Hello everybody,I've got a strange problem, I hope there is someone who can help.In the first FSX demo I get an average of 30 FPS, around 9-18 over autogen trees and houses, up to 50 over water with clear skies. I get all the great water effects and the sim runs smoothly.However, the ground textures only load reluctantly and blur quickly, plus there are strange texture problems as illustrated in the attached screens. Please look particularly at #3 and #5 - the wreck in #5 is the big ship near St Maarten airport.Demo #2 and FSX Deluxe retail version nearly do not run on my system. Even with *all* sliders set to minimun, no autogen at all I get between 0.3 and 1 FPS (no typo here). Sometimes the sim does not move for a few minutes. Please do not misunderstand this as FSX bashing, apart from a few small issues I believe, Aces put out a very good product.In know, my system is not the best by far, but as indicated on the FSX package, the sim should run on a 1GHZ 256mb Ram and 32 mb video memory.I am completely aware that ejoying FSX with these numbers is impossible, but shouldn't it at least run on my system with enough compromises?I have got an AMD64 3000+ (1.8 GHZ) with 512 mb Ram and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 mb video card and the newest Catalyst drivers.So what do you think? Is it just my low end system or is it a video card problem - especially if you look at my pictures.Your help is very much appreciated. :)#1 to 5 are taken from the demo1, #6 and 7 are a FSX retail shot with my "all sliders to the right" settings - please note the blurry vc.Greetings from GermanyAlexhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/159384.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/159395.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/159397.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/159398.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/159401.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/159389.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/159390.jpg

Hello Alex,I doubt that it is your video card. I am also using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 mb card with fair results. My other computer specs are 1024MB of memory and a 3.0GHz processor. I'm still tweeking.Dan

Alex,I don't know if it makes any difference with this older card but I am using the 6.4 Catalyst drivers.Dan

Demo1 St Martenn, FSX the whole world complete with all the .bgl files too.Slightly bigger, wouldn't you say?

Please note: I obviously confused left and right. Oh no x( I meant to say, that my fsx shot are at the lowest possible settings, so all sliders to the left, not to the right.Thanks @all for your answers, yet I still don't have a clue about what's happening there. As the retail version of the sim was to be optimised in performance compared to the first demo, I think it should run better than the demo.

Don't know if it would do any good or not but did you defrag after installing FSX?Jim

>Don't know if it would do any good or not but did you defrag>after installing FSX?>>JimYes, before and after... I still think it's a hardware related problem.

Thanks to all those who replied, I resolved the fps issue (a missing comma in the fsx.cfg...), but the video card still has big problems loading the textures.I posted it in the radeon 9800 problem threadhttp://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho..._id=19799&page=

Make sure the AGP aperature is set to a high enough number in the setup.. That caused texture choking/blurrieson my 9800 pro. I've since been running it at 256 and is ok..MK