When running FS2004 century of flight I encounter problems that make me want to cry as I have just spashed out on a new PC.
Intitially I purchased a new PC for video editing and built to a spec ideal for this purpose and if required for gaming.
The problems:
This also happens in CFS, when flying straight and level the nose tends to dip every 5-10 seconds and if corrected does the same again and becomes very annoying. The engine sound cuts out for a split second and then runs normal this seems to happen at full throttle & happens all the time while flying.
After about five minutes of flying the sounds become very slow, the simulation seems very jerky and eventually slows right down until hardly anything is moving or heard.
I can bring up the task manager but to end now the programme takes more than one atttempt to stop.
I have tried most of the screen resoloutions in the settings but all seem to have the same effect.
My system is a P4/2.8Ghz running XP & SP2 and updated.
512 DDR memory.
ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card with 128mb memory.
120Gb SATA hard drive.
Any help appreciated.
Brian.
By: EK. - 27th March 2005 at 21:57
Thanks for that Andrew, but i dont have any A320s anymore just fly 737s, 757s, 767s and A330s.
By: andrewm - 27th March 2005 at 21:47
I think the A320 could very likely be a trim problem. Turn Num lock off and use NUM pad keys 7 and 1 for your elevator trim.
Use Shift + Z until you get 2 lines of red text in top right hand corner. What does the fps part of it say? Should be a single or double figure.
By: pimpernel - 23rd March 2005 at 22:57
Hullo! How much disk space do you have left? Am thinking the swap file/disk combo would cause the same juddering. Does the disk also go mental?
Just over 92GB. I do not quite understand “does the disk also go mental?”
I tried an Extra at London City a while ago and the sound seemed more stable but still dropped now and again. There was no juddering or frame freezing. I will try a larger aircraft tomorrow.
Thanks.
BP.
By: BlueRobin - 23rd March 2005 at 21:46
Hullo! How much disk space do you have left? Am thinking the swap file/disk combo would cause the same juddering. Does the disk also go mental?
By: pimpernel - 23rd March 2005 at 21:44
Switch back to desktop and right-click your taskbar, open Task Manager. Click processes then the CPU column, What’s registering CPU usage and how much %? I suspect Windows or a 3rd-aprty applicaiton is runing.
Have you also tried the latest CFS/FS patches?
The CPU is running at around the 97-99% while in the setup/choose a flight mode. Is this normal?
I have not looked for any patches yet, but I will look now.
Thanks.
BP.
By: pimpernel - 23rd March 2005 at 21:42
Do you have any other software running along with FS?
What sort of joystick have you got?
Have you got the latest drivers for your video card?
No I do not have any other software running only anti-virus and my firewall.
I have a Logitech Wingman force feedback. My old one was a MS force feedback & and was the DB’s!
Yes I have the latest drivers installed.
Thanks.
BP.
By: BlueRobin - 23rd March 2005 at 19:17
Switch back to desktop and right-click your taskbar, open Task Manager. Click processes then the CPU column, What’s registering CPU usage and how much %? I suspect Windows or a 3rd-aprty applicaiton is runing.
Have you also tried the latest CFS/FS patches?
By: uksceneryman - 23rd March 2005 at 19:02
This is a strange phenomenon and not one I’ve heard of before.
It seems to me that something is slowing your system down but your PC spec suggests that FS should be OK with this (although perhaps 1024MB of RAM would make it run more nicely).
Do you have any other software running along with FS?
What sort of joystick have you got?
Have you got the latest drivers for your video card?
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March 23, 2005 at 6:21 am