Hi all,
Four days into my RB and these are my experiences.
I loaded the software onto my desktop which is a 4 year old Dell with 256mB RAM. I checked the task manager and found that the RAM consumption was around 100mB but after day two and leaving the box running for about 16 to 18 hrs per day the hard drive was spinning away. I checked the task manager again and found that the RAM used was spiking between 15% and 100% like a heart trace. Looked to me like the PC was going to have cardiac arrest so I decided to transfer everything to my 1 year old Dell Inspiron laptop which has just over 1Gb of RAM. Everything ran ok for the next two days, again at 16 to 18 hrs per day until, until, guess what, the RB began to attack the RAM again but this time it's only spiking to 50%.
I've shut down the laptop and restarted but it doesn't make any difference.
At the moment it's 9.30 on Christmas Eve and there isn't one single flight on screen but the laptop is writing away to the hard drive like there's no tomorrow. The Airnav Radar sweep at the top right of the screen manages two revolutions between pauses
OK, I've read through the forum and found the application is memory hungry and V1.4 will consume 50% less memory, but has anyone a cure for this ?
On a completely different subject I read with interest the mails on antennae. I'm a complete beginner in this area and didn't realise the significance of the base plate for the supplied antena. I thought it was to stop the aerial falling over ! and had the antena sitting to one side. What a difference it made when I put the antena in the centre of the base plate ! Just a pity it can't remove the hill behind my house !! At the moment I have 75 nm North and South with approx 50 Nm West and around 10 NM East and South East. I'll post a screen shot later.
All the best and Happy Christmas from Ennis, Ireland
