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I need some advice about the best settings to use in FS 2004 to enable the program to run smoother, I have tried numerous display settings but things are still very jerky.

CPU                  :   2533 MHz
Bus Speed            :  133 MHz
Motherboard          :  Dell Dimension 8200              
System               :  Dell Dimension 8200              
BIOS                 :  Dell A06
Memory               : 1023 MB
Sound                : SB Live! Wave Device
Video                : NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 128MB
Joystick             : Saitek X36F & X35T
FS9
My Traffic
Ultimate Traffic
A lot of payware aircraft
I have changed my Nvidia PCI Latency to 64, helped a bit but not much. My display is 1024 x 768 32 bit 75 htz refresh rate.

Install the latest drivers from Nvidia - I have a ti4200 - 64 Mb and couldn't get the AA to work properly until I installed the latest drivers.

Don't set all the sliders in FS on the maximum, it will make your system go shaky...  ;)

Try lowering detail in clouds, scenery, etc until you reach acceptable framerates.

Are you running default aircraft, if you are then you should be able to max out. I heard something about NVIDIA and how they are pretty bad graphics cards.   You may want to look into buying a new graphics card

Thanks for the advice guys, looks like a new graphics card is needed. Can anyone recommend a program that will optomize fs9 ?.

Your BUS of 133 is the bottle neck. Good luck Sorry that this isn't much help.

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Your using two AI traffic programs? I don't know, but I think one would override the other. Adding more traffic certianly causes slow downs.

I don't know of a program that will "optimize" FS2004. And I don't think you need a new graphics card.

[quote]Are you running default aircraft, if you are then you should be able to max out. I heard something about NVIDIA and how they are pretty bad graphics cards.

NVIDIA doesn't make graphics cards.

with these specs, you should be able to bring up the settings fairly high, but not in all sceneries - there are areas like Heathrow that are incredibly heavy on processor and graphics

if you

Thanks for all the advice guys, things are running a lot smoother now, removing AI traffic gives the biggest frame rate boost on my system. One final question, would running my flight sim on a seperate drive make any difference ?.