September 18, 200916 yr I have a new computer which is giving a lot of annoying stuttering in FSX, which I can't seem to get rid of. Others with a similar spec. seem to be overjoyed with the performance, most having overclocked.My computer is NOT a Dell.Here's my basic spec:Intel i7 975 Extreme (water-cooled) Asus P6T SE motherboard - American Megatrends BIOS v02.616 GB DDR3 RAM (1.333 mHz)Nvidia GTX 285 graphics card Vista 64 Home Edition o/sIs it worth overclocking to maximise/smooth out the performance and if so, is there a 'step-by-step' guide on how to to it on the above system?Thanks for any help and suggestions.Toni.
September 18, 200916 yr Read the "Important Topics" at the top of the forum page. Nick Needham's advice has helped a lot of people out there...http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=FSX Rick
September 18, 200916 yr Author Read the "Important Topics" at the top of the forum page. Nick Needham's advice has helped a lot of people out there...http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=FSX Thanks Rick.I have read Nick's guides, and have used them to 'tune up' FSX.The program does look stunning, but it's those consistent and annoying stutters that need remedying..... Toni.
September 19, 200916 yr Try manually assigning affinity of FSX.exe to CPU cores 0-6. If that still doesn't help try cores 0-5.
September 20, 200916 yr Author Try manually assigning affinity of FSX.exe to CPU cores 0-6. If that still doesn't help try cores 0-5.Thanks for the suggestion - HOW??? (Do I need a specific piece of software to do this, or am I looking in the BIOS, etc.?)Toni.
September 20, 200916 yr I have your exact setup. I had horrid stutters when first installing the new nvidia drivers for the 285. If you are using a new nvidia driver (190.xx), don't use nhancer. The new drivers make it obsolete. Set anything you need in the graphic driver, then disable VSYNC, then reenable it if you prefer it. FSX should run with VSync, but the new drivers are a bit messed up and it causes stuttering, especially with TrackIR when first enabled. I found that 30 fps is a very smooth setting with Vsync enabled. With VSync disabled, I can use any fps setting, but of course get tearing. NOte that the 190. seem to be the first drivers which allow AA, AF and other settings to be applied to FSX without nhancer. Nvidia is learning, slowly, but surely.
September 20, 200916 yr Go to the task manager (ctrl-alt-del), find fsx.exe in the process tab, right click, select "set affinity" check/uncheck boxes as you desire.
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