Pausing in flight simulator

[jakob]

Hi, I recently installed the new upgrade drivers 44.03. I had the 41.09 and they worked good for a while but then my display became bad. I had hard time reading atc on my screen. There was lot of stuttering in graphics so I upgraded to new drivers. The color and graphics are beautiful. How ever I notice that I am getting some pausing in simulator.  I can be fllying and then there is pausing for about a second.  This is happening to much and makes for not having a smooth flight. I tried everthing that I can think of to correct this. Can some one give any tips? Thak you,     jakob
System specs:
1.5
40 GB
512 MB
AMD athalon xp1800
Nvidia Geforce3 Ti200 64Mb
Windows Me

Ps. This may sound stupid: When upgrading drivers, is this just for the graphics or is there an upgrade for the video drivers or is this all the same thing? :-/

[ozzy72]

Jakob the latest drivers may well not work too well with your card, inspite of what nVidia say. I found with my old MX2 that using an earlier set of drivers I got about 5fps more than with the latest.
Also do you have directX 9?
Do a downgrade is my advice.

Ozzy

[Lurch]

jakob,

The latest drivers are actually 44.65 now-perhaps give those a try,but,like Ozzy says,they newer one's aren't specifically for your card.They're made for GeForce 4 & GeForce FX cards.Your best bet is to go back to a 3x.xx driver set.

[congo]

I found the 43.51 driver excellent on my ti4200 card.

As for your stutter, it could be your 1800 cpu trying to cope with sound (onboard sound or a weak soundcard or corrupt sound driver?).

Have you tried re-installing your mainboard AGP driver?

Your P.S. question at top post............................

It's all the same thing.