SKireyev

Pete-- Here are the results of my research. It was a severe memory leak caused by one of the nVidia firewall services. Anyone with an Asus A8N board (or maybe others too) will have it supplied with their board. The thing is buggy, and causes a memory leak that will put your swap file through the roof in a matter of an hour or so. I ran Prime95 yesterday with blend test, and after 45 minutes or so, my swap was at 4.5Gb. After quitting Prime95, the swap went back down, but only to 2.5Gb. That's with no applications running. The name of the service (I'm at work, so I can't recall it exactly) that causes that is something like nVsvcsappflt or something of that sort. If anyone sees excessive swap use on an idle machine, do not disable the firewall. The only thing that can fix it is completely uninstalling it. Following this, get a router with a built-in firewall, or something, but stay away from that headache. Here's a link of someone complaining about it too: http://www.cdrinfo.com/Forum/tm.asp?m=1y=? Cheers guys!

Pete-- I must bow out and apologize for littering your forum. There's something rotten in the State of Denmark, and it has nothing to do with FS. Right now, I checked my swap file, and it's at 3.35Gb, which is about 10 times the normal use. I have shut down practically all of my services, and the usage remained the same until I shut down some service that I can't identify right away. There's definitely something wrong. I am running virus check right now.

You are exactly correct Pete. 1.5x is the rule of thumb. I have 4Gb of Corsair XMS RAM, and my swap file is set at 6144Mb, fixed. I have my machine set up to run most critical system files from the RAM memory. Also, although I use FSautostart, I let my avast virus protection stay on for the sake of firewall protection. I also run Active Sky. I just defragmented all my drives, and did a swap file defrag (remove, restart, set up, restart). It is set up on a separate 10Gb partition on one of my drives. The partition has about 3.8 Gb of free space for swap file. That's the same drive I run my system and my flightsim from. Let me see how the system runs without network, with RC and Active Sky and nothing else, non-networked, and I will report back.

Pete-- Thank you for your prompt attention. PF is my abbreviation for Page File (swap file--same thing). It never decreased from 4 Gb. A day after, I ran the FS alone, without RC running on the laptop, my PF was around 1.89 Gb. Still higher than the usual 1.2-1.4 Gb, but not as bad. I have never run RC4 on the FS machine. I shall try installing it there, and run it that way. I forgot to mention that other program that I run over network is FSC, which I use strictly as a moving map. I really don't think this issue is caused by WideFS. I just thought that (since I am new to this setup) this may be a usual thing for a networked machine to do. Judging by your answers, it is not, and I should look at log files. Thank you for your time, sir!

Hello gents-- Just recently I decided to try out the new version of FSUIPC and WideFS, so I can run Radar Contact 4.01 on a networked laptop. Now I am seeing slowdowns with frame rates and general responsiveness of the sim (time it takes for a menu item to open, etc.) Just seems more sluggish now overall. I checked PF usage under Performance tab of WinXP, and my usage was around 6Gb or higher. Now, it wasn't increasing, and stayed stable, but ever after I shutdown the sim, I still had around 4Gb of usage. Ran everything without RC4 and WideFS, and usage stayed around 1.9 Gb. Still higher than average, but far lower than 6 Gb I saw after a 5-6 hour flight. Just wondering if anyone has seen something similar. I have never run a networked machine, so I don't really know if the transmitted data is stored in the PF causing it to balloon like this. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all!

Pete-- I appreciate your speedy response. All I will use the WideFS for is FS Commander, Radar Control and Active Sky. My wireless is at a measly 11Mbps, but that can't be remedied right now. I will follow your advice and ask in the FS2004 forum. Thank you for your time S. Kireyev

Hello people! I have now full control of my old (3 yr. old Vaio) laptop. I decided to set up a LAN for use with WideFS. My desktop has a A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard with two built-in network adapters (nVidia and Marvell Yukon). One of them is connected to my DSL line. The other--to the laptop. The laptop has a wireless card, and a Gigabit network adapter (cable). The wireless card, certainly, is for the Internet, and the cable from the desktop is plugged into the Gigabit adapter in the back. Now, this is the issue--I have a home network already setup with file sharing and everything between laptop and desktop through the wireless router that I have. Now, the cable LAN, after being setup refuses to function. The little icon in the tray has an exclamation sign, and says that the connection is either not functioning or not functioning fully. I still get connectivity for WideFS through the existing network, but I lose Internet due to the fact (probably) that WideFS is taking up all of the bandwidth for communication back and forth with the desktop. What I really want to do is leave Internet connections alone, and have LAN set up via the cable connection between the Marvell adapter and laptop's Gigabit. Does anyone know how to fix this? The windows assistants failed to fix this issue, and hitting 'Repair' on the connection menu leaves the box searching for an IP address, and then popping up the error that the connection is not fully functioning. Thank you for all of your knowledgeable assistance. S. Kireyev