Greetings!Coupla days ago I bought and downloaded ActiveSky for FS2004. Being a notorious dimwit when it comes to computers, I took great care to meticulously follow all installation instructions to the very letter, resulting in a beautifully installed AS. So far, so good. Had a cup of coffee, sat relaxingly down in my home-made little cockpit, and fired up FS9 *without* ActiveSky, because I hadn't figured out all the settings and intricacies yet: I just wanted to make a little flight with my favorite Lancaster bomber before returning to ActiveSky's manual and settings. Sadly the sim went sloooow. I turned on the framerate thingummajiggalaboo, and saw 14 to 16 fps where before installing ActiveSky I had around 30. Closed the sim, started up again, tried various locations and aircraft, same result: framerate sort of halved compared with BIAS ("Before Installing Active Sky").So I uninstalled ActiveSky, and fired my sim up again. Smooth as a baby's cheeks, framerates around 30. So what I'm confronted with, is a newly acquired ActiveSky that at the very moment it is installed, manages to cut my framerates in half *even when it is not switched on*! That can't be right, can it? It's not fair (grin)!Would anybody have anything sensible to say on the matter? Be, stay, live and matter well!Jaap Verduijn.

Yeah - this is sensible. Go to the Active Sky forum at AVSIM, outline your problem and the developer or his trusty assistant will leap into action with setup suggestions.Andy b

Good thinking, Andy! Have done.Jaap.