Out of memory error

Hello guys... I'm new to this excellent place.
I think windows 7 is so cool and i haven't got any complaints. Going from xp home to this is Awesome.
However I play flight sim x and since i installed win7 i keep getting out of memory errors after about 5 minutes into a flight. It ran great on xp with 2 gig of ram and an old 8800gts 640 meg card.
I'm still using the same graphics card but i upgraded my ram to 4 gig of corsair ddr3 ram.
I'm not really experienced with understanding graphics and ram issues... can anyone help :)

Hello Steve and welcome to the SevenForums!

have you tried running FlightSimX in compatibility mode?

(Right click its icon, select properties , Compatibility, Run this program as "Windows Vista")

Thankyou for the suggestions guys, but unfortunately i dont have the compatibility tab... when i go into properties, I'm out of ideas.

I have the 32 bit windows 7 running, could it be i have virtual memory and page file issues?

Edit.. I have the compatibility tab with other games in the properties just not fsx???

try installing the 64bit version to utilize all 4gb of ram and try...

squall325 said:

try installing the 64bit version to utilize all 4gb of ram and try...

Ok i have the 64 bit downloaded and burned to disk.
I will install and give it a try. I dont know why i didnt install this one in the first place

Thankyou for your help :)

Thanks, clicking on the exe file does bring up compatibilty tab. Gave it a try but still crashed to out of memory error. Gonna install 64bit tomorrow.

FSX works fine on Seven for me, it's not Seven I think.

I have found on a number of systems I have tested, that Windows 7 does not like some motherboards duel channeling/hyperthreading memory configuration.

I suggest configuring Ganged/Unganged or turn of hyperthreading. And if that doesn't work, try running 1 stick at a time.

I had 2x2gb (4gb) of RAM running 64bit win7. It was crashing all over the place. I tested my ram, all ok. I tried running one stick and the crashing stopped :)

I now run 1 stick of 4gb instead of 2 sticks of 2gb. My system is just as fast and alot more stable. Also teted on all my other "problem" systems, and the BSOD simply stopped when I started running 1 stick of RAM instead of 2.