Hi Geofa,I have a couple of simple question for you. If you can answer you can probably help me a lot in trying to full understand what's happening here:Which are the specification of your system (motherboard, chipset, type and amount of RAM, sound card, etc) ?Which are the setting (resolution, color depth, AntiAlias, etc.) you use in FS2004 for display and traffic ?Which are the scenery, weather and aircraft quality settings (the sliders) ?Which is the resulting Frame Rate you get ?Finally, it would be very helpful if you can post a copy of the FS9.cfg file you are using.ThanksMikey4468

Mikey,I have a 2.0ghz P4 with GEForce Ti4600. Traffic is at 100% in the rural areas but I do reduce it to 60% in cities. Everything else is maxed except I don't have the water effects on. Frame rates stay in the 20's.David

Via motherboard, athlon 2100+, 512k ram, inboard sound card.1024x768, 32 bit, no aa, traffic about 40%.Every maxed except terrain mesh 90%, aircraft high-clouds 40%.Frames 12 in high density airport, 20 low density.If I set Autogen on low 20 and above and very smooth.Please keep in mind I never claimed a performance increase-but that my sliders started doing something (autogen especially)which enabled me to get a performance increase....Not sure how to post fs9.cfg file here.http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/Geofdog2.jpg

Thank Geofa,this help a lot and makes a lot of sense. To post your FS9.cfg you should click on "click here to choose your attachments" that is at the end of the windows where you normally type your messages and select the fs9.cfg file to post together with your message.Happy flyingMikey4468

You mean even AUTOGEN is set to "extremely dense" ?What about display resolution and color, AntiAlias, texture size, mipmapping, filtering etc. ?Sorry for bothering you but I found on my system that has similar spec (AMD 1900+ XP, 512MB DDR RAM, GeForce 4 Ti 4600) that playing at 1280x1024x32 with antialias off I can put everything to MAX and I do not notice a big decrease in FPS if I have AUTOGEN set to none and I loose about 5 FPS for each tick of the Autogen slider. Currently to have about 20 FPS I've set the slider at NORMAL. Another frame rate killer on my system if the "GROUND SCENERY CAST SHADOW". If I enable it it usually cut my FPS in half. All the other settings have minimal to no impact on frame rate.ThanksAnd, as always, Happy (and smnooth) flyingMikey4468P.S: Can you attach your FS9.cfg file to your reply. It will be attached in TXT format but it will be ok.

um can someone PLEASE ANSWER my question?????? (posted already twice and no answer)"ok i posted a msg yesterday but apperantly it didnt get posted...very wierd but anyways ok...i have an Inoo3d GeForce 4 Ti4200 and i really dont kow what i should change in the FS09.cfgshould i change it from the default to the following??? will it then work? PLEASE help me if its good say YES if not please show me what im doing wrong!!!1DISPLAY.Inno3d Drivers on Win2K/XPcorrecT??"

Here it is:http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/Geofdog2.jpg

I don't think there is an answer. Some have reported great effects, some have reported none.To try what I did however you would replace your line with (in brackets):DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA Drivers on Win2K/XPHope that is what your question is after.http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/Geofdog2.jpg

Thanks Geofa,I'll analyze it closely anf I'll make a comparison with mine. I've just scanned through it very briefly and I've noticed that the stting for "GROUND_SHADOW" is zero, meaning that your scenery object will not cast any shadow, only aircraft will. This makes a lot of sense as this is one of the setting that it's really burning out lots of CPU cycles. Also you have sound quality to low that can help increasing performance if your sound card is not of a new generation.I guess that if you increase sound quality and enable again ground shadow you may go back to the previous state where the slider seemed not to work as the CPU was overloaded.But, anyway, this is just achademic, the important thing is that you are now an happier simmer.Thanks for all and Happy flyingMikey4468

I have always had those settings set-never have cared for ground shadows and the sounds makes little difference on my setup.http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/Geofdog2.jpg

Can someone with a ATI 9700 PRO please tell me how to setup up the following example for ATI??DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA Drivers on Win2K/XPThanksPaul KBDL

I want to try this out, but I just realized that I have no FS9.cfg file!!! I have all the others- display.cfg, devices.cfg, scenery.cfg, etc.- but no FS9.cfg. What can I do to correct this?!?!

Just found it... I had NO idea it was under the Documents & Settings folder now... duh.. :)

OH yeah!! fs2002pro ge 4mx440 THANKS!! what a find. how did this even happen? tom t

i'll add the sys specs; amd2400xp[2ghz] 1.25gb ramDDR asus a7v8x@133fsb chainteck ge 4 440mx SB 512pci sound samsung19"flat crt CH pedals logi 3d wingman joystick Texture qual=hi Terrain mesh=80 Terrain size=hi AutoGen=extremedense scenery complexity=extredense dynamic complex=extremdense effects detail=hi max visib=150 water=full cloud=35 aircraft// all +full hardware// 1152X864X32 framerate=31 lites=8 all rendering on and full+trilenar using VC in b-58 scattered clouds in NYC @1500ft down the west side towards a landing at EWR sunrise, got 18+- some drops , second or two , to 5 8 11 and back to 16-18fps right thru to roll-out on 22.NO O/C'ing, with mozilla firebird opened to this forum and all normal processes running[ normally i'd close unnecessary ones] what a difference! TIP-O-THE YEAR! tt