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It has been a frustrating week with flight sim. After installing a new sound card for ATC I have been experiencing random lock ups and last night it just shut down the program and gave me an error message about lack of memory The message also said that I must reduce my setting for scenery, traffic and a list of other things. Before installing the sound card I was running at 30 fps no problem. After each lock-up/crash I lose my data bridge to my Go-Flight controls. After painstakinly reinstalling all of the Go-Flight modules last night the aircraft flew for about 45 minutes before crashing(the auto pilot heading control went goofy half way through the flight)
My system is faily up to date.....Intel Q6600 Quad Core 2.4Gh
Nvidia 630 motherboard, 4 Gh ram on windows XP
2 8800gt video cards.

I think I might of shaken somthing lose during the sound card install or the autopilot module my be causing it. I am at a loss to figure this one out

SLI or Crossfire won't do anything for FSX, unless you're running very high AA on a 2xxx+ screen

[quote]It has been a frustrating week with flight sim. After installing a new sound card for ATC I have been experiencing random lock ups and last night it just shut down the program and gave me an error message about lack of memory The message also said that I must reduce my setting for scenery, traffic and a list of other things. Before installing the sound card I was running at 30 fps no problem. After each lock-up/crash I lose my data bridge to my Go-Flight controls. After painstakinly reinstalling all of the Go-Flight modules last night the aircraft flew for about 45 minutes before crashing(the auto pilot heading control went goofy half way through the flight)
My system is faily up to date.....Intel Q6600 Quad Core 2.4Gh
Nvidia 630 motherboard, 4 Gh ram on windows XP
2 8800gt video cards.

I think I might of shaken somthing lose during the sound card install or the autopilot module my be causing it. I am at a loss to figure this one out

After much messing around it seems that the using the built in sound card that I was using for ATC was the problem. Since switching ATC back to one sound card(the new install) FSX is back to normal. All of my Go-Flight modules are working as they should and it is not freezing up.

Ah yes.
Confusing the oh so intuative microsoft products are we Westside?

Funny how people jump on some strange tangents instead of looking at the obviouse first.

Iv never tried to run two sepperate sound systems in one application.  I tihnk the root issue would probably have been something to do with the audio codecs being incompatable between the hardware.
I would suspect that, had the chipset on the soundcard been a similar family to the onboard, you wouldnt have spent 4 hours reconfiguring a lot of software.
;-)

Still...   Its something to do!.