Hi Everyone, After spending 2 years tweking and buying new hardware, am I giving up and posting here, just in case someone has any advice.....I have severe FPS problems, going down to single digits many times (mostly due to clouds but in other areas too), so here is my system:AMD64 3200+, Socket 979(?), 1Gig dual RAM 444MhzATI x700 256MB (4AA, 2FA), HD 60GIG (70%free)Windows XP x64Sliders at 50 to 60%, no aoutogen, sound medium.2 monitorsI fly in VC with 40 to 50% AI, and ASV, and ultimate terrain USA (no other scenery!)I tried every single tweak, I use FSAutostart all the time (killing most of my background program) but as I said before my FPS are very low, max 29 (when unlimited) and average 13-14 going down to single numbers a lot of times. Do you guys think this is normal? anything else I should try?Sorry for bothering with this, but I am just tire of trying everything and it appears that nothing helps, should I just understand that that is what I am going to get?....Thanks

now thats just odd. If i was you, id drop a 2nd hard drive, 120GB id reccomend, then look at a new vid card. Thats the 2 main issue's i can spot. But still, should run higher than that. Defrag oftenly and if you FS9 folder is huge, loaded with add-ons that you dont use, reinstall fs and it will most likely run faster. I do that about once every 2 or 3 months, and it seems to make a noticible difference.

Yea, the low FPS seem odd with your system. I have an AMD 3200+ with a Geforce 6600GT, 1GB Ram and I have generally between 20-40fps WITHOUT any major tweaking.First, I would make sure to disable any Anti-Aliasing in FS9 and configure your driver to do the job. I have noticed a HUGE improvement in performance and quality with this little trick.Secondly, make sure you have all the latest drivers, that you remove any unnecessary TSRs. The guide above will help you.Thirdly, defrag your drive with a good defrag tool, like OODefrag. You can use the trial to do this.I'd also check all drivers, re-install, if necessary and check DirectX.Also, never use an on-board soundcard...If everything doesn't work. Completely uninstall FS9 and re-install. I would also run a benchmark on your system (3dMark, etc.) and compare your system with similar sytems (benchmarks comparisions are posted on their website).I also would eventually NOT use Win XP 64-Bit, because not a whole lot applications can take advantage of it and it is indeed still buggy and does not have the driver support that XP Pro has.Hmm...that should be it.Good luck!!Pat

Well I have an AMD 3400, ATI X850XL, 2 monitors XP. I have most sliders to max except the clouds. They are at what ever FE or ASV set them to. I have spot view on one monitor and 2D on the other and get good frames except on landing. I turn down the auto gen but leave the traffic to 100%. Sometimes I will close the spot window as when landing you need to concentrate on the landing and that keeps the frames up. But frames are usually 20's with just one 2D window. I appologize for being of no help.JimCYWG

Hi ....... the main bottleneck in your system is the X700. I would firstly suggest upgrading to an X800 or an 850 if your power supply will allow. The X700 is pathetic at handling dual monitors so if the upgrade is out of the question then I would suggest just running the one monitor untill such time you can upgrade.cheerseno

Thank you everyone, I am following your advices.ThanksAbraham

I wouldn't write off the X700 as such. My son has my "old" 9800 Pro (roughly equiv to an X700) in his AthlonXP 3200+ and. much to my annoyance, it punches out frames similar to my rig. And that's with dual monitor (actually tri) on both our systems. Sounds like something else is wrong, most likely in the driver department.Gary