FSX Time to crash...

[Plugpennyshadow]

How long have you good folks let FSX fly before it choked?

The longest mine has sat and flown was eight hours.  That was just setting a 737 at 30K on auopilot on a heading of 090 out of JFK with unlimited fuel on.

Chokes sooner if Im flying a flight with course corrections and such along the way.

Any thoughts?

[Daube]

I usually don't fly for so long.
My longest flight ever was accompished during this summer. It was a flight from Nice Cote d'Azur to Athenes. It took 3 hours approximatively. At that time, because of the ambient temperature, my CPU and GPU had severe cooling issues leading to computer instability, but it seems that during that flight I've been lucky, no crash

[Boikat]

I started a flight from upstate New York in the Spindrift, set the autopilot to 50,000 feet, full throttle, and left for work.

[Tai-2]

Longest flight I ever done, and hardest one at that too was from KATL(Hartsfield Jackson Airport) to RJOO (Osaka Int)(I think)
Why was it so hard? Real weather caused for rapid air currents changing causing me to not exceed 250knts at sometimes, and letting me go 300 knts with 10% thorttle at others a build up of heavy and dense fog as I descended and had my eye on the airport, and I had checked the weather and it said CLEAR SKIES ALL DAY... and ya... still landed, just not that well. And no crash, still flew more after

[Plugpennyshadow]

Interesting.  I set FSX this morning before going to work to fly 000, due North.  Looked in on it by remote access to my ld laptop's camera several time during the day.

Flight started at 0730 and computer choked with Out of Memor Error sometime between 1330 and 1500.  Call it six hours.

Any thoughts how to remedy this?  Would like to do long flights eventually.  Trans Pacific and such in real time.  I have several other hobbies I could be working on while the plane "drones on" thru the sky as I monitor it periodically.

Thankie...

[enm]

If you are using a 32bit OS and have many many addons installed it is common for FS to have out of memory issues crashes.

I use to have these crashes all the time with xp and vista 32 bit. I also have UTX, REX, GEX, payware aircraft and airport sceneries installed....the full works. This take ALOT of memory. Even if you have 4GB of ram installed you will still get these errors most of the time, because a 32bit system will only use up to 4G of ram

If this sounds like your system, then I would switch to a 64bit system with a miminum of 6GB. I have never had any out of memory errors with this configuration.

Eric

[Steve M]

32 bit os with GEX is not an issue. I have done 9 hour flights no problem. I just set FSX to default settings and use a default plane. Tail view, rather than vc, in other words remove anything that will tax your system. We dont need weather or any other realism settings when we are not at the monitor. Mind you though, I have only done this twice.

[Plugpennyshadow]

Vista Ultimate x64.  4gig Dominator DD2 RAM on an ASUS P5K-E with a Q8400 Quad cooled by a Thermaltake 120.

Think getting more ram will help, eh?

[U4EA]

[quote]I started a flight from upstate New York in the Spindrift, set the autopilot to 50,000 feet, full throttle, and left for work.

[enm]

Yes Plug...more ram should solve your out of memory issues. Its a cheap fix with great benefits.