Nick, are you God?  I have NEVER been able to run FSX this well EVER!!!

I was very skeptical going through most of the others suggested 'tweaks' because i already knew FSX was vastly different from FS9, and they were simply doing the same tweaks over again. Thanks for clearing the air and the great material you provide for all of us!

Look up...look down...look left...look right.  

Hello,

First thanks for putting these lists together, the amount of work to generate them must have been insane.

Unfortunately my FSX is stuttering like crazy after going through the FSX tweak and XP tweak lists to the letter, so I guess I will have to reset everything and hope for the best. These other issues came up too that I'm have trouble resolving. Again hopefully resetting everything will fix them, but wanted to bring them to your attention.

1. I tried to use Windows Update in IE to update my computer but it was unable to do so, indicating that Automatic Update was turned off. I tried to turn it back on to Automatic in services.msc but whenever I clicked Apply, it would just revert back to Disabled.

2. Every time I shut down, a box pops up indicating that explorer.exe is trying to close. If I don't touch it, it says that it's not responding. If I wait another 10-20 seconds without doing anything, it shuts down on its own.

3. Within FSX, in addition to the unplayable stuttering, whenever I slew and move fast, huge artifacts pop up all over the place and block any view. After I stop moving, they go away after a few seconds.

Running XP Pro on Core Duo 2.8Ghz, 1066FSB, 2 GB RAM, ATI 4870

ShaneR35 wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2009 at 9:43pm:



There can be folders that will rebuild in the Prefetch folder but otherwise there should only be 2 files listed after you flushed it and rebooted, and, rant the command line:

layout.ini and NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.pf

Nothing else

Make sure UAC is shut down and also make sure the Task Scheduler Serivce was not shut down

Confirm the correct reg path you changed

NickN wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2009 at 12:46pm:


Thanks, Nick.

Confirmed all the above.

Did it again with the same result.

After flushing prefetch and rebooting, all files come back. And there never was a slow boot.  Boot time is normal.

So, I dunno.  Guess I can leave it alone.

Thanks

ryelk wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2009 at 3:03pm:



One word

Dell

This process works and more than likely the issue has something to do with the Dell Windows install disk

NickN wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2009 at 4:00pm:


For future reference, what brand of computer do you recommend, for people who don't have the skills to build one?

also, is it just the O&O component of the tweak list that Dells don't like? Is everything else cool? Or is there anything else Dell owners shouldn't do?