Like many people I’ve seen in these forums, I had constant CTDs since the last update. Days of frustrated reinstalls both MSFD and Windows followed. I finally came across a post about RAM speeds. I’m running stock speeds on RAM but decided to underclock my 3200 RAM to 3000. Low and behold, stutters and CTDs stopped. Now it is running perfectly. Not the easiest thing for computer illiterate people, but if you have the know how, give it a try.
I’m sitting at LAX with live traffic turned on. Guess what. It’s live. Every plane that appeared on FlightAware showed up, 10 minutes after real-time traffic, of course. They requested pushback, taxied to the active runways, and took off. Landing traffic was the same. Now if we could get real airline liveries and AI planes to clear the active quicker…I would be totally satisfied. Along with my Honeycomb Bravo, of course, which will be here next month and my 3090. Still saving for that one.
So, without using MSFS as a “TEST” and potentially introducing false issues, is there any “test” program that can be run, to “stress ?” the ram as it is stressed in MSFS, and verify if there is a hardware ram issue.
Ie Is my PC “stable” enough for the stresses of MSFS", where you could leave it running for hours, with the aim of getting to a setup & settings where it is rock stable, – and better than running MSFS, where if it does “Glitch” or CTD, you have no idea why .
Like Memtest86, but with high stress.
Something that cab identify & tell you that a specific Ram Module is acting up ?
Transformer cooling OIL is good up to many kV !!!
Pure water is a really poor conductor of electricty as well.
I would go with simple Mineral Oil, and have the added bonus of no evaporation.
Even though you are of course joking that would be impossible. Pure water which you can submerge electronics in (dont try it) is actually an insulator, not a conductor, but nothing can live in it.
I know, and yes, forgive me my poor attempt at levity.
Besides, you wouldn’t use water - pure or otherwise - for this.
And of course the fish wouldn’t take to well to oil!
Lets be honest, I just didn’t think this through, did I.
I do recall that back in my playing days, we had some success using transformers submerged in oil to act as power soaks for our valve amplifiers.
Ah, heady days.
I’m pretty convinced that a lot of CTD errors people get are due to their own system configurations. In some cases, it’s people with heavy overclocks that claim “all my other stuff runs fine” or in cases like yourself, that the RAM may be rated to a certain speed, but for whatever reason, its timings just aren’t quite in spec. Even though it may perform well with everything else, MSFS doesn’t like it.
In my case, I can overclock my CPU to 4.2 GHz on all cores (Ryzen 2700X - that’s 100MHz higher than it’s top boost of 4.1 GHz). It passes all stress tests, and works in all my games and other CPU-intensive apps. But MSFS will crash hard. If I step it back to 4.1 GHz (its top rated speed), it doesn’t crash, but I get stutters and weirdness in sim. Rolling it back to 4 GHz, or just setting Precision Boost to Auto, and it runs just fine, in some cases, boosting to 4.1 GHz (not on all cores though) without issue.
My memory is similar to yours. It’s rated at 3000 MHz. At full speed, it runs fine most of the time, but causes instability in memory instensive applications. Most of the time things work well, but will get the occasional app crash or even BSOD. If I step it down 1 notch to 2666 MHz, everything works fine.
Now in no way am I saying that there aren’t some legitimate serious bugs in MSFS and it’s all users’ fault, but a lot of stuff that gets reported is likely self-inflicted, and it some cases, users may not even know it. You’re an example here. You were running your RAM at its rated speed and having issues that were solved stepping it back 1 notch.
