Whenever I land in FS9 the simulator pauses for a brief moment as soon as the wheels touch the runway. Although I only fly the default cub it happens with other a/c as well.It also happened in FS2002 and I was running that on a different computer in those days.Otherwise, I don't suffer from any stutters and everything is smooth. Does anyone have a clue as to why this may be happening?My system is a P4 2.6 Mhz Toshiba laptop, 512 Mb RAM and GeForce 4 card.Thanks for any info.David

David,I got FS2004 on friday and experienced exactly the same problem. Exept for this autogen fps drop which I experienced yesterday for the first time, evverything runs very smooth, no stutters, perfect approach and then exactly, when the first wheel hits the ground a short stutter or pause for maybe a tenth of a second (you can clearly see it in spot plane view). I did lots of research, but this stutter stayed, even if I set all the sliders back. An interesting find was, that the stutter only occured at the first landing after a flight or situation was loaded or after the sim was paused. When I did some touch and goes in a row, the stutter was only at the first landing.Then I found out that not every plane was effected. E. g. I have an old FS2000 Dash 8-300 designed by Barry Blaisdale (correct spelling?) which has no stutters at landing at all. This gave me an idea. I created a flight with the Dash as plane. After the flight was loaded I exchanged the Dash against one of the planes, which have the stutter at touch down (the default C172), made a short flight and - voila - NO STUTTER at touchdown. I repeated this test with several other aircraft and did not experience this annoying stutter again.So my tip is, look for an aircraft, which has no stutter at touchdown, load this allways first and switch then to the aircraft you actually want to fly with.This is only a go around, but as long as it works...Wolfgang

Hi David,most likely it's a sound/memory issue. FS is not loading the touchdown sound very much in advance (more priority is given to scenery etc.), meaning that at the time of landing, it's looking on your HD for the sound file, thus causing the stutter. Try the following tests: First, land with sound off. There should be no stutter - if there is, I'm wrong in this instance :). Then, fly an approach with sound on, and just before landing (like 200ft above the runway), save the flight. Land, and if you got a stutter, select 'Reset Flight'. Land again - this time it should be smooth, as the touchdown .wav file will still be sitting in your RAM. Rather than rushing out to buy more memory, a better sound card or a mega-fast hard drive, you could do some experimenting to find a touchdown sound that doesn't cause a stutter, and use that for all your favourite aurcraft (just edit the sound.cfg accordingly). Or you could use one of the various sound editing programs out there to edit the .wav files to a reduced size, which would also help. But first, try landing with sound off, to see if that's actually the problem :).Cheers,Gosta.http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/images/wxrebeta.jpg

Hi Gosta,I have P4 2.4 Mhz 512MB DDR, a GeForce3 200Ti, Win XP Pro, don't know exactly what sound card. So not the weakest system. I have tried everything, set alls sliders to zero, disabled sound, set sound to "poor"(?), dis/enabled sound accelleration even via dxdiag, disabled special effects (smoke on touchdown etc.), went to remote airports which have hardly any scenery, flew with clear skies, but allways there was this slight stutter at landing (not with all planes, but with most of them) no matter if having 30 or even more fps approach. But only at the FIRST landing after loading, creating or pausing a flight (as I descibed in my previous post).And as mentioned in my previous post, the only thing which seems to help is to load an aircraft first, which does not produce this stutter and then exchange ist against the one you want to fly with. Strange, but I can live with it.Ah yes, one thing I forgot to mention: There is NEVER a stutter when disbaling crash dedectionWolfgang