Frame Rate update

[Guest TFT1]

Dear friends,what is the most important upgrade I should make to get better framerates. Especially clouds are dropping a lot. More then that is water texture. If I set the slider for water details to the right then the fps goes under 10. I have it half way.My current system is AMD XP 3000+, 1 Gb Ram, 128mb Ati Radeon 9600.Thanks for helpsincerelyHeinz

[Guest firehawk44]

Heinz,I would recommend another video card with at least 256mb. Also tweak your display settings in FS9. Move autogen to 50%; ATC to 40-50%. With the card you have now, you'll have FPS problems with all sliders to the right (max'd).Jim

[Djang0 1]

There are many threads about fs9.cfg tweeks but there are two tweeks that made a *huge* difference to me:*First* I would suggest backing up your original fs9.cfg before you start fiddling. It is located in:C:Documents and Settings...your windows user name...Application DataMicrosoftFS9However you can get a fresh cfg file by deleting fs9.cfg and starting fs9, or going toStartPrograms...Microsoft Flight simulator 2004TroubleshootingReset Defaults1) Increase texture bandwidth - find the following line in the DISPLAY section of fs9.cfg TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=###the default value is ### = 40, for your 128Mb card set ### = 200 to 400.2) Increase VC panrate - find the following line in the CONTROLS section of the fs9.cfg file:PAN_RATE=###the default value is ### = 400, set a higher value (I set ### = 850).

[aerdt 0]

For your current system, I would get a Geforce 6600GT to see a good FPS improvement. Your current board is clearly a bottleneck. Your CPU is just fine for now and I would hold onto it until you can justify an upgrade to an AMD 4000+ or FX system.Hope this helps,Pat

[Guest TFT1]

Thanks for your hints.Why is my board a bottleneck? Is FS depending much on the video card?Also it takes a lot of time to fire up the programm and takes to load the scenery and all long time.Dear Django, unfortunately the TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT and PAN_RATE changes did

[Guest TFT1]

Thanks guy for your advices.Before buying a new card I searched for new driver and dx. I found a new catalyst ati driver and the Dx9c. Wahooo what a difference. I doubbled the fps. Unbelivable. Never had such a improvement with updating. Can use most slider full right now and still have average 22-40 fps. great.Sincerelyheinz

[Djang0 1]

>>Dear Django, unfortunately the TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT and>PAN_RATE changes did