contact me at [email protected] i get your email address, i'll send you an invite to a special mail list i have set up, to deal with this problem.beta testers, customers with problems and i will be on the subscriber list. i think this will be a better method of resolving this problem, than the clumsy forum method.jd

Scott :My system is:P4 1.8 GHZ 512 DDR ram80 G hard DriveSoun blaster creative Audigy GamerWIN XP PRODX 8.1ATI Radeon 64 MG DDRVideotron cable InternetFS2002Now I do have other Add-Ons like FDC but was not running at the timeThe EXP was using PIC or PSS 320/B747/B777 or Posky B767/B747.Hope this help

Same for me Scott: mine is about 1/2 speed of yours. The pauses between each sound file make it sound as if the speaker would take a breath between each word.I defragged my HD and checked that all the relevant sliders on the dxapplet are on the left, especially the sound debug slider.JJ StruyfBraine-L'AlleudBelgiumhttp://jdtllc.com/images/RCsupporter.jpg

go to control panelsounds and audio devicesaudio tabin the sound playback, make sure your default device is your sound cardclick advancedclick performance tabset your hardware acceleration to 0 (far left)apply, ok, ok, ok, oktry it again. better?

>Hi Scott, >>I also have the slow RCV3 problem. I am wondering if the >WindowsXP Pro NTFS file system using indexing has anything >to do with it. I know it is slower that a FAT32 system. >The FSATC runs fine if that means anything. >In some situations, NTFS might be slower, but in this particular application, it should be quite a bit faster. Each word (or phrase) that a controller or pilots speaks is a discrete WAV file. On an non-NTFS machine (ie: FAT32) the system first has to access the FAT on the hard drive to locate the file, then re-position the read-write heads to the file itself.With an indexed NTFS drive, the system goes to the file index (which is partially held in RAM memory) to find the file's location. Doing the "look up" of the each WAV file's location in the index is much faster. It reduces the amount of seeking and repositioning that the read/write heads would otherwise have to do.For what it's worth, when I initially ran RC3 on the same computer as FS2002 (a Pentium III 750, using Win98 SE), I had quite a few pauses. The controller speech was about half as fast as the demo Real Audio example.Now, I'm running RC3 on a second machine - a laptop, (AMD K6-350) which has Windows 2000 (Indexed NTFS). In this setup, the RC speech is every bit as fast and smooth as in the demo.Jim Barrett

o.k. testing...J.J.JJ StruyfBraine-L'AlleudBelgiumhttp://jdtllc.com/images/RCsupporter.jpg

Looking foward to trying to help any way that I can.Bob, Rogers, Arkansas

jd,yes it did help. Had one comm exchange and it looked o.k. I am continuing my flight and will report further.jjJJ StruyfBraine-L'AlleudBelgiumhttp://jdtllc.com/images/RCsupporter.jpg

I think it is better. Not close to Scott's tape, however.Bob, Rogers, Arkansas

I can confirm it's improved, but not yet quite as good as in Scott's file.Right now I am flying with Active Sky and FSWW. Will try without them.J.J.I am running a 1400 MHz AMD Athlon512 MBC-Media on board sound cardWindows XP HomeDirectX 8.1JJ StruyfBraine-L'AlleudBelgiumhttp://jdtllc.com/images/RCsupporter.jpg

Not much of a difference about 2 to 5% better, however the quality of the sound got a major hit.

>Not much of a difference about 2 to 5% better, however the >quality of the sound got a major hit. Yeah, I find that removing all hardware acceleration causing even FS2002 ATC to sound chopped and bad. Haven't recieved my RC V3 yet. Keeping my fingers crossed. ;)

Hello Everyone, I think, by now, JD and his Beta testers have enough information on this sound problem and are contemplating what steps can he/they take that will be the easiest, therefore cheapest, way to resolve this problem. I also do think that unless one has really new information we ought to let the JD Group work the problem out. I know some of us are let down temporarily but I am confident a fix will be forthcoming. I speak for myself and not for anyone involved with this product.Sincerely

...that what I'm hearing is even faster than what most of the team is hearing. It's a really bad example to use.I will pull the sample off since it's just "too good", if there is such a thing. It could be causing people to needlessly worry (you should see the beta list this morning :-lol).

Scott-I got mine to sound the same as yours with the "solution" in the other post here....http://ftp.avsim.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboa...rum=DCForumID31http://members.telocity.com/~geof43/Geofdog2.gif