Isn't it possible to make a dummy, "foolproof" setting in the add-on manager for CYVR, , I mean, a (scalable?) setting that will guarantee no OOMS or other mayhem etc., irrespective whether you run thousand add-ons or none? Kind of low-end system setting?
It's not possible to "guarantee" anything. If an user is already fairly close to exhausting the memory limit in the CYVR area, even installing CYVR at its lowest settings will cause an OOM.
And of course, the installer can't possibly know how much memory a certain user is going to consume at a certain location, the only possible way would be testing it in game but this keeps changing, depending on the airplane used, even the weather coverage changes memory allocation, since fair weather it's one thing, 3-overcast layers with hi-res clouds is entirely different.
There's no other choice than letting the user configure CYVR at installation time, and I can't see how easier to understand the current options could be made.
1.Only few customers are reporting their sys specs. Is this irrelevant??
It is, but just in the general term of trying to suggest what might appear to be really a problem, not so much in relationship about how CYVR is. Is nothing special, it's just that it COULD take more memory than, let's say, KLAX, but it CAN be configured to take even LESS.
But being in an area fully stuffed with other add-ons, even when configured to take less memory than KLAX, OOMs can still happen, just because of the area.
. During installation about halfway, to my surprise, my screen turned black and installation slowed down. Later things got back to normal.
There's nothing in the installation that could cause that.
It's might simply due to the installation that took some time (rebuilding all textures takes time, especially if you choose 4096x4096 for everything), and so your power management turned off the screen to save power.
I'm running Windows XP on a high-end system.
I hope you use the 64 bit version (which is fairly uncommon, I have to say) because, on a 32 bit OS your problems would surely be amplified, especially on an high-end system, assuming with "high-end" you include an high-end video card too, because that is what is stealing most of your memory.
If you use a 32 bit OS, everything, including OS, FSX AND VRAM, will have to *share* the same 4GB address space, so you really have a bit more than 2GB available, while under a 64 bit OS, you would at least have up to 4GB reserved to FSX.
3. I acknowledge your dedication and support but you react kind of irritated to your customers. As a professional software developer, which I assume you are, get yourself a spokesman!
I don't think that having someone saying "I'll ask the developer", then disappear for some days, and then returning back saying "the developer has said he'll look into it", would do much good for users.
The only thing good about the Flight sim market, is that you CAN usually talk with the actual developers so they can do things for you and reply in the most effective way, do you really miss the "larger company" style of customer support, that doesn't have any other function of being a firewall between users and the developers ?
