Touch down pauses

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In 2004 and now its doing it in 2002 when I approach to land I am getting frame rates around 22 fps, but as soon as the wheels touch it drops to 5 fps. Sometime it is worse then that and there is about a 3 second pause between each frame for about 5 or 6 frames. On take off it shows about 5-8 fps untill about half way down the runway and then it jumps to 22 or 24 and runs smooth. 2oo2 never used to do that but since I have had my computer upgrade both 2004 and 2002 are doing it. It doesn't seem to matter what airplane I put in or how I change the display settings. Anyone got any ideas what I am doing wrong or what settings I should have to stop this.
My compter is a Pentium 4  CPU 3.2Ghz overclocked 10% to 3.5 Ghz
1GB of Ram
Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT  256MG

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[JBaymore]

pickup,

Did you add in any new AI planes?

If you added in a "bad" model or a very complex model and it is suddenly "in range" on the ground .... then that can KILL framerates until you can't "see" it in the field of view.

best,

.................john

[garymbuska]

If this does this at any airport then something else is the problem. But JBAYMORE is correct some ai aircraft can take a real hard hit on frame rates.
A good test would be to move all AI traffic folders to a different folder out of fs2004 or FS2002 then try to land again at the same air port if the problem goes away then you have to figure out which AI plan is giving you the problem.
Or just turn off all ai by pusing the slider to 0%

[pickup]

Thankyou for your help on this. Yes I did put a bunch of A1 aircraft in 2004 but nothing in 2002. I will remove all the A1 aircraft out of 2004 and try that.I will get back here later today and let you know if it worked.
Thanks again
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[jordonj]

It also depends on what you are flying...the new beechcraft voplar kills framerates on my machine (while the LET...my last benchmark plane, runs quite smoothly).

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I removed all the A1 aircraft and GA aircraft traffic generator. Still the same thing. When I land on a aircraft carrier its really bad, like one frame about every 3 seconds. Landing at any airport with any kind of plane I have, does the same thing. From touch down to about 1/2 way down the runway it goes from 5fps at touchdown to 22-24 fps. Takeoff is still the same about 1 fps till about 1/2 way down and then it goes to 22- 24. I guess it must be something else I've done.

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