February 8, 200422 yr Fellow Flight Simmers:Wow! I can't believe that after all these months - I finally have a smooth Sim in BOTH 2002 and FS9!!! "NO MORE STUDDERS!" Maybe I should run for president on that platform!!! The truth is, that by carefully reading all of your excellent suggestions to the problem of studders, it got me to think out of the box - LITERALLY!!! I realized, as I was down on the floor ready to remove a secondary PCI Video card, that I had a lot of additional equipment connected to the computer. Palm synch cradle, Dazzle card reader for my digital camera, among other things. So I thought that maybe - just maybe - there were outside factors interfering with the sim. At first, I thought it was the Dazzle - as it acts like an external drive - sitting there waiting for a card to be inserted - but that wasn't it. Then I went into the MSCONFIG startup tab (I do this fairly often to clean out the auto startup programs that I don't need) and I unchecked EVERYTHING that wasn't essential. Then, upon running the sim - what??? SMOOTH sailing! Then it was a matter of eliminating the culprit. Ok, no more suspense...It turned out to be the software for my CIRQUE Touchpad. I have one of the newest models - the GU500. I never uncheked it before as I saw this as necessary to operate the mouse. The two instances were touchpadgesture and glidew32. I confirmed that BOTH were a problem by adding them back one at a time. So, when you are completely perplexed (as I was) after getting slider fatigue inside the Sim, look at the bigger picture "outside the box" and you just might find the culprit as I have. Each of you assisted me though - I wouldn't have thought to look elsewhere without all the input so THANK YOU!!!!
February 9, 200422 yr Author I think not knowing the difference between 'stutters' and 'studders' (whatever they are) would make you an excellent candidate for president. Which country though?Yours in fun!Gavin Gavin Barbara Over 10 years here and AVSIM is still my favourite FS site :-)
February 10, 200422 yr Author TedGood luck mate! November's still a long way off. You'd get my vote if I were a US citizen.Anyone else vote for Ted?Gavin Gavin Barbara Over 10 years here and AVSIM is still my favourite FS site :-)
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