[SOLVED] FSX Retail Tweaks?

[fsxlover2014]

Friends,

Is there a current consensus that the following tweaks are good for the following setup?

Affinity=14 (for my i7 4790K with HT disabled)
Buffer Pools=0 (for my NVIDIA GTX 980)
HIGHMEMFIX=1 (Forgot by Microsoft ACES Team)
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=120 (Recommended by NickN)
FIBER_FRAME_FRACTION_TIME=0.15 (Recommended by NickN)

PC:
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
i7 4790K (Overclocked to 5.0 Stable)
NVIDIA GTX 980 (v344.11 Drivers)
8GB RAM at 2933MHz
Intel 530 240GB SSD (Latest Firmware and SSD Toolbox)

Details:
FSX Retail
DirectX 10 mode enabled w/ Steve's DirectX 10 Fixer v.2.8
Active Sky Next v.5589
A2A C182 Aircraft
FSCaptain v.1.6.2

I ask because I've had 2 CTDs recently but I believe it may be ASN causing this...

Thank you Friends!

[peter]

Hi FSXlover,

as far as I know there are only two tweaks that are universally accepted as useful:
- HIGHMEMFIX=1 as you suggest
- uiautomationcore.dll fix, see
forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/topic/3516-fsx-and-windows-7-in-64-bits-needs-uiautomationcoredll-to-stop-crashing/

All the rest depends on your system. You have a strong system with not too much RAM. I would play around (and read more about) the affinity mask, which can make a big difference. I also would suggest to play with FIBER_FRAME_FRACTION_TIME. I think I had it at 0.11 before I moved to P3D.

ASN is a pretty good program, but it generates complex weather. If you have many clouds and fly over an urban area, CTDs can become more likely. I had to set my scenery settings to really low values when I flew with PMDG planes, otherwise FSX couldn't survive. However, my system is generally quite a bit worse than yours.

Cheers,
Peter

[fsxlover2014]

Thank you very much Peter!

I'm dropping the FFFT and BP tweaks, they will do more harm than good and I only care about stability these days...

[Travis]

The best advice I can offer is to only test one thing / one change at a time. Keep a record/backup of old settings so a reverse course correction can be easily accomplished....

[fsxlover2014]

Thank you Travis,

Will do just that!