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Hi i am having a problem when i try and connect to multiplayer servers. What happens is i stay in the game for about a hour then the screen freezes, i have tried another graphic card and it done the same, i have updated all the drivers and tried all diffrent ones. I left the game on last night for 7 hours ( not online ) and it did not freeze at all. When it freezes and i get back to desktop the internet is still connected. Can anyone give me any suggestions ?

ps i have a internet sharing connection network connected, but at times when screen has frozen it has been turned off.

Hello dazraz.it would help alot if you listed your system spec and if you have cable or dial up connection i am shure with a little more information to work with the problem can be solved.and what server are you connecting to?.it sounds more like a connection problem but with little information to go on its just a guess on my part.

Sorry here are my specs :

win xp pro
2700 + amd athlon
adsl 1mb connection

I have just recieved my new modem through the post and am testing it right now, so far it seems to be ok so i hope its the modem, if not ill return here and report again.

The serversi have been conecting to are on fshost

Sounds good so far.ill keep my fingers crossed its a fix.

I done a complete flight on the 45.23 nvidia driver , i have a geforce 4 ti4200, the flight went ok so i then went back to latest driver from nvidia the 56.72 and within 5 minutes it froze again, but i have been getting the freezing on both drivers so i am going to go back to the 45.23 and do some more test flights and will get back to you ?

Nope 2 drivers tested game still freezing im lost what to do now i have tried everything  :-[

Dose it lock up off line?as i am guessing here but i dont think its your video card.if it dosent freez while your off line then its not a video card problem.do you have a firewall enabled?if so disable it long enough to test it online with it off.do you have your resolution set to 800x600x32 this is what microsoft recomends.and have a look in the my documents folder and make shure you have a folder named Flight Simulator Files and make shure its in the my documents folder.if not make a folder and name it Flight Simulator Files.try some of these things and see if any improvement and let me know how it goes.

no it does not lock up offline, i also set it to 800x600 and still locked up. I have all my firewall turned off , so what im going to do is rig up another pc tonight and test that online and see what happens , will get back to you .

ps thanx for helping me !

Update : tried another pc online with game running and it froze within 5 minutes so your guess is as good as mine ?

Yes i think your simulator is just fine.the problem is some where in your cable connection.what i would do is contact the provider and inform them of the troubles and let them trouble shoot the problem.

Ok thankyou for all you advice i will get on to them straight away thanx again  ;D

I to would say it is your connection, I don't know anything about cable but I use dial up and if I try and connect after about 5 minutes I will get disconnected.
I can usally stay connected long enough to download the weather and thats it.
This only happens with FS9, I don't have one of them dial-up connections that will disconnect after a certain amount of time like some IP's will do. In order for me to disconnect from the web I must either do it manually or shut off the computer.
I have been wanting to try and fly multiplayer since I discovered flight simming, but never been able to due to the disconnecting, so I don't know if it is something with FS9 (doubt it because I tried fresh reinstalls many times) or my IP.