I have a Duo Core 2.6 with a 640MB video card so I know it's not my machine.  Add to that I'm using this add-on in FS9 which runs all of my other add-ons outstandingly well.  I'm finding stutters/performance and texture load times far worse than the previous version of this add-on.  I tried reducing cockpit textures down to DX1 formate but that didn't help.  There's no utility to adjust the gauges or anything else that would help.  This was a great add-on but it's all but unusable to me now.  I used to marvel at it's performance in FS9 but no more. Is there anything that can be done to improve performance with this add-on in FS9?  I feel weird asking this as I haven't seen anything like this in FS9 for quite some time.  Issues like this is why I stayed away from FSX...  

The only issue I have is the slower loading of the VC textures...even with my Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 OC'd to 3.72Ghz(still in process of overclocking back up to 3.9Ghz) in combo with the 8800GT 512Mb card. Of course I run resolution ast my monitor's max of 1680. Even at 1600 res. the VC load time is a hair quicker but not much. The earlier version of this aircraft had basically the same issue, so I expected this.

Yet, while airborne and in clear skies, I get an ave. of 55 fps using FS9 and the 757. Heavy cloud draws can reduce it to 28-35 fps....while in VC. External views ave. around 59 fps(locked at 60).

I finally bought FSX Gold Edition the other day but haven't loaded it onto one of my HDs yet, so I don't know how well it performs.

I was afraid these were the kind of responses I would get...  I've since returned to using the older 1.4 version (the version right before 2.1).  I may not have all the new bells and whistles but it runs fantastic.  My video card is a NVIDIA 8800GTS 640MB card.  I have 2 gigs of ram in a Dell Duo Core 2.66 machine.  All my other add-ons including the the CS 757 1.4 work great.  I don't know what's going on with 2.1 but it's truly unflyable with the pauses and stutters I'm finding.  After getting used to flying stutter free with my current rig it's hard to go back to something like this.  Changing the VC textures to DX1 formate doesn't help either.  I was sitting at KMDW last night on the ramp and couldn't pan around in a circle without constant pauses, that's when I uninstalled 2.1 and reinstalled the 'Block' versions.  I was hoping others were seeing this as it would get addressed.  At this point I know I'd better appreciate the functionality of 1.4 as I'm stuck with that version unless CS offers up another patch to further optimize the gauges. 

Assie I'm using FS9... 

I already reduced the textures and that didn't help...

Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks 'Maxam' but like I wrote above I already tried reducing the various textures for the aircraft and that didn't work.  My problem has to do with the gauges somewhere.  Maybe when the 1.4 version is uninstalled there's still gauges that are left over that need to be manually deleted as well.  That's the only way I can make since of this.  My problem is not a texture problem but rather a gauge file somewhere.  I tried loading up the aircraft without the gauges to see if it was the model itself and the issue was no longer present.  Maybe someone can give me a clue as to what could possibly be left over from 1.4 that would cause a conflict.

As far as defraging, I defrag with each new add-on install and every other week if necessary...

glad to know you got it resolved! another happy simmer 

Hi Guys,

I am a little frustrated with the performance with FS9.  
I have a;
Dual core AMD Athlon 4800+ 2.64 Ghz system
with a Nvidia 9500 GT 1GB graphics card
2GB DDR400 RAM
500GB SATAII HD

I am only getting between 4 and 5 fps with this aircraft. I have changed all the .bmp files to DX3. I am also running AlacrityPC, nHancer, defrag HD and RAM.

All the others work really well and am thinking of deleting it as I can't really use it, but it seems a shame.

Any thoughts?

Reas86