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126 APPENDIX B. TROUBLESHOOTING X-PLANE • In 64-bit Windows (including most installations of Windows Vista and Windows 7): 4 GB • In Mac OS X: 3.5 GB • In Linux: 3 GB or so When X-Plane reaches the address space limit of your system (listed above), it will crash. You can confirm that this is occurring by using your system’s memory monitor and watching the memory use of the X-Plane process. To check memory usage on a Mac, do the following: 1. Click on the Applications folder in the task bar. In the menu that opens, click Utilities, then click Activity Monitor. 2. Launch X-Plane as normal. 3. In the Process Name column of Activity Monitor, look for the X-Plane process. 4. Look at the Real Mem column corresponding to the X-Plane process. It should have a value like 950 MB or 1.5 GB listed. If this value is beyond 3.5 GB, X-Plane is liable to crash. To check memory usage in Windows, do the following: 1. Right-click on an empty area of the task bar and click Start Task Manager. In the window that opens, click on the Processes tab. 2. Launch X-Plane as normal. 3. In the Image Name column of the Task Manager, look for the X-Plane process. 4. Look at the Memory column corresponding to the X-Plane process. It should have a value like 950,000 K listed. If this value is beyond your operating system’s address limits (listed above), X-Plane is liable to crash. Note that there are 1, 024 · 1, 024 = 1, 048, 576 kilobytes in 1 gigabyte, so the 2 GB memory limit in Windows XP would be represented as 2,097,152 K. If this is indeed your problem, you can correct it by doing the following: • Turn down rendering settings. The major ones are: airport detail (set to default), forests (set to something moderate if you are using autogen too), and texture res (first run with compressed textures). Don’t use 4x SSAA when in HDR mode—use FXAA instead. • If you are on 32-bit Windows, consider moving to 64-bit Windows, at least in the long term. • If you are on 32-bit Windows with 2 GB per process, increase that limit to 3 GB as described on the X-Plane Wiki. B.4 My Joystick or Yoke Isn’t Working If the joystick and other flight controls appear to be configured correctly according to the steps outlined in Chapter 4 but are not giving the desired response in the simulator, it’s time to troubleshoot. Thankfully, X-Plane makes it easy to find out how the software is perceiving the flight controls’ input. In the following example we’ll assume that the plane’s pitch, yaw, and roll are not matching the way the joystick is being moved. A similar procedure may be used for other malfunctioning controls. 1. Move your mouse to the top of the screen and open the Settings menu. 2. Click Data Input & Output.
B.5. MY FRAME RATE IS LOW 127 3. Select the rightmost box next to joystick ail/elv/rud. This box will cause X-Plane to display the input it is receiving while running the simulation. 4. Close the Data Input & Output window. 5. A box in the upper right should be displaying the elev, ailrn, and ruddr commands (elevator, aileron, rudder, respectively) being received from the joystick. 6. Now, center the stick and pedals. Each axis should indicate 0.0, or close to it. 7. Move the stick full left. The ailrn should indicate -1.0 or near -1.0. 8. Move the stick full right. The ailrn should indicate 1.0 or near 1.0. 9. Move the stick full aft. The elev should indicate 1.0 or near 1.0. 10. Move the stick full forward. The elev should indicate -1.0 or near -1.0. 11. Move the rudder full left. The ruddr should indicate -1.0 or near -1.0. 12. Move the rudder full right. The ruddr should indicate 1.0 or near 1.0. By moving the stick and pedals and seeing what values they are sending X-Plane, you can see if X-Plane is getting proper stick input. If the correct values (according to the tests above) are not being received in X-Plane, and you have calibrated the controls in X-Plane per the section “Calibrating the Hardware” of Chapter 4, then the issue is with the hardware’s calibration in your operating system, not X-Plane. If the hardware is indeed calibrated correctly in the operating system, the hardware itself is malfunctioning. On the other hand, if the correct values from the above tests are being received, then the hardware is working fine. B.5 My Frame Rate is Low For a step-by-step guide to increasing frame rate, see the section “Setting the Rendering Options for Best Performance” of Chapter 4. B.6 My PC Freezes after Running X-Plane Awhile When a computer freezes after running X-Plane for awhile, the problem is almost always heat related. When the system is running X-Plane, the video card and processor get very hot because they are running at 100% utilization. This causes the temperature to rise inside the case. To eliminate heat as an issue, remove the computer’s cover and aim a fan into the case. Run X-Plane for a while and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then you need to add some additional cooling. Note that this assumes that the system has enough RAM. Running out of RAM will cause crashes as well. At least 2 GB of RAM should be used for current versions of X-Plane. This also assumes that the computer is not overclocked.
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