Hi Mel,

We don't have the luxury of breaking threads with this software, so I just thought we'd start a new one.

>>Question....have you turned OFF your System Restore feature yet in WinXP? Really helps improve the performance of FS2002 and WideView....be curious if you can report the same?<<

I haven't tried that, and I just might. If this was windows Me we were talking about, there would be no way no how I'd turn off system restore. That utility got my butt out of way to many slings . But, since we're talking about XP I will probably give it a shot. The darn OS just keeps going and going and going...I love it. I probably haven't used system restore since Beta2 of the test and that was around February (I think).

I'll let you know how FS looks.

--Greenie
**6 miles SSE KSJC**

• RE: FS2K2 Performance,Tarmack, 11:27z, 12-18-01
  • RE: FS2K2 Performance,JustinSnyder, 02:03z, 12-19-01
    • RE: FS2K2 Performance,Mike_Greenwood, 04:46z, 12-19-01
      • RE: FS2K2 Performance,JustinSnyder, 05:33z, 12-20-01
• RE: FS2K2 Performance,James, 19:37z, 12-18-01

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

Hi Mel!

Thanks for the WinXP performance tips. With the exception of smoothing screen fonts, I disabled all visual effects and System Restore. WinXP seems to be a fabulous OS so far - I'm really impressed.

Thanks again!

Justin Snyder
Temecula, CA

Hi Justin,

>>WinXP seems to be a fabulous OS so far - I'm really impressed.<<

Hehe, yup! I was on the beta testing team for XP, and was impressed over a year ago when I got beta 1. It still had a long ways to go at that point but it was already better than WinMe back then. This is the best OS from MS yet!

--Greenie
**6 miles SSE KSJC**

Hi Mike:

I had one of the last Betas (the one you pay $19.95 for LOL) and loved the look and feel but had some performance issues. I can't wait for SP1 - anyone heard anything about it? Late winter maybe?

BTW, I loved the tweaking tips at SimHQ.com a week or so ago - great stuff!

Justin Snyder
Temecula, CA

Yo Mike,

So you managed to get out of bed then <LOL>. Well I have just had to use System Restore for thee first time

Updated the motherboard data etc etc and it kept adding new hardware and not finding drivers. It was driving me nuts so a restore was in order. Sorted (I think)

James.