So today I was landing at KMIA and all of a sudden the game started acting really crappy... like it was REALLY slow and would pause a lot... I dunno what it was so I started another flight and same thing happened... over and over... it would be fine and then start pausing up again... it would do that the whole way through... Have any of you experienced this?? If anyone has please help me out because the game became really crappy... THANK YOU!!!

I'll write em down:
Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz
2.39 GHz
512 MB of RAM

Thanks for helping

I have no idea... but today I started a flight from Arturo Merino (Santiago, Chile) and it ran smoothly... I'm thinking it happens only when I'm in highly dense areas... like Miami, NYC, Heathrow, and other dense sceneries... which kinda sucks... but if you can offer any solutions then that would be great... thanks

ok... thanks for the help... the name of my 3d card is MOBILITY RADEON by ATI if it helps any...

In FS2002 and FS2004 the performance in south Florida is worse than it is anywhere else in the world considering the terrain and scenery density. MS really did a poor job in Fl...

Hi all....First time in this forum for me. I can tell you from the last few days of playing with FS2002 on a PIII 550, 192 m ram, radeon 7000, that you can have a blast with 1024 x 768  scenery and fairly dense options for buildings and cities, etc, until you start importing some of those gloriously rendered fantasy vehicles! The Millenium Falcon makes me drool but I have spent 3 or 4 days now, endlessly fooling with settings in order to reach a suitable balance of features and performance. I have somehow managed to obtain decent results with my radeon 7000 64 meg agp card although I did expect more of an improvement! I kept the global aircraft quality medium. I can't abide 800 x 600 so 1024 x 768 x 32 it is. Get rid of multi texturing and keep mip mapping and anti- aliasing. These last 2 seem to keep the aircraft looking nice without having their quality and texture size set so high. And, believe it or not, somehow mip- mapping seems to provide the prettiest improvement to scenery and aircraft without too much framerate loss, or even a perception of framerate improvement due to the way everything is just smoother or more solidly rendered around the edges. I think. I know that sounds like anti-aliasing but that mip map feature makes a huge difference in overall quality when it's on. There are tutorials to download or read on the net on flight sim performance. The best suggestion is to get into settings and experiment. I have almost as much fun tweaking the program as I do flying around.

Try shutting down all uneccesary proceeses using the task manager.

or...

Have you got any anti-spyware running on your computer- all my games had crap frame rates until i installed some- the spyware really slows your computer down.

Theres a free anti spyware download at
http://www.lavasoft.com

daz

adaware is crap, download Spyware Doctor. It beats adaware and spybot S&D. Spyware Doctor found 400 infections the first time I ran it right after running those other two programs. http://www.download.com/Spyware-Doctor/3000-8022_4-10377263.html

Overheating on a laptop causes huge FPS loss- sometimes my Mobility 9700 slows to 10FPS where it should be hitting 40-50FPS in FS2004.

Shut down, leave to cool, then place on a non-fabric surface and restart.

Then kill all non-essential apps on startup, it should help- do this every time you want to play FS.