Hi,I have been having a problem that I hope someone can help me solve. I get good frame rate while flying but every once in a while the frame rate goes to a slide show. The sim itself doesn't seem to stutter, just the graphics. It seems worse if I have just changed direction but is not limited to that. It also looks like I get harddrive hits when it happens. I have tried putting FS in its own partion both on the main drive and a separate drive. Even tried a new SSD but it didn't help.Any ideas?My System:ASROCK 929 Dual-VSTAAthlon64 3800+X22G RAM PC3200 (512M x4)ATI Radeon 3870 512M PCI-EOlder Creative SB16 Sound Card

Hello,Dunno if it's your first tease with FS2004 ....Anyways .. if you have a antivirus running (realtime scanning) or any intrusive software (who for any reason scan files) disable it (for a antivirus it's sometime a option for snooze the realtime scanning) and check if any improvments ...Regards.Gus.

Also, depending on your add-ons...if you are flying into scenery with dense add-ons, the sim will have to pause for a moment (stutter) to load it into memory. This is alteast what happens with my system. Can't really be avoided.

Hi,I have been having a problem that I hope someone can help me solve. I get good frame rate while flying but every once in a while the frame rate goes to a slide show. The sim itself doesn't seem to stutter, just the graphics. It seems worse if I have just changed direction but is not limited to that. It also looks like I get harddrive hits when it happens. I have tried putting FS in its own partion both on the main drive and a separate drive. Even tried a new SSD but it didn't help.Any ideas?My System:ASROCK 929 Dual-VSTAAthlon64 3800+X22G RAM PC3200 (512M x4)ATI Radeon 3870 512M PCI-EOlder Creative SB16 Sound Card

The stuttering can sometimes be lessened or removed completely by adjustment to the fs9.cfg file. My best advice is search "Nick_N" on this forum. There is a lot of useful info there to be sure, including system optimizing and best fs9.cfg settings. It is well worth the time to read the stuff ( lots of stuff )! I hope this point you in the right direction. The bottom line,....had stutters at texture load up, still do but they are barely perceivable and I do mean barely.Best regards,Mel

If you fly into areas with dense AI, there will be a lot of stuttering as the AI is loaded into memory (along with a lot of HD activity). I don't think this can be avoided (other than turning down AI).Bryn.

My top fixes for FS performance:-Set Virtual mem to "let system manage"- (System Properties/ Advanced/Performance-Settings/Advanced-Virtual Memory: click on "System Managed Size".)-In FS Assignments, assign "Refresh Scenery" to the Pause/Break key. Hit this key when you detect an FPS slowing- typically as you enter an area of increasing scenery density. System will pause momentarily, then resume at full blast!-Have lots of RAM- preferably the full 2 GB.These settings allow me to run triple monitors very smoothly on a six year old 'puter!Alex Reid