So I'm flying training mission 6. All other 5 missions went off without a hitch. I have a damn good lap-top running this game so it's not a graphics issues. But in training mission 6, the dogfight, when the Albatross gets about to float across my cross hairs, the screen stutters as if I just took a screen shot and the enemy is beyond the cross hairs when it recovers. Any ideas???

Hello again, everyone..

I know I complain alot, so I apologize for that, and would like to congratulate Neoqb and all involved on giving us a fantastic simulator. Best sim ever, I think...

I am having the same problem, accompanied/proceeded by the sound lagging, or more like starting the stutter. My sound goes haywire when the stuttering starts, and then I get screen pauses, that make it unplayable. I'm wondering if it's a bottleneck due to only having 2GB of RAM? Or should I get a processor, something better than this Pentium D 945 3.4Ghz? I've tried lowering everything I can think of within the game, and in Vista..

Any ideas, anyone?

Pentium D 945 3.4Ghz
2GB RAM
GeForce 8800GTX 768mb
X-Fi extrememGamer

I stepped up from a single core to a I7 920 same 8800gt gpu and it has made the game very playable even with 40 planes in the air.

Thanks. The 945 is a Dual Core, not a new one, by far, but it runs some missions great, like #6, ( I am having trouble near the front or with the Se5a mission "Morning Hunt" (very cool mission, BTW. Beautiful sim..) Time for some processor research, I guess.

As far as I am concerned, this game is nearly unplayable without a quad core. My dual core AMD processor is almost always at 100% cpu usage on both cores with this game. FPS are pretty poor and there are delays, stutters, and sound problems. Perhaps people with more optimized or merely better dual core systems are running the game fine, but for me there will be a substantial investment in hardware in the future to be able to play this game in the manner that it was intended.

Agreed, Foucault. This cpu stays maxxed out, too. I googled...something...yesterday, and came across a post at RoF forum about doing a dual boot setup,with Vista already installed, and that it flat cured the problem. The guy said he's running it nearly at full detail. That's where I'm headed first.

I would say your problem is more related to your amount of RAM than your Processor.

Im running a core 2 duo @ 3 gig. I get around 40 fps with all settings maxed.

Vista is a hungry beast and its going to take a fair chunk of that 2mb. Im running XP

Run it with your soundcard Disabled from Device Manager, to check if this stuttering is caused by soundcard problems. It would tend to rule out soundcard drivers if RoF is still stuttering the same with the soundcard disabled (including motherboard sound which can be disabled in BIOS setup)

Ming

Thanks, Ming. I'll try that here in a while.
What kills me is alot of the missions that came with ROF and getting the Se5a, I can run with all setting maxxed, without so much as a hiccup, and some choke every few seconds. It's a fantastic simulation, though, and I'm thankfull I CAN see it and play alot of it on high settings. It'll still be here when I get XP or can afford to upgrade the box....

You can not exchange your mobo in your DellE521 because it is a BTX board!!!!
I have more a less the same rig as you, you can overclock your DellE521 by using clockgen and stay away from Vista!!!!!!

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ OC to 3.5Ghz
GPU: Sapphire HD4890-1Gb VaporX
RAM: 4gb Crucial ballistix PC2-6400
PSU: Corsair TX750W
WOS: XPsp3