slow performance during cabin announcements

[Yuri Kuit]

Dear people, I was wondering if you experience the same as me.

I've only just switched over to FSPassengers X since I have my new machine and I like it a lot, but something is not entirely right for me.
All goes ok, until the moment that an announcement is played (anyone does not matter which voiceset).
As soon as the announcement starts my frames drop to 2-4 fps and it looks like the machine has crashed
however when it is finished all is well again walking along at 25-30 (external fps limit at 30 fps)

since I have a new, pretty hefty machine it don't think it is the machines power
I can run FSX with 100% AI, REX Overdrive, UTX, GEX and payware aircraft (PMDG / LevelD / Captain Sim) without any problem.

My computer is an Intel i7 875K (2.93 GHZ OC to 4.4 GHz), 8 GB DDR3-1600, 2x 150 GB raptor RAID0 for Win7 x64, 2x 300 GB raptor RAID0 for FSX, GTX480
1.5 GB, 21" Eizo @ 1600x1200x32

I hope someone has an idea where to look.

[Joeflyer]

Holy cow! I want that system! Sorry, had to preface my next remarks with that statement.

Now, are you using onboard sound or do you have a separate sound card? Either way, have you noticed if the sound acceleration is at max, standard or ?
You could try adjusting the sound acceleration to see if that may help. Also, I don't recall anyone having this same issue, but if you do a search on
the forum, possibly you may find a similar topic.

I still want that system!

[ionasm]

Hello,

I have exactly the same problem, however the strange thing is that it happened today for the first time, although I haven't changed anything in FSX.
Every time there is an announcement FSX will freeze for the duration of the announcement and then it will continue without issues until the next one..
Strange thing is that up to yesterday it was working flawlessly and i have not changed anything.. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but now the
problem is constant.

Did you find a solution in your case?

My system specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 OC 3.6GHz, 4GB 1600 RAM, Intel X25-M SSDs and Raptor 150GB HDDs, nVidia GTX580, SB Fatality soundcard, Win7 x64, FSX Deluxe Accel.

The frustrating thing is that it started happening all of the sudden without me changing anything..

M.

[whiskey-zulu]

Do you have the scrolling text across the top of the screen when your cabin announcements come on? If you do, I've found that this can cause FSX to
freeze while the announcement is being played. Solution: don't use the scrolling text.

[ionasm]

Thank you for your reply, I will try that..

Actually I found a solution but it is completely unorthodox and had me baffled. I fly online at Vatsim and use FSInn to connect there (v1.3) along
with Copilot v1.7. I am also using WideFS to run all secondary apps for FS from a second machine (ASE, FSRealTime) Yesterday I tried to run FSInn from
the WideFS machine and I noticed the problem.. It appears that when FSInn is running on the FSX computer along with FSPassengers it works perfectly.
If FSInn is not running at all or running through WideFS, FSX freezes during announcements.. Therefore the only solution is to have FSInn running at
all times (even when not used) on the FSX computer.. This is very strange.. Additionally regarding the scrolling text, when I get a message through
FSInn it also displays a scrolling text without any issues.. Only when any sound from the FSP voicepack is played the system freezes momentarily..

M.

[ionasm]

whiskey-zulu wrote:
Do you have the scrolling text across the top of the screen when your cabin announcements come on? If you do, I've found that this can cause FSX to
freeze while the announcement is being played. Solution: don't use the scrolling text.

It appears that antializing set from an external application such as nVidia inspector and scrolling or static text in FSX cause the problem as
suggested. Therfore disabling text in FSX solved the problem.

FSInn was solving the problem because it was disabling antializing when run in FSX, bu the permanent solution was to remove text from FSX.

[Joeflyer]

Glad to know you got it solved