SurClaro Flight Simulator Resources

Last edited by JKL on Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:48 pm; edited 4 times in total

Problem Solved: I unplugged my Thrustmater game controller so that my Logitech joystick was the only controller plugged in. Game seems to working fine.

I just installed FS2004. I started by running Getting Started, Introductory Flight, Fly Now.

Release the brakes, push the throttle to MAX and… it acts like it gets one CPU cycle every 10 seconds or something. It seems to run, but VERY VERY slowly. Push the throttle to MAX and you hear the engine rev a notch, and then 10 seconds later, you hear it rev up another notch - at the same time, the display advances 1 frame. Literally after 1 minute the plane moves about 10 yards down the runway. I exited the Introductory Flight and tried other flights with the same results.

Shift+Z twice: Frames/Sec = 001.8 (Locked at 25FPS)

I’m running XP Pro on a healthy Dell XPS (P4 3.2GHz w/HT, 2GB RAM, 256MB Radeon 9800 XT, Serial ATA RAID 0 with Dual 250GB Drives)

Two features of my setup that may not be that common (not sure):
• CPU: Prescott-based P4 with Hyper-Threading - 6K of L1 data cache (up from 8K in Northwood), 1MB of L2 cache (up from 512K), and L3 new SSE3 instructions “that help multimedia tasks.”
• Hard Drive: Serial ATA Raid 0 with Dual 250GB Hard Drives

McAfee, Ad-Aware, Microsoft AntiSpyware and HijackThis report system clean.

Other games that work: Doom 3 Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942, Far Cry and GTA Vice City run fine.

I’ve tried:
1. “Using a Clean Boot Procedure” .
2. Applied the 9.1 patch
3. Setting global scenery to minimum
4. Various display resolutions
5. Adjusting target frame rate to unlimited.
6. Reduced Hardware acceleration on my Video Adapter
7. Verified my Direct X
8. Setting sound to low
9. By passing sound card “Do not use audio features..." and "Do not map through..."
10. Running FS in FS Safe Mode

Any suggestions?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:56 am Post subject:

Are you running anti-virus/spyware/adware programs? If not...get them and run them in safe mode...also get HijackThis and perform a scan. Try that and post back if you still have problems...

Exx

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:09 am Post subject:

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:14 am Post subject:

Would you mind sending me a HijackThis log? That is really too weird.

Exx

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:26 am Post subject:

Here you go. Thanks for your help.

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:58 am Post subject:

One more bit of info.

When running the introductory flight, I did Shift+Z twice and got:
Frames/Sec = 001.8 (Locked at 25FPS)

This was using the clean boot procedure with FS2004 display settings reset to default.

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:46 am Post subject:

lol 1.8 fps... sounds like someone else I know... *innocent look*

*sigh* Sad

Im a livin joke..

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject:

Your log is clean bud...thanks for putting it up and ya..it's okay to do so. Good job on providing as much info as you can on your system too. It helps. What other games you running that are okay besides what you mentioned?

Man...you gotta a good one. Have you just one HDD or two or more? Maybe try installing FS on a different drive...it should be anyways. Maybe your drive isn't reading it efficiently? You should be getting at least 40-60FPS with your system...easy.

Going to research this some more for ya...hang in there okay?

Rana...if you read this...any ideas?

Exxman

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject:

Have you tried the safe mode for FS it's self? The one under troubleshooting

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject:

MORE INFO:

Hard Drive: Serial ATA RAID 0 with Dual 250GB Drives (of course I see these as one drive and that is my only hard drive)

Other games that work: In addition to Doom 3 and Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942, Far Cry and GTA Vice City run fine.

I tried setting the sound to Low and then tried by-passing the sound:
o "Do not use audio features..."
o "Do not map through..."

I haven't figured out yet how to run FS in safe mode.

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject:

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:38 pm Post subject:

Even more info:
Two features of my setup that may not be that common (not sure):
• CPU: Prescott-based P4 with Hyper-Threading - 6K of L1 data cache (up from 8K in Northwood), 1MB of L2 cache (up from 512K), and L3 new SSE3 instructions “that help multimedia tasks.”
• Hard Drive: Serial ATA Raid 0 with Dual 250GB Hard Drives

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: Problem Solved

Problem Solved:

I unplugged my Thrustmaster game controller so that my Logitech joystick was the only controller plugged in. Game seems to be working fine now.

Thanks for your help gang.