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DVA3810
Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 15 2006
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Stage 1 Jet Century Club
Yate, South Gloucestershire GB
496 legs, 1,390.0 hours
475 legs,
1,343.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 23 2010 10:19 ET by Peter Keenan
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Dear All,
My PC set up is:
CPU - Intel Quad CPU Q9450 @2.66 Ghz
8.00 GB ram
ATI Radeon 5850
Running Windows 7 Home Premium
So, as you can see, the PC is quite powerful.
However, when I run FS2004, my average frame rate is about 22 FPS.
I use gamebuster to remove surplus programs, so I don't have a lot of other stuff going on.
Any idea why my frame rates are so low?
Best regards,
Peter Keenan
DVA3810
Peter KeenanCaptain, B737-800
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DVA7373
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on May 31 2009
"Howdy"
Southeastern United States
72 legs, 187.6 hours
32 legs,
85.4 hours online
67 legs,
153.2 hours ACARS
2 legs,
3.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 23 2010 10:37 ET by Nicholas Taylor
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Overclock your processor, that is likely the culprit. FS9 can only use one processing core so just one out of the four at 2.66GHz is rather slow for FS9.
Nicholas TaylorCaptain, B757-200
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DVA6920
Senior Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL
Joined on January 24 2009
Century Club
"Another day in the office..."
Parker, CO USA
163 legs, 828.1 hours
28 legs,
44.1 hours online
162 legs,
816.9 hours ACARS
5 legs,
9.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 23 2010 10:55 ET by Tom Sanders
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Have you tried running any of the tweaks you can find searching around in the forums or the resources?
Tom SandersSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA3810
Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 15 2006
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Stage 1 Jet Century Club
Yate, South Gloucestershire GB
496 legs, 1,390.0 hours
475 legs,
1,343.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 23 2010 18:46 ET by Peter Keenan
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I've tried the various tweaks and it doesn't run any faster.
I had 2 failures of nViidia cards, so I'm trying the ATi card.
At the same time, I've gone from Vista to Windows 7.
I'm going to install XP Pro as a dual boot and see if FS9 runs any faster.
I'm a bit reluctant to overclock the CPU at this time.
Thanks for the replies.
Best regards,
Peter
Peter KeenanCaptain, B737-800
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DVA4295
Captain, B767-300
Joined on April 05 2007
Online Century Club
Double Century Club
Stratford, CT USA
212 legs, 397.9 hours
194 legs,
368.4 hours online
190 legs,
356.7 hours ACARS
3 legs,
6.7 hours event
19 legs dispatched, 10.0
hours
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Posted onPost created on
January 23 2010 19:20 ET by John Alusik
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I've gotten FS9 to run on 2 cores. What you do is when FS9 is running, open up task manager and click on the process tap. right-click on fs9.exe and select select affinity. all 4 cores should be selected and click ok. restart fs9 and it should use the cores. It has always seemed to work even though all the cores already seemed to be selected.
John AlusikCaptain, B767-300
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DVA7338
Captain, B747-400
E-MAIL
Joined on May 17 2009
"Thou shalt maintain thy airspeed."
Faridabad, Haryana India
60 legs, 151.3 hours
49 legs,
135.1 hours online
58 legs,
145.2 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 25 2010 02:02 ET by Gurmeet Arora
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Why run Windows 7 ??
What's wrong with XP ??
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DVA6626
Captain, MD-11
Joined on November 07 2008
Six Century Club
Million Mile Club
""PROFILE CLIMB""
Las Vegas, NV
753 legs, 2,288.9 hours
28 legs,
55.2 hours online
747 legs,
2,255.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 25 2010 03:17 ET by Michael Pare
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Works good for me, now do I have to do this every time I start flight sim or is it a one time setting?
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DVA4491
Senior Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL
Joined on May 22 2007
Quincentenary Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
"You dun goof'd!"
Lexington-Fayette, KY USA
592 legs, 1,474.8 hours
482 legs,
1,334.7 hours online
455 legs,
1,163.5 hours ACARS
11 legs,
33.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 25 2010 07:41 ET by Weston Woodward
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John Alusik wrote:
I've gotten FS9 to run on 2 cores. What you do is when FS9 is running, open up task manager and click on the process tap. right-click on fs9.exe and select select affinity. all 4 cores should be selected and click ok. restart fs9 and it should use the cores. It has always seemed to work even though all the cores already seemed to be selected.
FS9 is single threaded, and therefore can not be run on more than 1 core.
Weston
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DVA7338
Captain, B747-400
E-MAIL
Joined on May 17 2009
"Thou shalt maintain thy airspeed."
Faridabad, Haryana India
60 legs, 151.3 hours
49 legs,
135.1 hours online
58 legs,
145.2 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 25 2010 08:35 ET by Gurmeet Arora
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Weston Woodward wrote:
FS9 is single threaded
Not exactly (technically) ...
Coding a application to have multiple threads and coding it to take advantage of multiple core in a CPU are 2 different things altogether ..
Weston Woodward wrote:
can not be run on more than 1 core.
Weston
Yes and No .. that's what I have also heard ... Certainly it can run on single core systems also ... just that in modern times it may not make sense to do so ....
FS9 was designed at a time where the concept of multi core was not commercially widespread .. I guess at that time the added complexity of handling multiple cores in a CPU might not have made (commercial) sense to the development team ...
