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DVA8248
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Posted onPost created on
June 01 2010 18:28 ET by Teofilo Homsany
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Hey guys!!
I am trying to see if I move my FS9 to FSX but I have been having a terrible time with FSX and my new computer configuration.
I have a new Quadcore i7 Chipset with around 2.6GHz, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and 1GB NVidia 9600 video card. I have a Velociraptor 300GB hard disk drive and I still feel FSX really slow, specially around areas of 3rd party scenery. On FSX default scenery the frame rates are around 29 fps or so but as soon as I load up Aerosoft's airport or any other 3rd party addon, the fps go to the floor.
What tips can you offer me so that I can start using FSX with the 3rd party scenery and have a smooth ride? I have tried disabling the moving cars, ships, etc. But that doesn't seem to affect the FPS that much. Also the autogen have been reduced to few or none.
Anything else I can do that you suggest?
Thanks much in advance,
Teo
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Posted onPost created on
June 01 2010 18:55 ET by John Alusik
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Take a look at the load on your CPU and GPU, if available, then that will help determine the slowdown. I can already tell you that it isn't your harddrive, because once you "load" you flight, your hard drive doesn't do much work after that.
John AlusikCaptain, B767-300
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DVA8248
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Posted onPost created on
June 01 2010 19:36 ET by Teofilo Homsany
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Oh and I'm using Windows 7, 64bit.
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DVA7329
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Posted onPost created on
June 02 2010 10:31 ET by Rabee Jibren
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Teo can you post your FSX settings?
Try and load a default aircraft at that airport , then reload another aircraft (add-on).
It might be an interference between add-on and scenry ??? (dont know)
bring scenry down to normal and autogen to zero , and you might see an improvement. (it wont affect aerosoft's scenry at all)
and reduce level of detail, it might also help.
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DVA7697
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Posted onPost created on
June 02 2010 10:34 ET by Connor Damelia
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put it to antiscopic under filter and get rid of all the lens flare stuff try that i got a huge increase in fps and keep autogen low or normal not high
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Posted onPost created on
June 02 2010 11:04 ET by Anthony Piasecki
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Even with that i7 and 4gb of ram, Which should be Triple channel btw, you need to follow some basic advise here, 2.66 is ok , FSX is CPU dependent, you may want to read this http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=29041 and this http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1197380641
If you can afford a separate HD for your OS and keep FSX on that Vrap all by itself, I would do that. I run a 940 Overclocked at 3.8 right now, do to the summer months ahead, and at 4.0 in the winter. and so far FSX is pretty descent.
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Posted onPost created on
June 02 2010 13:38 ET by Jack Vogel
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He has a fast disk, just having a dedicated one does not seem likely to be the big win.
I would read VERY carefully all the FSX tuning discussions you can, the weak link in
your hardware is that video card, its pretty whimpy, and how fast is your DDR3 memory.
I don't have that type of addon scenery, just GEX/UTX, so not sure what to expect.
My main question is, WHY if you are just making the initial move to FSX are you loading it
down with a bunch of third party scenery?? Ya, its all pretty, but the default landscape
at high settings is SO far beyond FS9 that it seems worth just getting that working first?
Oh ya, and Anthony, not all i7's are triple channel, the 8XX family are like the i5's in having
only dual channel, which must be what he has. That being said 4G is pretty small by the
normal i7 standards, I have 12G, you might consider boosting it to 8.
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