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teropa

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Nov 6, 2003, 3:51 AM

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Here are the settings I use, and these are recommended also by the Omega driver creator. My Radeon 9800 PRO and Chaintech Apogee 7NJL1 liked these settings:

Fast Gate A20 Option : ENABLED
Video BIOS shadowing : DISABLED
Video BIOS cacheable : DISABLED
xxxxx - xxxxx Shadow : ALL DISABLED
IDE prefetch mode : ENABLED
Init Display First : AGP or PCI (SELECT YOUR CARD TYPE)
IDE HDD Block Mode : ENABLED
IDE 32-bit transfer mode : ENABLED
Assign IRQ for USB : DISABLED (UNLESS YOU USE USB DEVICES)
Assign IRQ for VGA : ENABLED
PCI/VGA palette snoop : DISABLED
PNP OS Installed : ENABLED (UNLESS YOU WANT TO MANUALLY ASSIGN IRQ's)
Resource Controlled By : AUTO (UNLESS YOU WANT TO MANUALLY ASSIGN IRQs AND DMAs)
AGP aperture size : 128 (USE 64MB IF YOU EXPERIENCE TEXTURE CORRUPTION)
AGP master 1 WS write : DISABLED***
AGP master 1 WS read : DISABLED***
Bank 0/1, 2/3 DRAM timing : TURBO***
CPU to PCI write buffer : ENABLED
Delayed Transaction : DISABLED (ENABLE IF YOU EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH CREATIVE SOUND CARDS)
DRAM speculative leadoff : ENABLED***
DRAM Data Integrity Mode : NON-ECC (UNLESS YOU HAVE ECC MEMORY)
Delay DRAM read latch : (THE LOWER, THE FASTER)***
Fast writes : DISABLED
Memory parity/ECC check : DISABLED***
Passive Release : ENABLED
PCI Concurrency : ENABLED
PCI master 0 WS write : ENABLED***
RAS active time : (THE LOWER, THE FASTER)***
RAS to CAS delay : (THE LOWER, THE FASTER)**
Read around write : ENABLED
SDRAM Bank Interleave : 4-bank/way
SDRAM CAS Latency Time : 2**
SDRAM cycle length : 2**
SDRAM Precharge control : ENABLED
Spread spectrum (modulation): DISABLED
System BIOS cacheable : DISABLED
Video RAM cacheable : DISABLED
8 bit I/O Recovery Time : 1
16 bit I/O Recovery Time : 1
Turbo frequency : ENABLED


** = ONLY IF YOUR MEMORY SUPPORT IT, OTHERWISE USE THE NEXT
HIGHER VALUE

*** = WILL IMPROVE SPEED BUT DECREASES STABILITY, IF YOU HAVE
PROBLEMS CHANGE IT


swimmer7

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Jan 21, 2004, 6:57 AM

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Hi,
I desperately need to maximize the speed of my FS2004 performance. I have a $300 video card yet the performance of my FS2004 is very bad. I almost get frame by frame instead of a nice smooth picture. It all started with FS2003 at some point after I ran a regular windows update. How do I get to Bios settings to make the changes? Or is there anything else I need to change? I have tried turning off Norton and all other applications before starting the FS but nothing seems to work.
Please help.


jaltuve

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Jan 21, 2004, 8:08 AM

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Re: BIOS settings to maximize speed [In reply to swimmer7] Not logged in -   Reply 
Well, first things first...

Tell us the Video Card model you have, your CPU speed, memory etc. that will cover hardware, them tell us everything related to the software like Operating System you are running and driver versions you are using. Depedning on that we can give you advise specific to your particular configuration.


swimmer7

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Jan 23, 2004, 8:03 PM

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Re: BIOS settings to maximize speed [In reply to jaltuve] Not logged in -   Reply 
Thank you very much for the prompt reply. I am not a computer pro but here is the info I think you needed:
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600 driver version 5.2.1.6
128MB
Integrated RAMDAC
Version 4.25.00.27.32

Windows XP Service Pack 1 Pentium(R) 4
CPU 1.80GHz
1.79 GHz
512 MB RAM

The interesting thing is that I could run FS 2002 perfectly even with an older video card until, I think, after I downloaded Service Pack 1 for Windows XP. I thought getting FS2004 would fix the prob. But it didn't.

I hope this is all you needed. And once again, I greatly appreciate your help.


jaltuve

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Get the latest drivers for your video card by going to the www.nvidia.com website

Then with the new drivers try lowering the water detail slider to none and lower some of the scenery sliders to medium settings and try again.

Did it get better?


swimmer7

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Jan 24, 2004, 7:50 PM

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Yeah, I've tried all of that. It's gotta be something else because I used to have all of the setting at max and everything was perfect.
Thanks for your help.


gnorton100

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May 6, 2006, 4:09 PM

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Similar issue to Swimmer7. Following your advice to Swimmer7, my info follows:

Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: emachines
System Model: T6212
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz
Memory: 1022MB RAM
Page File: 549MB used, 948MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)


Card name: WinFast PX6600 GT
Manufacturer: Leadtek Research Inc.
Chip type: GeForce 6600 GT
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0140&SUBSYS_202F107D&REV_A2
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (85Hz)
Monitor: Default Monitor
Monitor Max Res:
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6766 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 3742208 bytes


Combat Flight Simulator (DX7) - Registry: OK, ExeFile: combatfs.exe (1.00.0000.5020)


Name: WinFast PX6600 GT
Device ID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0140&SUBSYS_202F107D&REV_A2\4&300EBE7&0&0010
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\nv4_mini.sys, 6.14.0010.6766 (English), 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 3224480 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\nv4_disp.dll, 6.14.0010.6766 (English), 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 3742208 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe, 6.14.0010.6766 (English), 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 127043 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvoglnt.dll, 6.14.0010.6766 (English), 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 5271552 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvcpl.dll, 6.14.0010.6766 (English), 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 4628480 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvmctray.dll, 6.14.0010.6766 (English), 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 86016 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvwddi.dll, 6.14.0010.6766 (English), 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 81920 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvnt4cpl.dll, 6.14.0010.6766 (English), 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 245760 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\help\nvcpl.hlp, 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 161839 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\help\nvwcplen.hlp, 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 55256 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvcod.dll, 1.00.0000.0015 (English), 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 32256 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvcodins.dll, 1.00.0000.0015 (English), 1/10/2005 09:03:00, 32256 bytes


I hope this helps.



Another topic: In Combat Flight Simulator, can I run 3 monitors, using the center one for forward view and the left and right monitors to continually show the respective 45 degree views. I don't want to incur the expense of extra monitors and graphic cards if I can't get the benefit. Thanks.


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