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Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: KramCola on January 27, 2004, 12:11:42 am: I think this is on the right forum....

Anyway, I reinstalled the game after accidently mistaking a major file with some thing else and deleting it. But now that I reinstalled it, my computer lags heavily whenever I play the game. Before I reinstalled I used the Very High setting and it ran quite smoothly, but now its lagging heavily. I tried lowering the details to High but it's just as bad.

Anybody know how to fix this?
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: Liberator on January 27, 2004, 12:30:42 am: Are you using the SCP? If so, what version?

Also, if so, Mr Moderator if you would be so kind as to move this to the appropriate forum.
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: KramCola on January 27, 2004, 12:56:26 am: No, I'm not using SCP.

Sorry, I'm new here and thought this would be the most appropriate forum.
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: pyro-manic on January 27, 2004, 04:07:50 am: No worries - try doing a full uninstall-reinstall. Might help.

:welcome:

:)
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: phreak on January 27, 2004, 09:36:09 am: defrag
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: Liberator on January 27, 2004, 10:11:36 am: If you need to defrag, use this. (http://www.grassheap.com/software.php?ID=4103)
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: Carl on January 27, 2004, 10:26:01 am: i wouldn't do that if i were you. using a 3rd part defragger can do bad, bad things.
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: Admiral LSD on January 27, 2004, 10:38:52 am: The "MS" defraggers have always been based on 3rd party tools. DOS and Win9x's were based on Symantec/Norton Speed Disk and 2000/XP's was based on Diskeeper. It won't hurt, espeially when the linked program is the source of Windows own internal defragger.
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: Liberator on January 27, 2004, 01:23:58 pm: I use it because the Win98 defrag sucks @$$.

It starts out ok, and just keeps getting slower and slower. I once left it on overnight to see if it would finish and it was at 63% the next morning. BTW, the linked file is the free version of Diskeeper 7, more commonly known as Diskeeper Lite. It's Nagware, but we all have some of that.
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: Carl on January 27, 2004, 01:45:44 pm: KramCola, do you have any other programs open?
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: Hippo on January 27, 2004, 01:52:03 pm: windows media player or any other mp3 playing device seems to slow down mine a lot of they are running... what are your specs?
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: KramCola on January 27, 2004, 04:31:41 pm: Quote
No worries - try doing a full uninstall-reinstall. Might help.

I'll try that now.

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defrag

I'll try that if the re-install don't work.

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KramCola, do you have any other programs open?

No, only in the taskbar. I've got just as many programs open in the taskbar as I did before I re-installed, and I didn't have any problems then.

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windows media player or any other mp3 playing device seems to slow down mine a lot of they are running... what are your specs?

Haven't got any music devices open. I don't think my specs are the problem, but I'll post them anyway.

Windows XP
P4 1.6 ghz
GeForce 4 MX/MX 440
256 MB RAM
Title: My computer all-of-a-sudden lags FS2 real bad.
Post by: Setekh on January 27, 2004, 09:50:32 pm: Very, very strange. This shouldn't really be affecting your performance vastly, but have you patched to v1.20? Btw, welcome to HLP. :)

:welcome: