I found out something VERY interesting and VERY helpful, to me at least, and thought it might be useful to other people. If you are running NIS and are just disabling it for FS, that will not help. The process that goes on even after you disable things is ccqpp.exe, listed as Symantec User Session. If you notice under task manager it uses LOTS of resources. I attempted to stop it with my ENDITAL program, but it did not let me, nor would end task work under task manager. Well, I found the reason. In NIS main panal under options, then norton internet security, there is a box at the bottom which when ticked protects the program from being stopped by another program. I unticked it then was able to KILL that process with ENDITAL. WELL, the cirrus never ran so well. No stutters, I increased FPS, now running close to 20 and that is full VC, trackIR, realityXP gauges, FE, and real world weather updates. I even was able to put up some of the sliders. It made quite a difference for me at least, but will continue with further tests. I have Dell XPS gen2 P4 3.2, 1.5gig ram, X800XT AIW graphics card, the flightsim is on a separate HD, sata 120 gigs. Anyway, just thought it might help someone out there that would like to run the full panal model or VC mode. CheersFlygirl

I uninstalled Norton and replaced it with Trend Micro PC-Cillin. Instant gain in smoothness and frame rate.

I will try it outThanksAlexhttp://fs2crew.com/linepilot.jpghttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/ng_driver.jpg

If you stop NIS that seems to show that you do not use AVS online while flying ?

Is this the box under the general tab labelled "turn on protection for my Symantec product?" If it is unchecked that could result in someone maliciously gaining access to your PC by stopping NIS without your knowledge. Is this possible?Airbus

>Is this the box under the general tab labelled "turn on>protection for my Symantec product?" If it is unchecked that>could result in someone maliciously gaining access to your PC>by stopping NIS without your knowledge. Is this possible?>>AirbusYes, that is the one. But, that was the only thing that I could do to be able to REALLY disable it. But, in the end I have decided to uninstall it altogether, since the sim ran SOOOOO well without it. I am trying PC-Cillin out for 30 days and will go from there.CheersFlygirl

I dumped Norton over a year ago for the same thing, not to mention it's tendancy to slow the entire system to a crawl and to keep me out of my network more than it should have done others. I went with AVG (free version) and have never looked back!Gary