Tonight after reading how to setup a key combination to reset the Scenery in FSX, I ended up having my flights in slow motion, not simulation rate using the R key but at the normal simulation rate everything is in slow motion. It must have happened when I was selecting a key combination for resetting the Scenery using Ctrl+Shift+R that somehow corrupted the settings for normal flight. I have looked in all of the .cfg files and even reset the fsx.cfg and key assignments back to default but no joy. Does anyone know where the simulation rate code line is located. I think I should be able to set it back to 1.00 and regain normal flight. Any help on this unusual event? fisheye

So your simulation rate is set to "Normal" (did you check the menu in Fsx?) and you are still running slowmo there?Uploaded with ImageShack.usI'm just asking because I couldn't think of any other variable causing this.

So your simulation rate is set to "Normal" (did you check the menu in Fsx?) and you are still running slowmo there?Uploaded with ImageShack.usI'm just asking because I couldn't think of any other variable causing this.

I agree, no settings anywhere to be found. I have attached a .jpg of the menu in my sim for verification of the sim rate. The controls are also very slow reacting and it seems that the plane just rolls at a walk down the runway even though I can see the air speed increase an it will leave the ground. However it does not travel very far on the runway before it takes off and flys like a lumbering log. When traveling on the taxiway and turning it seems to skid sideways still going straight on the taxiway. I hope there is someone out there that knows the place for the configurations settings for the sim rate because I really feel that the "normal" setting has changed and needs to be set back to default.

Sorry that I cannot help you. It's these misterious problems, popping out of nowhere, that ruin the sim experience completely. Hope for you that someone can help you. I for my part look forward to re-install everything just because my landing light ground illumination effects have gone crazy...

Are the AI planes also moving so slowly? I'm sure that this "normal" is defined somewhere but I doubt that it can be permanently overridden by pressing some keys.Maybe some of your addons triggered something. You could try a clean exe.xml and dll.xml (backup the old ones first) together with a global "disable" of all additional software and try again.I agree with Andreas, this one is really strange.

Are the AI planes also moving so slowly? I'm sure that this "normal" is defined somewhere but I doubt that it can be permanently overridden by pressing some keys.Maybe some of your addons triggered something. You could try a clean exe.xml and dll.xml (backup the old ones first) together with a global "disable" of all additional software and try again.I agree with Andreas, this one is really strange.

I followed your advice and I renamed my dll.xml file and restarted FSX. It fixed my problem, thanks for the help. However I went back into the folder where these files reside and after exiting FSX did not find a new dll.xml. I am not sure how this works but I expected to find a new generated dll.xml file?? I really don't care as long as FSX works and I can fly again. I am hosting our SimFlite club meeting next Saturday and I thought I was our of luck for my demonstrations. Now its back on and everything is fine again. In fact the scenery is a lot better and sharper. One thing I did notice is that it generated a new FSX.cfg file by deleting the dll.xml file but did not replace itself. I have been flying FS for over twenty years ever since BAO and still am amazed how much there is to learn about how every thing works. Thanks again IP....fisheye

Glad to hear this, fisheye, so the slowmo error comes from an addon getting loaded via your dll.xml.This file doesn't get rebuilt when deleted but a very virgin one (with SP2 Acceleration and the SDK installed) has these contents

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?><SimBase.Document Type="Launch" version="1,0">  <Descr>Launch</Descr>  <Filename>dll.xml</Filename>  <Disabled>False</Disabled>  <Launch.ManualLoad>False</Launch.ManualLoad>  <Launch.Addon>	<Name>Object Placement Tool</Name>	<Disabled>True</Disabled>	<ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>	<Path>..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Mission Creation Kit\object_placement.dll</Path>  </Launch.Addon>  <Launch.Addon>	<Name>Traffic Toolbox</Name>	<Disabled>True</Disabled>	<ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>	<Path>..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll</Path>  </Launch.Addon>  <Launch.Addon>	<Name>Visual Effects Tool</Name>	<Disabled>True</Disabled>	<ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>	<Path>..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Special Effects SDK\visualfxtool.dll</Path>  </Launch.Addon></SimBase.Document>

