I've found one of the best ways to ensure smooth flight with very few stutters is to reset the priority of fsx.exe in Task Manager to High. Does anyone know how to have priority set to High all the time, so I don't have to reset it each time I start FSX?

Hi,That's simple enough. Just create a shortcut to your fsx.exe file and make the following change to the target.1. Create a shortcut to FSX.EXE and place it on your desktop.2. Move the mouse over your FSX shortcut and press the right mouse button, then go to properties.3. You need to edit the target - for example on my system it would be: %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c "start /high D:\FSX\fsx.exeFor my system, FSX is located on my D drive in a folder called FSX as shown above. All you need to do is change the path statement to point to FSX's executable (fsx.exe) file on your computer.The easy way to do this is create a shortcut and add the following line to the beginning of your target: %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c "start /highI hope this answers your question, if you need anymore help just ask.

I've found one of the best ways to ensure smooth flight with very few stutters is to reset the priority of fsx.exe in Task Manager to High. Does anyone know how to have priority set to High all the time, so I don't have to reset it each time I start FSX?

hi,You can use this program to save your priorityhttp://www.prnwatch.com/prio.html

hi,You can use this program to save your priorityhttp://www.prnwatch.com/prio.html

+1 love Prio-P

Hi,That's simple enough. Just create a shortcut to your fsx.exe file and make the following change to the target.1. Create a shortcut to FSX.EXE and place it on your desktop.2. Move the mouse over your FSX shortcut and press the right mouse button, then go to properties.3. You need to edit the target - for example on my system it would be: %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c "start /high D:\FSX\fsx.exeFor my system, FSX is located on my D drive in a folder called FSX as shown above. All you need to do is change the path statement to point to FSX's executable (fsx.exe) file on your computer.The easy way to do this is create a shortcut and add the following line to the beginning of your target: %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c "start /highI hope this answers your question, if you need anymore help just ask.

Can this be combined with fps limiter?Harry

Can this be combined with fps limiter?Harry

I found Prio and am trying it now. Seems to work good. I am using SplashSpinner to change screens when FS starts up. I wonder if the shortcut method would work with that?

hi,You can use this program to save your priorityhttp://www.prnwatch.com/prio.html

Wow, that looks cool...! Doesn't it have any impact on system performance? I mean, I suppose something is loaded at system startup to let Prio do its job? Looks cool and very easy, though: it will certainly work with the limiter too since the process itself has its priority changed and not the shortcut you use.

Wow, that looks cool...! Doesn't it have any impact on system performance? I mean, I suppose something is loaded at system startup to let Prio do its job? Looks cool and very easy, though: it will certainly work with the limiter too since the process itself has its priority changed and not the shortcut you use.

Hi,I have not noted any adverse effect. It is easy to use.The question is: Does it have a positive effect? I have not waisted my time in trying to measure the performance improvement because:1) I sounds so logical that it can improve things2) I use FSX as a flight simulator and not as a computer tweak simulator. I enjoy flying, that's all :( Cheers

Hi Harry,No, the above entry won't work with FPS Limiter. As far as Prio, it doesn't work with FPS Limiter either (Windows 7 Pro 64 bit), if I run the FPS Limiter bat file to load FSX.EXE then go to the task manager and set FSX.EXE to run high, Prio will not keep the setting of high, next time FSX is loaded its back to normal.As of right now, its either run FSX with the FPS Limiter and manually jump FSX to high or use the above command to run FSX high without the FPS Limiter. I don't like any additional programs/services running in the background if I can help it and since I'm able to run FSX in High Priority without this added program (prio) thats the way I have it setup.

Can this be combined with fps limiter?Harry

Just for the record, this crashed my sim, bringing up an out of memory message. And it made no difference to performance.

I've found one of the best ways to ensure smooth flight with very few stutters is to reset the priority of fsx.exe in Task Manager to High. Does anyone know how to have priority set to High all the time, so I don't have to reset it each time I start FSX?

Just curious, but what other process does steal CPU cycles from FSX? Do you by any chance use a wireless network? You could try to reduce the priority of that process as an alternative.

I'm going to give prio a try now -- thanks for the heads up. There is a x64 bit version available.

I've found one of the best ways to ensure smooth flight with very few stutters is to reset the priority of fsx.exe in Task Manager to High. Does anyone know how to have priority set to High all the time, so I don't have to reset it each time I start FSX?

 

Process Lasso does all this and more. CPU affinity adjustements etc. Free version does a lot or can be registered for fully featured version with additional features.

Does this improve FSX at all?

Thanks for the Process Lasso info ; I am using it now and it seems to do the job pretty well.

 

I've set fsx to high priorty, and power to high performance. Are there any other settings you would recommend?