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DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200
Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club
Monterrey, NL Mexico
357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs,
132.3 hours online 255 legs,
668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 26 2005 15:17 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
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Hey everyone...
Since I installed SB3, FS takes TWICE (time counted) to load up.
Then, when I enter the main screen and select...... loading the flight takes a little bit long too.
May this be some SB3's bug or something?
I didn't install anything but SB3 since I have this problem
Anyone having this issue too?
Grazzie...
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DVA1679
Senior Captain, A320
Joined on May 16 2004
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
"flightdeckproductions.com" Utica, MI USA
322 legs, 620.4 hours
300 legs,
591.4 hours online 115 legs,
194.0 hours ACARS 5 legs,
11.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 26 2005 17:00 ET by Larry Foltran
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I have noticed that FS takes a little longer than usual to load. Not too big of a deal, but noticable.
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DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200
Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club
Monterrey, NL Mexico
357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs,
132.3 hours online 255 legs,
668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 26 2005 20:06 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
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Weird, takes twice here
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DVA630
Senior Captain, B777-200
Joined on June 22 2002
Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Online Seven Century Club
Everett 250 Club
B757 100 Club
"Flightsimaroma therapy." Bainbridge, PA
873 legs, 2,775.4 hours
783 legs,
2,429.4 hours online 487 legs,
1,454.8 hours ACARS 19 legs,
64.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 28 2005 06:52 ET by Kenneth Rodriguez
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Eugenio:
This is possibly due in part because of the data that SB3 has to load with the aircraft data and so forth. Make sure you defrag your HD and turn off the FS Behavioral Set in the MS DOS command screen. You should see a slight improvement.
Best Regards.
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DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200
Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club
Monterrey, NL Mexico
357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs,
132.3 hours online 255 legs,
668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 28 2005 10:45 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
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Thanks for the suggestion Kenneth, I'll try it as soon as I get some time free. I jsut did that defrag a couple of weeks ago, and had no improvement at all (I know that it might help now that SB3 is installed)
have a nice week...
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DVA630
Senior Captain, B777-200
Joined on June 22 2002
Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Online Seven Century Club
Everett 250 Club
B757 100 Club
"Flightsimaroma therapy." Bainbridge, PA
873 legs, 2,775.4 hours
783 legs,
2,429.4 hours online 487 legs,
1,454.8 hours ACARS 19 legs,
64.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 31 2005 00:37 ET by Kenneth Rodriguez
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I defrag my HD everyday. I have 4 partitions on my HD and FS resides on it's own partition which is never touched. However, you may want to defrag more often if you have only one partition on your PC and this is where you store documents, schoo;work, etc. The HD can become fragmented very quickly.
Best Regards.
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AFV011
Senior Captain, B777-300
Joined on September 19 2004
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
Online Two Fifty Club
Triple Century Club
Historic Triple Century Club
"Remember...140, 250, and REALLY FAST" Midwestern United States
394 legs, 606.7 hours
274 legs,
430.6 hours online 86 legs,
126.5 hours ACARS 8 legs,
16.0 hours event 501 legs, 763.5 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
March 31 2005 06:41 ET by Michael Carter
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How do I set up a separate partition on the HD for FS only? Once it is set up, how do I get FS to that partition?
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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
March 31 2005 09:24 ET by Bill Bouxsein
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Mike if you dont want to re-format, you would need to use a utility like partition magic. You can then move your FS install to the partition. If you dont want to move the entire install, you could also use the new partition for just the addons that you install. Here is the link to the partition magic web site where you can get more info: http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/
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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
March 31 2005 09:26 ET by Bill Bouxsein
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Ken, what is the "FS behavioral set" that you are refering to? I hope it is not in the SB3 manual, otherwise someone will figure out I didn't RTFM!
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DVA630
Senior Captain, B777-200
Joined on June 22 2002
Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Online Seven Century Club
Everett 250 Club
B757 100 Club
"Flightsimaroma therapy." Bainbridge, PA
873 legs, 2,775.4 hours
783 legs,
2,429.4 hours online 487 legs,
1,454.8 hours ACARS 19 legs,
64.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 06 2005 02:22 ET by Kenneth Rodriguez
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Wow,
It's pretty darn obvious I don't read all of the threads often here in the cooler....LOL!
Bill, here you go:
To turn this off go to the command prompt:
At the command prompt enter the following:
FSUTIL BEHAVIOR SET DISABLELASTACCESS 1
If you ever want to turn it back on again enter:
FSUTIL BEHAVIOR SET DISABLELASTACCESS 0
Reboot your computer.
This will stop Windows XP from writing bits of data to a log file on each and every time it has to access FS. It saves you some resources and speeds things up a bit.
Another little trick I've learned if your PC can handle it, you can change the Texture Load Bandwidth in the FS9.cfg file. By default, it is set to a value of 40. I have mine set at 400 and the textures load really fast, but again, you will need a fast PC to handle such a high value. You can <ctrl f> in the FS9.cfg file and type in TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT. You will see this value set at 40. Play around with the number. You'll have to go between the .cfg and FS to really get the right value set.
Best Regards.
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DVA630
Senior Captain, B777-200
Joined on June 22 2002
Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Online Seven Century Club
Everett 250 Club
B757 100 Club
"Flightsimaroma therapy." Bainbridge, PA
873 legs, 2,775.4 hours
783 legs,
2,429.4 hours online 487 legs,
1,454.8 hours ACARS 19 legs,
64.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 06 2005 08:25 ET by Kenneth Rodriguez
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**As a note on the texture Bandwidth changes.** This will not improve you FPS. It will only load the textures faster.
Best Regards.
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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 07 2005 08:43 ET by Bill Bouxsein
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Thanks for the info Ken. I knew about the texture abndwidth, but had never heard of the behavioral set. I will give it a try. Thanks again.
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