huge framerate increase! Still pretty low but I am trying all sliders maxed except for water. 5-6 fps increase on the ground where my frames are the worst. A quick texture flash when switching view once but other than that nothing else so far. Will sit on the ground for a while then takeoff and do some circuits in the pmdg 744F. Thank you!!

*******,I managed to get BP=0 working using the 196.21 drivers.It seems that setting the water to High 2 is the only way to stop the flashes and spikes. I also have to have AG at Dense and a trees tweak.I did notice that setting the FPS at 25 smooths the sim. However, I need at least 30 to be happy.Still testing.

I did add the animated core dll file to my fsx folder

You mean UIAutomationCore.DLL correct?

I also was getting quick out of memory errors and found the line to disable epp

What do you mean by EPP?

It seems that setting the water to High 2 is the only way to stop the flashes and spikes. I also have to have AG at Dense and a trees tweak.

Yeap.. my guess is that Water High 2.0 and Max 2.0 'reduce' the number of D3D calls and rely more on CPU than GPU, the flashes are due to the high number of D3D calls and the CPU/GPU getting out of sync (when using BP=0)

oops I mean DEP. data execution prevention

Stephen,I'll be buying a 5870 shorty... if I'm correct, and the increased shader processesors, plus GDDR5 memory allow the ATI to 'process' commands faster (rendering is about the same), you could run even Extemely Dense with no problems at all.. so I will test the theory buying the card myself :) you could wait or like me (impulsive kind) purchase it asap...Why not a Fermi? well... I don't want to get into a discussion with the a really excited user, (I own a 285) but I'm pretty sure the 5870 and GTX 480 will perform exactly the same in FSX... besides, the ATI runs cooler and have better overclockability if I need the extra raw speed.

*******,I ordered a Gigabyte HD5870 with dual fans that should be here by the middle of next week. Yes, I am impulsive too.Stephen

just as I was getting excited, and getting good frame rates, I had an appcrash, d3d9.dll I think. On approach to the addon scenery EBBR by Aerosoft. I HATE THIS GAME

just as I was getting excited, and getting good frame rates, I had an appcrash, d3d9.dll I think. On approach to the addon scenery EBBR by Aerosoft. I HATE THIS GAME

Too much tweaking and not enough flying will do that ;o)Perfection really isn't possible in the absolute sense with FSX (ie, no matter how much payware scenery, traffic, aircraft, weather you install, you get perfect image quality, frame of 30+, perfect smoothness), which means at some level we have to settle on some compromises and get on with it. Though it's fun to try!

on approach to FSDreamteam LSZH. out of memory error. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRcan I please complete one flight?

Just landed at LFPG after a transatlantic flight with PMDG's quadjet smooth as silk with fantastic frames, thx for the water tip.

on approach to FSDreamteam LSZH. out of memory error. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRcan I please complete one flight?

Yeah, all the things I did to make PMW flyable with max AG, crapped out any flights around FSDT JFK with decent sized AI traffic, not to mention I cant touch Kord, had to put BP back up to 1mb at a min.So as ******* theorizes about BP=0 needs a faster card I'm going to crank the GTX right up, so far its stable at 780 core, now to the memory (acceleroXtreme), I know its not the same as more cores but its 10% more than stock, maybe will try the voltage mod and really smoke it, but if I do sorry no Team red for me, far to many issues still.

On the 2nd crash I was actually using poolsize tweak from nick_n. Maybe I will go back to zero and see what happens. That dll crash was from something strange with EBBR from Aerosoft. Maybe corrupted texture or something. Back to poolsize=0 and set water to high 2x. tbm to 120 from my usual 80. And off to fly. The sad part is, I built a fast computer but still can't run AI traffic. it is all down to zero % until I can tweak fsx to be stable before I start adding AI

On the 2nd crash I was actually using poolsize tweak from nick_n. Maybe I will go back to zero and see what happens. That dll crash was from something strange with EBBR from Aerosoft. Maybe corrupted texture or something. Back to poolsize=0 and set water to high 2x. tbm to 120 from my usual 80. And off to fly. The sad part is, I built a fast computer but still can't run AI traffic. it is all down to zero % until I can tweak fsx to be stable before I start adding AI

Its really strange you are getting OOM errors, are you sure you are using FSX SP2??? its practically impossible to get OOM errors in SP2 under a 64 Bit OS because the LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag is set!

On the 2nd crash I was actually using poolsize tweak from nick_n. Maybe I will go back to zero and see what happens. That dll crash was from something strange with EBBR from Aerosoft. Maybe corrupted texture or something. Back to poolsize=0 and set water to high 2x. tbm to 120 from my usual 80. And off to fly. The sad part is, I built a fast computer but still can't run AI traffic. it is all down to zero % until I can tweak fsx to be stable before I start adding AI

Well thats my problem with this whole BP=0 thing, I was stable before, could run all my scenery stable with near max settings and Max IQ other than the occasionaly common Black screen in certain scenarios of max AI, max complex aircraft and scenery. I just liked the performance gain of BP=0, but I just cant deal with the unstableness of at all, one last shot with maxing out the card to see what changes there if anything.

Its really strange you are getting OOM errors, are you sure you are using FSX SP2??? its practically impossible to get OOM errors in SP2 under a 64 Bit OS because the LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag is set!

fsx with acceleration

I had to swap out my ATI cards for a nvidia 285 with 2gb of vram, but other than that it has been a great find. The ATI card actually got me ridiculous frame rates with this tweak like 30fps but due to the lower amount of VRAM I was getting crashes. The Nvidia is slower on the frames but the AA is nicer and it's rock stable.Thanks again.

O/C my GTX didn't do a thing, though its no 5x serries ATI or Fermi, but Ping Pong was using the ATI 5970 but was still getting system crashes with BP=0 and thats a very fast card.