Hey everyone, I am wondering as to why after updating my windows system from microsoft.com, now FS9 is not performing as well at all. I checked, and all of my settings are the same in windows and FS9. How can doing something we are supposed to do for our machines health make things worse. I just reformatted and it took 3 weeks to get everything installed again. My machine was performing better than ever. The only reason I did the update was my ERJ-145 would not work unless I did. This is on Win2000pro. I should have left it alone I guess. Any suggestions? Best regards, Jeff

Bump.

what about drivers? did you update your video/sound/motherboard/etc drivers as well as windows updates? Did you forget to disable the windows firewall? Are there more programs running in the background now that could be stopped?

Good morning Alex, thanks for your reply as always. The drivers I am using are the latest MB drivers. The video drivers are 71.89 as anything newer gives me a black screen. I have all but 14 processes running as I did before the update. I don't know what the update did, but my system is not the same. Can you believe I did this for one aircraft? My ERJ from FT needed this update to work. I don't use it often. I just reinstalled it and had the itch to fly a regional. Any thing else you can think of? Thanks. Best regards, Jeff

Hi Jeff,What is the difference between the way FS9 operated in your previous situation as opposed to after the system update?I've come across similiar problems after updating or reloading windows or even just reinstalling FS9.Many times I've found the main problem has to do with the fs9.cfg and/or scenery.cfg. Other considerations (for my system, WinMe) had to do with the way i handle memory within the system. What I've learned to do is to save copies of Scenery.cfg and FS9.cfg to a cd once I'm happy with my system. Then when I have to reload either Windows or FS9 I just restore the saved .cfg files and I know I'm back to where I was. Also, it may help to write up a list of the various settings you've made to your system such as handling of memory etc. Then when you do a reload you can refer to the list and be sure you're back to your original state. Also, I keep a log of all addons I've loaded to my system so I know what to reload at a future date.Hope this helps.

Hello Howard, Thank you for your reply. I just rebuilt my FS9 cfg file. I should have known to do this, as I always have rebuilt the cfg after a system change. I will test things out later. I noticed my performance drop the most in my Flight1 ATR. It was so much smoother before the update. I just did a 40min flight in my Dreamfleet Baron 58RXP. That performed just as good as before. I never tested the Baron after the update, so I won't really know if the new cfg worked until I try the ATR again. I will post my results. Thanks again guys. Best regards, Jeff

Hey guys, well I did a few flights in the ATR and it is not performing as well, but I guess I will have to tolorate it. It's better than the sim crashing. I should have left Windows alone. It still gets me frustrated that doing an update causes these problems. I guess I would have to reformat again and spend another month reinstalling all of my add ons. Forget about that.Best regards, Jeff