September 23, 201213 yr Hi all, I need some help. FS2004 used to work fine until now. I have about 40 fps, but recently, every 5-15 minutes, I experience a huge fps drop down to 10-12 fps. This lasts for about 1-3 minutes, and then it goes back to about 40 fps. I did not install any new addons, nor did I do any other significant system changes. I already tried: Complete windows reinstall Complete FS2004 reinstall Old NVIDIA drivers The newest NVIDIA driver Turn of ASE to see if the weather download causes problems I have REX GE Pro UT USA FSGenesis Computer HP Pavilion dv7 6GB RAM 2.4 GHz dual core Nvidia Geforce 9600GM Win7 x64 I searched the forums and saw that others had similar problems with FSX, but no one was able to answer the question. Anyone?
September 23, 201213 yr Is you Hard Drive light constantly flickering during the delay period? If so, the scenery, etc, is probably updating/spooling from your Hard Drive during the flight. Maybe you don't have sufficient RAM or Graphics Memory to contain all the detail necessary for a smooth, uninterrupted flight. Loading from RAM is always quicker. Paul...FS 2004.... B) ...!
September 23, 201213 yr Best advice I can give is for you to install Process Explorer ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx ) and run it. It will tell you if any processes are using CPU cycles while you're simming, and you can stop them (temporarily) to see if this solves your slowdown. If you're running antivirus software, you might try disabling it as well. This is a good start with troubleshooting FS problems. Please let us know how that goes. John G.
September 23, 201213 yr I would also suggest something running in the background.. since it worked OK before. Bert
September 23, 201213 yr Author Thanks for all the replies. I started FS in windowed mode and monitored my processes using task manager and GPU temp. After 5 minutes of simming, my GPU is at 92 celsius, but only 50% of the memory is used. My CPU is 60% in use, and I have over 3 GB RAM free. There are no unusual harddrive light flickers when the system is slowing down. I am wondering if my GPU is starting to fail. The problem also occurs in X-Plane 9. :( Is my problem a common symptom for graphics cards that are about to fail?
September 24, 201213 yr 92 celsius is too high. It may enter some "protect mode" at that temperature. Try to stay below 80 degrees. Blow out the dust out of the heatsink or downclock it if you are over clocking. Bert
September 24, 201213 yr Author Okay, thank you, I will try that... I have a laptop... do I need to unscrew the bottom to blow out the dust? Or can I simply blow out the dust where the heat comes out?
September 29, 201213 yr Author Bert, Thank you for your advice. I cleaned the air vents and fan on my laptop, and that seemed to have fixed the problem. There was so much dust in there! My GPU now idles at 34F and goes up to about 72F in FS2004 (and X-Plane). No more fps drops due to heat!
September 30, 201213 yr hi guys im also havving nasty fps drops, beafore i never had this my gpu goes around 70 at max, this never happend beafore at all. e.g. uk200 hatwick in the qw rj70 i get around 23-26 fps with ut2,utx,rex,gex however in deafult lfpg france airpport im only getting 15 fps at max with the same addons. how can this be many thanks. bilal I7 10700K 16GB 3600MHZ RTX3080FE
September 30, 201213 yr This thread had fps suddenly dropping at some point in time, without apparent reason. That is quite different from your question which seems to be: "Why do I get better fps at one airport, than at another airport?" There could be all kinds of things that are different... you'll have to try some changes as a test, starting with setting traffic to zero and seeing if that changes things. Bert
September 30, 201213 yr Hi bert, I will try but should it not be vies versa for airports in this case? I7 10700K 16GB 3600MHZ RTX3080FE
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