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DVA4997
Captain, B757-200

Joined on September 15 2007
Online Century Club
Double Century Club

""My soul is in the sky." "
Southeastern United States

210 legs, 358.3 hours
137 legs, 227.2 hours online
171 legs, 292.3 hours ACARS
17 legs, 31.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 02:15 ET by Keeny Corey

Hey guys.

My computer has really been giving me problems with FSX lately. When I first purchased the computer (about a year ago) FSX ran decently on my system. Now I'm reluctant to start FSX because I know it is going to shutter constantly. This really fustrates me and puts my simulation enjoyment on hold. Before I got about 10 to 12 FPS but now 1 to 4 FPS. My question is why is there a significant drop in my FPS over the course of a year. My system is capable of running FSX on medium settings to high settings. I'll post specs if needed. Thanks for the help.

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

DVA6983
Captain, B737-800

Joined on February 07 2009
Century Club

""Can't, never did anything..""
Phoenix, AZ USA

125 legs, 233.4 hours
4 legs, 7.2 hours online
125 legs, 233.4 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 05:51 ET by Dale Westlund

The only thing I can think of is maybe you need to update your drivers for your video card, mother board etc. Are you running any recently installed programs that run with FSX? Sometimes certain sceneries will cause major hits to FPS.. Have you installed any new sceneries? My knowlage of the workings of computers is limited so I can't think of anything else off the top of my head.

Dale Westlund (DVA6983)

DVA7171
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on March 14 2009
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"Walk away from all your landings..."
Sebring, FL

726 legs, 1,677.5 hours
574 legs, 1,402.5 hours online
717 legs, 1,661.9 hours ACARS
56 legs, 127.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 10:06 ET by Sergio Lopez

Lower your settings.

Sergio Lopez (DVA7171)

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 14:11 ET by Keeny Corey

Dale the only new scenery I've installed was one freeware for Atlanta. And Sergio even when the settings are completely low i still get 1 to 3 FPS.

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM

Joined on January 19 2007
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"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

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 14:15 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

If you installed FSX a year ago - and haven't done a clean install / real defrag of your system - that could be your fix.

Andrew Kaufmann (DVA3931)

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 14:19 ET by Keeny Corey

Suggestions on upgrades? I included my specs in the picture above.

Andrew I ran both a disk cleaner and a defragmenter last night. I'll check today to see if there were any improvements.

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 14:44 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

what defrag? The default one? O&O is a really good one - payware though.

Andrew Kaufmann (DVA3931)

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 14:47 ET by Keeny Corey

Yes the default one.

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 14:48 ET by Keeny Corey

Andrew do you think my graphics card is decent enough for FSX?

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 14:53 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

I can't read it - in my old age, I can't tell if that says 6400 or 8400

Andrew Kaufmann (DVA3931)

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 14:55 ET by Keeny Corey

Nividia 8400 GS 512MB

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

DVA2412
Captain, B757-200

Joined on June 21 2005
Online Double Century Club
Quincentenary Club
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"Thank You JESUS"
Newark, NJ USA

563 legs, 1,366.0 hours
437 legs, 1,111.8 hours online
558 legs, 1,352.6 hours ACARS
43 legs, 104.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 31 2010 18:38 ET by Keldon Small

Uninstall that freeware scenrey for Atlanta and do a virus scan. I once installed it and my virus scan detected it as an infected file.

Keldon Small (DVA2412)

Posted onPost created on June 01 2010 14:45 ET by Keeny Corey

Still no luck Keldon. Do you think i have a good enough graphics card for FSX?

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on June 01 2010 23:37 ET by Keeny Corey

This program I used to interpret if my system is capable of running FSX informed me that it is well capable of doing so. Why am I still experiencing problems with FPS with FSX?

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 08:35 ET by Keldon Small

Hmmm I dont know whats wrong if that didnt work. Try a full reinstall that might do the trick.

Keldon Small (DVA2412)

DVA7329
First Officer, B777-200

Joined on September 04 2008
Double Century Club

Middle East

256 legs, 315.9 hours
90 legs, 127.3 hours online
252 legs, 309.2 hours ACARS
3 legs, 6.4 hours event
542 legs, 1,162.4 hours total

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 10:04 ET by Rabee Jibren

Keeny your graphics card is weak, and its not good enough to run FSX at thoose settings.
Please post your full PC specs.

Now what you can do .. is :
1-Use O&O defrag (theres 30 day demo version)
2-Reduce your settings
3-Insure no viruse
4-Do some system cleanups
5-overclock your graphic card.
6-Upgrade your graphics card cool

I shall post my settings shortly

Rabee Jibren (DVA7329)

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 10:16 ET by Rabee Jibren

My PC specs
C2D 2.66 Ghz
160 HDD
9400GT (almost similar to yours, but little bit more powerfull)
2 Gigs RAM
XP 32bit
My graphics card is overclocked to the maximum ,which killed stuttering until i upgrade my PC

As for traffic, they are all to off.
turning off autogen might also help you a lot.
Do you have any FSX.cfg tweaks installed??

