I have a reasonable computer system which has served me very well for fs9, averaging 38FPS with everything maxed out and running PMDG aircraft. Today, I installed FSX for the first time and it was ridciulously slow, stuttering and unflyable because of the poor frame rates. What I would like to know is am i mising something here? Surely its not this bad. If someone could have a look at my specs and tell me if I should expect decent frame rates with what i have got I would appreciate it.Please see jpg images for specs.Paul

Why not just read what has already been posted? Sorry, but I can't find any sympathy for anyone to be `shocked` by the performance of FSX when the warnings have been appearing in these forums since day one of release! Where have you been!? ;)Fortunately there are a whole heap of tweaks that could be applied. Just work your way through the list and see what works for you.Allcott

Thank you for taking the time out to at least attempt a reply. If you read carefully my post ws attempt to get specific information about my system in relation to FXS.

My system runs FSX just fine.ASUS A8N- nForce SLI Chipset SATA RAID Dual PCIe MOBOAMD ATHLON64 3500+ CPU w/ HT Tech 512 Cache VeniceLG GWA-4161 DVD/CD200GB Maxtor SATA 150 8MB Cache80GB Maxtor Ultra ATA 133EVGA 7900 GT KO PCIe nvodngov19147- driversSB Audigy 22G Corsair PC 3200 400MHZ Dual Channel DDRSuper Alien 500W P/SRunway 34R KSEA FR 14-16. Once airborne 21-251280 X 1024 X 32Target Frame Rate - 25Global Texture Resolution - Very HighAdvanced Animation - checkFilter - TrilinearAA - checkedAircraft: Default 7373-D Virtual CockpitHigh Resolution 3-D checkedaircraft casts shadows on ground -checkedScenery:LOD-LargeMesh Complexity: 100Mesh Resolution - 10mTexture Resolution - 1 mWater Effects - high 1.xland detail - checkedScenery complexity

Well your system looks fine to me mate, welcome to the world of scouring the forums and trying small changes to the cfg file to try and make the 50 quid game work properly. Basically turn of the autogen, turn of bloom, turn down the water and be careful with the traffic. regardssmarti05you know it makes sense

Turn water & autogen off, then start moving them back up from there, if you wish. I keep these off for many flight situations and get a near constant 25 fps of smooth stutter free flight.Surprisingly, auto-gen "off" looks great in many areas such as city textures, because it lets the new photo-type textures show through. I kept water off in FS9, much of the time also, just for the extra fps. With FSX I'll use variations of water settings depending on bush flight, or just cruising over mountains and cities at 25-30,000'msl.Overall, I'm just too impressed with some excellent new high resolution city/mountain textures to go back to FS9 very often. It's all a compromise, and one sim won't fit all.L.AdamsonAthlon 64 3800+/2GIG/Geforce7600GS 256MB/1600*1200*32

>Thank you for taking the time out to at least attempt a>reply. If you read carefully my post ws attempt to get>specific information about my system in relation to FXS. If you want hardare advice, at least post in the correct forum? After reading the tips that have been offered to those with very similar systems to yours already, of course. I don't think we really need to re-visit every single possible piece of advice just because you've now arrived, and the overall advice is always `try and see`. You could try the advanced search function, and use the hardware you have as a search item, each item in turn. That should get you a good grounding. Allcott

Instead of doing all the time-consuming searches here and there, you can get it all here:http://www.fox-fam.com/wordpress/?page_id=41This made it work well for me, actually it's very smooth now :-)Alcott, I always wonder why you spend so much time reading and responding to posts, telling people not to post at all. Maybe all this searching takes more time than necessary for someone ...Eagle

Give a man a fish and he can feed his family for a day. Teach a man to fish and he can feed his family for life.I first came here as a newbie with some knowledge of the audio side of PC operation, but little or none of FS technology specifically, or of the hardware to run it. I'm a real world pilot increasingly finmding the costs of real flying to be disproportionate. FS is a substitute, and like in the hobbyist audio game, it doesn't take long to realise that no-one can possibly hand you the answers, because they don't own the same computer as you, don't have the same requirements, or the same criteria for measuring. You cannot be given the answersa, you have to find them out for yourself. This I was taught in several other forums, where real experts don't hand out answers, they teach you how to find out the answers for yourself, so you can make a contribution back.I learnt by looking at the posts, and applying what was being said to my own situation, and by experimentaion, not by repeating the same question over and over again, especially when the answer is always the sameL "Try them all. Keep the ones that work."That, and simple politeness accepting that my time is no more or less valuable than yours, so just as I would not expect someone to provide me with an answer to a question only recently posted, neither should we fail to remind any poster that the answer may already be here, which may save them time and aggravation. There are an increasing number of posts from people like our OP, who have a hefty number of posts in the Avsim forums under their belt. Is it not right to expect that they know how to make best use of the forum?Obviously not so in this case. Wrong forum, wrong question, wrong attitude. Correct those one at a time and EVERYBODY benefits, surely?The moderators have a hard enough time keeping the FSX posts in check, Why can't they expect posters to read sticky posts about posting in the right forums, and just doing it RIGHT?Allcott

>Give a man a fish and he can feed his family for a day. Teach>a man to fish and he can feed his family for life.>>I first came here as a newbie with some knowledge of the audio>side of PC operation, but little or none of FS technology>specifically, or of the hardware to run it. I'm a real world>pilot increasingly finmding the costs of real flying to be>disproportionate. FS is a substitute, and like in the hobbyist>audio game, it doesn't take long to realise that no-one can>possibly hand you the answers, because they don't own the same>computer as you, don't have the same requirements, or the same>criteria for measuring. You cannot be given the answersa, you>have to find them out for yourself. This I was taught in>several other forums, where real experts don't hand out>answers, they teach you how to find out the answers for>yourself, so you can make a contribution back.>>I learnt by looking at the posts, and applying what was being>said to my own situation, and by experimentaion, not by>repeating the same question over and over again, especially>when the answer is always the sameL "Try them all. Keep the>ones that work.">>That, and simple politeness accepting that my time is no more>or less valuable than yours, so just as I would not expect>someone to provide me with an answer to a question only>recently posted, neither should we fail to remind any poster>that the answer may already be here, which may save them time>and aggravation. There are an increasing number of posts from>people like our OP, who have a hefty number of posts in the>Avsim forums under their belt. Is it not right to expect that>they know how to make best use of the forum?>>Obviously not so in this case. Wrong forum, wrong question,>wrong attitude. Correct those one at a time and EVERYBODY>benefits, surely?>>The moderators have a hard enough time keeping the FSX posts>in check, Why can't they expect posters to read sticky posts>about posting in the right forums, and just doing it RIGHT?>>>AllcottHear hear. :-)

"Give a man a fish and he can feed his family for a day. Teach a man to fish and he can feed his family for life."It helps if you give him a fishing rod and some bait too.Welcome to the FSX tweak madness.Carlos, AKA thedoggg, AKA Aviator999

>"Give a man a fish and he can feed his family for a day.>Teach a man to fish and he can feed his family for life.">>It helps if you give him a fishing rod and some bait too.>>Welcome to the FSX tweak madness.>>Carlos, AKA thedoggg, AKA Aviator999>>That is so true on all counts. Trying to make a barbel swim as fast as a barracuda is the perennial FiShing problem. :)Allcott

FSX sucks everything out of every system high graphics Etc.