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HelloI think I will go yo x64 for my next new rigjust a few questions- directx? is it applicable to x64?- are the sofwares working with NET Framework under XP (EditVoicepack, ACA2005, AITMv2...) running under x64 and is x64 needing some NET Framework installation?And has someone found an addon not working?Thnaks for your helpG. Viguie

I upgraded my video card from and ATI Radeon 9800pro to a Nvidia Gforce 6800GT, the problem is that now if I turn the runway lights on at night the runway looks green, I use FE and the clouds looks like if there where painted, I have change the drivers for old ones but it does not help.Please help me!!Best regardsRicardo Zaldivar

I had and ATI RADEON 9800pro and upgraded to a Nvidia Gforce 6800GT,after that if I turn the runway lights at night the runway gets a green color, I have FE and the clouds loks like painted, I have change the drivers for older ones the ones with a 66 entry, and it looks the same.Please help me.Ricardo Zaldivar

Hi All, A little advice if someone has the time please.I am using the "onboard" sound for my system. (nVidia 6800 LE 128Mg) Will this adversly affect the smooth running of FS9? My local computer shop suggested there would be little to gain from a separate sound card and I've been happy to accept that (on the grounds that they could have just sold me one and taken my money :0) ) However speaking to a friend recently he suggested that using onboard sound (although it seems to work well) would detract from smooth running of the system. I'd be greatful for any advice. (In reasonably simple terms please - as I'm yet to understand computers too well - although I'm trying :-) …

Hi there,just recently I've been getting some very drastic performance decreases in FS9. Usually I get pretty stable 27 - 30 FPS with sliders almost max with the exeption of AI.Long story short. Now I get 10 - 15, sometimes going down to 4 -7. I did my first uninstall of MSFS in years, checked for viruses (avast latest def. file) and ran spybot to see whats going on - nothing found. I run from a clean boot and even fsautostart didn't make a change. What's bothering me is that with default Cessna I get good performance but as soon as I load Level-D or Aeroworx I get the drastic decrease. Sometimes changing from bilinear to trilinear helps but only for a few seconds.BTW, I'…

Just upgraded to 1GB on board memory from 512, and got a Nvidia 6200 (6800?) card for

What is the effect of using a card which only supports Directx8.1 ( Geforce4 TI 4200) when FS2004 requires Directx9?Thanks for any adviceBarry

What the best option. Tighting the DDR Ram timing or increasing the FSB? If I set my DDR at 2.0 (rather than 2.5) I can increase the FSB to only 205mhz before "crash" If I reduce the DDR to 2.5 I can increase the FSB to 220mhz. Any thoughts?Regards,Andrew.

what's performance difference can you see with different latencies? I currently have a setup of:(2) 256mb pc3200 at CAS 3.0(2) corsair valueselect 512mb pc3200 at CAS 2.5recently i've hear of 2-2-2-5 or something like thatand overclocking memory? how is that all done?

Gents,My system specs are posted below.I am planning an upgrade to be up to date with current hardware available on the market.I do not really have any spending limit (would stay out of Cray though if possible) but would like to replace my key components with the ones allowing me to enjoy the FS to its fullest.I will be truly grateful for hints on what to look for to do a comprehensive upgrade of my system.Thanks a lot in advance,Dom

ehehe, I've been building this computer since last November...eheh,AMD 3400, 512 Corsair ram, 2 Raptors in Raid 0. Now I'm considering video options and would appreciate advice and opinions.My budget at the moment is 150.00. I am looking at the 6600GT and the 6800. Both cards are available in the price range.1st Question> Which one?2nd question> I plan to use at least 2 monitors as I am now. 1 for guages and Flightkeeper type displays, the other for the main view. I think either of those two cards will do nicely in this application.But I am also building a Simpit and it cries out for 3 monitors. What is you guys opinions of adding an inexpensive PCI card for a 3rd m…

Current system spec'sAMD Athlon 64 FX55 "San Diego" 2.6 GhzNvidia Geforce 7800 GTX 256Mb GDDR3 (Latest non BETA Drivers)2Gb Patriot XBLK PC3200 2-2-2-5 2T200GB Seagate Barrcuda 7200.8 SATAASUS A8N SLi Deluxe BIOS Rev 1011Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZSWindows XP Service Pack 2 (I am not on the internet at home so i have none of the hotfixes and updates :( )I am used to being able to play Doom 3 @ 1280x1024 and Battlefield 2 with 1280x960 both with 4x AA and 4x AF however i have to run FS9 in 1024x768 with only reasonable graphics settings.Can some one please tell me how to optimize my performance in FS9 by all rights my rig should eat this game for breakfast. I dont currently h…

I have recently finished upgrading my PC as it was getting a little old, I use it for many things including FS2004...I started by putting 1 Gig of RAM in there, and then added a Geforce 6600 256MB AGP video card. With an Intel Pentium 4 2GHz Northwood that was already in there i was getting good frame rates (minimum of around 20FPS)I am using add-on planes from iFDG and scenery like ISD's italian airports - I think this is pretty good performance with just a 2Ghz chip.But now i've added a Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Prescott (and motherboard)So what performance can i expect with this set up now? I dont know yet as i have yet to re-install windows XP (microsoft consider new mot…

