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NOW,i can got to default airport in seattle..with frame rate at 30s an 40s..which is awesome i think,an have most everything turned up...an for example,,maybe 30 min later i can start flightsim at same place with no different settings,,an my frame rate might 6 from anywhere to 14,,an the cpu usage is good..nothing running in the back ground.an i have tried several diff video (omega an ati)drivers,,Now im running the latest cat driver 6.9,an i know that heating is not the problem,i have a external turban blowing on it at all times,the problem is even there on a cold start at times ..here are my system specs..anyone's help would be deeply appreciated...thanks..Steve


Processor AMD Athlon

Wild guess only, computers aren't my thing. But possibly Seattle isn't a good choice as your default airport.

There are some airports where FS9 makes a special effort on scenery.  Seattle is one of them; others are Heathrow, CDG, SFO, Reagan National in DC, and so on.

When you fly into them the scenery is marvellous - but you have to put up with the fact that, particularly in cloudy weather, however fast your 'puter is, the frame-rate can occasionally drop to 'crisis' levels!

I reckon that if you set some more ordinary place as your default airport, the problem will go away.

Hope that helps.

FS9  has what M$ calls high detail airports which means they went to a lot of trouble in designing and displaying them. Basicly it is all of the major hubs that the airlines use such as atlanta seattle and others. So any time you go to these airports it is going to take a hard hit on frame rates you add bad weather and a detailed aircraft and it can really hit you hard. It is at these air ports where you really find out how good of a system you have. if you can have descent frame rates here than you have nothing to worry about unless you add scenery like mega scenery which can effect a big area or just a city like Mega city New York. These software proudcts can really put your system through there paces

guys i really appreciate the relpies,but no matter what airport i go to ,,still the same problem,,at times it has awesome frame rates,,no matter what airport i go too ,,an sometimes they are very low,,resorces are good at all times an nothing running in the background,,more replies on this will be deeply appreciated,,on this one ..i'm pulling my hair out,,thanks a million....Steve

Do you have any kind of anti spyware programmes installed?
Spyware can cause what you are descriping.

How high did you set your AI traffic? Remember that your AI traffic is following a flightplan. One moment it is very quiet at an airport and your framerate goes up, other times your framerate drops like a brick when there is a lot of traffic.

Just an idea.

Crash

Steve,

Forst off.... welcome to SimV.

This once again sounds like it might be the known version 9.0 autogen memory leak issue, I think.

Install the 9.1 patch. Renember to run it from inside the fs9 directory

first of all i would like to thank JBaymore for the warm welcome to simv,,an thanks to everyone that replied to my problems with fs9,yes..ad-aware pro was the problem,,an thanks soo much for the info Theis,hope to be able help some of you in the near future,,happy flying to all,,thanks again,,,Steve