Two issues- blurries FS9 and htm

FS9 installed years ago, no appreciable problems. ATI Radeon 9600 video card, 128 mem. 1.5 gig mother board, Intel W845DN (old by now), front bus speed is 400 if I remember correctly. Settings in FS9 are fairly conservative, scenery – all sliders are at normal, clouds- simple. Frames locked at 20. Display- 1024x728x32 (think those are the numbers). 1.4 memory, Windows XP with SP2.

When in flight, regardless of aircraft flown, no third party scenery in view or even out of view default trees, mtns, etc slowly go blurry- takes about a minute or so. I do a refresh screen and all comes back. The redraw seems to be in quick successions rather than all at once. At this point I’m fine for another minute or so when this all repeats. During all this frame rates show right around 17.5 or so.

Any slight third party scenery seems to drop my frames like a rock. Some objects may show up grey then correct themselves as if FS9 is looking for the applicable bmps. Default beacon towers at night may show grey cones instead of the lights. Screen refresh corrects this.

All this occurs regardless of where I fly. If on the ground I don’t believe I get the blurry problem until I get aloft.

I can’t really say when this all started. All seemed to be fine about a year ago, I believe. About that time or earlier I started to do my own designing, then purchased FSDS to do my own objects. Uploaded much of my work under Robert Lacy at Avsim and Flightsim.com. during this time I did very little flying, if any.

Recently started flying with friends again and noticed this problem. The sceneries developed for our flying region are all mip mapped and dxt1 bmps. There are a few objects that are frame rate heavy, which I personally took out for my own benefit.

I have tried to reinstall FS9. This did not solve the issue.

My power supply is only 250, but as I stated I had no problems a few years ago. Could the power supply be getting tired? Could the video card be getting tired. I believe I have the latest driver for the video card. Could it be dust in the machine? I cleaned out all the dust, unplugged the video card and rubbed an eraser on the contacts and reinstalled. Hard drive is only an older 60 gig. Hard drive getting tired?

Took out all the XP security patches which sped up my machine but did nothing for FS9 problem. I have the FS9 update patch. During reinstall of FS9 I did uninstall the patch first then FS9 itself. Before adding back many sceneries (I have about 80) I tested for the problem. It was still there.

For scenery arrangement I have addon scenery\lens easy scenery\scenery with all pertinent bgls. And \texture with all pertinent bmps for my objects.

For sceneries- example… addon scenery\kgtf\scenery, with no texture sub folder. Addon scenery\scenery has very little in it. Once in a great while some bmps might not show. I move those to fs9 texture which solves the problem.

I have followed tips from David (Opa) Marshal and have beta tested some of his work, and he has helped me greatly on a number of items.

So that’s the basic story. Also- a different issue- at Lewisaire.com we have a very nice kneeboard to fly with, which is connected to the website. It is done in html except for one item (hdg\dist calculator) which is done in htm. Everything works on that kneeboard except for this one calculator. This happened a couple of months ago. I run IE 7. Used to have IE 6 and upgraded. I think this is my fault. I was cleaning out some old files and noticed some of IE 6 still hanging around. I got rid of it. Since then I cannot run that htm calculator. This is my best guess as to cause and effect. There may have been some file in IE 6 which Is not in IE 7 which I now do not have.

If you have any ideas on all this your expertise would be most appreciate. Robert Lacy (Bob)