Hi, I did a quick test and set everything in display to minimum and the stutters were still there....anyone have any advise on how to get rid of these stutters. I never had them on my old machine. Plus the frames are high around 30+ I have them locked at 30. I tried unlimited but i can still tell the stutters are there mildly with unlimited too. Now, the stutters Im talking about are annoying microstutters that happen when I bank in the air or turn on the ground during taxi.Thanks all,Bill

Bill- several years ago, I found a way to eliminate micro stutters on my triple monitor system. The behaviour was exactly as you describe.Retarding the Hardware Accel sliders two notches to the left, for the outer monitors did the trick. Very smooth after that- even in heavy scenery when FPS on my old sys can drop as low as 14-15. Even at 10-15 in extreme cases (KLAX at night), the flow is still smooth and very flyable/taxiable.(Go to Display/Settings/Advanced/Troubleshoot)I know it sounds defeatist to retard Hdwe Accel but I would have no hesitation in trying it- you can always restore easily.My guess is that retarding Hdwe Accel eliminates competition for data between main memory and the GPU(s) and establishes a smooth flow. Like kids fighting over a donut?Alex Reid

Hi Alex I tried just lowering 1 notch and got 1 frame in FS9...instead of 30+ frames...totally unusable. Had to put it on full accel.Thanks,Bill

Interesting, I wonder has anyone tried moving the hardware acceleration slider to the left in an effort to eliminate stuttering in FSX? Talking single dedicated monitor here.Mike

Bill- when I did this, the slider had to moved left PRECISELY 2 notches- no more/no less ! Anything else produced strange results.Alex Reid

Does anyone think that the stutters could be minimized by getting a Sata II HD instead of a regular sata drive?Thanks,Bill

>Does anyone think that the stutters could be minimized by>getting a Sata II HD instead of a regular sata drive?>>Thanks,>>BillBill,Unfortunately that will not make one bit of difference.I do think that if you have one drive dedicated to your OS and one drive dedicated to FS9 your stutters may disappear.

FS9 on a different drive, why would that be the case to removing the stutters. For what ever reason I never had those stutters on my old build with a AMD 3400 and Geforce 6800GT with 2gigs of memory NOT running duel channel. I did a reformat on the drive and ever since then I get stutters. Seems like there is no way for getting ride of them. They mostly happen on random times and usually when I bank or turn the plane on the ground when taxing. Its like microstutters and when its not stuttering during turns and banking its really really smooth.Thanks,Bill

What resolution is your monitor? Would a lower res better match processor and GPU capability? (fewer pixels to compute?)Alex Reid

>Retarding the Hardware Accel sliders two notches to the left,>for the outer monitors did the trick. Very smooth after that->even in heavy scenery when FPS on my old sys can drop as low>as 14-15. Even at 10-15 in extreme cases (KLAX at night), the>flow is still smooth and very flyable/taxiable.>(Go to Display/Settings/Advanced/Troubleshoot)How in the world were you able to lower the hardware acceleration sliders independently for each monitor? I only have a two monitor system, but I can't find where I can do this for a single monitor. Any info would be appreciated.

Ah.. minutes later I figured it out. Thanks for the heads-up on this; I'm going to give it a try.

Nope I have tried runing fs9 on 1400 X 1050 which worked just fine on my old build, and is the optimum resolution for my monitor and looks great, and have tried all the other lower resolutions even down to 800 x 640 and still the micro stutters are there...even with every setting set to the lowest settings in the graphic card and fs9.Bill

Better start looking at what processes are running behind FS. There are several programs around to find out what is tasking your processor to bog FS down for that second. You can have all the separate hard drives in the world but they wont help a bit if something is tasking your processor. Find out what that is and your stutters will be gone. Did you change video drivers? I solved my issue with re-installing eh sound drivers. FSUIPC was the culprit on a thread just the other day. There is NO magic bullet to fix pauses and stutters!!!! Seems that each person has their own story OR their own thread to refer to for a fix. Just start updating or changing drivers as the simplest fix. Then move on to what is taxing the chip. Good luckSusie

What is the best program out there since there are so many to shut down background applications before starting FS9?Thanks Susie,Bill

I dont know to tell you the truth. I have read their names in some threads here and they are a little above my head in their operation. Sorry I cant suggest any. Maybe another guy will come in and speak up.But I would re-install sound drivers and vid card drivers. That costs nothing as far as brain matter is concerned and you cant loose. While you're at it, update your MB drivers. Whens the last time you did that?One of the guys removed FSUPIC from the modules temp and stopped them. He figured that something to do with weather updates was causing the issue. That thread wasn't to far back.Point is there is no answer that is correct all the time. Different things cause the problem but I think most all would agree that the two things that cause stutters and pausing is the HD loading textures and something being "polled" in the background causing the processor to hesitate. What that is, is anyones guess on any given system. Anitvirus, dynamic weather updates, etc. Last month a poor guy formatted his HD and re-installed everything only to end up with the same exact stuttering. Was he ignoring a MB driver update? Or a sond card update? I've had it happen to me a few times and who hasn't? Just start trying the easy stuff first.S.