fs2002 locks up after short time

[Reef853]

Sorry for the newby question but I'm stumped.  I have an AMD 2200, 1 gig DDR, MSI GeForce FX5600, newest drivers, recent Direct X, running XP, and FS2002 hangs after a min or 2 EVERY time I fly.  I have gone to the Microsoft sites and tried all of the FAQ's advice, except clean boot.  I have many other demanding games like IL2FB, Wolfenstien, DAOC, and many others, I have no problems with any of them, but FS2002 and CFS lock up without fail.  They locked up with my old GeForce 4200 too.  Figured my new card would solve problem.  Have tried raising and lowering settings, different maps, different planes, different vid card settings...  I am so dissapointed because I am dying to fly and built this PC thinking it would be the ultimate FS machine.  Please help!  What am I missing?

Reef

[ozzy72]

Hi Reef, welcome to SimV. A couple of ideas that might help. Defrag your hard-drive, and disable any background programs you might be running (if you aren't connected to the net whilst flying then turn off your anti-virus software as it eats memory).
That should help.

Ozzy

[Fozzer]

Hi Reef...!
Make sure your system isn't over-heating...
Are ALL your cooling fans still working, on the power-pack, processor and video card...?

If you have a temperature checker installed, (gigabyte system monitor), have a peek at it... ...!

Has Mum got the central heating on, ironing, and

[AuMaV]

Hi
There was a similar prob at another f/sim site and it ended up being the via chipset drivers that fixed the prob.First check you M/board has a via chipset (as its an AMD odds on it is,Maybe try your m/boards manufacturer site to see what ver they recomend for your board) or if your sure pop over to

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2


MaV

[zcottovision]

Yes, definitely check your temperatures. My computer would run fine in everything except FS2002. Whenever I plonked a desk fan down by the system and ran it, it never crashed, which led me to believe it was a heat thing. I had exactly the same error as you did.

[Reef853]

Thanks for your advice guys.  : )  I will give these things a try.  That will keep me busy for awhile.  Going to try the fan in front of case first.  You folks have a good group here.  Thanks for the help.

Reef

[Daz]

i had the same troubles with it it was the cooling after i upgraded i never thought about cooling....became unstable locked up all the time.....id go with the fozzer idea

[RollerBall]

Hmmm

Usually modern boards just trip out and reboot when the cpu or power supply overheats, they don't cause a prog to hang.

Sounds more like a memory management issue to me - have you set for Windows to manage your memory?

May need to increase your virtual memory.

Go to Control Panel - System - Advanced Tab - Performance - Settings Button - Advanced Tab

Make sure Windows is allocating cpu processing to programs and check the size of your virtual memory paging file.

If it's 500 MB or less increase it to at least 700 - 800 MB.

The other thing is, is your memory just a single stick?

If so, that can give problems. Best to have 2 x 512 to make up a gig (don't know why - it just is so for most AMD boards)

Don't rule out that you CAN have bought a faulty memory stick. Happens to me regularly from time to time, but I usually have a few in stock so I know if I replace one and my problem goes that the original was bad so I can return it. Not so easy if you only have the one

[Reef853]

 Thanks guys!  A desk fan blasting my PC did the trick.  I even maxed out all the display settings and ran for over an hour!  What a treat!  Thing hasn't run for more than 5 min in months...  Can't thank you all enough.  You gave me back my FS.

Reef