Innis Cunningham wrote: > Hi Brian > > Brian Keener writes > > > >I downloaded and installed the Windows version of FlightGear 0.9.10 and > >installed on a Windows 2000 machine with a Pentium III 550mhz pc with and > >ASUS P3B-F MB, 1gb memory, 100mhz bus and an Asus A9200 Series AGP card > >(ATI Radeon 9200) and 1 SCSI and 1 IDE disk Drive (Primary drive). > > > >When I run FlightGear and it goes through all the loading and my plane is > >finally setting on the runway I have two problems - > > > >1) When the plane is finally sitting on the end of the Runway it is not > >sitting - it is moving - usually to the left and the rpm's on the engine > >are almost at take off speed already. See # 2 as well since due to delayed > >responses attempting to stop the plane on the end of the runway is > >fruitless. > > Some aircraft creep forward the 737 should stay still and the aircraft will > move left or right depending on engine torque and wind direction.Also > there is an issue with running full screen or game mode with 9.10 > so try running 800x600 and work up to your max resolution. > > >2) Frame rate and response is horrible - keyboard presses take forever, > >Joystick movement vs display response is way out of sync. Movement seems > >jerky and is particularly so due to the delayed response to any keys or > >mouse or joystick movement. > > I would say your machine is under spec to run FG 9.10 and also if you read > back in the archives there were some issues with Radeon cards > > Cheers > Innis >
Thanks both Innis and Tom for your responses. As to my machine being underpowered I think that is a definite possibility and as Innis suggested I removed the fullscreen option (it was already at 800x600) and I actually got a pretty tolerable flight. When I removed the fullscreen I also removed the 3d clouds(experimental), Specular Highlight, AI Models and Real Weather fetch(didn't realize I had this on ) which may have helped some as well - I haven't had time to try turning any of these back on. As Tom mentioned - even with his machine he got slowdowns and I noticed that too - I got a tolerable flight but there were still some jerks but its usable. As to the Radeon card - I need to go check the archives because I think that is part of the problem too as I was having some hangs and found if I used the display troubleshooting under display properties in Windows and decreased the Hardware Acceleration (the way windows does it) I seemed to get a much more reliable display. As to the drift - I am only using the Cessna 172P (2d or 3d panel) or the Cessna 310(Civilian) and I have tried double checking the calibration of my joystick (Saitek Cyborg EVO Force using the driver: Input/Joysticks/Saitek/Cyborg-Evo.xml) before running FlightGear. Even though throttle is down on the joystick when FlightGear starts - throttle is at half or better in FlightGear - just short of take-off rpms and plane is rolling and moving to the left. Thanks again for the help. bk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
