Hi Everyone,I'm still installing everything. But I will say this, I am very impressed with the FSX install so far, I am 90% sure I will be moving to FSX. I think I now have the rig that will allow me to uninstall FS9 for good.Keep in mind this is coming from a "Die-Hard" FS9er that thought he would "never" move to FSX.Well, back to my installations.

Hi Everyone,I'm still installing everything. But I will say this, I am very impressed with the FSX install so far, I am 90% sure I will be moving to FSX. I think I now have the rig that will allow me to uninstall FS9 for good.Keep in mind this is coming from a "Die-Hard" FS9er that thought he would "never" move to FSX.Well, back to my installations.

You're making me a very happy man! LOL

Using FSX, I don't agree. I find that 25-35 is silky smooth. That's why, I feel that FSX is the best sim out there.

25-35 is far from

25-35 is far from

You mean like the frame rates that I've experienced for over a year using fs 2004? At 60+ in most areas except Manhattan, yet silky smooth.I've upgraded my system every year for the last 10. I've experience smoothness once or twice. LOL

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Hi,I just setup a quick try at an overclock, still need to do some tweaking. Here are two screen shots of FSX during the startup default flight. One shot shows bloom on the other with it off. These screen captures have been reduced from 1600x1200x32 to 800x600x32. I don't know about you, but I'm impressed.

Hi,I just setup a quick try at an overclock, still need to do some tweaking. Here are two screen shots of FSX during the startup default flight. One shot shows bloom on the other with it off. These screen captures have been reduced from 1600x1200x32 to 800x600x32. I don't know about you, but I'm impressed.

Again Mike really doesn

Hi,My exact settings in FSX can be found in Nick's Tweak Guide, the guide link is provided above. Yes I am using nHancer, again I used Nick's Guide to set it up. When I pan, regardless of direction, when FSX is set to "Unlimited" my frame rates go from 80 to 190 without bloom. With Bloom I see 45 to 115 FPS.Regardless of where I look and or time of day, with frame rates like these, I do not have "ANY" problems with FSX.

Again Mike really doesn

Hi,My exact settings in FSX can be found in Nick's Tweak Guide, the guide link is provided above. Yes I am using nHancer, again I used Nick's Guide to set it up. When I pan, regardless of direction, when FSX is set to "Unlimited" my frame rates go from 80 to 190 without bloom. With Bloom I see 45 to 115 FPS.Regardless of where I look and or time of day, with frame rates like these, I do not have "ANY" problems with FSX.

So you

Hi,I'm talking about FSX's default location. That is correct, it flutters in the 80's to a max of 190 fps (only saw 190FPS once for a couple of seconds). I can pan around the entire aircraft and it has not dropped below 70ish (with no bloom).Not sure what I7's your talking about, are they I7-920's with C0 stepping?. What web sites?. I'd like to go and chat with them myself and see what I'm doing that they are not and compare results.

So you’re telling us that you are getting a sustained 80 to 190 fps no matter how far you pan away from the aircraft? If so that’s a hell of a lot more performance than even some of the highest overclocked i7’s. As a matter of fact pretty much unheard of performance with FSX in any of the flight sim forums I visit and not anywhere close to the results with i7 users I’ve talked to.

You can not be seeing that high of a frame rate with the settings I posted unless you are using DX10NHANCER has no control in DX10 and only works with DX9VSYNC is broken in DX10 and will not lock frames at the monitor refresh rateso yes, I can see that perf out in the boonies away from any large urbanbut I dont use DX10.. its buggy and does not allow any video card control try that in downtown NYC or LAX with a PMDG on ALL the settings I posted in the images in the tuning thread and then see what the frame rate is.. it wont be 100+ :(

You can not be seeing that high of a frame rate with the settings I posted unless you are using DX10NHANCER has no control in DX10 and only works with DX9VSYNC is broken in DX10 and will not lock frames at the monitor refresh rateso yes, I can see that perf out in the boonies away from any large urbanbut I dont use DX10.. its buggy and does not allow any video card control try that in downtown NYC or LAX with a PMDG on ALL the settings I posted in the images in the tuning thread and then see what the frame rate is.. it wont be 100+ :(

Nick,I built my system based on your professional advice. I hope you do not mind helping me with over clocking.I thought that if you enable vsync that the fps do not go above refresh rate? 60 is my max even on fs9.I can't wait until Tuesday. That's when I will receive delivery.

Hi Nick,I'm not at home, so I don't know if DX10 is selected or not, I tried DX10 but I'm not sure if I deselected the option. I know everything else is setup as per your installation guide. The only thing I could not use was the Bufferpools section. I ended up with major surges.And yes this is out in the boonies, that's the start-up location that FSX uses.The bloom effect is simple amazing, once everything is setup (all my addons installed) I hope I can still use this feature.One thing is for sure, FS9/2004 is going to be removed from my system, never thought I would hear myself say that.

You can not be seeing that high of a frame rate with the settings I posted unless you are using DX10NHANCER has no control in DX10 and only works with DX9VSYNC is broken in DX10 and will not lock frames at the monitor refresh rateso yes, I can see that perf out in the boonies away from any large urbanbut I dont use DX10.. its buggy and does not allow any video card control try that in downtown NYC or LAX with a PMDG on ALL the settings I posted in the images in the tuning thread and then see what the frame rate is.. it wont be 100+ :(

Hi Nick,I'm not at home, so I don't know if DX10 is selected or not, I tried DX10 but I'm not sure if I deselected the option. I know everything else is setup as per your installation guide. The only thing I could not use was the Bufferpools section. I ended up with major surges.And yes this is out in the boonies, that's the start-up location that FSX uses.The bloom effect is simple amazing, once everything is setup (all my addons installed) I hope I can still use this feature.One thing is for sure, FS9/2004 is going to be removed from my system, never thought I would hear myself say that.

you wont be using bloom in DX9.. you will soon discover that :( You can in DX10 as well as high water reflections.. in DX9 those features will crush perf like a rockVsync is not locked on this with that high of a framerate.. when Vsync is locked the frame rate may jump above the refresh rate of the monitor here and there but it wont stay there as it will run the monitors refresh rate.. that is why I assumed this was in DX10.. Bloom and the frames being shown suggest DX10 in use.. (checked DX10 Preview in the FSX graphics settings)

Nick,I built my system based on your professional advice. I hope you do not mind helping me with over clocking.I thought that if you enable vsync that the fps do not go above refresh rate? 60 is my max even on fs9.I can't wait until Tuesday. That's when I will receive delivery.

My time is very limited right nowI dont know what you bought however if its a 920/940 on a Asus P6T and Vista64 you can follow this thread as it should get you where you need to behttp://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/Ya...m=1228522846/60start with post#65 and follow it through... read the thread first as it is setting up a Vista64 system on a Asus P6T and a 940 (same settings and proceedure other than your memory specs)make sure the memory you purchased is set up correctly by timing and speed via the BIOS.. replace your memory timing specs with those shown in the BIOS of that thread

you can overclock the Core i7 975 to 5,2596MHz using a 29x multiplier and a 181.4MHz QPI base clock, along with a core voltage of 1.504V.