Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - More stuttering, now even worse

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | More stuttering, now even worse

DVA8060
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on December 06 2009
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Swindon, UK

347 legs, 998.9 hours
280 legs, 861.5 hours online
343 legs, 986.8 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 18 2012 15:33 ET by Jamie Moss

I installed two new payware airports today, now I'm getting stuttering throughout the flight, bascially every 2 seconds it paused for a split second so it's never smooth, might I have pushed my computer to it's limits. I am thinking of a major upgrade, just wondered if anyone else has this experience

Jamie Moss

First Officer, B737-800

DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM

Joined on January 19 2007
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"De oppresso liber"
Surry, ME

1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs, 767.8 hours online
1,107 legs, 1,674.5 hours ACARS
55 legs, 114.8 hours event
195 legs dispatched, 134.4 hours

Posted onPost created on January 18 2012 15:42 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

if you are using FSX or FS9, and your computer memory cant handle the graphics processing, with all the addons running - then you need to upgrade. Most people dont think about the multiple graphics processing needs when you start adding high need addons...typical problem, that usually pisses folks off - before they no the limits of the system.

Try turning some options down if it is FSX, turn off boats, and cars, etc....see if that helps at all.

Andrew Kaufmann (DVA3931)

DVA10082
Captain, B777-200
OLP

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Monroe, LA

2,439 legs, 8,075.6 hours
2,011 legs, 6,340.6 hours online
2,404 legs, 7,981.8 hours ACARS
104 legs, 243.6 hours event
366 legs dispatched, 255.4 hours

Posted onPost created on January 18 2012 15:42 ET by Josh Burr

Same here, I am upgrading from 9GB or Ram to 16GB, from 300W power supply to 800W power supply, and from 3GB GeForce GT545 to GeForce GTX590 4GB.

That's my recomendation!

Josh Burr (DVA10082)

DVA2192
Senior Captain, A320
OLP

Joined on March 14 2005
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Attleboro, MA USA

1,703 legs, 3,149.7 hours
1,635 legs, 2,989.8 hours online
1,667 legs, 3,076.4 hours ACARS
3 legs, 5.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 18 2012 16:19 ET by Richard Walsh

What airports did you add?

Richard Walsh

Senior Captain, A320

DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on November 17 2007

Western United States

31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs, 18.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 18 2012 17:08 ET by Louis Vanbelkum

don't get gtx 590 everything i heard was horrible about it get a 580 josh...

and what are your current specs and addons ? we should be able to tell by that if its a hardware limitation

Posted onPost created on January 19 2012 09:07 ET by Jamie Moss

Thanks for the responses guys, I appreciate all the help and to be honest I didnt give much insight as to what I have, My Specs are

AMD phenom II X4 810 processor 2.60 Ghz
6GB memory installed
Windows 7 64 bit
Asus EAH6670 series graphics
500W power supply

As for the add-ons I only really became truly serious last year when I started getting payware airfields;

QW757, Imagine Sim = KATL, KDTW, KLGA , KEWR
Cloud9 LAX , DCA
FSDT JFK, KORD KFLL, KDFW, KLAS
Flight beam KSFO

I also run FSINN and have FScene installed as textures, notably it's only just started occuring when I added KDFW and KLAS,

I feel the time has come to upgrade it's just I'm not the greatest fan of big spending, although I know it'll have to be done

Jamie Moss

First Officer, B737-800

Posted onPost created on January 19 2012 10:55 ET by Josh Burr

Louis Vanbelkum wrote:

don't get gtx 590 everything i heard was horrible about it get a 580 josh...

Thanks for the info. BTW, have you, or anyone else, heard anything about them coming out with a GTX 600 series?

Josh Burr (DVA10082)

DVA10455
Captain, B767-300

Joined on January 15 2012

Roma, Lazio Italia

25 legs, 91.8 hours
9 legs, 34.1 hours online
25 legs, 91.8 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 19 2012 13:32 ET by Simon Giorgi

Guys,
with FSX the ONLY important factor is cpu speed, not Hard disks, video card and whatsoever.
FSX runs perfectly well with and old 9800gts+, probably as well as the latest Nvidia video cards.

The real concern is the code of FSX that is really quite horrible.
The only way to make it smooth is :

CPU CPU CPU
If you plan to do an upgrade point the new 2500k core cpu or better if you can, with a decent motherboard and possibly a CL6-CL7 latency memory.
Power Transformer is not that important, unless you don't get a Nvidia 580+ that eats up all the electricity and several hard-disks.

So :

step 1) buy at least a 2500k core cpu (or latest phenoms but they will never be equal to Intel)
step 2) do overclock up to at least 3,6-3,7 ghz, 2500k doesn't heat up at all compared to my i7 950 at 4.2ghz.
step 3) have FSX on a separate HD, if possible a SSD to lessen stutterings
step 4) if you have FSX on a hard-disk defrag at least once a week
step 5) use Boyote tool to setup your fsx.cfg
step 6) REMOVE DX10, REMOVE AI TRAFFIC, REMOVE flare lens and other amenities
step 7) use fps limiter and set fsp limiter to 30fps, that will change your life

These are the first important tips i feel to give you.

Simon Giorgi

Captain, B767-300

Posted onPost created on January 19 2012 16:47 ET by Jamie Moss

Simon, so for FS9 then would that sort of setup be ok

Jamie Moss

First Officer, B737-800

DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on November 17 2007

Western United States

31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs, 18.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 19 2012 16:54 ET by Louis Vanbelkum

Josh Burr wrote:

Louis Vanbelkum wrote:

don't get gtx 590 everything i heard was horrible about it get a 580 josh...

Thanks for the info. BTW, have you, or anyone else, heard anything about them coming out with a GTX 600 series?

I don't know, but i heard the next ati series is "hyped up" to be crazy good :).

DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on November 17 2007

Western United States

31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs, 18.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 19 2012 17:02 ET by Louis Vanbelkum

Simon Giorgi wrote:

step 1) buy at least a 2500k core cpu (or latest phenoms but they will never be equal to Intel)

Hate to rain on your parade but the 8120 is now scoring higher on benchmarks due to the earlier release of a windows 8 update to make better use of the 8 cores smile

then the i5 2500k. I have my 8120 overclocked and score just under a stock i7 2600k which sucks but at the same time I saved over $130 by going with the 8120, and now i can brag the 8120 is smashing the i5, which was nothing but beaten down by intel lovers which now they have nothing to talk about smile

in the (i5 vs 8120 range at least).

---on topic
If you do plan on upgrading you are using a AM3 socket I believe you can easily upgrade to a 1100T Black Edition, or if your motherboard supports upgrading the BIOs to AM3+ get the 8120. Total cost is about $200 for either of them. This would save over switching to the SLOWER i5-2500k which would be about $230 for the processor, and another $200+ for the motherboard.

Posted onPost created on January 22 2012 11:23 ET by Jamie Moss

A strange occurance happened today, I ran FS9 as administrator also I tweaked a little in the graphics card menu and I ended up with one of the smoothest flights I've ever had, I'm not sure quite what I did but if this is the result then I'm now served to leave everything as it is, their was even heavy cloud over Atlanta and still only minimal juddering, I'm happy to run like this and if it means saving me £1000+ then that suits me fine

Jamie Moss

First Officer, B737-800

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