Frame Rate Dropping

[Snoozy90]

On some,but not all of my planes, as I begin at the default view of 2D panel, the frame rate is 2.9- 4 fps. The outside view or the virtual pilot view are all at the set rate of 25 fps. I have a new Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 just installed and working well as well as 1 gig of Ram on an Athlon 64 3200+. I've tried everything I can think of. Please help smooth out my flights. Thanks

[Kaworu]

That's weird. Give us an example as to what planes are causing you trouble.

Got that sinking feeling? I do to.  ;)

[Snoozy90]

The new Lear 60, The Tobago 10, and both Aero Commanders. The Baron turbos both run great as well as the Embraer 120s. The default planes don't seem to have any problem. Humm. Thanks.

[ashaman]

I'll begin with the age old suggestion when weird things happen of this sort. Has this begun suddenly or always behaved like this? What videocard drivers are you using? With the Gefo5500, using the last version is not always a good idea, but your actual driver version could be either too old or even too new and not really good for the hardware you have. Try looking around on the net, on the various tweak sites, for the driver version that grants the major performance on the 5500.

[FSFLYER2]

MY drivers for the FX5500 are V93.81 downloaded in recent weeks. I have vg fps

[ashaman]

"vg fps"? What's that? :-?

Anyway, as already stated, you might be using too new drivers for your hardware.

Before trying to roll back though, I'd suggest you to control and perhaps throttle down the quality settings in the control center of your drivers. Give a good control to the background processes your PC is running. Try shutting down the firewall (if you fly off-line, if you're connected while flying leave it on) and the antivirus (that is redundant if you don't browse, download or use the mailer [and usually, using FS you do none of said things]). Shut down messengers and all those pesky resource hungry applets so popular nowadays. And for last, try downloading FSAutoStart and use it to clean the memory and CPU of useless processes when using FS.

If none of the suggestion above work, then try rolling back to a previous video driver.

[therealzebraman]

It's the planes most probably. They are more detailed (I'm guessing anyway) then the default ones in FS9 therefore lower framerates. I can run default planes max settings easy days, but a very detailed plane (payware for example) will bring the framerate down to about 30fps under 3000 odd feet and in a detailed area. All I can say is fly the plane in a desert or somewhere at least less densly populated or upgrade.

[FSFLYER2]

vg fps very good, frames per second. Keep it short and sweet, ta