RB 2009 performance?

[oceans777]

I am running RB2009 in Windows XP Pro on 17" Mac Book Pro, dual core T2600 @ 2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 7200 RPM 120GB drive.

I noticed the default for Screen Refresh Rate was set to 4000. I dropped it to 1000 and CPUs run around 35% with spikes up to 68%. About 176 msgs a second.

My question: I notice frequent lags in movement on the scope when aircraft are being tracked and even when close to my location (LAX departures, arrivals). Is this because no signal is being received during that time or is RB2009 being held up by my system?
When this occurs I notice all aircraft seem to freeze - if four are being tracked, all four tend to freeze for five or six seconds, then jump forward, regardless of FL or heading etc. It's not constant but frequent. CPU never goes to 100% or indicates max load.

I have a Mac Pro 8-core monster I can change over to in Vista for more power but before I re-arrange the room I thought I should check...

 Thanks!

[oceans777]

Also I am seeing the little Windows hourglass for brief seconds quite a bit during position updates.

[AirNav Support]

Hi,

Sounds unlikely that it should be causing it stop. In the UK, Europe many customers get well over 200 msgs per second and the updating process is smooth.

I notice you mention its a dualcore. The 68% reading may be the reading of both cores but the core that RB is on may have already reached 100% hence other programs are using 18% of the other core.

Can you view the task manager again during this and see whether on the graph one of the CPUs is showing nearly 100%?

[oceans777]

Yes I watched both cores and they are dividing pretty evenly, with neither core hitting 100% or above 75%. The RB core is averaging slightly higher, by maybe 10%. The combined average is constantly (per second) going from about 18% up to and avg of 50% with higher spikes to 70's but never out of the 70's so far.

I'm going to drag the Mac Pro over this afternoon and see what it thinks about it. Could be the laptop is bottlenecking in memory or paging to the disk - it's a generation 1 Mac Book Pro so it has it's quirks.

[oceans777]

By the way - no complaints here, RB 2009 is easily the coolest thing I've added to my radio room in many years. It's even pushed aside my SDR-14 and AOR AR5000A+3 for now.
Outstanding software and product!!!

[DaveR]

Are the flights which you have problems with Network flights (they have an asterix appended to the flight id on the radar)? If so they are only updated from the internet every 30s, local flights without the asterix should update much more frequently

[oceans777]

No they were my flights. I moved to the Mac Pro and Vista 64 and it's running smooth now. Thanks!