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So today I was landing at KMIA and all of a sudden the game started acting really crappy... like it was REALLY slow and would pause a lot... I dunno what it was so I started another flight and same thing happened... over and over... it would be fine and then start pausing up again... it would do that the whole way through... Have any of you experienced this?? If anyone has please help me out because the game became really crappy... THANK YOU!!!

I'll write em down:
Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz
2.39 GHz
512 MB of RAM

Thanks for helping

What kind of 3d card do you have?

I have no idea... but today I started a flight from Arturo Merino (Santiago, Chile) and it ran smoothly... I'm thinking it happens only when I'm in highly dense areas... like Miami, NYC, Heathrow, and other dense sceneries... which kinda sucks... but if you can offer any solutions then that would be great... thanks

Maybe turn down the display settings, if you don't have a good video card buy you max at out all the settings, then it may slow down.


And to find out what kind og video/cd card you have........

the easiest way to do it is by going to start->run-> type dxdiag
click "yes" if a box comes up asking you a question, then go to the "display" tab. Your card should be listed next to "name"


if you can't figure that out you can

go to display propeties - by either going to "control panel and clicking on display, or right click on the desktop and select "properties"

once the Display Properties is open, click on the "settings" tab. What kind of card it is should be displayed on where it says "Display"


Hope that all makes sense

ok... thanks for the help... the name of my 3d card is MOBILITY RADEON by ATI if it helps any...

Are you on a laptop?

In FS2002 and FS2004 the performance in south Florida is worse than it is anywhere else in the world considering the terrain and scenery density. MS really did a poor job in Fl...

They did a pretty poor job in France too - frame rates really drop there. I have to turn off real-world weather to get anything smooth. As soon as I hit the Spanish border, everything's fine.

Hi all....First time in this forum for me. I can tell you from the last few days of playing with FS2002 on a PIII 550, 192 m ram, radeon 7000, that you can have a blast with 1024 x 768  scenery and fairly dense options for buildings and cities, etc, until you start importing some of those gloriously rendered fantasy vehicles! The Millenium Falcon makes me drool but I have spent 3 or 4 days now, endlessly fooling with settings in order to reach a suitable balance of features and performance. I have somehow managed to obtain decent results with my radeon 7000 64 meg agp card although I did expect more of an improvement! I kept the global aircraft quality medium. I can't abide 800 x 600 so 1024 x 768 x 32 it is. Get rid of multi texturing and keep mip mapping and anti- aliasing. These last 2 seem to keep the aircraft looking nice without having their quality and texture size set so high. And, believe it or not, somehow mip- mapping seems to provide the prettiest improvement to scenery and aircraft without too much framerate loss, or even a perception of framerate improvement due to the way everything is just smoother or more solidly rendered around the edges. I think. I know that sounds like anti-aliasing but that mip map feature makes a huge difference in overall quality when it's on. There are tutorials to download or read on the net on flight sim performance. The best suggestion is to get into settings and experiment. I have almost as much fun tweaking the program as I do flying around.  

Restarting your pc sometimes helps, no? Emptying out the RAM on a restart will often clean up performance. Good luck.

Try shutting down all uneccesary proceeses using the task manager.

or...

Have you got any anti-spyware running on your computer- all my games had crap frame rates until i installed some- the spyware really slows your computer down.

Theres a free anti spyware download at
http://www.lavasoft.com

daz

Good point, daz1. I use AdAware (the free Lavasoft program) regularly to make sure there is no spyware ruynning.

I also use the Firefox browser instead of IE, as IE allows the spyware to download whereas Firefox doesn't. So AdAware hasn't had any work to do since I changed over a couple of months ago.

Just a thought.

adaware is crap, download Spyware Doctor. It beats adaware and spybot S&D. Spyware Doctor found 400 infections the first time I ran it right after running those other two programs. http://www.download.com/Spyware-Doctor/ ... 77263.html