Can anyone help please? I have all of the UK VFR sceneries and all of the British Airports loaded. It now takes me typically 15

Dave,The quick fix to speed up loading was to untick the extended terrain box under settings/display/scenery. I then typically set my visibility to around 20-30 miles.I hope this helps.

Terry,Thanks,I've done all that, in any case whenever I set my visibility to say 20 miles, when I next load FS2002 it has reverted to 60 or 80 miles. is there a way of setting the visibility permanently do you know? Also what's the diference between the visibility box in Options/Display and the one in the Weather Options ?many thanks for your response.

I think to speed things up you need RAAAAAAAMMMMMMM.Your computer has 256mb of Ram, that is far to little.KevinCA-Airways

Kevin,Do you think so ? FS2002 system requirements says 64Mb of RAM and while I know these things never work well on the limits, I've got 4 times that !!

Welcome to the world of graphical intensive simming.....I've got near a gig and the little mungrell still stutters like mad....

Scott,Thanks, the point you missed and perhaps I didn't make very clear, is that up until last week I was running the same system with a 64mb Geforce FX440 graphis card, and whilst it stuttered (frequent but small stutters), with my new 256 Mb card its worse, as I now get big 5 second stutters ! which are far less tolerable.Has the new graphics card somehow upped the settings because it thinks it can accept more detail - whereas I would prefer less detail and no major stutters, although turning down the options doesn't seem to make much difference.regards and as grateful as ever for the support and assistance,

256mb main RAM is far too low....ignore the MS system specs.I have an Athlon XP2800+ that until last week was running with 512mb RAM. I had bad stutters on landing with the PMDG 737. I upgraded to 1024mb and the stutters have now gone. Actually, I seem to remember PMDG stating 512mb was a minimum for running the 737 and they advised that 1024mb would be ideal.Regards,Glenn Harrall

Davre,I see you're also talking about the memory on the graphics card not RAM.Talking of RAM though, 256mb really isn't enough. It's very cheap to buy now so I'd go for at least 1gb.As far as the graphics card is concerned I would have thought that 256mb is the top end of memory to be found on graphic cards quantity wise so I'm surprised to hear about the stutters.Again, I'll probably find myself suggesting something you've already tried but.............Have you downloaded the latest drivers for your graphics card?Try that if you haven't. If you're still getting the stutters then I'd consider getting more RAM as I suggested. Also try defragging your hard disk if you haven't done so that may help too.In reference to your earlier question I found limiting the visibility permanently helped with the framerates and stutters and I did this by using FSUIPC.

Mate in a nutshell get more ram... 256mb with XP is not enough. You will find most of the user shere that are getting good quality and fps have 1GB of ram. This will make more difference than any video card. But that is from the hardware side.320MAD

Now you hit the nail on the head. MINIMUM system requirements. With no weather default planes no addon aircraft etc.320MAD

>Also I am getting terrible stuttering on landing

Dave... I was in the same situation as you when I first tried the NG. It took forever to load and FS9 was very slow to shut down. I only had 256 of RAM... but also, my FS9.exe was set up for Win95 Compatability mode. Right click on the FS9.exe file (in your FS main directory) and click on the Compatability tab. Make sure that the compatability box is not ticked (and Windows 95 is not selected).I may be way off beam here, but it may be worth a try.Cheers.Ian.

Check your FS9 cfg. to see if you have just the entry for your new graphics card and remove any others. I read about this somewhere and it took my fps from single digits to the the mid 30's. It was a graphics card entry for a second monitor I used to have that was slowing mine down.

Could you describe in detail the process of deleting other graphics card entries as im not 100% sure on editing directly into files such as these!Which .cfg file should be edited?Thanks for your help!Ben