Please don't see and use this as a final solution, you currently don't load any of your dll based addons and you've paid for them to be able to use them. So I suggest looking at your "faulty" dll.xml and then copy over every entry one by one to the virgin one to find the addon causing the slowmo effect.You see every new entry beginning with

 <Launch.Addon>

and ending with

</Launch.Addon>

.An important thing is to always have the last entry looking like this

</SimBase.Document>

As an alternative, you can post your "faulty" dll.xml here so that the guys can see what addons ran there and maybe some of us then knows which one can cause the slowmo. If I had to guess, I'd say that FSrecorder plays a role here, but as said, that's guesswork.

Glad to hear this, fisheye, so the slowmo error comes from an addon getting loaded via your dll.xml.This file doesn't get rebuilt when deleted but a very virgin one (with SP2 Acceleration and the SDK installed) has these contents

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?><SimBase.Document Type="Launch" version="1,0">  <Descr>Launch</Descr>  <Filename>dll.xml</Filename>  <Disabled>False</Disabled>  <Launch.ManualLoad>False</Launch.ManualLoad>  <Launch.Addon>	<Name>Object Placement Tool</Name>	<Disabled>True</Disabled>	<ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>	<Path>..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Mission Creation Kit\object_placement.dll</Path>  </Launch.Addon>  <Launch.Addon>	<Name>Traffic Toolbox</Name>	<Disabled>True</Disabled>	<ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>	<Path>..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll</Path>  </Launch.Addon>  <Launch.Addon>	<Name>Visual Effects Tool</Name>	<Disabled>True</Disabled>	<ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>	<Path>..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Special Effects SDK\visualfxtool.dll</Path>  </Launch.Addon></SimBase.Document>

Please don't see and use this as a final solution, you currently don't load any of your dll based addons and you've paid for them to be able to use them. So I suggest looking at your "faulty" dll.xml and then copy over every entry one by one to the virgin one to find the addon causing the slowmo effect.You see every new entry beginning with

 <Launch.Addon>

and ending with

</Launch.Addon>

.An important thing is to always have the last entry looking like this

</SimBase.Document>

As an alternative, you can post your "faulty" dll.xml here so that the guys can see what addons ran there and maybe some of us then knows which one can cause the slowmo. If I had to guess, I'd say that FSrecorder plays a role here, but as said, that's guesswork.

Its interesting because I took the backup copy of the suspect dll.xml file with all of the lines of code and reinstalled it and everything is still working fine as before the problem. FSX is a real puzzle sometimes. Whatever happened when I removed the dll.xml file then started FSX cured the problem. I am still curious as to what FSX is using with the dll.xml removed and it still starts and runs. There must be one somewhere else used as the basic default file or else it is not needed unless you have addons. Thanks for the data to rebuild a fresh file. I will keep this as a backup incase it is needed later on. I appreciate all of the help everyone has offered, it is part of what makes this hobby so interesting and fun...fisheye

Its interesting because I took the backup copy of the suspect dll.xml file with all of the lines of code and reinstalled it and everything is still working fine as before the problem.  FSX is a real puzzle sometimes.  Whatever happened when I removed the dll.xml file then started FSX cured the problem.  I am still curious as to what FSX is using with the dll.xml removed and it still starts and runs.  There must be one somewhere else used as the basic default file or else it is not needed unless you have addons.  Thanks for the data to rebuild a fresh file.  I will keep this as a backup incase it is needed later on.  I appreciate all of the help everyone has offered, it is part of what makes this hobby so interesting and fun...fisheye

Hmm, finally someone else getting this strange error, I get this slow motion now and then, but normally a restart does the trick.But I have found that an indicator for this is if you experience the animations from minimizing and maximizing windows on your desktop also looks a little slow. So I have made a habit of checking this before starting a flight.Whats causing it is beyond me, I have had this through several OS's and FS installs, and suspect its somehow related to hardware, but it is for certain a mystery :)