Still can't solve the stutters and pauses issue. I am getting good performance otherwise, 15-20 fps, most sliders midrange, and I get those annoying pauses and stutters in 2D view, and they get worse during turns. Virtual view isn't that bad, just an occasional stutter. I have a P4 2.8 with 1 gig rdram, and a NVIDIA GF4 TI-4600 128 meg card. I am flying the DF Cardinal, Archer, or FSD Seneca most of the time. I also have the 38.2 FSGenesis terrain and Landclass scenery installed. Someone suggested setting sound volume to low instead of high, but there's no difference. Everything would be fine if I could get rid of those darn stutters!:-lol Thanks. Tom

Hi Tom,"Someone suggested setting sound volume to low instead of high..."I think the suggestion might be to turn down acceleration on the sound card, not the volume.Bruce.

BruceI think the sound setting you refer to is in DirectX. You need to set sound to basic via dxdiag. Reducing sound quality from within FS9 may help too, not sure about that one.David

Also, if you run with "Anisotrophic filtering" set in the videocard preferences, it will stutter if you at same time has waterdetail set to high. Put it on low or fly without AAF at all - thats my experience with my graphic card at least wich is same as yours :)

Hello TomI had the same problem... occasional stutters and pauses especially during turns.... My solution was replace the clouds by the FSW sets...www.fswsimflight.com do you use real weather ?... read and try this topicb rdgs Dick=http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...g_id=5787&page=

Hello Tom,I've found that one sure way to induce some stuttering on my set up is to have the target frame rate set too high. I'm running a P4 1.6 with 512MB of RAM and a 64MB Radeon 7500. Most of my sliders are set mid with some on max. This set up, with standard clouds, seems reasonably comfortable around 15fps and will generally hold that within a a couple of of fps with the 'taget frame rate' set to 15. However, if I increase the target frame rate to something like 30, the displayed frame rate starts jumping all over the place, typically between 6 and 25. This manifests itself as stuttering in the display. Reducing the target frame rate back to 15 smooths things out again, so this might be worth a try if you do have a high target frame rate.Mike P

Thanks for all the advice guys. By the way, I have my target framerate set at 20. I'll try lowering it a bit. Also, how do you turn down sound acceleration? All I could find on the sound menu was three choices for low, medium, or high quality. Thanks again. Tom;)

Hi Tom,You should be able to adjust the hardware sound acceleration level from the sound tab when you run the DirectX Diagnostic Tool, dxdiag.exe. C:WINDOWSsystem32dxdiag.exe on my system.Mike P