After tweaking and following the advice from the forum I still have never seen anything close to 12FPS. So I am through with FSX until I can build a beefier system. My 2.4 with a gig and half ram and GeForce 5950 ultra just doesn't cut it. Guess it's back to Far Cry.:-(

I'm running basically the same system but with a nvidia GeForce 6600 256 MB card and except for some stutters at busy airports I am having no problems.Have done all the tweaks.Framerate is low but mostly smooth even with sliders to the right.

I have a 2.4, with 2 gig ram and a Radeon X850Pro but I have overclocked the CPU to 3.2 (even before FSX) and up'd the GPU & GRAM on the Radeon just a tad. Some sliders are on the right-hand side but scenery complexity is to the left and no AI. FPS is usually below 12 but it is flyable. It will keep me busy 'till I get my upgrades in next month. I like knowing that there will be things to "unlock" in FSX a year or two down the road without buying a new version.

>After tweaking and following the advice from the forum I>still have never seen anything close to 12FPS. So I am through>with FSX until I can build a beefier system. My 2.4 with a gig>and half ram and GeForce 5950 ultra just doesn't cut it. Guess>it's back to Far Cry.:-( FS9 should work fine with that, many have gone back.

Maybe I'll try that, when I purchased MyTraffic for FSX I got the FS9 version also. I am not confident enough to over clock so will be building a new system in the first quarter of 07.

"2.4" is such a nebulous description of a processor, considering that the Core 2 Duo 6600, the Athlon X2 4000+ and a couple single core processors from 2003 all run at 2.4Ghz. And of course, that doesn't even take into account the basic differential between clock speed and performance. My 2Ghz Athlon XP 2400 claimed to run as well as a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz, so that skews things even more.I suppose I'm just curious because my processor upgrade seems to have had a much larger effect on FSX than my video card upgrade.Thanks,

I have just a basic P4 2.4Ghz single core processor. I believe that my MB maxes out at a 2.6Ghz chip.

>After tweaking and following the advice from the forum I>still have never seen anything close to 12FPS. So I am through>with FSX until I can build a beefier system. My 2.4 with a gig>and half ram and GeForce 5950 ultra just doesn't cut it. Guess>it's back to Far Cry.:-( Did you try turning OFF both FSAA and AF on your video card and in FSX use BiLinear filtering and FSAA on?Better save up a lot of money for Crysis! lol I can't wait.

Crysis looks like it will be awesome. I will try the changes you mention, maybe I just don't have everything tweaked as others do. I see guys getting 22fps and don't know how they do it.I am building a dual core system with vista and it will solely be for gaming, right now I share with everything else.

Also, what resolution are you running at?

Native, which is 1600X1200 in my case.

>Native, which is 1600X1200 in my case.See, I'm pretty sure that's why I'm having better luck than a lot of people. I don't think everyone takes into account how many more pixels are being drawn at higher resolutions. I'm running most stuff cranked on my system, which is not bad at all, at 1024x768, AA and AF on, and I hold locked at 20fps, even when running debug versions of my programs in the background.Now, I have some very old monitors at the moment that don't work well above that resolution, but I think, if possible, I know some flat panels are finicky about resolution, setting to a lower resolution might help move some people from unplayable to playable.It's just another thing to consider.(Man, I wish I had better monitors...)

Your system is indeed in need of an upgrade. Also your Geforce 5950 had pipeline problems. I would go back to FS9 also. Untill you can get FSX to run better.

What I want to know is how in the heck to beat the copter at the end of "boat" level. I'm ready to give up far cry and take up simming again.Bob

>After tweaking and following the advice from the forum I>still have never seen anything close to 12FPS. So I am through>with FSX until I can build a beefier system. My 2.4 with a gig>and half ram and GeForce 5950 ultra just doesn't cut it. Guess>it's back to Far Cry.:-( Can't believe some people are trying to sell the functionality of FSX for YOUR system. We all know flight sims are CPU intensive and a 2.4 GHz system isn't going to cut it for FSX unless you strip it down to a shell. Just as well stay with a beefed up FS9. I still do a lot of city flying with UT and those great lights for FS9. The same cannot and wouldn't be workable in FSX.The first system I ever ran FS9 on was a P4 2.8 GHz system and an ATI 9700TX 128 mb card. Ran quite well. I bought a new system a year after FS9 so I could take advantage of some very CPU intensive addons such as from PMDG and Ultimate Terrain.P4 3.6 GHz 800 Mhz FSB HT, 2 gig DDRII 533 ram, ATI X800XT 256 mb PCIe video