I have no idea why but when i start a flight from scratch and when i am flying i get frame rates of about 30-40fps but when i put my gear down and land on a hard surface the frame rate will drop to about 1 frame per sec and will stay like that until i get my self back into the air, i changed graphic resolutions to see if that was the problem but no success, any help would be great, it dosn't seem effected when landing on water and when i used an ultimate traffic plane it landed ok but the rest seem just to make the frame rate die.any help would be great Cheers Fush

Someone mentioned this early in a thread and if I'm not mistaken they discovered it had something to do with their joystick. They unplugged the joystick and frame rates jumped up, something about the drivers for their microsoft joystick. Sounds bizarre, I know. Do a search here in this forum and maybe you can find it.Good luck

actually it was the force feedback part of the joystick.. do you have a force feedback joystick ? try to disable the force feedback part via the fs menu... no need to disconnectb rdgs Dick=

Thats exactly what i've got, i'll try that when i get home school tonightCheers Fush

Its MS sidewinder. Just disable the ground bumps force and everything will be fine. When f9 came out I remember pulling my hair for 8 days to sort that one out!!

More likely to be caused by an onboard soundcard. The extra system resources from the sound calls passing through the CPU cripple fps.System specs?Allcott

you may have noticed that i did fix the problem and it was the joystick, i changed my force feedback sidewinder to a normal microsoft sidewinder joystick, about time too, the force feed back one was broken, the force feed back on the up and down axis was broken, and plus if the onboard sound card was the problem it would be be there from the start, where as my problem only occurs when you land

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