The Dell PC that I'm using as my main FS system came with this card:ATI Radeon X800SE (a.k.a. dumbed-down X800 card) - 425mHz graphics processor 128Mb 800mHz SDDR RAM 256 bit memory bus 8 pixel pipelines 6 vertex processors PCI-Express interfaceWhen I originally bought this system last year, new in the box but from an individual, I planned to immediately upgrade the video card. But, after playing FS9, Doom3, and Half Life 2 on it, I decided that it wasn't such a bad card after all so I've been "living with it" for quite a while. It's actually held up pretty well for being a purpose-built OEM variation on the X800 line.Lately, though, I've been wondering whether a &…

Just upgraded to 1GB on board memory from 512, and got a Nvidia 6200 (6800?) card for

I am currently running 1G Geil DDR500 PC400 RAM on a high end system. Pescott 3.4 X800XT XP SP2. Would there be any benifit to FS9 in adding another 1G DDR Ram of the same RAMThanksAndrew.

Hi all,Sorry if this has been posted already, I did a search and was unable to find what I was looking for. Anyway, I'm putting together a new rig with an Athlon 64 processor and was curious if it was worth it to buy XP 64 as opposed to regular XP. I have read that several drivers are incompatible and with a relatively low number of current 64-bit games doesn't seem to make much sense. The gaming extent of my new computer will be limited to mostly FS and other slightly less "taxing" games. Any advice/suggestions you all can provide would be greatly appreciated...thanks a lotPatrick Brand

I am just setting up a new machine with Windows XP, and am creating partitions etc.I have left the bottom C: partition for Windows. I seem to remember that experts here recommended putting the paging file on a separate partition.I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.Many thanks.--Bryn

Hi,I ve just bought MSI 9800pro plus vga,and im happy with the resultsbut i think i can do better with it .i have zero experince with ATI so whats the best setting and teawks i can do to get this card to its highest level.i.e Best drivers,AA AND AF setting........etci have also heard about turning off the vertical sync and how much performance gain can that don.b its just for FS9Thanks

My new video card arrived yesterday (GeForce 6600 GT) and I have a standard 19" flat tube hooked up along with a 19" LCD. Is there anything special I need to get the most out of dual monitors with FS9? I tried firing up FS9 last night and all I got was a black screen on the tube and my LCD just showed the desktop image. I'm thinking that since I switched cards, FS9 might be a little goofed up. Anyway, what I'd like to do is just take things like the GPS, FSEconomy, Active Sky etc on the LCD and the main cockpit window on the tube. Do you have to run FS9 in windowed mode to do that?Thanks.Dondo

Hi,I have a PFC Jetliner Yoke and CH Products peddles, every time I go through my takeoff roll the aircraft keeps trying to turn left. I have recalibrated this thing numerous times, I'm out of ideas.Thanks

Will FS benefit from these new techs if I were to upgrade to something like:Intel 955XBKLKR MoBoIntel P4 extreme Edition 840Windows X64 2 Westen Digital Serial ATA 36 gig HD with 10000 rpm set as a RAIDGeForce 7800 GTX 256MBKingston 1GB 667MHz DDR2 ECC 5-5-5 DIMMI know most items are high end here but how much of this new tech will FS really benefit from?Ar there any items that can but subsitiuded for less and still get simular preformance?I dont know exactly how much this Dual Core will make use of with FS since I know Hyper-Thread donts do anything.Then theres this PCI express and how much better if any is this over the norm?Please help cause I'm pricing out my new syst…

My new machine has 2 SATA hard drives which I have set up as mirrored drives. (It wasn't intentional, but that is the way it ended up after problems I had getting Windows to find hard disks to install itself onto in the absence of any IDE hard disk on the machine).Presumably there is a FS performance penalty in using two drives in this way, compared with using just a single drive, as the CPU has to do more disk writing when it should be improving the FPS :). Any idea how much of a penalty?(I know I could theoretically get performance gains by operating the two drives in a striped configuration, but I don't want to take the additional failure risk).--Bryn

Ok, after troubleshooting and finally getting flightsim 2004 to boot with all 3 devices plugged in, now I have another problem...How do I get flightsim to use all 3 devices? Do I have to figure out that CH config manager thingy?And also, any suggestions on how to make the rudder pedals even stickier on my carpet? The rubber foot pads help but it still slides back as I push on the rudders. And no, nailing anything to the floor is out of the question.... :(

Hi there,Though I bought FS2004 a year ago, I only installed it yesterday after upgrading my computer to the following specs:ASUS A8V Deluxe MotherboardAMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor1GB ExtremeX DDR PC3200 (400Mhz) Dual-Channel RAMGeForce MX4000 128MB Video Card (AGP 8X)Win98SEWhen I installed the program, I set my sliders to mid-high ranges, and locked the FPS to 30. However, I did disable AutoGen and AI traffic. Alas, my framerates at Toronto-Pearson with the default 737 were less than 12. That seems unreasonably low given my new system specs. In fact it's not that much different than what I was getting with a P4 1.4 and 640 SDRAM. I'm wondering if there's somethin…