Fed Up with Spiking.

[crabofix]

Stayed away from Ah nearly 4 month because of bad spikings.
Note: the big spikes  was up to 50 procent and made the framrate change to 4-6 and locked the joystick totally for 5-15 sek.

How did I fix it? I really dont know. One day it was gone. (fixed when 1.10 arrived)

My spikings did´nt accure offline, only online. So it was probebly a
net connection issue, dont really know

A while before this problem I had same thing, this I fixed with new
drivers to the videocard. (????)

I have a Microsoft sidewinder, used this since Warbirds 1996.
Its getting petty worn now, but never changed anything.
It spikes a little now because of this, but its still playable.

Crabofix

[flecha]

Eskimo; I had that same problem (and still have to some extent)
I have the same gear you got (except the stick wich is a ch force fx).

I had this case of wild spiking. The spiking was never the same. Some times almost gone, others really unacceptable. Well to be brief i discovered the spikes where caused by FM radio broadcast.
I live close to a transmitter antenna.  The power line I´m attached to runs over poles and acts as a receiving antenna so my PC recieves the broadcast thru the Power supply. I tried the PC just connected to batteries (UPS) and the problem was gone.

Well , although I never got the problem totally solved using a filtered power rack helped to disminish the effect and using the   force Fx capability of my CH stick eliminated completely the spikes (because it no longer uses the pots but the motors to give x,y position and those are not affected by radio interference)

Now if this probes to be your case I´m sure other with better knowledge here can help you solve this out.

Greets

flecha