I have a question if anybody has a answer. During fs9, it get hesitation during the game. At the beginning when I taxi out and during desent especially, and sometimes it stop for two to four seconds before it works itself out. It seems like the video card or something is trying to catch up. I have a amd athlon 64 dual core 4200. 2.2gig. 3.4gig momery. sapphire hd 3850 8x agp, 512md gddr3. asus av8 deluxe mb. Appreciate any help!

I have a question if anybody has a answer. During fs9, it get hesitation during the game. At the beginning when I taxi out and during desent especially, and sometimes it stop for two to four seconds before it works itself out. It seems like the video card or something is trying to catch up. I have a amd athlon 64 dual core 4200. 2.2gig. 3.4gig momery. sapphire hd 3850 8x agp, 512md gddr3. asus av8 deluxe mb. Appreciate any help!

Do you have your settings max out. If not then do it. I have a set up close to yours with a simular video card. I just update the card today from a 8-19-2009 ATI update. These cards hate being limited. No I donot have it overclocked or boosted to high levels of operation. I just maxed everything in the FS to 8 or to the far right including very dense autogen and scernery as well as 8 on MIP Map and extended terrain etc.. . Max the resolution out to the highest level in the sim and reset my pan rate from 400 to 1800 in the FS9 Config file. I keep trying to tell people the computer and hardware sometimes tries to takeoff but the operate keeps putting on the brakes thinking that it won't fly. TRY IT first and if that does't work then back all setting back down until it does run smooth. Shot HIGH not Low.Carl Perry

Are you running default sim? If not, what add-ons are you using.

I was trying to get the frame rate up for months too, tweaking here and there, following advise etc :( . But yesterday I found the ultimate solution: I replaced some parts inside the PC and now it's running at an average of 100 FPS with everythig maxed out! The new parts: Intel i5, OCZ 6Gb 1600 DDR3, Gigabyte MoBo, ATI Radeon 4870 1GB. To make a long story short: if you want real improvement go to the hardware reseller!Kees

I'm sure if he had the money to spend on a new system he would. He's asking help with what hes got.

If while on approach, it sometimes is the airport and AI aircraft (and their textures) loading up. Try the same approach with the AI aircraft turned off (slider to 0%). Also try turning down your scenery sliders. If significantly better, then you may need an improved video card, a better CPU, or both. Or you can turn down your sliders and enjoy the smoother sim.Hope this helps,

Tom is on the right track. If you're using AI traffic (even the default) with even medium scenery on that hardware you're going to have some performance issues.You should perhaps take a look at some of the now famous Nick N's tweaks for FS9. Also try his systems tuning advices if this is in fact YOUR pc and you feel you're up to a little in depth tweaking. With a little work you can get that system running FS decently!

Also, you might try turning the sound quality down to Medium. Sometimes it is not so much the AI traffic as the ATC conversation that relates to it that causes Flight Simulator to hesitate. I have noticed this happens particularly just before a group of aircraft are given their landing instructions - there can be a lot of disc activity whilst FS seeks out the sound files and loads them. Turning the quality down is unlikely to speed up the disc searching but will improve the delivery of the sounds.John