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eaglefan wrote: BTW, Ive heard the official launch date of the sim is tomorrow, But if that is the case. Then why do people have their sim already?

The main reason is because the Online retailers jumped the gun due to the mail strike in England.

John

bigvern wrote: Hopefully this will all be stuff that can be squashed in a patch but I'm rather dreading it may turn into a bit of a dead stick if this cannot be done quickly.

Well Kuju/RSD have said they will support it so time will tell and hopefully in a positive way.

John

Its also possible that like FSX the second core is only used to preload scenery or lower priority stuff. So you might not see it being used all the time.

John

Make sure if you are using Vista that you get the latest graphics drivers from Nvidia or Ati etc and not from Microsoft update. Also make sure you have the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard.

John

Maybe they saw your driving record

John

Everyone should make sure that they are using the latest graphics drivers etc. It might help in some cases.

John

First thing you should try is updating your graphics card drivers ( if you haven't already that is ).

John

Excalibur wrote:Vista Backup being reinstalled as we speak ...

Well make sure you also update the things I listed in the previous post.

John

I am wondering..... :-? Under Vista I get a frame rate of 40+ which reduces to 14 in about 3 seconds. This is a pulse like cycle. So I wonder if the scene redraw which is being pulled off the HD is the problem. Put another way, why am I getting a low stable frame rate under a brand new XP installat...

On a more serious note, the driver issues you had only referred to Vista, did they? So on XP, I can fully rely on drivers for the 8800 cards? I would say you couldn't fully rely on Nvidia drivers for the 8800 series. Nvidia have taken a long time to sort them out and lots of people still seem to ha...

Superfetch wouldn't affect it, as all it does is preload in memory frequently used apps based on the users usage pattern. When the memory is needed for anything else it dumps it until the app using it releases it. It is far more likely a Nvidia driver issue as Matt said.

John

Excalibur wrote:I have jsut done a test; under Vista I get stutter; of between 40 and 15 fps. Under XP I get a steady 25fps

On Vista you will need to have the latest drivers as they are still immature. A lot of gamers use the Nvidia beta drivers which are usually released more often than the whql ones.

John

My status changed to "Items dispatching soon:", although the delivery estimate did not change. Maybe this is just because we're approaching the official delivery date and this does not indicate that they have received the copies. We'll see. Klaus That means it is being prepared for dispatch, though...

dfisher1 wrote:Still no news from Amazon yet...

Its meant to be dispatched today according to the site, but its status hasn't changed as yet from "not yet dispatched".

John

I have a feeling it is because my card is drawn on a UK bank but my address is in OZ. Looks like I will have to send Matt a cheque. Nothing is easy. Thats probably the cause, A lot of places have a problem when the billing address is different from the delivery or as you stated ( they say its to av...