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DVA7729
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on September 09 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Roar like GE-90s!" Mississauga, ON Canada
396 legs, 1,741.6 hours
380 legs,
1,692.7 hours online 391 legs,
1,702.2 hours ACARS 46 legs,
113.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 06 2010 21:50 ET by Shahzeb Bhutto
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Hey there DVA, I am not able to play FS since past 2 days or so because of a strange issue. Whenever I launch a software i.e FS9 or any Game, the performance is really bad. Currently right now while typing my PC is running great. But if I launch any game or application, the performance in that application is like a disaster (FPS of FS9 dropped to 4 from 20), but in the background, the PC runs smooth. Can anyone help with this please? Thanks a lot
Specs:
Windows 7 64-bit
3GB RAM
Geforce 8600GT 256MB GDDR3
Pentium D 3.2 Ghz
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DVA7373
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on May 31 2009
"Howdy" Southeastern United States
72 legs, 187.6 hours
32 legs,
85.4 hours online 67 legs,
153.2 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 06 2010 21:53 ET by Nicholas Taylor
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Has your computer been on many days?
Nicholas TaylorCaptain, B757-200
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DVA7729
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on September 09 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Roar like GE-90s!" Mississauga, ON Canada
396 legs, 1,741.6 hours
380 legs,
1,692.7 hours online 391 legs,
1,702.2 hours ACARS 46 legs,
113.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 06 2010 22:00 ET by Shahzeb Bhutto
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Not left on for many days. But everyday, its usually on from 4pm to 11pm.
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DVA7373
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on May 31 2009
"Howdy" Southeastern United States
72 legs, 187.6 hours
32 legs,
85.4 hours online 67 legs,
153.2 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 06 2010 22:03 ET by Nicholas Taylor
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Any other strange things you have noted recently? It could be a virus. Maybe a good 'ol restart will fix it if you haven't already tried that.
Nicholas TaylorCaptain, B757-200
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DVA7729
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on September 09 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Roar like GE-90s!" Mississauga, ON Canada
396 legs, 1,741.6 hours
380 legs,
1,692.7 hours online 391 legs,
1,702.2 hours ACARS 46 legs,
113.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 06 2010 22:09 ET by Shahzeb Bhutto
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I have tried shut down and restart but still no luck. I'm gonna go ahead and do a complete scan for the PC. Will update soon
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DVA894
Captain, B757-200
Joined on September 27 2002
Round Lake, IL USA
24 legs, 55.6 hours
8 legs,
22.1 hours online 4 legs,
10.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
April 06 2010 22:24 ET by Bill Bouxsein
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Try re-installing your video drivers.
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DVA7729
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on September 09 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Roar like GE-90s!" Mississauga, ON Canada
396 legs, 1,741.6 hours
380 legs,
1,692.7 hours online 391 legs,
1,702.2 hours ACARS 46 legs,
113.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 07 2010 00:36 ET by Shahzeb Bhutto
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Alright I reinstalled my video drivers and scanned the whole PC but no good. The problem still exists..
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DVA7899
Captain, B737-800
Joined on October 29 2009
Online Double Century Club
Long Beach Century Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"PMDG or go home :)" Springfield, MO USA
304 legs, 743.8 hours
283 legs,
682.2 hours online 303 legs,
740.0 hours ACARS 30 legs,
47.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 07 2010 00:43 ET by Skylar Macminn
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Open Task manager and tell me what is highest on the CPU/Memory (List the first few that seem rather high) -- do it with and without fs9 running and let me know what it says.
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DVA7729
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on September 09 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Roar like GE-90s!" Mississauga, ON Canada
396 legs, 1,741.6 hours
380 legs,
1,692.7 hours online 391 legs,
1,702.2 hours ACARS 46 legs,
113.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 07 2010 00:59 ET by Shahzeb Bhutto
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Alright, the highest I saw was usage of 20 and the service was windows related: svchost.exe
I guess I will have to reinstall my windows
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DVA7729
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on September 09 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Roar like GE-90s!" Mississauga, ON Canada
396 legs, 1,741.6 hours
380 legs,
1,692.7 hours online 391 legs,
1,702.2 hours ACARS 46 legs,
113.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 07 2010 01:44 ET by Shahzeb Bhutto
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Okay nevermind.. looks like the problem is fixed. I tried re-installing graphics card, hard disk, and RAM. Now everything runs great
Thanks a lot for your help everyone
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