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Postby Dontcopy » Sun Jun 26, 2011 11:17 am

Hey.. again.
My FSX suffers from pretty bad stutters like in some places it will flick between 110fps and 15fps in less than a second ohmy.gif
I know there is an external frame rate limiter around, but it seems to have been removed from all the download sites,
so if anyone can provide a link I would be very thankful.. laugh.gif
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Postby deeknow » Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:17 pm

Try this thread, looks like aussieX are sharing a copy:
http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/topic/...fps-limiter-02/

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Postby Dontcopy » Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:06 pm

Thanks deeknow, it worked!!! And seemed to solve the problem!
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Postby Nosecone » Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:43 pm

Hi Guys
Tried it but can't get it to do anything. Installed java placed the fps limiter in FX ran the gui file nothing happens am I missing something

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Postby deeknow » Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:57 pm

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QUOTE (Nosecone @ Jun 27 2011,6:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Tried it but can't get it to do anything. Installed java placed the fps limiter in FX ran the gui file nothing happens am I missing something

Hey Rhys. Are you sure you're running the new BAT file you created with the GUI to start FS? You need to create a shortcut to the BAT file and run that. For example my new shortcut points to...
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"C:\Program Files\FPS_Limiter\fsx.exe.limited.bat"
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Postby Nosecone » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:06 pm

Hi deeknow
ok I seem to stuck
I installed and unzipped the FPS limiter in to FX double clicked on the FPS_Limiter_GUI.jar and nothing is happening

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Postby dart15 » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:40 pm

deeknow wrote:
QUOTE (deeknow @ Jun 26 2011,1:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Try this thread, looks like aussieX are sharing a copy:
http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/topic/...fps-limiter-02/

Great little tool, has made quite a difference on my rig to make it more stable



Yes seems to work well; but do you know how I can get REX to use the .bat file - it just wants to be pointed to the \FSX folder (I think??)?

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Postby Nosecone » Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:50 pm

Hi guys
Can't get the thing to work, any suggestions

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Postby deeknow » Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:09 pm

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QUOTE (Nosecone @ Jul 3 2011,6:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Can't get the thing to work, any suggestions

Rhys, are you sure you have Java installed? If you open a command prompt window and type Java then hit enter what do you see?
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Postby Nosecone » Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:18 am

Hi deeknow
java is showing up in control pane,l but in run when I typed in java the dos window appears for just a split second

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Postby deeknow » Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:42 pm

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QUOTE (Nosecone @ Jul 4 2011,10:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
java is showing up in control pane,l but in run when I typed in java the dos window appears for just a split second

You need to run a command prompt window so you can see the results, try going start-run and enter "cmd" and hit return. Then run "Java" and see what happens.
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Postby Nosecone » Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:55 pm

Hi deeknow
here is a pic of what happened


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Postby Nosecone » Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:42 pm

Got this error report when I ran the FPS_Limiter_GUI

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#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x04a2e75d, pid=1804, tid=2352
#
# JRE version: 6.0_26-b03
# Java VM: Java HotSpot™ Client VM (20.1-b02 mixed mode, sharing windows-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C [S3DWrapperD3D9.dll+0x9e75d]
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

--------------- T H R E A D ---------------

Current thread (0x02fcd400): JavaThread "AWT-Windows" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=2352, stack(0x03870000,0x038c0000)]

siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc0000005, reading address 0x00000000

Registers:
EAX=0x00000000, EBX=0x00000000, ECX=0x038be714, EDX=0x00000000
ESP=0x038be6f0, EBP=0x038be724, ESI=0x038be714, EDI=0x000003ff
EIP=0x04a2e75d, EFLAGS=0x00010202

Top of Stack: (sp=0x038be6f0)
0x038be6f0: 05728dd8 04a3b07e 00000000 5ee8ade0
0x038be700: 000003ff 05728dd8 00000000 00000000
0x038be710: 05728dd8 00000000 038be754 04ab9dbc
0x038be720: ffffffff 038be760 04a3badb 5ee8ada4
0x038be730: 05727ee0 05728dd8 00000000 05728dd8
0x038be740: 00000000 04a3b856 00000000 05728dd8
0x038be750: 038be72c 038be79c 04ab9f61 0000000c
0x038be760: 038be7a8 04a63d2a 00000000 05722258

Instructions: (pc=0x04a2e75d)
0x04a2e73d: 85 c0 74 11 ff 35 40 15 b8 04 50 e8 9c c9 ff ff
0x04a2e74d: 83 26 00 59 59 5e c3 8b 44 24 04 56 8b f1 89 06
0x04a2e75d: ff 30 e8 ab c9 ff ff 59 8b c6 5e c2 04 00 8b 01
0x04a2e76d: ff 30 e8 bd c9 ff ff 59 c3 6a 04 b8 be b9 ab 04


Register to memory mapping:

EAX=0x00000000 is an unknown value
EBX=0x00000000 is an unknown value
ECX=0x038be714 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x02fcd400
EDX=0x00000000 is an unknown value
ESP=0x038be6f0 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x02fcd400
EBP=0x038be724 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x02fcd400
ESI=0x038be714 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x02fcd400
EDI=0x000003ff is an unknown value


Stack: [0x03870000,0x038c0000], sp=0x038be6f0, free space=313k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [S3DWrapperD3D9.dll+0x9e75d]
C [S3DWrapperD3D9.dll+0xabadb]
C [S3DWrapperD3D9.dll+0xd3d2a]
C [S3DWrapperD3D9.dll+0xad5c1]
C [S3DWrapperD3D9.dll+0x9deef]
C [S3DWrapperD3D9.dll+0x9dff3]
C [S3DWrapperD3D9.dll+0x9b85b]
C[/quote]

Any ideas?

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Postby cowpatz » Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:56 pm

If the default of 30 fps is selected does it maintain that value reasonably accurately. I have installed it but still get flickering frame rates from 30 up to 42 or slightly more.
Should it be more solid around the 30 mark?
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Postby deeknow » Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:46 pm

Nosecone wrote:
QUOTE (Nosecone @ Jul 4 2011,1:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>


Hey Rhys, that log doesn't help me, not a Java expert to be honest (a full stack trace might help but not sure where you'll find that on your system), but I reccomend you make sure your Java version is up to date, this problem could be caused by a bug in an older Java VM. Got to the following and do an update...
http://www.java.com/en/download/

cowpatz wrote:
QUOTE (cowpatz @ Jul 16 2011,3:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If the default of 30 fps is selected does it maintain that value reasonably accurately. I have installed it but still get flickering frame rates from 30 up to 42 or slightly more. Should it be more solid around the 30 mark?


Hey CP, yeah my experience is that it usually sticks to what I select, with a little variation, but not much.
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Postby Nosecone » Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:02 am

Thank deeknow
Got it fixed !! I have some 3D drivers that for some strange reason would not let java do anything. Disabled them and things are working fine.

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Postby deeknow » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:26 am

Nosecone wrote:
QUOTE (Nosecone @ Jul 17 2011,9:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Got it fixed !! I have some 3D drivers that for some strange reason would not let java do anything. Disabled them and things are working fine.

Awesome, well done
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