Hi all!Hope this post can stay here for a while, this might not be hardware related :-smile12, and the HW forum is not too crowdy these days ... I havent noticed this earlier, but lately I have had a huge drop from aprox. 25 to 10 fps when I move from outside view to cockpit view.I haven't changed hardware lately, but went from the ATI Catalyst Utility to the latest Omega Drivers (in order not to spend most of my flying time booting the pc).The Realair Spit and Marchetti doesn't suffer from this, so my guess is that it has something to do with gauges.Oh, an these ...TextureAGP=0PanelAsTexture=0... didn't make any difference.Also there's some kind of seasick oscillating time-syndom in the pit, not stutters, but more like waves slow-fast-slow-fast in half-second cycles (no, I'm not mental, this is just a bit hard for me to explain in a foreign language).Any help is highly appreciated br

This is certainly an MSFS issue, so here the post will remain. As to why it's happening, that's a bit more complex. Gauges can have an almost zero to a huge effect on fps. Just display the gps gauge in the panel at zoomed out to about 200 miles--it causes a pretty obvious hit in performance, especially on a slower system. You mention two aircraft without this problem--what about the default aircraft? How about the default C172/C182?, which have pretty good gauge update rates?What aircraft do you see this in the most? And last, what other add-ons do you have. One or more could have dropped a dll into your modules folder that's causing the slow-fast-slow-fast symptom. Hope I've been of some help or at least have asked the questions which will help the others in answering your post.-John

Thanks' a lot John :)My last addon is the PMDG 744. I got 8-11 fps in the 2d and swapped to the default 172 just to learn that it was almost the same there

I'm seeing the same exact symptoms here. I just wiped my hard drive and reinstalled all my software. I have a vanilla installation of FS9, with no addons whatsoever, and I'm getting about 80 FPS in any view except the forward 2d cockpit view in which I get 17 FPS. This is the default Cessna. I haven't tried other planes yet.My system is an AMD Athlon 64 3700+, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB. I've tried various Catalyst versions, as well as the latest Omega. I've tried the PanelAsTexture and TextureAGP settings. I've tried adjusting the AGP aperature size in BIOS. I've tried disabling fast writes in BIOS. Nothing has had any impact whatsoever.Anyway, just wanted to post here to let you know that you are not alone with this problem, and to let everyone know that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with add-ons, since my system is 100% vanilla FS9 at this point. (I also tried 9.1, no help.)Please post here if you make any discoveries. I will do the same.

Ross,Like the pictures at the bottom of your post :)

Hello BR, I recently added the panelastexture=0 and it made my fps drop like a rock. Try to remove it and see if that helps. Of course every system will handle this differently. Also there is an fs9CFG tips thread somewhere about how to make changes in the cfg file with out having adverse performance results in FS9. Sometimes deleting the fs9 cfg and letting fs9 rebuild it corrects alot of issues. It did for me at least. I just saved my joystick section and noted other changes, then when I started with the new cfg, it took 2 minutes to copy and paste, getting things back to my liking. good luck, and please post your results. Best regards, Jeff

BR:I think that you have already identified the culprit.The lastest Omega driver did the same thing to me, on this and other graphic-intensive software.I suggest going back to an earlier Omega set. I am currently using v2.5.97a with no problems. Once I hit v2.6+, my problems started.Wilson

Indeed sir :)2.5.97a cured BOTH my cockpit fps drop AND the seasick fx. WOW! Thank's a lot guys, this forum is amazing. I had forgotten all about this thread, and then just out of the blue i got a subscribtion mail for it, and with a solution as well!A million thanks to you Wilson, and to Avsim as well. Amazing forum :)

Hi,I am with currently last omega drivers without problems, i think that if after installed the previous version the problem was fixed then some kind off "garbage" in the 2653_7z omega drivers are the reason, why you don't try again with the lastest drivers.RegardsIntel 865GBFPIV 3.2 HT (set affinity 0 for FS9 )Ati 9800XT1GB ram corsair

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