Simviation Forum - Addon Overload?

Feb 13^th, 2006 at 12:56pm

Hussein Patwa Offline
Colonel
Reaching for the Skies
Aberdeen, UK

Gender:
Posts: 87

Hello. I hope this is the right place for thisa and would appreciate some advice.

I recently installed a whole bunch of addons and now my FlightSim is sluggish to say the least. It sits on the loading screen for about 2-3 minutes before showing the main screen. The ATC voice is really crackly, which it never was before.

I have installed about 6 'Professional' aircraft, including the 3 big PMDG ones (big mistakes as they don't have tooltips) and the Level-D 767, both Zinertek products, and some others like FSBuild (Great App), Just Traffic 2005 (also good), Flight Keeper and a couple others and the UK2000 Scenery package.

What should I do to make things right again whilst keeping the great addons I have? I have a pretty fast computer in my opinion so that can't be it, and I recently upgraded the RAM to 1GB. I could turn down some of the display settings in Flight Simulator itself, as they're all on 100% at the moment, but other help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Hussein.

Hussein Patwa&&PatwaNet&&MSFS Version: FS2004&&&&My Addons:&&PMDG: 737, 747&&Level-D: 767&&PSS: 777&&Perfect Flight: A380&&FSUIPC (Registered), FSPassengers, FS2Crew Pro 737, eDimensional Voice Buddy, UK2000, Just Traffic 2005, FSNav 4, FSBuild 2, DSS Walk&Follow, Night Environment, Flight Environment 2&&Just Planes: 737, 777, MD-11, MD-80, A340&&&&Asrock P4V88, Intel Celeron 2.67Ghz, 1GB RAM, 160GB SATA HDD, 2 x DVD+/-RW, Nvidia FX5200, Creative Audigy 2, Belkin 54g Wireless.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Feb 13^th, 2006 at 1:25pm

CharlottesDad Ex Member

Hello Hussein.
I don't think there's such a thing as Addon overload my friend...ask anybody here! Grin

Check out this thread from the hardware forum:
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=hardw;action=display;num=1...
Read Nick N's 2nd post... whilst it deals with stutters in the Sim it might help you with some of your issues.
Also a defrag and a clean up of temporary files may help.
Good luck
Rob.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Feb 14^th, 2006 at 3:50am

congo Offline
Colonel
Make BIOS your Friend
Australia

Gender:
Posts: 3663

You can turn scenery addons off in the scenery library, add them back in in blocks of ten and narrow down the problem addons.

Conflicts are quite possible.

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #3 - Feb 14^th, 2006 at 6:57am

Hussein Patwa Offline
Colonel
Reaching for the Skies
Aberdeen, UK

Gender:
Posts: 87

Can never have an addon overload? LOL Cheesy

I tried the virtual memory tweak, the others didn't really apply as I have an nvidia graphics card, or already have them implemented. I have disabled the 3D graphics acceleration as it plays havoc with my screen magnifier, but in my defence have never had trouble with it before in 'normal' flightsim use. I'm going to look at the latency thing, when I can get someone to help me read the BIOS (damn why couldn't they make either speech friendly BIOS' or have these settings somehow changeable within windows?)

Thanks a lot guys. BTW will look at the scenery library when I get back this afternoon.

Hussein.

Hussein Patwa&&PatwaNet&&MSFS Version: FS2004&&&&My Addons:&&PMDG: 737, 747&&Level-D: 767&&PSS: 777&&Perfect Flight: A380&&FSUIPC (Registered), FSPassengers, FS2Crew Pro 737, eDimensional Voice Buddy, UK2000, Just Traffic 2005, FSNav 4, FSBuild 2, DSS Walk&Follow, Night Environment, Flight Environment 2&&Just Planes: 737, 777, MD-11, MD-80, A340&&&&Asrock P4V88, Intel Celeron 2.67Ghz, 1GB RAM, 160GB SATA HDD, 2 x DVD+/-RW, Nvidia FX5200, Creative Audigy 2, Belkin 54g Wireless.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #4 - Feb 17^th, 2006 at 7:56pm

congo Offline
Colonel
Make BIOS your Friend
Australia

Gender:
Posts: 3663

Quote:

.......I have disabled the 3D graphics acceleration as it plays havoc with my screen magnifier.......

You can't do that and expect any game to work properly. If you need to magnify the screen, is it possible to use another program or just use a low resolution on your desktop?

I repeat, you can't disable graphics acceleration and expect things to work. Shocked

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #5 - Feb 17^th, 2006 at 8:25pm

Hussein Patwa Offline
Colonel
Reaching for the Skies
Aberdeen, UK

Gender:
Posts: 87

I got it. I disabled the 3D graphics but kept the graphics acceleration, the magnifier works ok now. I removed flight keeper and that seems to have made things faster. I also found out why my ATC voices had changed, one of my addons installed regional voices, and my pilot had bee muted so that's fixed. All's well now and the graphics are great.

Hussein.

Hussein Patwa&&PatwaNet&&MSFS Version: FS2004&&&&My Addons:&&PMDG: 737, 747&&Level-D: 767&&PSS: 777&&Perfect Flight: A380&&FSUIPC (Registered), FSPassengers, FS2Crew Pro 737, eDimensional Voice Buddy, UK2000, Just Traffic 2005, FSNav 4, FSBuild 2, DSS Walk&Follow, Night Environment, Flight Environment 2&&Just Planes: 737, 777, MD-11, MD-80, A340&&&&Asrock P4V88, Intel Celeron 2.67Ghz, 1GB RAM, 160GB SATA HDD, 2 x DVD+/-RW, Nvidia FX5200, Creative Audigy 2, Belkin 54g Wireless.

Back to top

IP Logged

	Search the archive: