I have a 30 inch monitor and usually run FSX at 2560 x 1600. Up until recently, I have been flying using photoscenery and TileProxy, in VFR planes, nice and slow. Due to the performance issues with TileProxy and the comparative low speed of these planes, I have not needed to run FSX much more than 20 FPS, it it pretty smooth and works well.Recently though, I have been flying military jets more, particularly the superbug and have needed a bit more FPS, to make view panning etc smoother.I have tried deleting my old .cfg file and adjusting all my settings. No matter what, even using standard planes, I cant seem to get more than 30 FPS. Adding weather will nearly halve this. I have tried setting the resolution to 1024 x 768, but stangely, this made no difference to either the appearance of the picture on screen, or the performance - how can that be? I checked in the .cfg, it says 1024 x 768 there for sure.I have tried running with the frame rate limiter and without, even changing the traffic settings makes no difference.What could be holding down my frame rates and preventing the correct resolution showing on the monitor? Cheers, Mark

If you are running windowed mode, resolution doesnt matter, since its always the size of fsx window.

I can understand your not seeing any improvement in frames at lower resolution. A good graphics card like yours should cope with high resolution in FSX, so long as you don't push the AA too high. After all, FSX is limited by CPU rather than GPU. But I can't understand not being able to change resolution, unless your monitor only supports its native resolution and not anything lower. But that is hard to accept as a possibility. Have you tried changing the resolution in the nVidia drivers or in nHancer? I'm getting reasonable frames with the SuperBug, and my system is not clocked as high as yours. I find reducing the autogen (buildings and trees) is the key tweak here.Cheers,Noel.

You dont mention if you are using windows or full screen mode. I recently updated to a system similar to yours except I used my old video card, 8800 GTX. I used to fly in windows mode but with the new system ( Win 7-64) I find my FPS doubles using full screen. Not sure if this helps with Vista 64 but worth mentioning.

You dont mention if you are using windows or full screen mode. I recently updated to a system similar to yours except I used my old video card, 8800 GTX. I used to fly in windows mode but with the new system ( Win 7-64) I find my FPS doubles using full screen. Not sure if this helps with Vista 64 but worth mentioning.

Why would anyone run FSX in windowed mode as opposed to full-screen?

Why would anyone run FSX in windowed mode as opposed to full-screen?

I have add-ons that run as separate applications, and it's easier to access those when running windowed mode. Additionally, sometimes 2560x1600 is too much in some places, so I can dynamically reduce the resolution by size of window instantaenously. Otherwise FPS between windowed and full is similar.

I am running in windowed mode, as I use 2 monitors and like to have manuals, the internet etc open on one screen and FSX on the other. Why does the resolution not change when in windowed mode? And what does it stay locked to, the resolution you had when it was set in windowed mode? Cheers, Mark

Why would anyone run FSX in windowed mode as opposed to full-screen?

Because it allows me to use my second monitor for other things, since I sometimes fly while 'at work' :(

I am running in windowed mode, as I use 2 monitors and like to have manuals, the internet etc open on one screen and FSX on the other. Why does the resolution not change when in windowed mode?

Because FS does not own the screen in Windowed mode -- Windows does! Full screen mode means devoting the screen 100% to one program. Windowed mode is one where Windows in is charge of the screen, and apportions it to things called "windows", areas of screen assigned to the displays from each running program. That's what "windows" is all about. If you want to change the resolution used by Windows, right click on the desktop, select properties and change the Windows screen resolution.RegardsPete

Why would anyone run FSX in windowed mode as opposed to full-screen?

Because for me windowed mode has always yielded better FPS :(

For me the biggest factor is the plane.So I have three configs:1. Low Autogen/Water down one notch, fibre_frame=0.10. This gives good framerates for complex planes like the PMDG J41 and big 3rd party planes.2. Max sceneray and Water. This is good for the Cessna, Twin Otter, Real Air and a few others.3. #1 with fibre of 0.33. This is for fast jets like Superbug and Concorde X. 0.33 is needed so the textures can catch up with the plane!First off, try the Cessna with all settings bottomed out. How is the performance? Is over 30 possible? (I'm sure it is)Then try maxxing one setting at a time to see which ones hurt and which don't.

So in windowed mode, your windows will be displayed at the native resolution of your monitor, not what resolution you have chosen within the game / sim? ( That is what appears to be happening with me) Going to full screen mode has meant doubling of my frame rates for me ( which is nice !) so maybe I will stick with that! Cheers,mark

Going to full screen mode has meant doubling of my frame rates for me ( which is nice !) so maybe I will stick with that! Cheers,mark

Sounds like you were using windows mode with the window maximized and touching the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. This has been reported to severly reduce FPS in Vista and likely Windows 7. If you resize a normal window to avoid touching the taskbar, your FPS might improve in Windows mode. Alternatively, some have reported improvements when setting the taskbar to hide automatically.Rick

So in windowed mode, your windows will be displayed at the native resolution of your monitor, not what resolution you have chosen within the game / sim?

No, not necessarily the native monitor resolution, but the resolution you've set Windows to use! And your FS window may only use a smaller portion of than in any case if you don't maximise it! In Windowed mode FS is just like any other Window on the screen. It's resolution is completely dependent on its size relative to the screen, and the screen in running in the resolution you told Windows to use!Pete

Sounds like you were using windows mode with the window maximized and touching the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. This has been reported to severly reduce FPS in Vista and likely Windows 7. If you resize a normal window to avoid touching the taskbar, your FPS might improve in Windows mode. Alternatively, some have reported improvements when setting the taskbar to hide automatically.Rick

A 'trick' I use is to move the taskbar to the second monitor. That way even though I am in Windows mode, it has the appearance of full screen. You can even slide the window up a bit to hide most of the blue bar at the top.