When FSX was being designed, It was evident to the development team that multi core is the future of computing so FSX was designed from ground up to take advantage of multiple cores in a system ..
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DVA6626
Captain, MD-11
Joined on November 07 2008
Six Century Club
Million Mile Club
""PROFILE CLIMB""
Las Vegas, NV
753 legs, 2,288.9 hours
28 legs,
55.2 hours online
747 legs,
2,255.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 25 2010 10:38 ET by Michael Pare
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I tried it and I am getting far better rates, so works for me.
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DVA3810
Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 15 2006
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Stage 1 Jet Century Club
Yate, South Gloucestershire GB
496 legs, 1,390.0 hours
475 legs,
1,343.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 25 2010 13:27 ET by Peter Keenan
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Dear All,
I've managed to get somewhat decent frame speeds by using the Windows 7 basic desktop.
However, one interesting thing that I've noted that towards the end of the flight, the motion of the aircraft is smooth, then hesitates, then goes smooth again, and repeats this phenomenon even though FS9 is running at over 40 FPS.
Any ideas what might be causing this?
Best regards,
Peter Keenan
Peter KeenanCaptain, B737-800
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DVA6626
Captain, MD-11
Joined on November 07 2008
Six Century Club
Million Mile Club
""PROFILE CLIMB""
Las Vegas, NV
753 legs, 2,288.9 hours
28 legs,
55.2 hours online
747 legs,
2,255.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 25 2010 13:50 ET by Michael Pare
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Keep it at no more that 30 FPS that might help.
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DVA4491
Senior Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL
Joined on May 22 2007
Quincentenary Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
"You dun goof'd!"
Lexington-Fayette, KY USA
592 legs, 1,474.8 hours
482 legs,
1,334.7 hours online
455 legs,
1,163.5 hours ACARS
11 legs,
33.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 26 2010 07:41 ET by Weston Woodward
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Gurmeet Arora wrote:
Weston Woodward wrote:
FS9 is single threaded
Not exactly (technically) ...
Coding a application to have multiple threads and coding it to take advantage of multiple core in a CPU are 2 different things altogether ..
What I meant was, it will only utilize 1 core. So you can have a quad-core CPU, but it will still only use 1 of those cores. Unlike FSX which will use 2 cores.
Weston
Weston Woodward wrote:
can not be run on more than 1 core.
Weston
Yes and No .. that's what I have also heard ... Certainly it can run on single core systems also ... just that in modern times it may not make sense to do so ....
FS9 was designed at a time where the concept of multi core was not commercially widespread .. I guess at that time the added complexity of handling multiple cores in a CPU might not have made (commercial) sense to the development team ...
When FSX was being designed, It was evident to the development team that multi core is the future of computing so FSX was designed from ground up to take advantage of multiple cores in a system ..
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DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM
Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"De oppresso liber"
Surry, ME
1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs,
767.8 hours online
1,107 legs,
1,674.5 hours ACARS
55 legs,
114.8 hours event
195 legs dispatched, 134.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
January 26 2010 08:57 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
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You all might like/appreciate this thread:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1901290.php
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DVA7729
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on September 09 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Roar like GE-90s!"
Mississauga, ON Canada
396 legs, 1,741.6 hours
380 legs,
1,692.7 hours online
391 legs,
1,702.2 hours ACARS
46 legs,
113.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 26 2010 18:20 ET by Shahzeb Bhutto
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Andrew Kaufmann wrote:
You all might like/appreciate this thread:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1901290.php
Andrew, I always do that for my FS9. I have Pentium D (Dual-core). But after I do this tweak, the graph for core 1 is still at the 'peak' and the graph of core 2 is less than half, about 1/4. What, I mean is that they don't look equalized.
P.S: I am using windows 7
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DVA6626
Captain, MD-11
Joined on November 07 2008
Six Century Club
Million Mile Club
""PROFILE CLIMB""
Las Vegas, NV
753 legs, 2,288.9 hours
28 legs,
55.2 hours online
747 legs,
2,255.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 26 2010 18:28 ET by Michael Pare
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It could be that is the way the processor is designed to work as one cor picks up the overload.
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DVA7577
First Officer, B777-200
OLP
Joined on July 18 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Everett 250 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Buffalo, NY USA
334 legs, 637.3 hours
29 legs,
47.8 hours online
332 legs,
629.7 hours ACARS
5 legs,
9.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 26 2010 18:35 ET by Jesse Kovacs
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Just checked on my core i-7. Affinity is set to all 8 threads, and while CPU 0 is at peak, there is some activity on the other 7. So, basically, they are ALL doing something. 
With FS9 I'm between 35 and over 100 FPS (depending where i'm at)
With FSX it's between 22-45
Jesse KovacsFirst Officer, B777-200
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DVA3208
Captain, L-1011-100
E-MAIL
Joined on June 07 2006
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
"Embry-Riddle in NYC"
Bronx, NY USA
294 legs, 762.3 hours
253 legs,
684.3 hours online
259 legs,
692.7 hours ACARS
21 legs,
59.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 27 2010 16:24 ET by Rafael Santana
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Go to the display settings on Flight Simulator and set your frame rate to unlimited, that is how I get my 60 fps average and my spec are; Core Duo Centrino 2.13 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 1GB GT 130M GPU.
hope it helps,
Rafael SantanaCaptain, L-1011-100
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