I fly alot of sims and I use a program that shuts down alot of background programs and starts my sim.
I easliy configured it for SMR and I have seen a great improvement. I was playing the Utah map and deleting or adding tracks 1/2 way thru was taking forever, so I thought of my trusty old FSAutoStart.
Set-it up in about 3-4 minutes, game didn't crash and adding or deleting was alot faster.
Here it is if ya wanna give it a try, and it's freeware!!!
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Syst ... tart.shtml
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