SHADER_CACHE_VERSION... HIGHMEMFIX... STALE_BUFFER_THRESHOLD... TextureMaxLoad...So many hidden features...So many possibilities to come...Each day flying smoother...Duran.

SHADER_CACHE_VERSION... HIGHMEMFIX... STALE_BUFFER_THRESHOLD... TextureMaxLoad...So many hidden features...So many possibilities to come...Each day flying smoother...Duran.

Baby steps my friend.. baby steps, we don't want information overload :) and there are so many other new things yet to discuss... you'll be amazed ;) Oh boy, I wish I could have a word with the Redmond guys! I would love to be part of that team ;) unfortunately, there is no team :( so.. this is whats left :) help from the shadows! ;)

Well, don't make a deal with the devil, it's not worth it :( Bob G

*******,Add me to your list of extremely grateful individuals.I wanted to follow up with my BP=0 quest for best FSX nirvana. For me, there's no other way to run fsx than with BP=0. Fast & smooth!Here's the latest:Nvidia 195.62 (This driver is a keeper)BP=0Water is on High 2Nhancer 8xs and 16aa, High QualityMy concern is texture corruption when accessing menu. Scenery disappears when I return.IF I add these lines, will they help??GraphicsHIGHMEMFIX=1STALE_BUFFER_THRESHOLD=2147483647[Display]TextureMaxLoad=30What do you recommend as a safe TBM? I've tried anywhere from 30-400.Thanks.Jose

*******,Add me to your list of extremely grateful individuals.I wanted to follow up with my BP=0 quest for best FSX nirvana. For me, there's no other way to run fsx than with BP=0. Fast & smooth!Here's the latest:Nvidia 195.62 (This driver is a keeper)BP=0Water is on High 2Nhancer 8xs and 16aa, High QualityMy concern is texture corruption when accessing menu. Scenery disappears when I return.IF I add these lines, will they help??GraphicsHIGHMEMFIX=1STALE_BUFFER_THRESHOLD=2147483647[Display]TextureMaxLoad=30What do you recommend as a safe TBM? I've tried anywhere from 30-400.Thanks.Jose

Jose, your silver bullet is:HIGHMEMFIX=1dale una probada!

Gracias!!!!!

*******,I just wanted to say thanks for the great tweaks you suggested. I was a great skeptic of "miracle tweaks", but as I can see, this was the result of a systematic dissection of the way FSX works. This was an amazing gift to the flightsimming community who can now run FSX decently on lesser hardware. With them my FS runs butter smooth in most situations on a modest Core 2 Duo.

*******,I just wanted to say thanks for the great tweaks you suggested. I was a great skeptic of "miracle tweaks", but as I can see, this was the result of a systematic dissection of the way FSX works. This was an amazing gift to the flightsimming community who can now run FSX decently on lesser hardware. With them my FS runs butter smooth in most situations on a modest Core 2 Duo.

No, thanks to you all you guys for helping... and, don't worry I completely understand the 'miracle' tweak thing.. however, don't forget ******* is the guy who made miracles happen! ;) last week was a great week for miracles! the only miracle I need is to get rid of Hugo Chavez :) but lets not get into politics :)

Just wanted to post my results:HIGHMEMFIX=1 + BP=0 works perfect now with verydense autogen/scenery and not 1 graphic spike! I have never used a tweek that has made such a difference on my setup. I am using 182.50 driver. I had to go back to it as the 197.13 caused me some problems in other games. I am also using nhancer and XP 64 bit. For full system specs see my sig.Good work guys!

STALE_BUFFER_THRESHOLD=2147483647I'm still confused on what exactly this entry does and is it applicable for a 512MB video card?

No, thanks to you all you guys for helping... and, don't worry I completely understand the 'miracle' tweak thing.. however, don't forget ******* is the guy who made miracles happen! ;) last week was a great week for miracles! the only miracle I need is to get rid of Hugo Chavez :) but lets not get into politics :)

Hi *******,I first want to express my gratitude to you for having put in the effort to effectively make FSX usable for me!I (as I'm sure many others) have been testing your settings with success over the past few days/weeks. Specifically your texture resolution entries have worked miracles! I'm currently working through BP=0 but am still in the process of testing. I did, after reading this, try your setup changes, and I was not very successful in getting positive results. With my GTX260 and i7 @ 4GHz, setting a framerate lock comes with a very large performance penalty. Also, IQ suffers when using in-game AA and AF.The setup I've found that works well for me is nhancer set 8xS AA and 16x AF. I uppped the TBM=400 in FSX.CFG, set BP=0 and changed TextureMaxLoad=9 (although I understand it won't do anything when running unlimited framerate). My question is this... when I hit the wall you describe where the incoming data is added to the queue faster than it is consumed (level d forum), what is the general effect? Should I expect a CTD or is it less obvious...like stutters and FPS loss?Thanks again for all that you've done! I look forward to the next few weeks!Jeff

My question is this... when I hit the wall you describe where the incoming data is added to the queue faster than it is consumed (level d forum), what is the general effect? Should I expect a CTD or is it less obvious...like stutters and FPS loss?

CTD's and even a complete system crash :)Look, your best bet is to start using Sparse autogen, and increase it little by little... download GPU-Z do you have at least an idea on how the GPU is being used. (is not 100% reliable) but, it gives you a general idea.Are you using the AffinityMask setting? Hyperthreading ON or OFF?

CTD's and even a complete system crash :)Look, your best bet is to start using Sparse autogen, and increase it little by little... download GPU-Z do you have at least an idea on how the GPU is being used. (is not 100% reliable) but, it gives you a general idea.

I'm at Very Dense for autogen and scenery complexity and barely a hiccup. My test scenario is LGA RW 31 (facing central park), Day, Building Storms w/ PMDG JS41. I takeoff and turn left to follow the east river up past Manhattan.It's a beast of a test scenario, I think :)

I'm at Very Dense for autogen and scenery complexity and barely a hiccup. My test scenario is LGA RW 31 (facing central park), Day, Building Storms w/ PMDG JS41. I takeoff and turn left to follow the east river up past Manhattan.It's a beast of a test scenario, I think :)

Ok do this.. BUT, BE CAREFULL.. because, it will completely crash your sim if you are stressing it too much:Set frames to UNLIMITED and don't 'limit' it.. let the sim produce the highest ammount of frames possible. (if you read my post in the LevelD forum you know what will happen)

Ok do this.. BUT, BE CAREFULL.. because, it will completely crash your sim if you are stressing it too much:Set frames to UNLIMITED and don't 'limit' it.. let the sim produce the highest ammount of frames possible. (if you read my post in the LevelD forum you know what will happen)

I am running unlimited...locking frames gives me about 5FPS avg loss.BP=0 definitely gives me a smoother sim experience. Here are some quick results with TBM=400:1. BP=0 // GPU max load 47% and max Memory Used (GPU) 571MB -- FPS 18-22 but smooth2. BP=400000000 // GPU max load 83% and max memory used (GPU) 508MB -- FPS 15-19 but very choppyInteresting results. I'll keep playing.Edit: Just dialed back Autogen to Dense and performance was definitely better...avg of 22-27 FPS and smooth.GPU max load was similary...52% and memory was 573MB.