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Old September 22nd 04, 06:31 AM
anon
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Default Combat Flight Simulator Loads Very Slow!

I'm not sure where else to post this, but I know MS folks cruise it
regularly so any help appreciated.

Combat Flight Simulator CFS1 loads VERY slowly - especially when it says
"Please wait while mission loads".

Now, I'm running a Celeron 600 on a CUSL2 MOBO w/ 512 Meg ram & 32 meg
GeForce 2 video card.

I'm running WinME with all the latest video drivers, direct x 9, windows
updates etc.

I've scanned & defragged, run MSConfig & shut down all but Explorer to no
avail.

I've disabled the intro movie & edited the .exe file with a hex editor to
not require the CD to run it, so the cdrom won;t be a choke point.

I've monkey'd with the Swap file & system.ini file : here are the various
snippets:

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
display=*vdd,*vflatd
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
PagingDrive=C:
MinPagingFileSize=1024000
device=*enable
MaxPagingFileSize=1024000

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288


I also tried & removed this line:
ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1

Nothing really seems to make any difference - except the vcache causes the
menu screens to react much better.

Is there some hardware or driver compatibility issue here? Is directx9
trying to emulate directx6 and takes a while to do some kind of conversions?
The hard drive isn't going nuts while this is loading either.


  #2  
Old September 22nd 04, 12:44 PM
Mike M
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Microsoft staff rarely visit this newsgroup
(microsoft.public.windowsme.general) so you might instead want to try
posting to the microsoft.public.windowsme.games newsgroup where a couple
of MS staffers do occasionally check and try to help those having games
related problems.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004]



anon wrote:

I'm not sure where else to post this, but I know MS folks cruise it
regularly so any help appreciated.

Combat Flight Simulator CFS1 loads VERY slowly - especially when it
says "Please wait while mission loads".

Now, I'm running a Celeron 600 on a CUSL2 MOBO w/ 512 Meg ram & 32 meg
GeForce 2 video card.

I'm running WinME with all the latest video drivers, direct x 9,
windows updates etc.

I've scanned & defragged, run MSConfig & shut down all but Explorer
to no avail.

I've disabled the intro movie & edited the .exe file with a hex
editor to not require the CD to run it, so the cdrom won;t be a choke
point.

I've monkey'd with the Swap file & system.ini file : here are the
various snippets:

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
display=*vdd,*vflatd
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
PagingDrive=C:
MinPagingFileSize=1024000
device=*enable
MaxPagingFileSize=1024000

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288


I also tried & removed this line:
ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1

Nothing really seems to make any difference - except the vcache
causes the menu screens to react much better.

Is there some hardware or driver compatibility issue here? Is
directx9 trying to emulate directx6 and takes a while to do some kind
of conversions? The hard drive isn't going nuts while this is loading
either.


  #3  
Old September 22nd 04, 04:08 PM
B.J.Honeycut
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:44:31 GMT,"Mike M" penned
this whopper in microsoft.public.windowsme.general

Microsoft staff rarely visit this newsgroup
(microsoft.public.windowsme.general) so you might instead want to try
posting to the microsoft.public.windowsme.games newsgroup where a couple
of MS staffers do occasionally check and try to help those having games
related problems.


I can say that GeForce 2 doesn't like DirectX9, so you might have a problem
there. I don't know that game, but if it is MS, it is probably using the
latest DX tricks. I had to roll my son's back to 8.1 - short of new
hardware, there was no other fix I could find.

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike
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Old September 23rd 04, 08:08 AM
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-----Original Message-----
I'm not sure where else to post this, but I know MS folks

cruise it
regularly so any help appreciated.

Combat Flight Simulator CFS1 loads VERY slowly -

especially when it says
"Please wait while mission loads".

Now, I'm running a Celeron 600 on a CUSL2 MOBO w/ 512 Meg

ram & 32 meg
GeForce 2 video card.

I'm running WinME with all the latest video drivers,

direct x 9, windows
updates etc.

I've scanned & defragged, run MSConfig & shut down all

but Explorer to no
avail.

I've disabled the intro movie & edited the .exe file with

a hex editor to
not require the CD to run it, so the cdrom won;t be a

choke point.

I've monkey'd with the Swap file & system.ini file : here

are the various
snippets:

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
display=*vdd,*vflatd
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
PagingDrive=C:
MinPagingFileSize=1024000
device=*enable
MaxPagingFileSize=1024000

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288


I also tried & removed this line:
ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1

Nothing really seems to make any difference - except the

vcache causes the
menu screens to react much better.

Is there some hardware or driver compatibility issue

here? Is directx9
trying to emulate directx6 and takes a while to do some

kind of conversions?
The hard drive isn't going nuts while this is loading

either.


.start,settings,taskbar and start menu/advanced/the

other advanced/
programs/cut and hack through them i usually put them back
in their folders in My Documents/ or delete them (usually
copys with arrows anyway.)

Look at Reboot. anonymous Sept 22,2004 11:22 P.M. page #2
for MS DOS tools method
unhook and kill zip drive its your slowest drive
maybe A: Drive also ??? its slow could be a bottle
neck ????
your only as fast as your slowest drive
try a blue laser reader

change your 33 ATA ribbon cables up to the the round ones
they are ATA 100 or faster
bigger HD with a faster seek time
cable or sat modem ,different board, faster bridges, gigs
of ram , the list goes on and on



:) Randy




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Old September 26th 04, 01:43 AM
B.J.Honeycut
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:08:35
penned this whopper in microsoft.public.windowsme.general


-----Original Message-----
I'm not sure where else to post this, but I know MS folks

cruise it
regularly so any help appreciated.

Combat Flight Simulator CFS1 loads VERY slowly -

especially when it says
"Please wait while mission loads".

Now, I'm running a Celeron 600 on a CUSL2 MOBO w/ 512 Meg

ram & 32 meg
GeForce 2 video card.

I'm running WinME with all the latest video drivers,

direct x 9, windows
updates etc.

I've scanned & defragged, run MSConfig & shut down all

but Explorer to no
avail.

I've disabled the intro movie & edited the .exe file with

a hex editor to
not require the CD to run it, so the cdrom won;t be a

choke point.

I've monkey'd with the Swap file & system.ini file : here

are the various
snippets:

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
display=*vdd,*vflatd
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
PagingDrive=C:
MinPagingFileSize=1024000
device=*enable
MaxPagingFileSize=1024000

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288


I also tried & removed this line:
ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1

Nothing really seems to make any difference - except the

vcache causes the
menu screens to react much better.

Is there some hardware or driver compatibility issue

here? Is directx9
trying to emulate directx6 and takes a while to do some

kind of conversions?
The hard drive isn't going nuts while this is loading

either.


.start,settings,taskbar and start menu/advanced/the

other advanced/
programs/cut and hack through them i usually put them back
in their folders in My Documents/ or delete them (usually
copys with arrows anyway.)

Look at Reboot. anonymous Sept 22,2004 11:22 P.M. page #2
for MS DOS tools method
unhook and kill zip drive its your slowest drive
maybe A: Drive also ??? its slow could be a bottle
neck ????
your only as fast as your slowest drive
try a blue laser reader

change your 33 ATA ribbon cables up to the the round ones
they are ATA 100 or faster
bigger HD with a faster seek time
cable or sat modem ,different board, faster bridges, gigs
of ram , the list goes on and on



:) Randy






The A drive should not affect this, as it is a separate bus.

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike
 




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