FS9 decrease frame rate with DEMO VERSION

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FS9 decrease frame rate with DEMO VERSION

Post by Albertopx » Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:34 am

Good morning, I bought Force feedback joystick (SAITEK Cyborg EVO FORCE) and I downloaded the trial version of FSFORCE to try it before buy it. The prblem is the frame that go from 25 fps to 4 fps to return to 25 and return back to 4 and so on.... As reported I have disabled the window of the trim, I have changed the fullscrean to windowed screen, I have wrote AVE_FRAME_RATE_DISPLAY=1" but the problem did not disappeared. Also I tried to low the configuration of the video in FS like the terrain, density of scenery and so on but no resolved.
My video card is ATI 1950. I have these program installed: ULTIMETE TERRAIN USA, PRO GROUND ENVIRONMENT, ACTIVE SKY, ACTIVE CAMERA, FS GLOBAL
The joystick force work fine and I can feel it in my hand but the problem is the frame rate. Can help me
Alberto (from Italy)

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Post by RussDirks » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:34 pm

Normally you should only be seeing a consistent 15% - 20% drop in fps when using FS Force. You may be experiencing some sort of conflict with all the other addons you have installed.
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Post by RussDirks » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:42 pm

One thing you can try is open fsforce.cfg and add the line "DebugLog=1" under the [General] section. Then try running FS9 and reproduce the errors. Exit and see what's in the logfile.txt. Send it to support<at>fs-force<dot>com.
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Post by Albertopx » Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:11 pm

Good morning Russ, thanks for your prompt answer. I wrote in internet about a problem with FSFORCE and ACTIVE CAMERA so I unistalled ACTIVE CAMERA and so the problems of frame disappered and was possible to have good frame rate. Also I tried to reinstalled ACTIVE CAMERA after having already installed FSFORCE DEMO and now the two program work fine togheter. Also I create the 2 logfile (one without ACTIVE CAMERA installed and one with ACTIVE CAMERA uninstalled). They seams different but I can not understand what they mean. I will send to you by mail. Can you tell me what you thing about the two logfile so I will buy the program
Thank you very much for your help
Alberto

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Post by RussDirks » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:14 am

I wouldn't worry about 1 or 2 errors in the log file. That is normal. Sounds like you managed to get the program working. There may have been a conflict between Active Camera, if it got loaded first.
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