Throughout the years I've been using FS2004, I've noticed that the biggest frame-rate killer on my system is ai traffic. The more traffic, the slower my FS runs - but I like having lots of traffic.I've now got another pc spare, and I've got it networked to my FS computer, and I was wondering:Is it possible to run FS2004 on both computers, with the spare computer doing all the hard work of calculating the traffic data, and somehow feeding that to FS2004 on my main computer so the ai traffic is visible as if it was multiplayer aircraft?Or is there any other way of achieving the same result (short of buying a new computer - that would be nice, but I can't afford it at the moment.)

Hi,No sorry it is not possible. The generation and calculations for AI Traffic must take place within FS04.Not sure what you are using for traffic right now, but there are AI models out there that are less performance heavy. Thanks,

Yeah, WOAI is extremely easy on frames, I'd say clouds are the biggest hit on FPS. :(

I second clouds being the worst. Nothing will bring my computer to its knees faster than AS loading double overcast layers using 512x512 32bit clouds. :( Also, which AI are you using?

Thanks for the replies. I was half expecting that there would be nothing I could do to get the traffic calculations done on an external pc. It just seemed like a good idea.I use WOAI for the heavy traffic, and I've used GA Traffic to create light aircraft traffic based on low-poly ai models downloaded from AVSim. I do mostly GA flying from small airfields, and I've got traffic set up so that about half the parking spaces at small airfields are in use when I start a flight. I've disabled the default traffic by renaming the default traffic030528.bgl to traffic030528._bgl.My system is XP Pro SP3 running on a Pentium 4 3.2GHz with 4 gig of ram, of which only 3 gig is used by the system because I have a Nvidia 9800GT graphics card with 1 gig of video ram.I have little or no slow down at all with clouds and weather (I uses ActiveSky for that). The big problem is the traffic - flying the Flight1 Pilatus PC12 with no traffic I can maintain the locked framerate of 24 fps. When I enable 50 percent traffic, it drops to 10 - 15 fps, producing a lot of stutters. I assume the issue is cpu-related because changing the graphics settings doesn't make much difference, but updating the cpu would require changing the motherboard as well, and that pretty much means a whole new computer.

Hi,Looks like you have done all you can with the hardware you have. Not much more you can do except save up for that new computer.