Combat Flight Simulator 2 and Win2k

[Drebel 0]

Well the box says Win2000 compatible. I installed the game and it just stutters like crazy. One second framerate is 0 the other second it's 66FPS.

 

My system specs are:

AMD Athlon 750

256MB of Ram

Asus K7M Motherboard

Elsa Gladiac GF2 with WHQL 6.48 drivers.

SB Live

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

-Drebel

[DosFreak 2]

Try different Nvidia drivers.

[Drebel 0]

I have tried:

 

6.31

6.34

6.48WHQL

6.49

7.17

[Tamerlane 0]

I have

 

Althon 800

Hercules Geforce 2 Ultra (Using 6.47 leaked drivers)

Abit KT7 RAID motherboard

256 MB RAM

2x 30 GB IBM Harddrive (in RAID)

Creative SB Live! DE 5.1

Win 2k SP1

 

I run Combat Flight Simulator 2 at between 30 - 40 fps at 1600 x 1200 32 bit colour high quality without any problems.

 

The main checkpoints to go through are:

 

Download and install SP1

 

Get the latest motherboard chipset drivers. I assume the K7M uses the VIA chipset? The latest official drivers are at www.via.com.tw

 

There is a microsoft patch for poor AGP performance in Win 2k (although this mostly for crashes). Search for it in the MS query database at www.microsoft.com

 

Do you get any problems with other games?

[Drebel 0]

All my games run smoothly under Win2k except CFS2. It starts going at normal speed then accelerates then slows down then accelerates again the game is unplayable. I changed the resolution, amount of details formatted tried new drivers, installed all the compatibility updates. And no luck however the game is silky smooth under Win9x. Any motherboard based on the AMD-750 or 751 chipsets don't use the via 4 in 1 drivers they only use the busmaster drivers. I installed the AMD patch on the microsoft website, the AMD Miniport driver for Win2k, and my Win2k install CD includes SP1 so SP1 is already installed. I have no idea what is going on.

 

-Drebel

[Drebel 0]

I have already tried that and the game still stutters during play. The only thing from Via that I have to install is the busmaster IDE Drivers and that's all. I Installed SP1 all the compatibility updates everything and it still stuttered yet it runs silky smooth under Win9x. It must be some error in Win2k not letting me run it well or some driver or something but I ran out of ideas on what to check.

 

-Drebel

[Wolf87a 0]

This looks like a CD reading problem.

 

Your CD reader is either too fast or with too much cache memory allocated so it gives false readings due to the fact that the CD media itself may be of low quality or badly printed.

 

Try to slow down CD performance and lower memory allocation. It just might remove the stuttering. In Windows 98 there was a CD performance Tab in System properties. I do not know if such easy controls exist in windows 2000 outside the registry; Control Panel, Administrative tools, Computer management, Storage does not offer this.

 

Some CD tools may be found here including the Aspi software upgrade:

 

http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_utils.shtml