MEGA Stutter!

Goodday gents,

 

Since a couple of weeks my poor FSX suffers from really bad stuttering that i have never seen before. That is, with DX10 only !

 

I have been using DX10 with great satisfaction ever since Steve's DX10 fix came about (the freeware version). Didn't give me not only much nicer views but also a huge difference in fps and smoothness compared to DX9. Never been happier with my FSX performance.

 

I'm not 100% sure but it looks like this mysterious stutter doesn't have anything to do with my FSX settings but possibly rather with my system although i see it only with FSX, not with other, graphically demanding, sims that i play, like Railworks (TS2014) or Eurotruck Sim2. These perform as smooth as always.

 

I am well aware of 'normal' stutters in FSX of course. I suppose, like everbody, i have always had them, they sort of 'come with the trade', don't they, and are hardly noticeable, very easy to live with. But these stutters i am facing now are quite something else !

 

The sim comes to a complete stop, which sometimes can take more than a full second or even 2 seconds. Even worse in Spot View where you couldn't even call this a stutter anymore but a 'kick in butt'! This can happen 3 to 5 times per minute. This odd behaviour is completely gone when i go back to using DX9.

 

Why i think this has probabely not to do with my FSX settings but rather with my system is because i have tried just about everything i could find here and in the net about remedy FSX stutters and nothing works. That goes for settings in the FSX Display Menu and in the FSX.cfg as well. And since my FSX was running beautifully in DX10 all the time i never changed anything in the Display Menu nore in the FSX.cfg.

 

Along with Steve's freeware DX10 fixer i am using Bojote's automatic FSX tweaks with great satisfaction. When, all of sudden, i met with this awesome stuttering i bought Steve's new commercial version of his DX10SeceneryFixer to see if that would help. It didn't...

 

For a while i have been having a big problem with the dreaded 'Display

Driver Stopped Responding And Has Been Recovered' message whereupon the screen went black for a split second and everything returned to normal. This got worse over time until Windows7 wouldn't even start-up anymore.

 

Anyway, as this story is already long winding enough (sorry about that), atlast i called the Dell Helpdesk, the Magician at the other end took over my computer and the problem was fixed in no time. Very happy about that, never seen this warning message again. All's well!

 

I really can't remember if this Mega FSX stutter started right after the Dell Helpdesker fixed my 'Display Driver Stopped Working' problem ( i know for one thing that he installed a new display driver, which i myself had already done too of course, and installed an up to date BIOS) but i am really sure that i have never seen this mega stutter BEFORE he fixed that problem.

 

My system is Alienware Area51 ALX, i7X980 @ 3.33GHz(12 CPUs), Geforce GTX480, 12Gb RAM, 30" monitor, Windows7 Pro 64 bits. I am running FSX with REX. UTX. UT2. FTXGlobal and all FTX European add-ons.

 

Again sorry for the winding story but i didn't know how else i could describe this particular mysterious problem which only happens with DX10 which has always ran so beautifully before.

 

I just hope somebody here may recognise this problem and help me out.

 

Fingers crossed, thank you so much for any tip/hint on forehand !

 

Cheers,

Jan