[vic365]

Sorry to report that the issues I'm having with FS9 locking up have forced me to go on "vacation". I can no longer stand the loss of hours of flight for no reason. Until I can figure out what is causing these system freezes I refuse to continue sticking the icepick in my head :roll: :wink: .

Hopefully an answer will eventually avail itself to me. In all my troubleshooting I came back to one fact...this never happened before I ditched my CRT for a widescreen LCD monitor. Makes no sense, but there you have it.

Happy flying gang!

[TheDude71]

Good luck Vic. Last time I talked to you you were playing with the bios. Sounds like it got worse. Anyway I can help, just give me a shout.

I'll keep a pot of coffee going for ya!!

[AS 2 Tom Little]

eek- years ago I had locking up problems with FS and it was my motherboard, or just something in that computer doing it. I think I traced it to the mb because I tried everything under the sun around it including changing out video cards, ram, audio, drivers, etc. etc. it was pure hell. Then I saved up and just bought a new computer, no problems since (2002 or so)! I do know that was the one and only time I strayed away from Pentium!

But everyone has their prefs. Anyhow - you check temps is the video card or mb overheating perhaps?

Also have you tried rebooting and running fs in windows SAFE mode? Not sure if you're running XP or Vista but they both have safe mode. Perhaps you can at least troubleshoot this way and rule out hardware issues.

[vic365]

OK...gonna try this again. Temps are all good in RealTemp, Last succesful flight showed an average CPU of 47*c during the entire flight with a high of 51*c recorded. GPU is always being monitored and never see anything above 50*c. I reseated the RAM sticks and ran a full 8 pass Memtest86 +...zero errors. I'm going to try running with EVGA Precision off (no GPU OC'ing) and see what happens.

[Chuck B]

The only time FS9 locks up on me is due to hardware issues. Your monitor change is not as far fetched as it may at first sound. Have you tried:

1) Going with the absolute LOWEST resolution you can stand on the new monitor -- and I mean low. It may be pushing your CPU and vid card too much at whatever you currently have it set at. And don't forget to change your resolution settings in the sim itself!

2) Going back to your old monitor for a few days. If it doesn't happen there you KNOW it's something video related.

Remember: IMHO, at least half (60%?) of this hobby is just keeping the sim running. :evil:
Hope this helps at least a little bit.

Chuck B.

[TheDude71]

Sounds like things are looking up for ya!! Glad to hear it!!

[vic365]

After much digging I still think it's an overzealous GPU overclock. What is throwing me off is Full Screen mode. Used to be, in Windowed, I would get an "We are sorry but FS9..." error message, telling you what, generally the problem was (Out Of Memory, Terrain.DLL,etc.) and only hardware issues would lock it up tight and send the sound into a loop. Now that I have to fly Full Screen, I don't have the error message to direct me...if anything causes FS9 to shut down, it just locks up. I did a flight, a while back, with no GPU OC and it locked up. I then assumed that this indicated that my OC'ing was not the original cause of the problem as I wasn't using any on that flight and it still went toes up. I now believe the issue was scenery related on that particular flight and it would have locked up with or without graphics OC'ing. I went back to my usual OC and have the lock-ups return with no scenery, texture or terrain issues found in FSManager.

I am in my 2nd flight with no OC and, so far, no problems. If I can get 15 - 20 flights with no lockups then I will consider that proof that my GPU OC was too..."strenuous"...and will start raising it much more conservatively.

[Leemazz]

Overclocking always makes computers unstable and you will always see or get problems . I too think its the overclocking