Ok I am getting pretty frusterated right now, I have been noticing a reduction in FS2004 to the point now where I am afraid to view the airplane in spot vie because I am getting at the lowest 2-3 FPS when I used to get 22 but I will admit I have alot, ALOT of addons put on this homebuilt comp. PMDG 737 series 747 series Level D 767 Flight 1 Ultimate Terrian and Cessna 172 and Mega scenery Socal Vol 2 and Nor Cal plus a few more addon aircraft and I use Vatsim but for testing my comp latley I havent been using it. PHEW long sentance. I hav an AMD atholon 64FX 2.6GHZ Nvidia Geforce 6600 PCI Express graphics card and the funny thing is I spent close to 3 grand for this just so I wouldnt have problems with flight sim so now if I have terrian mesh to 30 mip map to 5 render to texture off and bilenear filtering and simple clouds on while in the cockpit I get about 18fps but once outside its 7-8 sometimes 12fps and I aviod flying at dusk or dawn its to demanding dor megascenery although my comp used to handle it I just checked for viruses there was 1 but I deleted it and checked for spyware there were quite a few but there gone now and I defraged the drives and still no improvment PLZ HELP ME!!!!

Hi Angelo,Have you checked other running processes in the Task Manager to ensure that you haven't any other (suspicious) processes stealing cpu time from FS9?Do you have enough physical and virtual memory available? How about available free disk space?Your cpu or graphics card isn't overheated? You keep your motherboard, graphic card and fans free from dust?Have you tested to disable all custom sceneries and temporarily move all add-on dll's from the FS9 modules folder? What frame rate do you get with the FS9 default flight?Hope my questions will help you track down the problem :-)Ulf B