Hi cthiggin,
Have you also tried the microsoft.public.simulator newsgroup.
It's frequented by some of the Flight Simulator MVP's who
may be able to offer some advice specific to this issue.
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cthiggin Wrote:
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| Are you referring to "Window Mode" in FSX? - if so, I've tried that and it
| doesn't change anything............the flightsim forum I use is really saying
| as of today -
| the new FSX sp1 is going to "slow" FSX by up to 10 fps - Guess I'll be
| flying backwards then - ALSO, that the high end nVidia 8800gts card I'm
| using/Dir X compatible really has some driver issues - along with new patches
| for DirX 10 later this fall - Just seems like it should be easier than that -
| along with the fact as to why the developers of FSX could have made it where
| it's not such a cpu hog -
| I just don't want to upgrade a mb and new ram/processor - I've done shelled
| out big dollars for a 22" Wide Screen Monitor / Nvidia Card / Vista -
| Thanks Jimmy.
|
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi cthiggin,
||
|| According to everything I've read, it's the drivers.
|| You might try going into Windowed Mode and then
|| Maximizing the window to get more performance.
||
||
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|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
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||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
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||
|| cthiggin Wrote:
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||| NTFS
||| Any thoughts on FSX -
||| Thanks again for staying in touch
||| cthiggin
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi cthiggin,
||||
|||| I remember since the days of Windows 98 there had been
|||| reports of software not running if installed in the root (c:\).
|||| Back then, the reason was due to FAT limitations. Out of
|||| curiosity, which file system are you using with Vista?
||||
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|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S.
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||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
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|||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
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|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
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||||
|||| cthiggin Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Hello Jimmy,
||||| UPDATE - MS has been working on a problem with talking to my ethernet
||||| printer - they're just stumped - Can ping it fine, but it will not accept
||||| files to print - NOR can I ftp the printer ? They have escalated the case to
||||| engineers - worked fine under xp -
||||| OK - I installed Voice Buddy on partition D: AND it worked pretty well -
||||| Seemed like a little delay when I would say a command and the time to access
||||| the file on D: -
||||| In talking to my MS rep today (ethernet problem) , we were discussing how
||||| Vista does not like for anything to be accessed in the program files - he
||||| suggested to install Voice Buddy in a folder, outside of Programs, and try
||||| it....I told him I had installed it in the root of C:, but he said that was
||||| different -
||||| I installed in a folder, Voice Buddy, AND the thing works fine - go figure?
||||| Maybe this will help someone else.........................
||||| Stay in touch and thanks so much -
||||| I also had a call today from MS on the FSX issue of very low FPS - in
||||| summary, he tweaked my Nvidia 8800GTS settings, had to move autogen and a few
||||| others lower,
||||| and reduced my screen resolution - started getting 20 - 25 fps - it's not as
||||| pretty, but it's not jerky.
||||| He said AT LEAST, I would have the hardware READY - when FSX SP1 comes out,
||||| along with patches for DirX10, AND when Nvidia cleans up and tweaks their
||||| drivers. He said with my setup, 6 months from now, I should see 50 - 60
||||| fps......
||||| What do you think???????????
||||| Thanks again Jimmy - You help and research is highly appreciated.
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi cthiggin,
||||||
|||||| After mulling over your posts for a few days and not
|||||| finding any similar situations in my research either, I
|||||| have to suggest that you test all your hardware to be
|||||| sure that it's compatible with Vista, remove anything
|||||| that isn't and then perform a clean install of the OS.
||||||
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|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
|||||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
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||||||
|||||| cthiggin Wrote:
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||||||| Hello again Jimmy,
||||||| I tried to install the Vista "patch" you suggested - Vista came back and
||||||| said this program is not viable with this version - ? I have Vista Home
||||||| Premium - The vendor of VB is having their engineers look into the problem -
||||||| AND I have threads on the flight sim forums that other folks aren't have any
||||||| problems - My pc is as clean as a whistle, with only Illustrator / Photoshop
||||||| / and Pagemaker - It was an up-grade install over XP Media Center OS - I
||||||| certainly defragged / cleaned / make backups of impt. files - maybe I should
||||||| have done a clean install???? - Any more ideas??
||||||| Thanks again, cthiggin
|||||||
||||||| "cthiggin" wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| Hello Jimmy,
|||||||| Hopefully, this will be the life-saver - As stated, I have tried everything,
|||||||| from turning of UAC, installing outside of program files in root of C:, to no
|||||||| avail.
|||||||| I have been using the vendors "vista patch" to no avail. I took a chance
|||||||| and installed it on an empty partition or D: - It works half of the time - it
|||||||| appears the delay from my voice command and the time it needs to access d, it
|||||||| gets confused.
|||||||| I am sure going to try this and hopefully it will work "without the possible
|||||||| issues of my cd/dvd crashing.
|||||||| (FYI) I have been talking with MS for several days on an ethernet proplem to
|||||||| my printer, can ping it fine, however it won't do a test page or anything
|||||||| else - the MS tech that has been on this case since inception is as
|||||||| frustrated as I am - Yesterday, he said "it has to be in the protection
|||||||| layering of Vista - he's going to get with the "engineers" to try and
|||||||| resolve. Of course, all of the issues didn't exist under XP.
|||||||| THANKS for your research - stay in touch.
|||||||| Tom
||||||||
|||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||||||||
||||||||| Hi cthiggin,
|||||||||
||||||||| I would have suggested this update had I found that application
||||||||| listed (
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929427) however the
||||||||| developers of VoiceBuddy may have an update available soon!
|||||||||
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||||||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
||||||||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||||||||
||||||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
||||||||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||||||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
||||||||| _________________________________________________________
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||||||||| cthiggin Wrote:
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|||||||||| Just upgraded to Vista for DX10 - previous version was XP -
|||||||||| Had a program for FSX - VoiceBuddy by eDimensional which is great for
|||||||||| simming. Ran fine under XP - After Vista upgrade, the program will install
|||||||||| fine, but when opened, it freezes up NOT RESPONDING - I've tried everything -
|||||||||| even used the upgraded vista driver to no avail. You help and ideas would be
|||||||||| most appreciated.
|||||||||| cthiggin
