Search the archive:
YaBB - Yet another Bulletin Board
 
   
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
Graphics Are Choppy On My High-End Machine (Read 826 times)
Feb 12th, 2004 at 3:18pm

rustywater   Offline
Lieutenant Colonel
Always Flyin' High!
Boston, MA

Gender: male
Posts: 7
*****
 
I recently upgraded my computer (2.8 GigHz, 512 Mb Ram, GForce4 Ti 4600 (128 Mb Ram Video), WidowsXP Pro), and my MS Flight Sim 2002 is running choppy. It seems that it isn't using the accelerated drivers. It use to work smoothly on my 1.0 Gig computer on my Windows 98se machine and I would think it would be much better on this one. My other games work very well and smooth (even Lo-Mac for crying out loud). Can I say "Lo-Mac" on this forum? Anyway, is there a patch that I don't know about? Can anyone help me.

Thanks,
Russ
 
IP Logged
 
Reply #1 - Mar 5th, 2004 at 9:26pm

Daz   Offline
Colonel
in the morning im making
WAFFLES!
Leeds, UK

Gender: male
Posts: 1171
*****
 
when u mean choppy do u mean running choppy on full settings?.... i would defragment your hard drive and reinstall latest drivers and direct x9. then go to google and search for enditall. this will close any programs you have running in the background so you get the most out of the cpu as far as performance goes whilst running fs.

i would also check bios to make sure the agp rate is set at 4xagp not 1 or 2x and that the aperature size is at 128mb also.. if this doesnt help try back here and im sure the forum users can sort it out... fs2002 should run fine at mostly high settings... i had a ti4200 128mb on an athlon thunderbird 1.4 and it run very smootly even fs9 did

hope this helps

daz
 

AMD athlon XP2800+ @2.34ghz&&Epox 8RDA3G 400 fsb, 8x AGP&&1024MB DDR400 PC3200&&XFX 256MB FX5950 Ultra (oc 525/1.04)&&40 gig maxtor 7200rpm&&80 gig seagate baracuda 7200rpm&&
IP Logged
 
Reply #2 - Mar 8th, 2004 at 11:03am

rustywater   Offline
Lieutenant Colonel
Always Flyin' High!
Boston, MA

Gender: male
Posts: 7
*****
 
I purchased FS 2004 and it worked fine. It must be something that FS 2002 didn't like about my system. I didn't change anything in the bios or anything... just installed the newer version of Flight Simulator, boosted up some detail and it works B-E-A-Utiful. There should be no choppiness on a 2.8 Gig computer anyway (that is, unless you're running Lock-On Modern Air Combat). Thanks for your help.
 
IP Logged
 
Reply #3 - Mar 10th, 2004 at 5:49pm
EA_KATL   Ex Member

 
This will work better than enditall.its called FSautostart go to the download section in the link.it will shut down non used back ground programs you chose and it starts up flight simulator and when you close flight simulator it restarts back ground programs.neat program.it works great for me.one good thing about this program is its made for running fs2004.


http://www.fs-gs.com/
 
IP Logged
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print