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Hi, I've just moved house. My connection speed was always 576kbps and it worked OK. At my new house the connection speed is 2.2mbps but it is very slow and laggy. Can anyone explain ? Thanks.Russell.

Hi, i have borrowed a Epson EMP S1 projector to try out on my computor ,windows xp pro , do i need drivers for it and if so where can i find them , its the same res as my computor but the picture is terrible and the pixels show up more, any help would be appreiated ,thanks.

I found this article over at Tom's Hardware site and thought it does a pretty good job describing how todays video cards work. Most of it is pretty easy to read and understand. Toward the end of the article they tend to get a little too technical for the average person like me. Over all they have a lot of good information.http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040603/index.htmlThere are also links at Tom's Hardware that test both Nvidia and ATI's newest bread of cards.Terry

Hello All,I am having some serious trouble getting FS9 to work on my machine - or at least work to any benefit. I just installed FS9 on a newly-installed copy of Windows XP on a reformatted HD, running on a PIII 1GHz box with an nVidia Ti4200 64MB graphics card. I keep having serious problems using just the default aircraft and scenery. I decided after a lot of trouble to reduce the display settings to Minimum across the board, using 1024x768x32 resolution. Still, even at the lowest quality settings, I can't use FS9.As soon as I load up a flight (default aircraft, default scenery), I immediately experience the following problem. After initially loading, FS9 "hangs" f…

Recently upgraded from a MSI694T/Celeron 1300 to an Abit NF7/AMD XP2600+M. Video card is a Gainward TI4200 Golden Sample 128Meg. Had to replace my old Soundblaster PCI512 with a Soundblaster Live 5.1 due to gamport conflicts with the mother board. Have 1 gig of PC3200. With the Celeron I mostly got frame rates around 20 and no noticable stutters. With the new system I get frame rates over 35 but the simulation will just stall for 3 to 5 seconds at a time. During the stall there is no hard drive activity. Same thing happen in MS Train Simulator and CFS3. Tried turning off the sound card harware acceleration-no effect. I'm running the lates Nvidia mother board drive…

I presently have a 40GB SCSI primary harddrive, and a 40GB 7200 RPM IDE secondary Harddrive. I am upgrading my harddrives due to increased capacity needs.I am installing two 80GB Seagate ST380013AS Serial SATA Harddrives in a RAID 0 Array configuration as my primary Harddrives. (Connected to Serial ATA RAID connectors)I am also installing two 80GB Seagate ST180011A Harddrives in a RAID 0 Array for a Multi-Raid configuration. (Connected to the RAID ATA/133/100/66/33 Connector)(Note, I am giving some consideration to a RAID 0+1 Configuration, but it is doubtful that I will go that way)Now my question, would the following work?1. Useing Windows XP Pro Backup, Make a total ba…

i bought a new amd 64 3000+ w/1gig ram and radeon 9800 pro w/256megsi have mipmap level at 4and im getting lots of shimmering scenery and also lots of purple squares when i pan - yes it redraws it in fast but i thought for sure i wouldnt see much, i see quite a bitthe worse part is the shimmering scenery, i dont get how to eliminate that, i have AA off internally but 2x on my radeon on , ive tried 4 and 6 and it doesnt seem to make a diff.im running at 1280x1024 - i had been at 1600x1200 but i was getting lots of stutteringany ideas?thanksciao!Brian S

Doing a CPU upgrade on my aging Dell, to hold off from buying a new system. Any ideas how well this will run MSFS 2004? Dell 8100 upgraded to Pentium 4, 2.6 ghz, 400 fsb, Socket 478Radeon 9800 pro 128mb512 MB RDRAMEcho Mia soundcard2 x 40gb Seagate HDCurrently its a 1.7ghz CPU. With medium autogen, clouds and scenery detail plus GA Traffic, ActiveSky, FSForce and FS Terrain mesh all installed it does about 18 fps locked in VFR over rural areas, dropping to around 10 over cities, and as low as 6 over big enhanced airports. I want to run the FSD Piper Navajo, and am hoping the upgrade will make the difference.Any predictions?

Howdy all. I've had my AFCS II for about 2-3 years now. It was cool when I got it, but after really using it I found that I was pretty much unable to fly with it. Eventually I gave up, and just stored it away for a year. The problem lies in the fact that there is only 45

"NTFSDisableLastAccessUpdate"That is a registry entry. Google it, and read what it is about.Nothing more than an incremental improvement. Worked for me at least.Cheers,Braun

TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=120What do you set your number at? I've tried many different numbers and still cannot find the right combo. I have a 3.2 p4 computer, extremely fast with a gf fx5950 ultra graphics card running almost all sliders to the right and unlimited framerate.What should I set the number to in fs9.cfg?Thanks!

Hello. Am not sure if this subject has been covered, if so I apologize and thanks for the link...So, I have an HP desktop, and want to replace the motherboard and CPU. Typical of today, I have no WinXP disc, it all came on the computer. I do have a set of 6 recovery discs. Anyway, my question is, how do I reload WinXP after replacing my motherboard? Was told I need a disc to get started. Thanks in advance for the help.regards,Bill

With Catalyst 4.5, my new card doesn

http://www.guru3d.com/Seem to have cured the lag I was seeing when accessing the menu bar sometimes.Allcott

Hi all! I'm sure this question has been asked before so here it is again. I am looking at getting a new gaming computer and I'm not sure what chip to go with.The guy at the computer shop said his choice would be the Athlon 64 FX53 ($1149 can). I was looking at the Intel P4 3.4Extreme($1479 can). I've always used Intel chips, but I'm really not technical enough to know what is better. His thoughts was the Extreme chip is not worth the $1000 more then the other chips(meaning the Prescott chip). The benchmarks say the AMD FX53, but in an artical here I read with regards to the alienware area 51 they would not coment on the 64 bit processors nor did they like them at thi…

People: Is the nforce 2 dual channel chipset really any faster than the Via KT333 in FS9? I have an A7V8X with a Radeon 9800 and Barton 2500 oc'd to 2.08 and 2 512 PC2700 @ 180 (360) FSB, and I only get 12,000+ 3Dmark 2001. I have nothing running in the background, so can it be the chipset? Kdub

Looking at upgrading my MB and am wondering whether or not to wait for one that is PCI Express compatable. I assume that I have to wait, that the current PCI slots won't work with it, and that they should be out relatively soon. Any thoughts? The new ATI X800 requires it and it's supposed to be a super card....billg

When I view Properties on my FF Pro stick I get an instant error message saying that the power is not connected. IT IS! The green LED is on and steady. This coincides with having installed a new motherboard - Gigabyte GA-7N400E-L and a new Gigabyte Radeon 96S128D graphics card which is 8x AGP. I am certain that the joystick is OK but that it is incompatible with these new components. I have totally formatted my C drive and installed a clean W98 4.10 1998. I've also searched MS site for an answer and I have upgraded driver to V3.02 all to no avail. I have removed the drivers and the component in C-panel Display and reloaded them four or five times. The game port if…

I have the Radeon 9800 Pro and I would like to know what the following setting do in FS2004.......Mipmap Detail Level and Wait for Vertical Sync.Also what is the differnce between Mipmap Detail Level of "High Quality" and "High Performance"And what does Wait for Vertical Sync do in FS2004?I been looking at the different setting and I can not tell the difference between them.

I recently purchased an NEC LCD1760NX monitor. Both my video card and the monitor will accept a DVI cable. Is anyone using the DVI input and do you notice any improvement in video quality?

FS9 Multiplayer does not find or identify IP addresses. It worked fine for several months, but then last week it would not identify IP's during a search, even though I knew the site was active and functioning properly. This problem exists even with all firewalls and security programs totally deactivated! The ports (both client and host) are set at the default (23456). I have reinstalled both FS9 and DirectX 9.0 with no improvement. I can multiplay on Links 2003, and TeamSpeak works properly.Can anyone give me any ideas at all as to how to solve this?Steve Baker

OK... so as of now, we can run an AGP card and a PCI card on the same MOBO/PC.So when PCI Express gets going later this year or early next year, will we be able to run a PCI Express card and an AGP card together? The idea of using my 9500pro as a -second- video card is kind of exciting... let alone all of you who have 9800pro or higher cards.Talk about cranking up the frame rates on a dual monitor setup. I think this combo would make any of us happy.

Hello,I currently operating an AMD 2800+ 512mb ram sapphire radeon 9800 pro 4.5 cat.I've tried using the 3.7 , 4.3 , 4.4 and finally the 4.5 but the following problems would go away so i thought you might be able to assist me.So, the problems are1)In VC mode the gagues (radio bar , HSI , EICAS) look fuzzy from the pilots point of view but if i zoom they look ok.What could be the cause of the problem and how can i fix it ?2)This topic has been discussed on many threads but i thought i'd ask it here again Even though i set my r9800's AF to X16 (quality) and AA to X4 i still spot blury texture.Lets say that in a 10 miles radius i see the groud texture perfectlyBut 20 miles…

Hi,I just tried the new 61.12 Forceware drivers from guru3d and aside from 10% fps enhancement, I found that of all the things in the world my notepad.exe didn't work anymore (100% CPU and it didn't show *.txt files correctly).After some trial and error, I found that the "nView Desktop Manager" was to blame.So better keep it disabled; this is also true for the 61.11 drivers.RegardsOliver

I`m not sure if this is the right forum but I have a `stuttering` problem with FS9 which is not severe but enough to spoil the simexperience on the ground and in the air.My system is:Athlon 3.0ghz512DDR RamNVIDIA G4 TI4600 GraphicsALC655 CODEC Sound sytem on motherboard K7 Triton GA-7N400Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can address this problem.I have downloaded the latest Direct X9.0b.Thanks you for any help that you can giveJohn