Benifits of re-installing FS9 ??

[Gary R.]

My FS9 installtion has now been on my PC currently for about six months.

[GunnerMan]

Well some people say having tons of addons will slow the sim down but I think all its going to do is slow down load times, me my FS9 folder is over 10 gigs and imnot seein to much slowdown so I would say no a reinstall wont do much unles syou haveso much extra unused jnk floating around in there...

[the_autopilot]

Reinstalling fs9 is not really nessasary. As long as you have no problems, it should be ok.

A HD defrag would help though.

[Gary R.]

Well, I am having slight problems.  Like display flickers when changing planes or settings.  And occasionally CTD when dragging or resizing a panel window. This all started since I've had my 6600 GT installed.  Actually, I really noticed it after clocking up my 6600GT with riva tuner.  So logically I restored the cards settings back to factory speed but the flickers and periodic CTD didn't go away even after totally un-installing riva.  FS9 is my only app to respond questionably to my vid card upgrade so therefor I am considering a re-installation of FS9 under the new vid card/drivers just to see if it improves.  I would save a few panel configs I created and quite possbly my guage file but everything else gets totally cleaned.

[Gary R.]

Well, I am having slight problems.  Like display flickers when changing planes or settings.  And occasionally CTD when dragging or resizing a panel window. This all started since I've had my 6600 GT installed.  Actually, I really noticed it after clocking up my 6600GT with riva tuner.  So logically I restored the cards settings back to factory speed but the flickers and periodic CTD didn't go away even after totally un-installing riva.  FS9 is my only app to respond questionably to my vid card upgrade so therefor I am considering a re-installation of FS9 under the new vid card/drivers just to see if it improves.  I would save a few panel configs I created and quite possbly my guage file but everything else gets totally cleaned. I am almost OCD about defragging my hard drive and just about all other maintenance items.

[Jared]

have you done anything with the FS9.cfg file since you upgraded cards?

If not it probably still has your old card listed in there as well...

two ways to fix this...

You could go in and physically change it...

Or you could pull the FS9.cfg file out of the folder it's in and start the sim, the sim will do the rest of the work recreating a startup cfg.

Warning though, this does reset all of your display settings and perhaps more in the sim so be sure to back-up the old one in case you're not happy with the results...

typically though I know what my sliders are set for and can reset them fairly quickly...

Also while messing with the cfg file I would recommend resetting the a setting called:

PAN_RATE=400 to the following
PAN_RATE=900

this gives you a much more realistic pan rate in virtual cockpit mode..:-)

As where to find the cfg file be sure that you can view hidden files by changing that setting in the windows explorer options... then do a search for fs9.cfg

if you need actual location do a quick search in the fs2004 forum, I know that this is a highly debated file..;-)

Hope this info helps...

[Gary R.]

Yes, I'll try that.  I can't do  search because once again my windows search is messed up.  I don't know How I do that.  Its probably shut off in msconfig and I can't figure out which service that is because nothing is ever in plain english.  Also, I've been hi-jacked a couple of times by adware search bars.  Since then I've removed them using ad-ware 5 and spybot search and destroy but I still can't get my windows search engine to operate.  I may have to roll back the service backs and put the disk in and repair.  Or maybe rolling back the service packs will return my normal config for windows, I don't know.  I just wish uncle bill would make a less vunerable OS.  Linux isn't vulnerable to this crap.  

[Jared]

Sounds like it is time do back-up important files and do a full reinstall of everything..;-)

[Skligmund]

I do that every 6 months myself.