Hello All,Yesterday I had to buy a new processor (previous one was toasted)? So I decided on the Athlon 64 3200 with the Asus motherboard and corsair 3200 ram, I kept my old graphics card Geforce 4 4400 TI (4x AGP)I reinstalled everything and started up FS9 however my frames rated are still the same as with my previous processor (AMD XP 2100)Can thid be due to my graphics card ?I had not expected to have a huge increase in FPS but none is very surprising I get at KMIA with 100 % AI and slider on the ultra high level 6 - 12 fps.Is this normal ?Regards,Peter

Did you reformat?

why should he reformat??? steveUK

Hi,I think what he is wondering is if he is just using the same hard drive with the same installation of Windows on it on this new motherboard and processor. Using the same hard drive is no problem, but it should be reformatted and installed with a clean fresh installation of Windows. The reason for this so that Windows will pick up all the new hardware for this new motherboard correctly. And then you will have correct enumeration info inserted into the Windows Registry by doing this. Then you install the correct new drivers for this motherboard, such as chipset/ide and other drivers. Otherwise your registry and driver info in there for the newer hardware is most likely a mess in regards to how Windows sees it.Jim

Exactly my thinking. :-)

Hi guy's,Yes indeed I did a complete new install and thus formated the HD.Now after some testing and searching I have found the problem.The issue is in the memory timings. If I let these stand at Auto then I have these very low frames rates. If I set them manually then the system runs just fine.I have set the FPS slider to 25 and after some flying in different weather and locations I get constantly 24+ FPS.Also this CPU runs very cool under full stress it only goes up till 45

Excellent! The new Athlons really run cool. If you got a better card I think you'd get amazing results, but your results are just fine. :-)

Throw a Radeon 9800 Pro in there and it should really fly - report back if you do get a new vid card, I'm interested in getting a similar setup here before Christmas...Ryan

Ryan,Have you heard anything about the FX57 939 pin Athlon coming out early next year? Haven't heard that much about it but it sounds great.

I had the opportunity to build a 64bit system for a friend of mine the other day. He called me about buying a DVD for his old HP so I told him where to go.. Were Lucky we here in the Detroit area to have a store called "Computer builders Warehouse" just down the street from me (did I say lucky? I meant cursed) Anyway he calls me from the store talking about the 64 bit, Oh What a great deal, Yada Yada Yada, anywhoo to make a long story short, he bought the 64bit 3200, ATI 9800 Pro, with 1 gig of PC3200, and they thru-in a MIS board, nice case, Etc..I Built it for him, Put on FS9, and it did NO BETTER than my Athlon 2200, overclocked to 1900, with a 9800 Pro board and 1 gig of 3200 ram. Maybe 2or3 FPS better. He benchmarked 3D Mark 2003 @5740 with all the ATI sliders at default, and the new omega leaked drivers. My system with the same settings benchmarks 4848. Not to big a difference. Maybe when the proper operating system comes out it will make a bigger difference, but for now my 2200 XP will work just fine.LATER>Scott(aka KingBud)

Hi Scott,Check out the Memory timings on your friends system as this did it for me.If they are set to auto then try changing them manually.Once I did this I get constant 24+ frames and this with only a GF4 TI4400 (AGP 4x).Regards,Peter