Larry,I couldn't reply to your message as the thread has been locked (probably as a result of it being anchored) so I'll reply here.<>Firstly, the question of unsuccessfully editing the Target line to force Priority to ABOVENORMAL. I really don't know why Windows refuses to accept a perfectly valid path on some people's machine but the solution seems to be to create a new shortcut rather than edit the existing one. A friend who had similar problems resolved them with this solution.As for the speed at which sounds are played I think this has a lot to do with the sound card being used, the speed of the processor and most importantly of all, the opinion of the user. It's unrealistic I believe to expect RC to be able to play sounds as seamlessly as the default Microsoft ones are. Far more sophisticated processes were used than the simple recording of wav files and then having them strung together by the FS executable on playback. Obviously with the resources available to Microsoft they could reproduce a higher quality of sound.Where RC scores is its ability to have lots of different voices of various accents together with accurate ATC procedures to give a more natural feel when flying. Once the priority has been increased and with the right combination of hardware I find RC more than acceptable. For the record I'm running an Athlon 2000XP, 512Mb PC2100 RAM, Ti4600 feeding two displays and a Creative Audigy soundcard on Windows XP Home.I accept than with slower processors and possibly a different soundcard the playback is still short of what is acceptable for some people. All I would say is this. Go back to using the default ATC in FS2002 for a few days and see if you can live with it. What's more important? Smoothly produced voices or realistic ATC with all that that involves. I'm pretty sure I know what your answer will be.Larry, this is not intended to be a dig at you in any way, shape or form. I think we just have to accept that because FS2002 is so processor intensive other programs can suffer as a result. Those who have installed RC3 onto a 2nd PC have reported much improved results. Maybe that is an option for those that have a second machine available to them? For those with XP the suggested fix seems like a good compromise.Cheers,

Hello Larry, Your explanation of the difficulty facing the ADD-ON folks is very clear indeed. I suspect Microsoft will possibly review all the potentials of these add-ons and revise their present FS2002 so that many of these inovative features will be included in either 2004 or 2006. Hopefully some of the ADD-ON folks may be rewarded, to some degree, by Bill. Again thanks for your clearly written note.Regards

Hi Ray,Mi rig has almost the same spec's as yours, and was able to increase the speed of the speech even further by installing the latest Via chipset drivers. The ATC is now very fluid and enjoyable experience.So for those with Via chipset MB's give it a try. Please read doc's first and make sure your board supports this new driver. What works for some, may not work for others.VIAHyperion4in1v4.45.exe available at http://www.viaarena.comCheersJulian

Julian,I have the following system:ABIT KR7A Raid MOBO (VIA CHIPSET) BIOS "6N"Athlon XP1800 (unlocked, water and Peltier cooled) pushing 1771 MHz1GB PC2100 Samsung RamGainward TI4600 Ultra 750 VideoSB Audigy SoundDual MonitorsI have a few questions and please point me in the right direction if the questions have been addressed already on this forum. I just installed RCv3 and noticed a prompt during the installation advising what to do in the event speech was slow. I'm sorry, but I missed the instructions and have looked through the files and docs and no where can I find how to adjust the speed of speech. Please advise!Also, what system are you running?What Bios are you running?I want to be sure the 4 N 1 will improve my very stable system and not cause havoc! Thanks!

Scott,The answer is currently all over this page. Look for the OS you're using (XP/2000 or 98/ME). Firstly, you may wish to visit the Flight Deck's RCv3 page][/b to compare what you hear to what you should hear.

two posts at the top of the forum. one for xp, one for 95/98/me

Hi Julian,<>Good point and thanks for mentioning it for the benefit of others. I'm running a MSI K7T-266 which uses the AMI BIOS. I haven't updated the BIOS since I bought it last March and despite this all seems fine. I'm a firm believer of "if it works then leave it alone"! :-)Cheers,

I have a three week old via mother board with the latest 4.45 drivers and still the slow speech. I still think the problem is the relative slowness of visual basic running outside fs.http://members.telocity.com/~geof43/Geofdog3.gif

Have you increased the priority of RC to ABOVENORMAL? That's assuming you have XP or XP Pro. Doing this should SIGNIFICANTLY improve the speed the wav files are replayed.Cheers,

Yes I have-and it helps. This further leads me to think the problem is with visual basic-that is all my remarks concerned. I think drivers/sound cards is not the issue.http://members.telocity.com/~geof43/Geofdog3.gif

i'm of the opinion that xp is far superior than the win9x genre of operating systems. it is far better at multitasking, and giving programs what they want/need. in this case when fs is running on an xp platform, fs demands/gets whatever it wants. lowly little apps external to fs get the left over time slices. by increasing the priority of the rc task, it gets a better footing when it comes to time slices.someone asked, why don't you write a little module that goes in fs, that plays wavs. i would if i could. but i can't. if someone wants to write that module, i'll be glad to use it, and everyone will be so happy!until then, it looks like for xp, the problem is process priority. for 9x machines, it most often than not turns out to be old drivers.all that said, i'm still looking at the problem from the inside, to see if there is anything i can do.

Hi Geofa,Sorry the fix doesn't improve things as much as you hoped for. As John say's XP is a much better OS than Win9x and if you do have sufficient memory etc. you might want to consider it. Stable, reallocates memory much better and of course the ability to prioritise tasks are just three advantages.I appreciate it's not cheap but if FS and Radar Contact are amongst your favourite apps it's worth considering.Cheers,

I think you are misunderstanding my comments. I have xp, 512 ram, and a 3 week old motherboard with latest via drivers, and an athlon 2.2.The fix does improve things. My comments are that I don't think the problem is caused by system specifics but more likely using visual basic which is one of the slower compiled languages, running along side fs. http://members.telocity.com/~geof43/Geofdog3.gif

Sorry! Hadn't realised you had XP - probably because you didn't say ;-)I agree that VB may be part of the problem due to its relative speed compared to C etc. so for you a separate (modest) PC might be the answer.Cheers,