Just wondering is slow sim performance normal when running RCv4. Things come to a crawl if I try to use the Flight Deck Companion with this add-on. Am I doing something wrong???

flight deck companion is working on a fixjd

Hi Dillon,I've used FDC together with RC on a 3GHz P4 without any nticeable affect on framerates. At the moment the two together are, however, locking up when on takeoff roll (there's a thread about it here and on the FDC forum). Dave March is working on an update to fix this.Is that what you are seeing or are they reducing the system to a crawl before that.All the best,John

A crawl before that John... Actually RCv4 decreases sim performance in general on my system.Thanks...

Hi Dillon,That doesn't sound right. I ran both together and all was fine up to the point where things froze up.You haven't tweaked any 'priority' settings have you. I seem to remember in v3 days some folks experimented with that. They should be left alone with v4 I think.All the best,John

absoulutely. leave priorities aloneif you want to test, start eliminating (disabling) add-ons until the speed comes up. let me know what you findjd

Guys I know nothing about enabling/disabling Priorities (actually I know how use this Windows feature but never have with anything concerning FS). If anything I use 'FS AutoStart' to kill as many background programs as possible.I don't know what it is but I get slower sim performance when using RCv4..."if you want to test, start eliminating (disabling) add-ons until the speed comes up. let me know what you find"Are you talking scenery and aircraft add-on's I have installed??? Nothing is running concerning my FS setup but FS9 and RCv4...

How much is performance being affected?I usually run RC on widefs but double checked running it on my FS machine. On the ground at CYYZ using the Simflyers scenery and lots of ai with the default lear I'm getting 7 to 9 fps without RC and can't see any noticeable difference with RC running.All the best,John

I'm checking into this John...

probably the AdvDisp module. This small item has been hammering me for years. If it is visible on the 2d panel, you will see a hit with the NVIDIA series of cards. On any 3d view, you will crawl. However, in a 2d windowed mode, with the module having the focus, the FPS hit is minimal.I love all his work and am a register user of FSUIPC, but I have always felt that this little module has never quite gotten the attention that it needs.

I always had the same problem with Advdsp window open, really hit myFPS bad in the VC. I neveruse the VC because of that. I wonder if there is a fix for that little window?

So I guess.. i would have to use WideFS and move it to another machine.I can't do without VC.

Hi Manny,Another possibility is to connect a second monitor to your FS machine. I do this in addition to running widefs on a laptop. Means I can have various things displayed on the main FS machine if I want without them sitting on top of my vc. Highly recommended!All the best,John

I'll try that John.I not only have the second monitor, I am also using Maxivista and have a laptop as my third monitor. This way when I run the Eaglesoft's Cirrus, I have the PFD on the laptop screen, I have the MFD on the second 19"touch screen monitor. I have the VC outside view on my main monitor.If moving the RC screen to either of those will not affect performance..then thats all I need.The problem of using my other computer wih Widefs is...1. It does not have any sound (which is not that big a deal, I can fix that), but I don't want to use the keyboard of the second computer. Currently I have configured the CH Throtlle buttons 1-10 for as 1,2,...9 and Ctr-####+/ for RC. I will lose that if I am using a widefs.

Hi Manny,If you use RC on the widefs machine you still control it using the keyboard etc on the FS machine so don't let that put you off. I have some buttons on my CH yoke and some on a GoFlight module configured to send the RC keystrokes and that works fine with RC running on the second machineI definitely recommend running advdisplay on the second monitor.I think any performance issues reported involved with advdisplay are when it is overlayed on another window.Another option is that Advdisplay comes with a little utility called 'showtext' which sends the display to the widefs machine if you want to experiment with that.All the best,John