Question & Problem

[GreG]

Hi guys,

I have a question about something, and a problem with my flightsim.  The question to start off is, is there a way to be able to see the aircraft's shadow from the virtual cockpit?  What I mean is, as you well know, the meljet 747, and 777's, and the Posky 747, all have wing views, is there a way to see the plane's shadow from that view, underneath the wing?  It would definately improve the realism, it doesn't look great with just the wing, and no shadow.

The problem is, I am getting such bloody useless framerates!  They've bearly increased since I got a 64Mb graphics card and 576Mb Ram, surely they should have increased by at least 10???  I mean it's crap, cause I am using the lowest resolution, and The only setting I have on half is terrain texture size and scenery complexity, and all the other setting are off, and with the meljet 747, I'm still only getting 10fps from the cockpit, and around 3 from spot.  The traffic is also off.  Please, I hope someone can help me with this problem.

Thanks a lot.
Greg

[BFMF]

Did you not upgrade your CPU?

[codered]

I have heard many things.  Video cards are one thing, RAM is another, then there is the issue of proccessing power, plus what OS you are using.  I have heard that XP and FS2002 don't get along that well.  I have the GF 128mb card and I am getting okay frame rates.

Have you tried using older drivers.  For example I have found the using the Nvidia 29.42's work the best for me.  That is if you are using an Nvidia card.  I only know of a handful of people that are running FS2002 with all sliders maxed and every option turned on.  As for the rest of us I have turned off the scenery and aircraft shadows, terrain at 80, textures maxed, scenery on dense for all, water on just detailed, blah blah blah.

[GreG]

I'm planning on doing that soon, I can't now cause it's to expensive where I live, waiting for someone to bring it from outside the county.  But I changed from 128Mb Ram to 576Mb Ram, and I got a 64Mb Graphics card, whereas I never had a graphics card, and my frames have improved by about 3-5!  And the textures still blur, come on man, surely, the textures shouldn't blur, with that much memory?  And also when I run replay in the flight sim, say I go back 60 seconds, it jerks, then when finished I go back 60 seconds agains but from another view, and instead of going back 60 seconds, it says 60 but only goes back to about 30 when I'm already on the tarmack, and it jerks until the times up.  Is this happening to anyone else??

By the way, I'm using Win XP Prof.

Greg

[FSTipster]

[quote]I'm planning on doing that soon, I can't now cause it's to expensive where I live, waiting for someone to bring it from outside the county.

[GreG]

Well, I can't even get my cpu to 25 frames, 15 at best!  That's from the cockpit, 3 at best from spot or tower view!  I just don't understand, I have direct x 9.0, the latest driver for my geforce 4 64Mb card, and people have said that they have gotten better frames with just one or the other, I have both and it hasn't made the slightest difference.  I know I can't get a lot of frames, but I should at least get smooth frames, and not jerking!  You know in the graphics card driver settings, you can change the amount of memory the graphics card can use from you ram, I changed it from 71 to 286Mb, the largest amount it can use because of other used memory on my system, then when ever I reset my computer or something afterwards, and then go into the flight sim, it's running in safe mode, not windows, the flightsim itself, in other words I can't use hardware acceleration for some odd reason, then I have to go and change the bloody settings back from 286 to 71Mb, then reset the computer again, and then it'll be back to normal, does anyone know what could be the problem??  By the way I have a SiS 630E display driver that cannot start for some reason that I cannot answer, do you think that is the problem??  I'm upset cause everything runs pretty smoothly when I have the settings set to 286Mb, then I reset my computer and you know what happens.

Thanks a lot.
Greg

[FSTipster]

By the way I have a SiS 630E display driver that cannot start for some reason that I cannot answer, do you think that is the problem??

OH YEAH!  ;D
Unless I'm very much mistaken, you have an onboard graphics chip on your motherboard.

One of two things is happening here:

Either it hasn't been disabled (check in your BIOS settings-assuming it's not an old BIOS chip, you'll have a setting to disable it)

or

It's been disabled but the driver hasn't been removed.

Check the BIOS first. If it's not disabled, disable it. Then remove the driver for it in device manager (Right click and remove).

You'd also be best removing your proper graphics card driver and re-installing it.

[GreG]

Sorry about the double post, I can never tell if it has posted or not since it's so slow!

I'll try that, but I didn't install the SiS driver in the first place, my computer guy did, when he put win XP on my computer.  What I was wondering was, are they the same thing, the SiS and the geforce drivers??  Oh, and yes I disabled it the other day since it couldn't start anyway.

Greg

P.S.  Thanks for the fast reply!

[FSTipster]

Sounds like the chip may not be on your board then - you need to get a different computer guy if so LOL.

Check the BIOS - make sure there's no entry for disabling on-board graphics to be sure.