Simviation Forum - Jumpy SImulation

Dec 26^th, 2006 at 5:16pm

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I recently got FSX and I can't get the simulation screen from jumping. I have FS4 and the simulation is very smooth. What display settings will fix this jumpiness?? Any ideas??

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Reply #1 - Dec 26^th, 2006 at 6:07pm

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wow, FS4 well this may help. FS4 is 6 versions BEHIND FSX I highly doubt you have the right computer if your still useing FS4. Post your system specs and we will see what we have to work with.

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Reply #2 - Dec 26^th, 2006 at 9:14pm

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I meant FS 2004. I have a Dell310 with a Pentium 4, 2.8 Ghx processor, 80 gig hard drive, and recently upgraded to 2048MB (2 gig) of memory. I have an Intel (r) 82915g/gv/910gl video card.

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Reply #3 - Dec 26^th, 2006 at 9:20pm

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Well, without getting too detailed:

This is purely the nature of the beast.

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Reply #4 - Dec 26^th, 2006 at 10:48pm

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You need a new graphics card, that one is an onboard, How old is the system? AGP is old, PCI-E is new

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Reply #5 - Dec 27^th, 2006 at 4:21pm

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Does everyone agree that I need a new graphic card or is there a setting that can help this problem??

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Reply #6 - Dec 27^th, 2006 at 4:36pm

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try tweeking it. I don't even have a pentium 3 and it runs smoothly for me. but then again I do have an nvidia graphics card installed so now that I think about it go with the graphics card. scratch that first part. And an external hardrive if youre running out of space, which i guess is impossible with an 80 gig drive, and I should just stop now before i get a worse head ache.

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Reply #7 - Dec 27^th, 2006 at 5:41pm

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Sounds like an onboard graphics chip...so you DEFINATELY need a graphics card.

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Reply #8 - Dec 27^th, 2006 at 8:50pm

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On top of that, you need to upgrade your processor. If you want to fully enjoy FSX, not only will you need at least a 3.2 GHz processor but you also need at least a DX9-based video card with at least 128MB of memory.

My rig is almost the same as yours, only that it has a video card [which is not DX9-based]. Go to the following link for an example:

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1166161215

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Reply #9 - Dec 27^th, 2006 at 11:52pm

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Yea, you need to upgrade if you want better performance. Tweeks wont fix slow hardware unfortunatly Undecided

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...And an external hardrive if youre running out of space, which i guess is impossible with an 80 gig drive,...

After I got my new computer i had 80 gigs filled within a couple days Grin

I have a 300 gig and and trying my darnest Grin

I have about 100 gigs now. But i have ALOT of pictures and make double files when editing. Cheesy

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