Flight sim 2004 - FRAME RATE LOCKS DOWN

[Guest]

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Hello,

The game seems to lock down to 1-2 frames per second
especially when taking off or landing. I have spent
countless hours adjusting the display settings - until I
realised that it was doing it even on the lowest settings.

When I wind the settings right up, my computer seems to be
able to hold about 12 frames /second. On a mid range
performance setting it can produce 20-30 frames/second and
on the lowest settings it can run at 60 frames/second.

But ... as I said it just seems to lock down sometimes to
1-2 frames/second. Sometimes I can fix the issue by
resetting the flight, but more often than not I have to end
the flight and load it again.

Seems to do it for all aircraft under any circumstance.

My system is:

Win Xp
P4 1.6GHz
512mB ram
Geforce 4 Mx 440 [64 mb memory]
Direct x 9b

I own flight sim 2002 and it performs great, but I don't
think I have completed a single flight without 2004 locking
down.

I have not reloaded windows since I have purchased the game.

Any help woud be appreciatated,

Kind regards,
Terry

 

[ME]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games.zone.simulation (More info?)

terry,

i can not take credit for these two suggestions.
they have been posted before. just passing information 🙂

1 : if you have a force feedback joystick, disable force feedback

2: adjust AI traffic to 0(zero) %

goodluck !


"Tezz" <musicman007@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:244f01c45370$05f5e4a0$3501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> The game seems to lock down to 1-2 frames per second
> especially when taking off or landing. I have spent
> countless hours adjusting the display settings - until I
> realised that it was doing it even on the lowest settings.
>
> When I wind the settings right up, my computer seems to be
> able to hold about 12 frames /second. On a mid range
> performance setting it can produce 20-30 frames/second and
> on the lowest settings it can run at 60 frames/second.
>
> But ... as I said it just seems to lock down sometimes to
> 1-2 frames/second. Sometimes I can fix the issue by
> resetting the flight, but more often than not I have to end
> the flight and load it again.
>
> Seems to do it for all aircraft under any circumstance.
>
> My system is:
>
> Win Xp
> P4 1.6GHz
> 512mB ram
> Geforce 4 Mx 440 [64 mb memory]
> Direct x 9b
>
> I own flight sim 2002 and it performs great, but I don't
> think I have completed a single flight without 2004 locking
> down.
>
> I have not reloaded windows since I have purchased the game.
>
> Any help woud be appreciatated,
>
> Kind regards,
> Terry

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games.zone.simulation (More info?)

Vid card might not quite be what you want... The MX is a
crippled version of the GeForce... I would also reccomend
nothing less than 128MB's

I had the same issue (among other's with the 440 MX) and
all issues disappeared with my new ATI 9200.

J


>-----Original Message-----
>terry,
>
>i can not take credit for these two suggestions.
>they have been posted before. just passing information 🙂
>
>1 : if you have a force feedback joystick, disable force
feedback
>
>2: adjust AI traffic to 0(zero) %
>
>goodluck !
>
>
>"Tezz" <musicman007@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:244f01c45370$05f5e4a0$3501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> The game seems to lock down to 1-2 frames per second
>> especially when taking off or landing. I have spent
>> countless hours adjusting the display settings - until I
>> realised that it was doing it even on the lowest
settings.
>>
>> When I wind the settings right up, my computer seems to
be
>> able to hold about 12 frames /second. On a mid range
>> performance setting it can produce 20-30 frames/second
and
>> on the lowest settings it can run at 60 frames/second.
>>
>> But ... as I said it just seems to lock down sometimes
to
>> 1-2 frames/second. Sometimes I can fix the issue by
>> resetting the flight, but more often than not I have to
end
>> the flight and load it again.
>>
>> Seems to do it for all aircraft under any circumstance.
>>
>> My system is:
>>
>> Win Xp
>> P4 1.6GHz
>> 512mB ram
>> Geforce 4 Mx 440 [64 mb memory]
>> Direct x 9b
>>
>> I own flight sim 2002 and it performs great, but I don't
>> think I have completed a single flight without 2004
locking
>> down.
>>
>> I have not reloaded windows since I have purchased the
game.
>>
>> Any help woud be appreciatated,
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Terry
>
>
>.
>