Couple questions would appreciate your opinons

[silverheels2]

I've just returned to FS after a hiatus of several years and am really enjoying the return. I had a couple of questions I would appreciate your input on.

1. I am currently running FS 9 after years of FS 2002. I have an issue which has carried over concerning the auto spoiler deployment on big jets and on the biz jets I am currently flying. The issue is when I arm the auto spoilers on final, it won't stay armed. just jumps out and returns to stowed position almost immediately sometimes, and sometimes after a minute or two. Occasionally it will stay armed to touchdown and deploy as desired, but that is rare. No manner of calibrating the quadrant in Windows, FS, or FSUIPC makes any difference. Do you think this is just an artifact of my Go Flight throttle quadrant, or do others see this behavior as well. I did find, downloaded, and installed a gauge which arms and deploys the auto spoilers and thrust reverse, and that works nicely but I prefer to engage the reversers myself manually.
Thoughts??

2. My system is about 6 years old and consists of a Pentium 3.2 Gig, Radeon 1800 Pro 256, huge hard drive, FS 9, REX, Real Scene, Ultimate Traffic, and 1 Gig memory. The question is do you think my system performance in terms of frame rates would improve if I added another gig of memory.
Thoughts???

Thanks in advance.

[pfflyers]

It certainly wouldn't hurt to add another gig of ram, I saw a bigger performance gain from adding system ram than I got from upgrading my vid card.

As far as the autospoilers, I've seen the same sort of problem so I don't think it is specific to your system. I try to verify the setting as close to touchdown as I can, but things do get pretty busy as the runway gets close. I've been using a gauge like you decribed and I like it.

[silverheels2]

Thanks for answering PF. I have wondered for years about the auto spoilers thing. Very aggravating and pulls my attention away from the approach to keep resetting the thing. Yeah, I ordered to 1 gig sticks the other data. Probably faster than my 1 gig stick to boot. We'll see what happens.

[dcmair]

Don't mean to be telling anyone what to do, but if you upgrade your video card, an d then add Ram, then your processor is running behind, and cannot keep up with the acceleration. Thats whats happening on my computer. I have a Quad, but after updating I'm getting glitches, and frames per second slowdowns going through clouds. New Video card, and 6 gigs. Processor can't keep up. FS9 only very dense. Used to run full bore. Will put up with situation until I can afford a new processor.

[ronzie]

FS9 only uses a single core of the processor and does most of its rendering in the CPU and the CPU clock speed has the most effect. In my XP system I use 2 GB of ram on a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4. I shut down background processes not required. FS and add-ons get 1.4 GB of ram to use.

FS9 will only use up to 2GB of ram. With the FS9 3 GB procedure to modify the.exe it can use more ram. It requires in XP a modification in boot.ini and your BIOS and processor must support CPU address extension.

It has been shown that in Win 7 FSX will gain some performance and so should FS9 based on the what has been written. While pre Win 7 FS did all of its complex math in the main CPU under Win 7 complex math instructions are trapped and sent to the more efficient GPU on a proper graphics card if it is not busy.

Upgrading RAM and putting in a higher performance video card should not load down the CPU. If it does it might be an increased performance load of the graphics card driver update. If you use the same graphics adapter driver there should be no degradation.

The hardware forum here is more suited to this type of discussion.

[ronzie]

Check in FSUIPC for throttle or other control jitter. Ground spoilers will deactivate once contact is made if the throttle increases. Use the FSUIPC jitter filters available in the registered.

On an advanced aircraft i can't recall but has an occasional case where the ground spoilers lost the armed state.