Thats pretty much what you can do until you upgrade your PC

Rabee Jibren (DVA7329)

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 13:38 ET by Keeny Corey

Thanks Rabee that's the answer I was looking for. And I was considering purchasing the same graphics card as yours. Good buy or not? Rabee I tried tweaking FSX once but I think I was unsuccessful at doing so. I need help in the area of tweaking FSX. Should I also upgrade the CPU?

Keldon thanks for the answer. Tried the reinstall; no luck. I'm just going to get an upgrade on graphics card.

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 13:52 ET by Keeny Corey

Rabee as I was just flying today the same pattern happens everytime I fly. The FPS starts at 5 if my aircraft is on the runway, then once I takeoff my FPS drop to 1 which is basically a slideshow happening right in front of me. Why is that?

Sorry for the countless amount of questions I'm asking.

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 15:48 ET by Sergio Lopez

Keeny Corey wrote:

Dale the only new scenery I've installed was one freeware for Atlanta. And Sergio even when the settings are completely low i still get 1 to 3 FPS.

WAO

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 17:13 ET by Rabee Jibren

Keeny please post your full specs in order to help you.
And no dont my graphics card ,its just slighter stronger than yours (pretty weak in FSX)
What OS versoin you have.
And what is your budget if your looking for PC parts upgrade.

Rabee Jibren (DVA7329)

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 18:24 ET by Keeny Corey

Specs: C2D 2.40 GHz
3.0 GB
Windows Vista 32 bit
Nividia Geforce 8400GS 512MB

Not sure about hard drive. 445GB left on hard drive

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

DVA5919
Captain, MD-11

Joined on May 13 2008
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Hillsboro, OR USA

507 legs, 1,438.9 hours
4 legs, 3.7 hours online
506 legs, 1,436.4 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 18:35 ET by Jack Vogel

You are weak all around for FSX, 32bit OS, only 3G of memory, and 3 generations old on video.
I had about twice as strong a setup back before I upgraded to an i7, and even then I would run
FSX on medium settings.

I would recommend a new computer if that's within the realm of possibilities.

Jack Vogel

Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 18:53 ET by Rabee Jibren

okay ... as jack said not super computer , you should be able to run FSX at my settings or even lower.
I d sure recommend now PC upgrade.
but it depends on your budjet.

Lets say ....
1-Quad Coe 3 ghz (at least)
2-4 gigs ram (more is better)
3-Raptor @ 10000 rpm or a SSD hard drive (dnt know if its good for FSX)
4-At least 9800 GTX (around 90$) or a Geforce 280 GTX (around 300$) , or anything better from ATI
5-offcourse Win 7 64 bit

Actually this is my upgrade plan for summer ^^^^
will be moving out next year to college, so dont want to spend lots of money on it.
that should put you some where between midium - high at a solid state FPS (dnt know a value)
If your planing on only replacing your current parts .... id say it would coast a minmum of 500$ ??~?
keep looking on New Egg and in other places for best deal
I can help you tweaking your FSX.cfg later on.

Unless if your planing on spending more than 1500$ on bringing fancy stuff .... not pretty worth it , but it might be to you.

Rabee Jibren (DVA7329)

Posted onPost created on June 02 2010 19:06 ET by Jack Vogel

I don't think you'll pay that much more for an i5 or i7 than you would for
a quad core, the machine I just upgraded FROM was a Q9300 quad core
with 8G of slower DDR3 memory.

Don't waste money on a 10K disk, they are expensive and you'll get way
more bang for the buck from having more RAM. Same thing with the SSD,
a coworker in my group here at Intel bought one on employee discount,
and he was underwelmed with the result. Not saying it makes NO difference
but the question is how much. Also, the 9800 is two generations behind,
get at least some flavor of GTX2XX if you can't get 470 (which btw costs
no more than a 280), I have a GTX270 in my machine, its the weak link
for me right now.

FSX wants as much compute horsepower (CPU cycles) as you can throw at it, and its a
memory hog (more fast DDR3 ram), after those two factors you want a monster GPU.
Then, wrap Win 7 x64 around that, and you're gonna be happier.

Jack Vogel

Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on June 03 2010 01:20 ET by Keeny Corey

Thanks guys. Since I'm short on money at this time, I'll try FS9 till enough cash shows up for upgrades.

Again thanks for the help. I finally know what to upgrade is necessary to enhance my experience in FSX.

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on June 03 2010 01:33 ET by Rabee Jibren

Jack im planing on buying a SSD for FSX.
isnt it good with FSX?
i wont upgrade RAM , so i have some cash to buy it , or probably a raptor,
which one is better??

Rabee Jibren (DVA7329)

Posted onPost created on June 09 2010 14:49 ET by Keeny Corey

Here's a video on how the FPS go from 6 to 1 in about a minute or two. The settings are low to medium. Googled "low fps" and found out that a expensive system is not even necccesarry to run FSX. This individual had a weaker processor than me, less RAM, but a slightly higher graphics card. He achieved about 40-50 fps. That puzzles me.

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeWFx290oeE

Keeny Corey

Captain, B757-200

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