Message: "Plan-G Stopped Working" While Creating Flt Pln

[aggrav8]

I was creating a flight plan from California to New York, generally following an interstate highway, and Plan-G stopped working while trying to add an airport in New York.  I had worked my way across the country, so I lost a lot of work. 

In anticipation of  a possible reoccurrence of a problem like this, can I periodically save the plan and then continue adding VORs, etc?  Or could I save the plan, close/reopen Plan-G and continue adding VORs, etc? 

I have attached the log file.  It's large.  I had executed several flight plans in FSX with Plan-G running before I started creating the new plan that had the problem.  So the significant entries are at the end.
Thanks Very Much, A8

[tim arnot]

The log is saying you ran out of memory. What spec is your PC, and how large was your map, and how many overlays were being displayed (approx - ie how many airports, navaids, airspace boundaries etc. For example, if you were displaying everything between California and New York, that's a stonkingly huge amount of data, and I'd fully expect it to grind to a halt..), were you running on the same PC as FS? Connected? The log suggests you'd been runing Plan-G for about 6 hours, although there's a 3 hour gap in the middle of it.

V3 will have built-in autosave & recovery, so you shouldn't lose your work.

[aggrav8]

Thanks.  I suspected a memory issue.  I have 6GB Mushkin Blackline Tri-Channel DDR3  (1600MHz) CL7. 

Plan-G runs on the same PC as FSX, although I have a 500GB 7,200 HDD exclusively for the O/S and Plan-G, and a 750GB 7,200 HDD exclusively for FSX.  I was not running FSX at the time - only Plan-G.

I was creating a flt pln that crossed the entire US but I was only working on a section about 650 miles square at any one time.  Perhaps Plan-G loads the entire map even though I'm only working on one section.  I had unticked medium airports, VORs, and named/unnamed intersections until I was positioned to select a new enroute waypoint/airport/navaid.  Didn't untick airspace bounaries.  If I disable most of the overlays until I'm positioned to search for a suitable navaid to continue my flight, would that ease memory usage?  Is the entire portion of the map for which I have completed the flt pln loaded in memory, e.g., California to Nebraska?

When do you anticipate v3 will be available?

[tim arnot]

Plan-G keeps only loads what you can see in the window. When you move the map, it will unload whatever is no longer visible, although it does leave a margin of 100 pixels or so to allow for a bit of scrolling. That's as far as the markers and polys are concerned. The actual map tiles are managed by google and I have no direct control over what happens there. The errors were actually being thrown by the database subsystem (SQL Server CE), which itself may be cacheing large amounts of data. Without a lot of investigating, it's hard to say with any degree of certainty what the cause was.

When do you anticipate v3 will be available?

This year hopefully, but certainly not "soon".