When I tune to 122 to hear weatherbriefings the system gets very slow and the mousepointer move very jerky. I really can't do anything else while I hear the briefing. Is this normal?I have AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 512M RAM GeForce4 MX 440 64 M DDR graphics card.

I don't get this at all myself, so definately not normal. No idea what's causing it though, did you install any additional voices to it before this happened?

No additional voices installed.

How about your sound card and drivers?Sometimes updating the drivers helps.Decreasing hardware acceleration may help.Have you updated your AS?Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

Some sound cards have difficulties with multiple wav file feeds. As you said, in the appropriate DXdialog or via CP or other access to DirectX audio properties, only placing the sound acceleration off or one step above should help.

>Some sound cards have difficulties with multiple wav file>feeds. As you said, in the appropriate DXdialog or via CP or>other access to DirectX audio properties, only placing the>sound acceleration off or one step above should help.>I find no way to change sound or hardware acceleration in the CP.

Run DXDIAG and in the SOUND tab there's an option to set the acceleration. HTH,VicVisit the Virtual Pilot's Centerwww.flightadventures.comhttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

If you have a card from soundblaster try using their autoupdate - I find much better performance even though I thought I had downloaded all the latest drivers:1.) go to www.soundblaster.com2.) click 'drivers' in the third box3.) select the appropriate region4.) click 'downloads'5.) in the left side column, click the link 'Software Autoupdate' - it's kind of hidden...From the Americas, this should be a direct link.

I just did that earlier today. The problem remains.

how about MSs text to speech (TTS) engine - now, I'm not even sure that Voice Watch uses it, but maybe a reinstall of that?Are you running on windows XP?

>How about your sound card and drivers?>Sometimes updating the drivers helps.Have done that today.>Decreasing hardware acceleration may help.I will look at that.>Have you updated your AS?>Just did earlier today. Now got V 1.1.The problem remains.

Hi All,Not text to speech because we don't use it.Suggestion: Go into a voice folder and click on one of the longer files like "thunderstorms" How does it sound?FS in general relies heavily on your Media Player files. You may want to try a re-install of that.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

There's been a rash of trojans that disguise themselves as mplayer.exe lately - if your reinstall of that fixes the problem, you might want to check your security as well!Best,sg

>Are you running on windows XP?Yes

>Suggestion: Go into a voice folder and click on one of the>longer files like "thunderstorms" How does it sound?>The problem is not how it sounds, no problem there. It's just when I tune to 122 then the voicerecording seems to take all resources and hog up the system, since not even moving the mousepointer can be moved smothely.