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Hi Doug
 
It was the fuel dump gauge. I didn't push the investigation too far on that one; all I saw was simconnect connecting to it and then immediately disconnecting. I just assumed it was part of the same problem.
 
However, I think you may have saved me some time (I'll find out soon enough!). I'm going to rebuild my gauge using VS2010 with the /MTd parameter.
 
[Edit] Well, that was it :Whew:- VS2013 was causing the trouble but I have no idea why. I just built the gauge in VS2010 and it worked first time, then upgraded the project to VS2013 and it still worked. Over time I have also upgraded a major project from VS2008 through VS2010 to VS2013 and it hasn't given any trouble. I can only assume because the .vcxproj file contained the 'correct' information. Lesson learned.
 
-Dai

Well, as expected, it turned out to be something unexpected  I have a forward facing panel (Window00) with a transparent background and a number of panels that need to be active when the panel loads, all sized at 0,0,1,1. The 'real' 2D forward view is WIndow01 and is part of the gauge. The panelbg.bmp file in the \panel folder is 1175x888 (I can't remember why that size). While going through my size-reducing exercise I resized that panel to 100x76 and changed the panel.cfg file to suit.
 
file=panelbg.bmp
size_mm=100
 
This was what was causing the 'out of memory' error. As soon as I went back to the original panelbg.bmp size and changed the panel.cfg file back to
 
size_mm=1024
 
- the 'out of memory' errors ceased.

Okay, got it. The limit of max_bank parameters is nine; any more than that and FS will load the initial one at panel load and then fail afterwards. My guess is someone put a for-loop in the code instead of a do-while (or similar), but it's only a guess.