October 17, 200322 yr Recently I have formatted one of my hard drives and installed fs9 on it. I also have another hard drive with fs9 on it and it runs tip top. Great frame rates (30+ with PSS 330). On my newly formatted HDD I am getting terrible frames in comparison (18). For the life of me I have tried tweaking fs9 and I can not obtain good frame in comparison. I once saw a site where you can tweak the registry but I do not remember where that site was. Can anyone lend me a helping hand. I have tried the obvious tweaks on this forum. Thx guys.Oh in addition I am using Tweak Xp program and I am wondering if I create a RAM disk drive and use it for fs9 would that spped up fs9 at all. If so what folders of fs9 would be best to use with the RAM drive?
October 18, 200322 yr Hi,What operating system are you running? Does your new HD have an OS on it or is it just for storage?Sorry for the question to your question :-)Mikehttp://www.members.shaw.ca/madamo/boeingsig.jpg
October 18, 200322 yr NP. yes all my hard drives have Win XP on them. I believe it is just a simple XP tweak I have done to one if the HDD but I do not know which one. Very big difference in performance though
October 19, 200322 yr When you installed the new drive, did you format it as NTFS or FAT/FAT32? NTFS will give you a performance boost over FAT and as far as the tweaks go you can try www.tweakxp.com or www.winguides.com/registry/. I use these two sites often for tweaks.Good luck!Mikehttp://www.members.shaw.ca/madamo/boeingsig.jpg
October 19, 200322 yr Disclaimer: the following is IMHO and if doesn't work, I n' I are not responsible ;-)1) Don't use a RAM disk - you need the RAM for fs9.2) You can turn off in NTFS where it timestamps every time it accesses a file. This may help a little.3) If you have a lot of RAM, you can specify XP to load the core files into RAM so it doesn't read off the hard drive.4) I think you can set IOCacheLimit (my memory may be shoddy here) if you have a lot of RAM.5) Make sure you defrag - and use a third party defragger. I use O&O, but you can also use Diskeeper or Norton. A boot time defrag with MFT is best.6) Compressing your FS9 folders have been reported to help on faster systems. I recommend doing this, then doing step 5 again after that.http://saltydogfly2.avsim.net/images/avsim_sig.jpg"Ah, the Luftwaffe - the Washington Generals of the History Channel." - Homer Simpson
October 19, 200322 yr Thx Ken. I have 1 GB of RAM how do you accomplish steps 3 and 4 of your suggestion
October 19, 200322 yr Tweak XP should allow you to set this up if I remember correctly.http://saltydogfly2.avsim.net/images/avsim_sig.jpg"Ah, the Luftwaffe - the Washington Generals of the History Channel." - Homer Simpson
October 20, 200322 yr Ok so now I am really confused. I got Drivewizard and I made a spit n image of my hard drive, that I get real good performance from FS9, on to my other hard drive. Now when I use FS9 from my newly created HDD the frames rates aren't as good. I dont get it! Shouldn't ALL the info from one HDD be the exact duplicate of the other and so shouldn't FS run identical?
October 21, 200322 yr Are the two hard drives exactly the same i.e. rpm, bus type, etc...?http://saltydogfly2.avsim.net/images/avsim_sig.jpg"Ah, the Luftwaffe - the Washington Generals of the History Channel." - Homer Simpson
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