FSX issues

[goingboeing]

My FSX setup has finally driven me mad, a few months ago it started becoming unresponsive loading invisible aircraft, stopping mid-flight, stuttering and several other issues now it has driven me mad and I have had to delete it from my hard-drive my computer is only 6 months old and is a beast but FSX is a ###### of a program. We had a very happy relationship at first it all worked very well but like so many others it soon bit the hand that feeds it. Has anybody thats installed p3d had any issues I might be tempted to give it a try if its better if not Ill stick to real world flying for a while at least real planes dont break-down as much

[Ian Warren]

Ooophs .. I was In Pacific Simulations last week flying the 737 and P3DV2 is not as cracked up to be , on there system they had the micro stutters .. were as with FSX, it run smooth .. now speaking with the crew they are going to roll back to the earlier P3DV1.4 i recall due to cloud and weather formations.

[emfrat]

Goingboeing,
I ran into a similar situation when I first started using FSX, on this Win7x64 machine. Started off well and steadily deteriorated. Long story short, I found that where my older Win XP3 flying machine only needed a defrag every month or so, the Win7 one was making a complete dog's breakfast of a newly defragged disk - I mean, defrag, everything nice and tight, make a ten-minute flight in FSX - and there are hundreds of fragmented files.
These days I routinely defrag before any serious FSX use.

Another cause can be auto-updates of anti-virus software, over-riding your settings. A lot of them default to "check every file every time you open it" which is fine in a corporate environment but way beyond what a home network needs.
FSX has a lot going for it, not least the high-quality sceneries developed in NZ, so it is worth persevering with.

ATB

[Ian Warren]

Be interesting to spend some time with limited loads on each Sim , PD3 is still a build from FS and X a totally different package , its time to look and stand back .. so far I have seen pretty clouds but its the ground and AGN terrain that matters, approach to the airport is primary and for realism .. P3D is FSX .. they do have a frame-rate/micro stutter issue with P3Dv2 .

[emfrat]

Yes, Ian - ideally someone with all the sims installed would do exact comparison flights, but it won't be me.
As far as I can see, the problem lies with the OS, not the App.

Enjoy your cyclone

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (emfrat @ Mar 15 2014,8:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Enjoy your cyclone

Thanks Mike, , I do love my wide weather but think till be a storm in tea cup/wine glass or beer bottle , come to think that would cause more throth on the beach and I'm not a beach goer .

[goingboeing]

I wont I'm doing morning shift out of rotorua

[deeknow]

Hey GB, as Mike says there are a bunch of things that might be worth looking at, other than FSX.
I was in exactly the same position about a month back, relatively new rig, lots of performance issues.

I went through and disabled a bunch of services, killed start-up stuff in the registry, uninstalled a few things like iTunes (and associated services), and I think what was pretty significant set the Affinity mask properly for my Quad-core setup (was previously only using one core)
End results is a world of difference.

[emfrat]

Dean, I tried PCAlacrity, because I had found Ken Salter's earlier stuff well worth having for FS9, but it didn't work out.
Is there a good list of what we need, as opposed to what MS has decided we want?
ATB