
1. Try Game Booster to tyrn off some other programs not being used
2. Plug in a usb stick & set it up to work as extra ram. Even though this can be done in XP I don't know if it will help but I am going to try it.

I don't have the problem if I just do circuits. When doing circuits (big ones in the 377) I don't open the nav pop-up so I think that's why I don't have any crashes. The carshes always happen when I'm open or closing the 377 pop-up windows.

What do you guys think?


Ian

Hello,Ian
The Navigation Map will most diffentley pull those FPS down alot. I run FSX at bare minimum graphics at 25 FPS,and when I pull up the Nav. screen it drops too around 12-18FPS. On thing I have done is when navigating with the map is to turn "off" what you don't need I turn off terrain,NDB,Airports,VORs,etc. and keep the distance at 20nm ring,this seems too help alittle.
There is tweak that is mentioned under the "Better FPS" thread I cannot remember what it is called,that may help some as well. There will be others that see this that are more computor savy then I that will offer some good advice. Hang in there.

Best Regards
Mark S.

Tweak:http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html

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Yes the ram is your problem and use the USB stick it did work for me when I was using XP
and use the tweak tool that N1684T said to use

http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html

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Ron
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Norforce
Thank you for your reply. I've just discovered that when I open the Pop-up nav module from Navigator seat by clicking on the Navigator's map the fps drops about 5 to 8 fps but if I use Shift_5 (or whatever it is) the fps only drops about 3 fps, so that should save a few frames.

Ian

Hi,

No perf hit here from the map.

Best regards,
Robin.

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A2A/AccuSim. 'nuff said!

Be aware that the map can cause a hit on performance. This is normal as it uses many default FSX routines we cannot circumvent, but it still works quite well.

Scott.

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Last night I successfully completed a flight of about 1 hr 50 minutes with no problems. I used Game Booster to close the "overheads", didn't open the navigator panel but instead used Shift+5 to get the pop-up nav panel up and only selected to view the minumum amount of data on the map. Hopefully that's all I will need to remember in the future.


Ian