Greenie,
I have been working with Luciano Napolitano for beta testing of his WideView program and I have been plagued to the MAX with scenery blurring and memory problems....to the point that my client computers would often simply just end an FS2002 session with a report....."Your computer has run out of memory and FS2002 will now shut down".
Since WinXP is not widely yet used in much of the crowd that runs WideView I was a real thorn in Luciano's side. Grin.
I found GREAT improvement by doing two things....disabling System Restore and also setting my performance for Programs rather than for the default WinXP Pro settings that give you the mouse "shadows", font smoothing....etc.,...all available in Control Panel/Advanced/Performance.
After such tweaking I was able to fly for over 4 hours in a 747 at 320 knots and 10000 feet before I would be in trouble on the clients......BUT only the clients.
It seems, and this is only a hunch, that with System Restore ON....each client tried to update its hard drive data for System Restore.....at the same time it was getting tremendous data from WideView and FS2002 for the scenery changes as I flew.
It also seems that the Date/Time feature impacts tremendously on a client.....as each tick of the clock will produce a change in scenery texture/shadows/colors.
We have found, at this time, that it is very important to disable Time/Date in the WideView config file....and simply Update the Time/Date once an hour or so.
Thanks for the new thread, I will be more careful in the future!
Regards,
Mel