After initially installing RC V3, it would probably be a good idea to immediately defragment your installation drive. This definitely improved the speed of the controller voices on my system.With all of the files and folders that the program installs, fragmentation is definitely an issue - especially if the drive was already fragmented to start with... makes the program work a lot harder to find each individual "word".On my machine, the flow of the controllers' speech was much better after doing the defrag.Jim Barrett

EXCELLENT IDEAespecially if you are FAT32

I also saw a major improvment after I ran defrag. keith

cool, maybe we are getting to the bottom of this. any xp/ntfs users seeing sound degradation?

JD-I am using XP and have not had a single problem to date. It is NTFS.I also did defrag, but did not see a difference.

My FS2002 system is FAT32 (Win 98SE), so that may account for the improvement. I'm in the process of installing the RCV3 software on a Windows 2000 laptop running NTFS, which I'll use in conjunction with the main FS2002 computer via WideFS. That's my normal setup when flying online with Vatsim. I run FSMeteo, Squawkbox, Roger Wilco and Whazzup, all on the second machine - takes the load off of the FS computer and makes everything run more smoothly.Jim Barrett

How much HDD access is happening with RC for wavs? If one installed more ram, could they reduce the HDD activity. Mine is SSSLLLOOOWWW!Also, I think the last time I tried to defrag, the computer said it couldn't complete the task. I'm probably looking at imminent HDD failure as it is! :-eek I only kept the old HDD (western Digital 20 Gig) when I did my upgrade cause I use WinME and I didn't want to have to d/l all my Gigs of files again by dial-up or have to get someone to copy the old HDD to a new one.How does one know if a HDD is about to crap out anyway? It's not noisy or anything - just kinda old, and doesn't seem to want to defrag. :( I think it's about time to get on this!Thanks, Adam

Adam,Figure the life time of a drive is about 5 yeats of constant use. Get ahold of Norton Utilities and do a Norton Disk Doctor check. That can extend the life of a drive indefinitely. Windows scandisk is useless.Also, most computers have 2 HD ports, therefore can support 4 drives (1 Master and 1 slave per IDE connection). It's very easy to put in a new drive on the second port (wire), partition, format, copy system files, and copy everything from the current boot one you are using to the new one. Then remove the old one and put the new one on the Primary port. You set the active partition from the DOS (f8) start, or floppy start-up disk, reboot, and you're done. No DL'ing of anything required.

Man it's nice to talk to people who really know about computers! That doesn't sound like too big a task even for a computer illiterate like myself.Thanks, I REALLY appreciate the help. I'll look into this ASAP.Adam