Hey everyone, I'm really desperate for a solution. I have excellent frame rates in my FS2004 (its always near the locked). THE PROBLEM IS: Althogh I have fluid frame rates, I am getting massive stutters, in spot/tower/VC view (only cockpit has no stutters). What that means is, although I am having 30 fps, I am having it stutter every second or so. It looks as if it takes two steps forward and one step backward. It is extremely annoying.My system seems like it should be more than enough:DELL XPS P4 with 3.0ghz HT enabled200 gb hdd with 172 or so free1. GB of DDR SDRAMATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB (Driver=Catalyst 4.3)SB Audigy 2 CardAltec Lansing 4/4.1 speakersForce Feedback 2 USB joystickGraphics Card settings are :1152x864, 4xAA and 4xAF (i had it at 4 and 16--thinking maybe reducing it would make the stutters go away)I have not noticed a change when i have processes running in the bakground or not but i have manually closed every process through CTRL+alt+delete (I have pretty much left system processes alone) and set FS9.exe to realtime priority. Nothing happens. It is honestly a troubling problem.FS sliders are set to pretty much maxed out, reducing them has produced no effectIf anyone has had this problem, or knows how to fix it let me know, I would really appreciate it.

I've found that some addon sceneries, especially land class addons, create massive stutters. Try removing some addon sceneries.Your system is very similar to mine.Vin

thanks a ton--surprisingly, there are no add on sceneries on my FS--its a clean install.--BTW my hdd is completely defraged. (I wiped out my hdd, and completely reinstalled windows, so I just put FS back in. I was having sutter problems before too though)

I seem to remember a recent post where someone fixed this problem by deleting or changing one line in the Force Feedback section of FS9.cfg. You could try disabling FF first to see what happens. Lowering your FPS lock might also help, although with your system that's not likely the problem. Let us know how you make out as there are a lot of things that can cause stuttering.David

wow i hate to tell this to ya--but i loaded fs twice, no stutters, I dont know what happened except that i didnt change the priorities of the apps (realtime, etc) if it comes up again, ill edit the FF and let u know, thanks a ton for your help

Turn off the frame rate limiter and see what things are really running at. Tune your system based on that then turn on the limiter to smooth things out.A million and one things can screw up system performance. You mention you reloaded? Did you install your proper disk drivers to get the drive operation in UDMA modes instead of PIO?

HT enabled does cause problems for FS. Try a search on hyperthreading in the forums and you'll find it.Allcott

>HT enabled does cause problems for FS. Try a search on>hyperthreading in the forums and you'll find it.>>>AllcottHT causes problems for everything, not just FS. Just say no! ;)

Most likely reason for this is some appl. running in the background, even some modules do. As an example; i had a small stutter every 1,5 sec from AdvDisplay in 'lock position' mode, docked mode resolved this. Gerrit

I'll definitely check out the HT threads, thanks a ton. As for the UDMA/PIO--it is on UDMA very very good idea tho. Also thanks a ton for the applications/modules, I have been checking those out, my FS seems pretty clean but i cleaned it up a little bit more. How did u get into the AdvDisplay one? thanks a ton!!

hey, i got the stutters today, I tried disabling force feedback, that was a really good suggestion, but i think the stuters are still there. If anyone has any ideas that would be great!

Hi!I also have the exact same problem - stutters every second in spot/tower/wing(PMDG) views, but steady FPS. I think you made a very good description of the problem in saying that "it looks as if it takes two steps forward and one step backward". It's not the usual stuttering that comes when your system is running on its knees - this is different.I am also getting desperate to find a solution to this problem. I have tried almost everything, including formatting the hard drive and making a fresh reinstall of everything, with no luck.We seem to have at least two things in common: the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and the MS FFB2 joystick. Maybe this is a clue? I will do some testing with the joystick disabled to see if it helps.If there are any others that have a solution to this problem or otherwise able to shed som light on it, it would be greatly appreciated.

you know whats interesting---we both have almost the exact same system. Especially the graphics card. I am wondering if it might be the ATI that is doing the stuttering? Anyone else had this problem?