Hi all,whenever I fly into bad weather my PC performance drops badly. It is not the FPS so much, but pauses all over the place whenever a thunder flash comes or the cloudes are too heavy and wind blow comes from different directions etc. like it is normaly in such a weather. My Sound gets bad like my Soundcard cannot do the job any more and alike. Is it just because I run a AMD Barton 2500, overclocked to 2600 with frontsidebus clock and I have to upgrade to the latest best AMD CPU? Or is it up to some wrong settings?

I have that problem as well. What I found to help was to fly without any kind of AA set in the control panel for my grafic card (application controlled). I then found that activating Antialiasing inside FS9's own hardware page didnt cause as serious a sound stutter.Of course having no AA at all would probably be even better, but that leaves some ugly edges on the aircraft.So to conclude, no AA at all (Anisotropic filtering had no impact when set as i could see), then stutters are practically gone unless i fly with 3 layers overcast or ALOT of thunderstorms around :).

Hi,well, what do you think, will a better CPU (AMD Barton 3200) make flying in bad weather better and more smooth what matters performance of the simulation FS9 or is it nessesary to get RAM with the same performance as CPU and Mainboard supports: all three parts than with 400MHz front side bus clock? Today only my mainboard can run 400MHz, but neither CPU nor RAM can run at 400MHz.But that will get expencive to buy CPU AMD Barton 3200 AND Crosair 1024MB CL2 PC400 ... 489

I noticed in your signature that you have "all sliders maxed about 90-100%". That might be your problem right there. I don't think there are very many computers which will run FS2k4 with most sliders maxed in every situation. Sure it can be done, but there are always going to be situations where slowdowns happen. Might just have to tweak the sliders down some.

Not really sure if a CPU upgrade will cure it, I wouldnt recommend trying it just for that one issue, since it might be waste of money then - since people with higher CPU speeds also have this issue.Like you have faster CPU then me and also faster graphics card and still have it. It seems to me to be a more generic issue with the cloud rendering in FS.Maybe its to do with Windows XP, cant really say.

Surely this is the problem (taken from your system details...)Display Resolution used: 2048x768 in WinXP and FS2kXOuch! Are you really running at such a huge resolution or is it a typo?I suggest you revert to 1024*768 on a single 17" monitor in windowed mode and reassess the situation. It sounds as though you have FS stretched across two monitors which could certainly account for the poor performance.Cheers,

I agree with CargoMan... what you're dealing with isn't worth throwing alot of money at. Now is not the time to make the sort of upgrade you mention. Too little return on investment.Another item to check is your Hardware Sound Acceleration. Go to Run, type "dxdiag", click on the Sound tab, and set the acceleration slider to "Basic".What chipset drivers are you using?

Ok,well, I thought to choose this res because I have my nvidia with this res for using both monitors. But actualy I fly in windowed mode...I have the latest nvidia chipset drivers installed and latest driver for all other hardware.I could change some sliders less than 90% and change the res.Will report if it helps.

Well,no mich improvement at all. Have changed the res to 1024x768 and lessened some sliders to around 85%.But maybe I have some unz

MipBias=8That stands out as a possible problem. Try reducing Mip Mapping to 4 and it should improve frame rates and visuals.Cheers,

A good place to start is to reset all display options in FS2004 to Default. Reduce also AI Traffic to 45% or thereabouts. Check how your flying gets with Microsoft defaults, and move things up gradually till you hit a balance. I keep the graphics card AA on 2x and AF on 4x-8x. Try to keep the resolution between 1152x864 and 1600x1200; even with a P4 3.06GHz and an ATI 9800 pro, i sometimes find myself having to drop the resolution down to 1152x864 to fly smoothly.One curious thing I noticed in COF display options, is on the first tab (Scenery tab): even if you choose the max setting for the Global Scenery Quality (Ultra High), MS has opted for the autogen slider to remain at its normal level, which tells a lot about the impact of autogen. I myself take it up to max though.Another thing is to ensure you fly with no background applications; either you use Ken Salter's FSAutostart or use msconfig(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;331796)Hope the above helps a bit.

This from your FS9.cfg:|DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X.0|You might want to update your video card and driver call in the FS9.cfg.Hope this helps,

Hi,and what would the better driver call be in FS9???