Hello all of you guys/gals, I recently purchased the Md-11 and am slowly learning to fly this beauty. One slight problem.In the 2d cockpit view, I get great performance locked at 30 FPS and smooth as silk. This goes for the VC as well.However when I switch to the spot plane view, I get stutters like crazy, this goes for the outside views as well. Moving the gauge refresh rates down or up doesn't do anythin to help or hinder performance at all. I get this problem at big and small airports. It only goes away when at high flight levels. I do not get this problem with the 747-400X or the J41. Thanks in advance for the help. setup:FSX Gold addition with Acceleration installedW7 64-biti7 920 OCed to 3.6 GHz9G RAMGTX 260just one moniter on 1280x1024on board soundcardI have not tried it on vista 64-bit yet as I hvae not had time.Matthew Kubanda

Are the outside views important to you? You might have to turn down the ground resolution (I don't think the panel refresh rate is going to have any effect on outside views).

Are the outside views important to you? You might have to turn down the ground resolution (I don't think the panel refresh rate is going to have any effect on outside views).

ITs not super important but its nice to get out of the cockpit someitmes and see what im flying. I have tried lowering all my sliders to the left and no joy. Its baffeling to say the least.Matthew Kubanda

Hello all of you guys/gals,However when I switch to the spot plane view, I get stutters like crazyon board soundcardI have not tried it on vista 64-bit yet as I hvae not had time.Matthew Kubanda

Hey Matthew, Vista isn't going to be any different, but perhaps XP64 will. I see you have on board sound, the stutters are caused by many factors but you can probably see a lot less of them if your sound quality via control panel was turned down (for speaker properties - even if your using headphones).Another tweak that works for some and not so much for others is to add bufferpools to your FSX.cfg.Somewhere under Display (anywhere, usually as the last entry) add this:(Per Nick's post on tweaking FS)

[BUFFERPOOLS]Poolsize=XXXXXXXX

Replace the x's with which ever better fits your video cards memory = 10000000 - 15000000 for 512MB cards, 35000000 for 640MB cards, 70000000 for 768MB cards and between 100000000 and 490000000 (100 to 490MB) for larger VM memory SINGLE CORE video cards. This works great for me, but has some side effects such as distance textures may look drab and possible artifacting. What this does is creates a memory buffer around your aircraft making it much smoother. I think it's holding everything within a certain radius of your aircraft so it doesn't need to recache so much as other things saturate your video ram.Toy with it, if it doesn't help, just delete the added lines and you'll be back to normal.

I will try that Mr. Dan. Thanks for the help. I will report back after I have tried the bufferpools and sound tip. Matthew Kubanda

Matthew,You might want to try the following which has helped me with the stuttering in the view mode and that is: Go to Views, select View Mode, then Outside, then Locked Spot and that should alleviate to some degree the stutters.Regards,jack noulet

Thanks Jack I will try that. Dan, bufferpools did not work. I am finding though that if I wait for about 5 minutes the stutters are reduced dramitically. I think there is a HD issue or I may have slow RAM.

Tune your system to this: http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=29041

Tune your system to this: http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=29041

In all honesty I have done that a long time ago and I saw no difference in anything. I have however lowered my OC back down to stock and that got rid of the stuttering. My RAM is stil lstock so I think the timings are quite slow. IT was OCed to 3.6 GHz with RAM timings of 9 9 9 24. Not fast at all. I was able to set RAM timings to 6-6-6-16 with my CPU runnin at stock which is 2.67GHz. Matthew Kubanda