Within the past few days, as the title says, FSX has started to run slowly, in the sim, and even on the menus. When flying, it's just jerky and it struggles with any scenery (reduces the FPS pretty drastically), and on the menus, it seems to take about 10 seconds to simply accept a change (ie clicking 'OK' on any window, or just highlighting an aircraft on the selection menu).
The only thing I installed between the time it was fine and the point I noticed it was 'DDS Converter 2', which I've installed before with no problems. Since then, I've tried several spyware scans, a defrag of the FSX drive, and a system restore to a time it was definitely running fine. To no avail.
The only other thing I can think of was when I was messing around with the textures on the T-6 the other day (see http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=313), although I can't be certain it was running perfectly before I started tinkering with these. I did reinstall the T-6 on several occasions during this time though, and I did notice that the installations were hardly running at a cheetah's pace - perhaps because the T-6 has over 600mb worth of textures).
Seeing as they'll come up, a few basic specs:
WinXP SP2
Intel Core 2 Duo 2 E6750 @2.67GHz
ASUSTeK P5K MoBo
ATI Radeon HD 3870 512Mb
2Gb DDR2 RAM (Corsair something or other)
For the record, nothing is overheating, and no hardware has been added or removed before or since it started playing up.
The only thing I installed between the time it was fine and the point I noticed it was 'DDS Converter 2', which I've installed before with no problems. Since then, I've tried several spyware scans, a defrag of the FSX drive, and a system restore to a time it was definitely running fine. To no avail.
The only other thing I can think of was when I was messing around with the textures on the T-6 the other day (see http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=313), although I can't be certain it was running perfectly before I started tinkering with these. I did reinstall the T-6 on several occasions during this time though, and I did notice that the installations were hardly running at a cheetah's pace - perhaps because the T-6 has over 600mb worth of textures).
Seeing as they'll come up, a few basic specs:
WinXP SP2
Intel Core 2 Duo 2 E6750 @2.67GHz
ASUSTeK P5K MoBo
ATI Radeon HD 3870 512Mb
2Gb DDR2 RAM (Corsair something or other)
For the record, nothing is overheating, and no hardware has been added or removed before or since it started playing up.