I thought with 4 cores running at 4ghz this should be a pleasant FSX machine. However, I'm getting 14-18fps at LAX looking over the terminal area, with these settingsgraphics1600x1200x16trilinear with anti-aliasinglens flare and advanced animationsAircraft - ultra highScenery detail radius - mediumcomplexity - 47mesh - 38mtexture resolution - 1mwater effect - high 1xscenery complexity - very highautogen density - normalspecial effects detail - normalweathercloud - 60mithermal visualization - nonedetailed cloudscoverage density - hightraffic - airline only @ 60%What can I do to get to something playble, like 30fps? Would a GTX470 improve things quite a bit?Thanks all.

1) 8800gtx is fairly weak for FSX.2) you should try BP=0 tweaks, but since you have 8800gtx, it's highly likely you will get crashes, gotta try it out

And keep FSX on a separate dedicated drive.

1) 8800gtx is fairly weak for FSX.

Will post FPS under GTX470 when i that card. is it normal that only 1 core is getting about 75% load while the other 3 cores idle most of the time? I was under the impression that FSX is CPU intensive, yet it seems to use very little of it.

Will post FPS under GTX470 when i that card. is it normal that only 1 core is getting about 75% load while the other 3 cores idle most of the time? I was under the impression that FSX is CPU intensive, yet it seems to use very little of it.

Post this in your FSX.cfg file in it's own section. All 4 cores will share the work load. If you want 1 core free to run other programs, change the "15" to a "14" but I find the 4 cores better. Disable hyperthreading.[JOBSCHEDULER]AffinityMask=15Stephen

Will post FPS under GTX470 when i that card. is it normal that only 1 core is getting about 75% load while the other 3 cores idle most of the time? I was under the impression that FSX is CPU intensive, yet it seems to use very little of it.

Are you sure you updated with both service packs? The situation you describe I can't recognize on my machine. My Core0 is 99% of the time at 100%, and Core1-3 mostly very high, and sometimes only middle. Depending how much workload is there.

Are you sure you updated with both service packs? The situation you describe I can't recognize on my machine. My Core0 is 99% of the time at 100%, and Core1-3 mostly very high, and sometimes only middle. Depending how much workload is there.

I have Acceleration installed, which contains SP2 package, right? Should I install SP2 over acceleration as well?

I have Acceleration installed, which contains SP2 package, right? Should I install SP2 over acceleration as well?

NO !