Cees, ********, yep I agree re instability. I can't add much as I am off-grid in a very primary way and rely only on solar/generator for power which limits my technological adoption. I have kept my box a basic off the shelf HP with WIN 7, dual-core chip set and 4.0 GB speed, I have rebuilt FSX so many times (hardware and scenery issues dominate the stuff ups for me) that I began to carve up the system to be kept in discreet parcels (directories) which I can put back in on a rebuild (All my scenery now resides outside of FSX except the default stuff and I have a minimum of aircraft to use unless I switch in a directory to replace the sim-objects (so I parcel them up according to eras, pre WWII, post WWII, the jet age etc) after a corruption occurs (and MS FS is really good at getting itself twisted a lot). I guess on one rebuild I looked closely at what the install was doing and realised that FSX likes the mundane or ordinary in hardware and trying to go super fast trips it right up, the other thing is I give it space and time when loading or shutting down. The other thing I shut off was all WIN7 updates (yes and the PC has run just fine ever since and as browser or internet access and work is a different beast [Java etc] so I dont care if there is another so called update, update what, they stopped developing WIN7 years and years ago) when I realised they were all to get me to go to WIN10 of which I have no interest in whatsoever. It seems to me that the FSX was really designed for the boxes available at the time and the coding gets easily fragmented or the run routines get out of whack easily if there is competition on the chip for space and if script calls are interfered with.
That being said all I have found so far is that a lot of tweaks have been abandoned and I just run a bog standard box with the settings FSX thought were appropriate for my system at set up and left it at that. I do not get CTD's or mid flight crashes at all. Where I get crashes or stuff ups is in the menu section or sim settings selections where FSX has to reset itself and the time function most of all will cause a major hiccup. This is where I discovered that FSX actually references non FSX software and hardware PC settings to provide information about windows behaviour, units of measurement, time etc. My thoughts about this is the more patches the worse that will get, so no more patches. Have I fix for any of this, nope, but I sure have mitigated the problems by not adding to them.
Just another way of looking at the same problem I guess. FWIW. Yeah and as an old hand Unix programmer I despise MS stuff always have, inelegant convoluted crap! But that is what is that is what is, now If I could make FSX run on Linux properly that would be the solution, but I can't, too hard to emulate.
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