First question is regarding the startup time of ASA. It's literally taking 3-4 minutes for the green progress bar to complete. Is this normal? Seems to be connecting to the servers straight away so it looks like it's just loading local files.Secondly, after setting ASA up to virtually similar parameters as I was running AS6.5, it is eating into performance much more. Cant really run the 20 layers i was in 6.5 any more. Do you recommend running the ASA client on a separate core to fs9 to improve performance or is most of the performance being lost by fs9 trying to interpret ASA's input?Heres my specs just to avoid anyone telling me that it runs perfectly for them and i must be trying to use it on my calculator instead of a capable pc :( [email protected], 8Gb 1066DDR2, GTX280@702/1402/1202, ASUS Rampage Extreme X48, Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Hi,That load time is about right. There is a lot of data processing going on in that time frame.For the frame rate issue what I would like you to try is setting ASA to run on your second core instead of core one. Then see if that makes a difference in your FPS.Thanks,

Thank Jim, guess I'll just have to put up with the load time then.Tried a flight last night with ASA on core2 and also cloud layers set to 15 instead of 20. This seemed to produce no fps hit whatsoever and there was still a fairly solid overcast. Given that it is producing much nicer cloud formations that AS6.5, I'm happy to live with a slightly less dense overcast cloud layer.

Hi,Very good!You really won't notice a difference in your overcast layer with that setting on 15.Thanks,

Tried a flight last night with ASA on core2

Is running on core2 a Win7 only option?

Hi,No, you can trigger programs to run on core 2 under XP and Vista as well.Thanks,