PTaylor's WebLog : OS Updates

Vista OOM fix:Must have update from the mother-ship

Phil Taylor — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:14:00 GMT

Aug 28th a fix became available for Vista from the Windows team.

The bits will be made generally available from the link here and relatively detailed KB is attached.

The issue is that Vista was creating an extra copy of graphics memory ( noted by AnandTech here ) and that was causing a pre-mature exhaustion of each process's address space and then the dreaded OOM error. AnandTech reviews this issue further and tests the hotfix here.

Run, don't walk to this download.

Vista Appcompat update for FSX

Phil Taylor — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:28:00 GMT

The KB located at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932246/

contains an application compatibility update for Vista that include changes for FSX that enable us to fix the disabling of Aero when you launch FSX on Vista.

This came out earlier this year, but I wasn't aware of anything that would make me recommend it. Now I do :--), as that is one of the few issues we are considering fixing in the FSX-DX10 release outside of adding Direct3D10 support. Edit:that doesnt mean we will, just that it is under consideration and this download will be a pre-req.

I highly suggest downloading this update:

Download the Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update for 32-bit editions of Windows Vista package now.

Heads up Vista FSX flyers – Vista multiple monitor fix now available!

Phil Taylor — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:33:00 GMT

There has been a known issue with Vista and multiple monitors, where trying to go full-screen with any application did not work. A black or flickering screen was the result. Fortunately running windowed was no problem.

Customers who called in were sent to the KB page here.

Now there is a fix available here. And the KB page has been updated to reflect that.

Just to clarify, this is a Windows Vista OS fix, not an FSX fix and not related in any way to SP1 for FSX.

Edit: Here is the link for 64-bit Vista.