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Postby EricK » Fri Jun 06, 2003 11:52 pm

Hi there,
Yesterday I upgraded my ram. It was 128, added 256k. When I got home and started using FS2002 expecting better performance, I got it. Overall everything is smoother and no lock ups, etc. Only problem is that I have noticed, what looks like heat haze on all of the scenery. Walls are wobbly, building below seem to flicker and blink and the ground seems sort of jittery. If anyone has any suggestions, it would be much appreciated. HELP
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Re: small problem need help

Postby darkhorse » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:55 am

I noticed that too.  When on the runway parked, it looks like the runway jumps back and forth.  I have increased my ram from 128 to 384 too, but not sure if it was happening before the upgrade.  I just thought it was part of the game.  Kind of like the clouds in the mountains where you see "streaks" of the mountain in the cloud when you shouldn't.  While I'm in the air, I haven't noticed the ground jumping around.
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Re: small problem need help

Postby ATI_7500 » Sun Jun 08, 2003 3:36 am

it seems to be either a scenery issue,or an graphics issue...but i can't imagine such failures after upgrading the ram...
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Re: small problem need help

Postby A_and_P » Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:57 am

When up grading ram you need to make sure the ram is the sam mfg, part number and nano seconds. If at all possible I always by new ram out of the same box. In other words if I have 512 megs on 2 sticks and I wanted to up grade to 1 gig=1024meg of ram. I purchase the 1 gig= 1024 megs on 4 sticks.

The reason for this is the speed. you can have same mfg, part number and diffrent nano seconds This can create problems.

In other words if you ran 2 sticks of ram at 35 nano seconds. 2 sticks at 45 nano seconds.

Problems this could create. All the properties of file folders could and would or part of them would change.

Example if you saved a word file Merry had a little lamb.

You may not be able to deleate this file. Or if you changed it to read, Marry lost all her lambs. It would revert back to the original Merry had a little lamb.

What happens is the Ram is running at two diffrent speeds try to count binary and the numerical numbers are corrupted. This creates like a black hole within the operating system, bios etc. The windows operating system tries to work around the black hole, a computer runs from a bianary sytem, the bianarys get spread out because they are processing at two digffrent speeds. Then it has to change files etc to do the work around within the bianary system.

All computers work on a bianary system. That is the way they count. See example below.

You need to check and make sure what nano seconds the cpu and m/board can handel. 35 nano seconds is faster than 45 nano seconds.

Decimal Hex Binary Hex Binary Decimal Hex Binary
0             0     0        14     E       28         1C   11100
1             1     1        15     F       1111      1D   11101

In other words 1111 =

1 group of 8 = 8
1 group of 4 = 4
1 group of 2 = 2
1 single = 1

Total = 15 (decimals)

therefore , 1111 (binary = 15 (decimals) = F (hex)

F is the largest numerical in the hex number system and it takes 4 bits to write the largest hex numeral F.

So every hex number:

0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,and F is converted to a 4-bit binary number.

the computer has to convert the F8 to binary you would do the following.

F=11111, and 8 = 1000

Therefore F8= 11111000 written 11111 000

To convert hex 9A to binary

9 = 1001, and a = 1010

9A = 1001 1010

so 101110 to hex first group the bits in groups of 4, start at the right move left, add zeros as necessary.

0010 1110

then you have to convert each group of 4 bits in binary to a single hex numerical numeral: 0010 = 2
and 1110 = E.

The Hex numnber is 2E

So when you are talking about 45 frames per second and processing time this is what your computer is doing using a binary system hex system.

ALL COMPUTERS OR ANY HARDWARE ITEM THAT PROCESS INFORMATION USES THIS SYSTEM.

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Re: small problem need help

Postby visitor » Tue Jul 01, 2003 1:09 am

A and P;

A few days ago I was Flying a Camel, and
change to a Zero in midflight, Don't ask why,
please, But the Next time I was going to fly the
Camel, It has a Zero panel! I had just stuck
an old 256 card I found in a box of stuff in my
computor! Did this cause the switch??
I thought I was going Ozzy crazy or something !!!

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