FS9 performance unrelated to graphic settings?

[Mariopilot 9]

This maybe as well a hardware related issue i think. In my FS9 it does not change anything to the performance if I crank all the sliders back to minimum, performance stays the same as follows:external view: 20-30 FPS2D cockpit: 10-20 fpsvirtual cockpit: 5-9 fps !!why this? If I crank all the sliders to max, it is the same!! they use to be cranked to max anyway...all this experimenting has been done after a major FS clean-up, deleting aircraft & old sceneries... (mainly photosceneries, they camewithout autogen and looked odd in their surrounding... but this is my personal taste.. I prefer autogen and standard scenery depth, even if I changed almost all textures...) and also wiping out the scenery.dat files to refresh the scenery database... it seeemed to me that after the clean-up FS got slower... but that seems fairly odd... I only deleted some 50 unuseful aircraft and add-on sceneries...first, my FS9.cfg:

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now my hardware specs (if I remember them correctly)CPU: AMD athlon XP 64 FX-53GPU: NVidia GeForce FX5900UltraRAM: 2GB DDR (DDR1 or 2? i think 1... )HDD: SATA, not clogged up NTSF flie system (may need a defrag, but it is not supposed to make huge difference as NTFS disks don't frag up too much..)OS: Windows XP SP3, fuklly up-to date, minimal background processes operative, only Norton Antivirus...MOBO: Asus A-7V? do not remember the name...My personal idea is that it uis my CPU that can't handle FS fast enough... and the GPU is not having any trouble about it...

[Guest belga1]

Hello,

My personal idea is that it uis my CPU that can't handle FS fast enough

How can be it was able to handle FS2004 before ?

only Norton Antivirus

Hibernate Norton ... Disable the realtime scan.... Test FS2004 again and check ...Regards.

[Guest napamule]

After quick look, to me it seems that texture bandwidth should be 40 not 100 and max texture load should be 512 and not 8. Who tweaked you? (heehee)Chuck BNapamule

[Mariopilot 9]

After quick look, to me it seems that texture bandwidth should be 40 not 100 and max texture load should be 512 and not 8. Who tweaked you? (heehee)Chuck BNapamule

It seems that cranking up somehow the texture bandwidth gets the blurries reduced (was 400 before!! now I have reduced it to 100) and texture max load is some debug\test parameter I was suggested to add somewhere around here in the forums, that appears to have a max vlue to 10... so now I have attempted to reduce it to 8 .. will give a try to your suggestions and see what happens!

[Mariopilot 9]

:(I have found the totally unexpected culprit!After hours of playing around with video card settings, checking out FS9.cfg parameters, etc... the culprit was a joystick!! Once it is connected, FPS jump back to a totally enjoyable level! and given the fact that I have played around with the settings it is working even better than before the problem occured! it may be a FSUIPC related problem, as the thing is a joystick port home-made thing connected halfaway through FSUIPC and halfaway through FS standard assignments...I did connect it back because its potentiometers were heavily weared so it started to work real bad, windos saying it was not connected quite often. So went in for a cleanup of the thing (to get it going until I buy new potentiometers) and hooked it up for a FS test. Booted up a heavy detail aircraft in a heavy detail scenery, and what I got out was "Hey! why is it working this GREAT now?!" disconnected the thing, and FPS dropped from 19 to 7 (in heavy DVC view). External view oscillates between 15 and 30 (locked at max 30) and 2D cockpit the same. DVC a little slower but no surprise, never below 12!HINT: never disconnect your joystick port peripherals if interfaced via FSUIPC! USB ones seem no problem as the saitek pro-flight yoke was not connected for this tests (piloting via old MS FFB joystick! I anyway disconnect this one when flying on the yoke and it is again a joystick port thing! so this is really odd!! go figure it out..)