don't understand...

[Guest jshyluk]

I don't know about utx and gex, but "just" Vancouver+ is like saying you "just" finished off a pancake eating contest with "just" a pitcher of buttermilk. Vancouver+ is memory intensive, especially if you turned on all of the settings when you installed it. Adding scenery on top of that will tax any system. Vancouver+ comes with some .cfg's you can try out. As well, you can disable some of the extras in that scenery and see if that helps.Jeff ShylukAssistant Managing EditorSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM

[yancovitch 0]

thanks for the advice....thats interesting about the two kinds of stuttering.......

[yancovitch 0]

jshyluk....went to calgary and the stutters all but stopped....so i guess friday harbour must be included in the van+ scenery? if that is a cause of the problem...afraid i got too attached to home...vancouver....

[Guest jshyluk]

The map that's included with Van+ shows the extent of the scenery: it's very large. The autogen is boosted quite a bit past what FSX normally expects. When I play at being a sim airline captain, I usually take off from Abbotsford for Calgary. Jeff ShylukAssistant Managing EditorSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM

[Guest tcable]

I have a similar system Q6600 etc, but a 3870 video card.I never see less than 20 fps even at major airports with lots of Ai.That's running the E190 or LDS767PMDG is a bit less tho, but not much.Tim

[OldMaintChief 7]

The only time I have vertical black bars is when I load one of the newer drivers.The latest I can use are 169.25.Set up your compter like NickN says and that will solve most of your problems!DaveSystem:Dell XPS 720 H2CIntel Quad Core Extreme QX6800 @ 3.73GHz2GB Corsair Dominator EPP 8500C5D 800MHz FSB 1066 MHz2x160GB WD SATA Raptors, Sound Blaster X-FiNvidia 2x8800GTX 768MB SLI, Dell 2407WFP PanelXP driver: 169.21, Vista driver: 169.25Logitech Z680 5.1 Speakers, G5 Mouse, Saitek X52WinXP Media Edition SP3 on C: (SATA 0)Vista SP1 on D: (SATA 1) (Dual Boot)3DMark06: 17,018/6992/7123/5667

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

Just to emphasize, make sure you have vsync set to "on" in your video driver or you'll get tearing when panning.