PTaylor's WebLog : flight simulator flightsimx

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.

Platform performance Update:early reports on Fall CPUs is that they rock!

Phil Taylor — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:17:00 GMT

It appears the promise of the Penryn/Wolfdale/Yorkfield Intel CPUs is being born out.

See http://www.guru3d.com/news.html#5723 for an early performance report.

This bodes well for the future, and is something I started mentioning months ago as a positive platform performance step that would help FSX like its going to help every app.

Moderated Blog comments and rules

Phil Taylor — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:30:00 GMT

So it’s been almost 2 weeks since I started moderating blog posts. I am publishing some of them, but not all. It’s a matter of time and appropriateness.

Certainly posts in the following categories:

a) Schedule questions,

b) Requests to be added to beta,

c) asking for hw recommendations or sw tech support,

d) Are rude and/or insulting

I don’t publish those.

Even some that *are* on topic, due to time restrictions, may not get published. This is not meant to insult or annoy any specific comment author; it’s just a matter of my free time.

Thanks for understanding.