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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject: Running of FS on my PC

Hi gus i was just wondering if you could help me with something..

When i Run FS - i have the Display settings to Very Dense... the only thing i dont have high is watter Effects
Anyway FS runs smoothly when my Aircraft is Static on the Ground, or when the Plane is in the Air - and to be honest it usually runs reasonably Smooth if im in Cockpit view.. however If i want to change my cockpit view eg look left, or if i switch to Spot Plane View to take a screenshot, my FS sticks for about 5-10 seconds to load up.. and then runs smoothly again... as i am a IVAO member who flies online, its not really very realistic if i stick in mid air for a couple of seconds..

I feel the General Running of my FS could be alot more smoother/better etc..
Short of Buying more RAM / better Video Cards... which is what i aim to do in the long term... are there any Shorterm Things i Could do in order to increase the general running of FS and i suppose my whole PC in General?

Ill give you my Computer Specs just so u know what ive got etc.. nothing special really but im sure it should handle the High Scenery..

512MB RAM
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
2.08GHz
48X CD-RW
60 GB Disk Space
Geforce 4 MX 44OSE DDR

Regards
Sam

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject:

well, for starters, set Your settings lower. There is no possible way of making Your computer faster than when it was brand new (exept for overclocking, but that's a whole other deal). If You think Your computer runs slower than it has done then run Ad-aware or something like that and defragment etc. If that does not help, reinstall windows. So the only possible thing to do right now is to lower Your settings...

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:10 am Post subject: I wouldnt...

I wouldnt do a Windows reinstall, but definitely clean it up, remove junk and temp files, clean out your cache. Make sure you have enough memory cached. Close off some of the background stuff when running FS. Shorten the view distances a bit in the settings. You can reduce some of the scenery settings without killing the visuals, especially if you run a little lower resolution. It really takes some experimentation as each system is a little different.

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:24 am Post subject:

Hi Milesy,

I reckon the time is taking to load up the new textures...

suggestion 1: reduce global texture size

suggestion 2: in FS9.cfg there is a setting under [DISPLAY] called TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT. This defines how fast texture would be loaded to video memory.. with 256MB Video card I would suggest a value of 400 (for 128MB card set it to 200).. this should speed up the texture loading.

suggestion 3: defrag

finally are you using extended textures?

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:32 am Post subject:

That MX card is very, very slow. With that CPU the card is definitely the bottleneck as well. Check out the thread in our FS2004 forum under the topic ' Tips and Tweaks '. That should help you out as well. Yeah, don't reinstall Xp. You don't get a triple bypass done when you have the flu do ya? Wink

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