ATC Speed

[SparrowHawk]

I've been having this problem on and off for about 6 months now and it's got me baffled. When listening to ATIS for instance, the voice gets through only part of the weather situation and starts over - it never finishes the information. When asking for IFR clearance, the controller only reads about 10 words and moves on to another plane. Then immediately begins to badger me about hearing his last response. Before I can do anything, he's asked 3 times and my flight plan is cancelled. The same thing is true on other plane readbacks. I should also mention that when viewing text, it scrolls across at a VERY fast rate which seems to coincide with the voice beginning again.

In an effort to fix this, I've upgraded my sound drivers. I changed my card from the onboard sound to a SB Live ... and an Audigy. Updated the drivers to the latest. I've made sure all my drivers were updated but it made no difference. So I uninstalled FS9, went through the registry and removed all references I could find, deleted files from my hard drive, rebooted and reinstalled. Same thing. I've tried not showing the ATC text, showing it, slowed down the video drivers, set all options back to defaults .. no effect.

Has anyone got any ideas??? The system is an AMD4200, 2GB RAM, XP Home, 250GB HDD, SBLive, Nvidia 6800/256MB, FS9 with the 9.1 patch. :-/

Thanks,
Ken

[garymbuska]

Usually this is a result of using faster than normal speeds Try this with FS running click anyplace on the screen then press the "R" key then press the "-" or "+" key this speeds up or slows down the rate of playback if you look up in the top left hand corner you should see the number 2X if you see 4X or higher than you were using a faster rate.
If this is not the case I dont have a clew. :-/

[SparrowHawk]

Thanks for the try ... simulation rate is normal.

[ozzy72]

Older games are not setup for multiple core processors. This is what causes this, my friend had exactly the same problem with a Harry Potter game on his laptop. There isn't much you can do really as there isn't a fix that I'm aware of. You could try the MS Forums as they might have a patch or advice on what to do...

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Ozzy

[SparrowHawk]

Thanks Ozzy ... it's odd that I've had many months of decent performance with this machine but then, all of a sudden, it decides to act oddly with the sound. Maybe the motherboard/chipset drivers have been updated - worth looking into anyway. If not, I suppose FS10 is the solution ...

Thanks,
Ken

[ozzy72]

My friend had exactly the same thing, for a week he had no problems then Ron, Harry and Hermione started talking at the same time. He said he understood why I hated teaching
I'm beginning to wonder if it is a case of when a driver gets updated the original configuration at installation gets messed up or doesn't sort itself out. I'm researching this as it is a fascinating problem and I'd like to be the clever bloke that solves it 8-) Then collect my Nobel Prize for Extreme Cleverness, my sainthood (for services to computer users) and of course a knighthood (I just want this one to annoy my family)