Simviation Forum - Freq. Problems with MFS Performance

Jun 1^st, 2004 at 9:29pm

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ceI have seen a lot of questions regarding Microsoft Flight Simulator Performance.

When you expearence The Flight Simulator running slow these are the things that you need to do:

1} Open your "Task Manager" By pressing "Ctrl+Alt+Delete"

2} Click on the "Processes" Tab

3} Next you need to end all the processes Except for The processes called "Explorer" & "Taskmgr" Also DO NOT end any processes that are listed as being used by the "System". If you do end a "System" Processes then that will cause system instability.

4} That will clear up a lot of wasted ram space that is being used by programs that are running that you are not useing.

5}Load "FS9"

6} go to the "Settings menu"

7} Click on "Display"

8} Turn all of your scenery settings to low

That should make the game run smothly but it also depends on your amount of Disk space and on your amount of Virtual Memory {Ram Space} Mine runs real good b/c I meet and go over the requairments of the game with

1} 80 GB Hard Drive
2} 2.4GHz
3} 256 MB Virtual Memory {RAM}
4} Intel Pentium 4 Processor

So if one or more of your System specifications are lower than mine then you might want to consider upgrading your CPU.

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Reply #1 - Jun 2^nd, 2004 at 9:49am

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Thanks for the info CyberSurf. I gave it a try and saw a great difference without having to alter my settings too much. I will definitely be trying this when my Radeon 9800 gets here.
This is also leading me to try and download the program suggested by Captain Farhan. Thanks to both of you for informing the technically daft among us.

Awwww, crap!

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Reply #2 - Jun 5^th, 2004 at 12:21am

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Thanks for the info CyberSurf. I gave it a try and saw a great difference without having to alter my settings too much. I will definitely be trying this when my Radeon 9800 gets here.
This is also leading me to try and download the program suggested by Captain Farhan. Thanks to both of you for informing the technically daft among us.

U R welcome and I will try to post more performance specific infomation as I come accrossed it

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Reply #3 - Jun 5^th, 2004 at 2:10am

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Ward of warning: If your connected to the internet via cable or dsl do not close your security programs such as firewalls or spam blockers.

Steve

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Reply #4 - Jun 5^th, 2004 at 7:58pm

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Ward of warning: If your connected to the internet via cable or dsl do not close your security programs such as firewalls or spam blockers.

Steve

Yeah but I am connected via "DSL" and I had to have the security fetures deactivated b/c the interfer with my hosting a FSHost session.

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Reply #5 - Jun 8^th, 2004 at 6:41am

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Also sometimes A screen shot program may use two much Virtual Mem and Mak MFS2004 Performance Low

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Reply #6 - Jun 8^th, 2004 at 1:00pm

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1} 80 GB Hard Drive
2} 2.4GHz
3} 256 MB Virtual Memory {RAM}
4} Intel Pentium 4 Processor

I would like to clear up some terminology...

Your 256 MB is RAM not Virtual memory

Virtual Memory, is hard drive space used to augment your physical memory assuming your running Windows. Windows creates a "swap file" which is actually your virtual memory. The size of the swap file can be adjusted. I don't reccommend making bigger than 1 GB as it takes up read/write time.

I have 1GB RAM and 1GB virtual memory

Just felt like avoiding confusion...

Joe

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They both will work perfectly, until you open windows.

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Reply #7 - Jun 8^th, 2004 at 4:50pm

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Yeah but I am connected via "DSL" and I had to have the security fetures deactivated b/c the interfer with my hosting a FSHost session.

So let me get this straight. You deactivate your security features and THEN announce your IP address to total strangers?

You're just asking for an eBeating, aren't you?

Word of advice, simming brethren. Don't do this. Instead, either install a program like EndItAll or better yet, go to www.blackviper.com and follow his excellent instructions on how to set a gaming profile on your computer.

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Reply #8 - Jun 8^th, 2004 at 5:03pm

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So let me get this straight. You deactivate your security features and THEN announce your IP address to total strangers?

You're just asking for an eBeating, aren't you?

Word of advice, simming brethren. Don't do this. Instead, either install a program like EndItAll or better yet, go to www.blackviper.com and follow his excellent instructions on how to set a gaming profile on your computer.

Ok some stuff did not come out right. I have a Westell Wirespeed DSL modem and My phone line is connected from the wall to the modem then there is a Ethernet cord that connects to my pc. The modem has a built in Fire wall that can't be deactivated. So since the Fire wall is built in to the modem then the Fire Wall is not running on my pc or useing any virtural memory. it is running from with in the modem. So that Blocks any access to my pc from the internet unless I appove of it. The Security Feature that deactivated was a program that I bought. So I am still protected b/c The Internet is bridged through my modem Fire wall..

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