Please tell me why FSX keeps crashing in my fancy new PC rig.
Forgive the length of this post. As I’ve said in another thread, I wanted to be scientific and isolate the cause of the (worsening) problem.
After a total crash of my 2012 PC last summer, requiring a new hard drive, etc., I had the local Big Box PC Store (MicroCenter in Rockville, MD) custom-build a PC that “would run anything FSX and add-ons could possibly throw at it.” (My specs are below my signature.)
After a reinstall of FSX, Acceleration, and some basic Orbx scene
Hi
This is a decades old issue caused by the VAS limitations of the 32bit FSX application, and the remedies are too numerous for me to list here. Please do a Google search using the terms "FSX OOM (out of memory)" and "VAS (virtual address space)" , or you could also do a search on these forums.
Using FSX In DX10 mode with "Steves DX10 Fixer" drastically improves the VAS management , and greatly reduces the occurrence of (out of memory) OOMs.
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