Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - FS2004 Performance Mega-Decrease

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | FS2004 Performance Mega-Decrease

DVA9053
First Officer, B727-200

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Posted onPost created on November 09 2014 10:04 ET by Chris Helton

Okay... I've been struggling with FS2004 performance for about 3 days now, and in that time I have tried to do every single thing I can think of to bring it back up. The details:

A couple days back, I set up a whole bunch of settings in NVIDIA inspector for FS9 to use. After I did that, I noticed my performance had tanked. Turns out I had accidentally turned off compatability with Optimus, which didn't allow my NVIDIA card to be used with FS9. I fixed that, no problem, and performance saw a huge boost with all my planes with a test flight around Seattle by FlyTampa. Frames went from about 10 to well over 60 so I had no issue, or thought I didn't. The next day, or yesterday, I attempted to fly an Alaska Airlines 737-400 (by Wilco) from a freeware scenery of Ketchikan PAKT to Seattle KSEA. At first, all was well, great performance, no issue. But before I had pushed back, my FPS had dropped from 60+ to about 30. No big deal, still looked smooth. But then as I pushed back, my virtual cockpit FPS absolutely TANKED, straight down to less than 8 when moving the head, and outside my FPS was down to about 20. i have tried this flight about 5 times now all with the same results, no matter what I try. I recently wiped my hard drive and don't have a lot of addons installed. Before wiping my drive, I had almost no issue with performance at ALL.

Alienware M14xR2
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
Intel Core i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz
8GB of RAM
NVIDIA GT650M

FS2004 settings all to the max, have attempted to lock frames at 30, 40, 60 and unlimited with no change.
FS2004 installed to C:\FS9
Addons Installed:
REX and HDEv2 Clouds
REX water and effects including contrails
HDEv2 sky textures
Ground Environment Pro
Ultimate Terrain USA
A few freeware sceneries
FlyTampa Seattle
Aerosoft AES
ImagineSim KCVG and KLGA
Ultimate Traffic utilizing high quality models (never had issue here before)
Active Sky Evolution weather
iFly 737NG
Wilco E-Jets v2 (E-170 and E-190) and PIC 737
A couple freeware planes

I have tried the following:
Deleting the FS9.cfg and letting it rebuild a new one (no change)
Changing NVIDIA inspector settings (not quite so experienced on that though)
Disabling AI Traffic (no change)
Disabling or tuning down weather settings (no change)
Fixing missing alpha maps/faulty textures (no change, though I haven't noticed nearly as many CTDs)
Changing NVIDIA Inspector settings to default (no change)
Changing NVIDIA Inspector settings to almost any combination imaginable (no change)
Reverting back to older NVIDIA drivers (no change, although I think it might have introduced shimmering)

I will do almost anything EXCEPT re-installing again if it can be avoided.
Any and all help is appreciated,
Chris

Chris Helton

First Officer, B727-200

Posted onPost created on November 09 2014 13:27 ET by Chris Helton

I have an update. I attempted to do a different flight, the iFly 737-800 from KSAN to KSLC, and so far have had an almost solid 30 FPS accept for a small time of decrease to about 20 on the ground.

Chris Helton

First Officer, B727-200

Posted onPost created on November 09 2014 15:57 ET by Chris Helton

Okay guys, nevermind now. I figured it out. The issue was that I had FS2004 set to run in Compatibility Mode for Windows XP. Turning this off fixed the issue

Chris Helton

First Officer, B727-200

DVA7357
Captain, B737-800
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Posted onPost created on November 09 2014 16:52 ET by Matthew McAlpine

Glad you worked it out Christopher. Wish I could have been more help but I hadn't used 2004 in years.

Matthew McAlpine (DVA7357)

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