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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. |
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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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-----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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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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