Stuttering problem

[Guest]

Before I formatted my harddrive and reinstalled windows, FS2002 gave me 30fps even though the sliders where maxed. I got around 18fps in London. Despite reinstalling all the drivers and downloaded the lastest drivers for my graphics card, I have a stuttering problem, every minute or so there are a series of stutters. The fps seem normal until this happens. In London the stutters happen very frequently and it is unflyable. I have already tried locking my fps at 15 and 20, but the stuttering still occurs. I have shut down all virus scanners etc before flying. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks, DavidSpecs:Athlon 1300256mb memory40gb hard-disk64mb Geforce 2 MX-400

[John_Cillis 2,406]

By chance do you have FSUIPC installed? There was a problem when flying with logging enabled, which produced stutters about once per minute... The solution was to disable logging...If the FSUIPC suggestion doesn't pan out, scan your system with Adaware to make sure that there's no hidden app trying to scan your system. Regards,John

[Guest]

Make sure that you remembered to enable DMA on your hard drive after your reinstall. This will make a difference.Bob

[ckukmale 27]

Hi there.Also if you have a software modem on your PC and you are online at sametime, that will cause your PC to lose performance.Craig Kiltie

[Guest]

How do you enable DMA on the hard drive? Thanks, David

[Guest]

David,That really depends on your os and hardware...In general, you'll either need to install a hardware driver or if supported go into the driver properties and enable it. With newer OS's, this is automatically done, the only time you will see DMA disabled on a device is when the OS doesn't see the device as capable.If you have a Via based motherboard, make sure you installed the 4in1 drivers (one of which is the support for the IDE controller)Ray