I am interested in hearing how people benchmark FS9 performance. I admit the simulator runs well on my system but the inner techie in my wants to do more even when its fine AS IS. There are many *tweaks* so to speak floating around the forums. What I want to try and do is implement a *tweak* then benchmark the performance of the simulator in an environment that is the same nearly every time.I'm curious, when you make a change, do you simply run FS9 and eyeball the FPS meter and the overall smoothness of the program or are you using performance counters in windows, or what?I guess in the end I would like to know what might be the chocking point for FS9 on certain machines. When does the memory max out and grind the HD for the page file, what, when, how is something happening to MAX out the CPU? Etc... Let us know! Thanks!

I have not used it but I read somewhere else that theres some type of testing program for ati and nvidia cards at http://www.more3d.com/ Maybe it will help.

I was testing this benchmarking program yesterday. Pretty Cool! Easy to use, I didn't see any FR hit while it was running in the background, and it shows a nice graphical representation of the FR and polys. Can be very useful for trouble shooting problems folks are having in the sim.