Addon Overload?

[Hussein Patwa]

Hello.  I hope this is the right place for thisa and would appreciate some advice.

I recently installed a whole bunch of addons and now my FlightSim is sluggish to say the least.  It sits on the loading screen for about 2-3 minutes before showing the main screen.  The ATC voice is really crackly, which it never was before.

I have installed about 6 'Professional' aircraft, including the 3 big PMDG ones (big mistakes as they don't have tooltips) and the Level-D 767, both Zinertek products, and some others like FSBuild (Great App), Just Traffic 2005 (also good), Flight Keeper and a couple others and the UK2000 Scenery package.

What should I do to make things right again whilst keeping the great addons I have?  I have a pretty fast computer in my opinion so that can't be it, and I recently upgraded the RAM to 1GB.  I could turn down some of the display settings in Flight Simulator itself, as they're all on 100% at the moment, but other help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Hussein.

[MWISimmer]

Hello Hussein.
I don't think there's such a thing as Addon overload my friend...ask anybody here!  ;D
Check out this thread from the hardware forum:
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=hardw;action=display;num=1139514054
Read Nick N's 2nd post... whilst it deals with stutters in the Sim it might help you with some of your issues.
Also a defrag and a clean up of temporary files may help.
Good luck
Rob.

[congo]

You can turn scenery addons off in the scenery library, add them back in in blocks of ten and narrow down the problem addons.

Conflicts are quite possible.

[Hussein Patwa]

Can never have an addon overload? LOL  

I tried the virtual memory tweak, the others didn't really apply as I have an nvidia graphics card, or already have them implemented.  I have disabled the 3D graphics acceleration as it plays havoc with my screen magnifier, but in my defence have never had trouble with it before in 'normal' flightsim use.  I'm going to look at the latency thing, when I can get someone to help me read the BIOS (damn why couldn't they make either speech friendly BIOS' or have these settings somehow changeable within windows?)

Thanks a lot guys.  BTW will look at the scenery library when I get back this afternoon.

Hussein.

[congo]

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[Hussein Patwa]

I got it.  I disabled the 3D graphics but kept the graphics acceleration, the magnifier works ok now.  I removed flight keeper and that seems to have made things faster.  I also found out why my ATC voices had changed, one of my addons installed regional voices, and my pilot had bee muted so that's fixed.  All's well now and the graphics are great.

Hussein.