...for the one who's interested, my collection of FS2004 tweaks.Happy tweaking,MikeWin XP / Fs2004 Tweaking and TuningHard Drive PropertiesTo access: Windows Explorer>Right click on each Hard Drive icon then select PropertiesGeneralI highly recommend reformatting your drive and choosing the NTFS file system for maximum speed and security. However, you can still convert an existing FAT32 file system to an NTFS one even after installing WinXP by going to Start>Run and typing "Convert C: /FS:NTFS" (without quotes). This will take some time to complete and won't be as fast as if you'd formatted with NTFS, but still faster than FAT32 for most larger hard drives and certainly much more secure. Make sure you backup your data before doing this just in case.Untick "Compress drive to save disk space" to speed up reading from the drive. Untick "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" and then select "Apply changes to [Drive letter], subfolders and files" in the subsequent prompt to improve performance and free up disk space.Click the Disk Cleanup button, and under the "Disk Cleanup" tab tick everything except "Temporary Internet Files" (to speed up internet browsing) for cleaning. This will optimise your disk space by cleaning out and compressing old files. Use this utility often to clean your hard drive. Under the More Options tab you'll find two options which will help you remove installed programs/WinXP utilities which you may not need. If you use System Restore, the third option allows you to clean out older restore points which you no longer use, freeing up a great deal of disk space.SystemTo access: Control Panel>System or Right click on My Computer>PropertiesTo optimise your hard drive, go to Disk Drives>[Name/Model #]>Properties>Policies tab and for each hard drive select "Optimise for Performance" and tick "Enable Write Caching on the disk". Then go to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers>Primary IDE Channel (same for Secondary)>Properties>Advanced Settings>"DMA if Available" for all devices actually connected. For devices which do not exist, select None under Device Type to speed up bootup.Click the Hardware Profiles button, and for optimal bootup speed have only one hardware profile and choose "Select the first profile listed if I don't select a profile in

Thank you :)Some very interesting tweaks there. I have a P4 w/HT and the tweak about running FS9 on one virtual CPU is most interesting...I will def give that a shot!!

Wow! That's an awesome amount of information.Thank you.BlairCYOW

Some great info in there. This highlights my biggest pet peeve with Windows. That is every new version MS sticks in a bunch of new junk that they think will make our lives easier. But in fact all these "features" do is make everything more difficult. Just think how much junk we're going to have to figure out how turn off in the version of windows that comes out in 15-20 years?Matt

>Thank you :)>>Some very interesting tweaks there. I have a P4 w/HT and the>tweak about running FS9 on one virtual CPU is most>interesting...I will def give that a shot!!FYI, I'm pretty sure this tweak is not valid. Seems like there was a bug with FSUIPC some time ago that was fixed by this tweak. But the bug in FSUIPC has long been corrected.Matt

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=951Another one ;)Great tool to set your AGP/PCI latency. The standard value is 248 for most videocards. Just set it all to 64!Most simmers experience no more stutters in FS2004 with the latency on 64....just give it a try. Happy tweaking,Mike

In an effort to keep this under one post, I will be locking this thread. Please post replies, etc. to this thread in the Tips and Tricks forum:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...sg_id=743&page=Thank you.