Lowered FPS whenever panels are displayed- FS2004

[fisherm53]

I am experiencing very low FPS (7-9) when I am in an airplane looking at the panel. I have noticed that when I toggle to an outside view and the panel is NOT displayed, my FPS go up to nearly 30 FPS. I also noticed the same thing happening when I am in a Cessna 172 for example and I open the radio stack.
If anyone has experienced this before and knows of a fix or workaround, I would appreicate your input.
My specs are:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Core 2 Duo E8400 @3 Ghz
Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 Ti
4GB Ram
Western Digital 1TB hard drive with over 560GB of free space

Mike

[greg233]

It's your clouds that lower the frame rate. The more detailed make it worse. I assume you mean the 2d view.

[dat]

Well, Greg is right. If you push the transparency, 3D, in the clouds effects,
harder it is on graphic ressources. But a GTX 560 can handle a lot.
Strange because the problem seems in 2D cockpit...
Mike, a what resolution are you set in Win7 and in FS ?
How is the FPS in Virtual Cockpit looking around ?

WinXP Pro, Dual Core 3.4(4gb), 8800 GTX, dual screen(Asus 27.5" + 17")
TrackIR5, Saitek yoke+rudder+quadrant, Saitek radio+multi+switch panels

[fisherm53]

Hey Greg and Dat. Thanks for responding back about my issue. Greg, I am running 1920x1024 in Windows but throttled it back to 1280x1024 in FS2004 just so that i could pick up a few FPS. Any cockpit that I have up has the lowered frame rates. Also, I am using simple clouds and not the detailed clouds, as I know they are a frame rate hog.
I am going to do a fresh install of FS2004 and see where that gets me. I will report back on the results

Mike

[fisherm53]

I reinstalled fs2004 and I am still getting the same issue. When I am inside any aircraft, prop or jet, and I am in panel view, the frame rate constantly toggles between about 9.2 and 11.0. If I switch to any other view, it immediately goes around 32 fps, which is where I have it set in display options. I experimented with lowering many of the graphics sliders in display options, but it had no effect at all.
Also I am using release 296 for the Nvidia drivers. I previously had the latest and greatest release but I was experiencing the same issue.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

Mike in Arlington, Tx