FS9 Advice - System has slowed down

[raddragon]

I have been happily simming on my Pentium D 930 for the past year or so, but after a faulty hard drive resulted in a rebuild, I just cannot get the same performance.

Specs are:
Pentium D 930 3.2
X1950 Pro 512mb AGP (I know, it’s old)
2 GB PC3200 Ram - I have tested ram
Antec 550 PSU
250 Seagate 7200RPM HDD - I have tested HDD

I used to get descent frame rates with the occasional brief pause (mainly flew NZ with Robin Corn’s Real NZ), but now I get blurries, stutters, the game is basically unplayable. I use World of AI at approx 70.

I have attempted the FS9.cfg tweaks, but still have issues. I play on a 32â€￾ Samsung TV at a 1366*768 resolution.

I have a large collection of Wilco, Level D planes etc, but have the same issues with the default planes.

Is there anyone who can advise what could work to get it back to a playable condition? Any advice would be great.

[Kahu]

I had the same problem about a year ago with nearly the same system as yours except a crappy 3.3 celeron processor. In the end a fix was achieved by using a program that uninstalls and cleans up drivers then reinstalling the latest ATI video driver, and that fixed all problems and I now run FSX. Hope that helps.

[ZK-LGD]

Honestly, see here. Whilst the later posts discuss tweaking FSX, religiously following the earlier ones will give you a lean simming rig.

Best of luck.

[raddragon]

Thank you both for your advice. Have made the mods and will give it a test now.

Thanks again.