Hi, me again. I need a little insight on getting FS running better. My system is as follows:Pentium P4 3.0 GhzAsus P4P800VM MoBoRadeon X700 Pro 25MB AGP8X1gig PC3200 RamOn Board SoundI have finally gotten everything all squared away with my new graphics card but I am still not happy with my frame rates. What I would like to know is if anyone can give me a few pointers on tweaking my system. I reduce Windows XP to almost bare-bones before running FS, and I use Ken Salter's FSAutoStart to run FS at a higher priority and defrag the memory. I am running the card at AA4X and AF16X, and the sliders in FS nearly max, but not quite. In the Seattle area in the DF A36, 2D cockpit I am getting anywhere from 11FPS on the ground at KSEA to 20FPS over the sound headed west. I have seen alot of people reporting frame rates similar to mine with similar systems, but yet they are running higher graphics settings in the sim. What else can I do? I use TuneXP and am running the latest drivers from ATI. I know I am missing a few other things to get the most out of my system. Thanks in advance.

Hi Ian,No concrete suggestions here since you already seem to be doing everything I had immediately thought of.What resolution are you running at?Have you tried defragging your hard drive? (Probably minimal impact on frame rates but could possibly improve loading times.)I think what's killing your frame rates is the AA and AF. Have you tried lowering those a notch? Obviously, image quality would be sacrificed a bit but there's no free lunch, there's bound to be a bit of a trade-off between quality and frame rates.Do you have a spare computer (even if quite old)? If so, perhaps you could consider getting WideFS, which would allow you to offload some of your add-ons like ActiveSky and FS Real Time onto a separate machine and thus lower the CPU load of your main FS machine.Sorry not to be of more help.Edwin

Unfortunately I don't have an old machine, I just keep reinventing the same one lol. Although I think it is too the point that every component has been replaced since I built in back in 98 or something like that lol. I just want to see if there is something I hadnt thought of some where. I did defrag my harddrive, which was horribly fragmented after some clean up I had done, and defraging had gotten forgotten. I know there are ways to tweak our machine, I just don't know what they are. And honestly, I don't see much improvement from turning down AA and AF. I tried it, and the image quality vs. performance wasn't really worth it. That at least tells me that it is not a video card issue (finally!), and that it is mostly the efficiency of the system. I got more time to poke and prod later. If I stumble accross something, I will post it so perhaps others may benifit.Best

Hello,Did you try to overclock your vid card?I did (it's a Nvidia) and the results are very interresting.There must be some special sites to help you, try Google .