Alain, do you own the PMDG744?

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I can not get this to work. I downloaded the file and unzipped it, copied it to my FSX drive and copied the flight plan to the My Docs\FSX folder with all my other flight plans.I double click on the FSXMarkII fsx.exe app and FSX starts and I am over Boston with the sim paused, I unpause the sim and the plane starts flying, but the test does not end after five minutes it just keeps going until I close FSX and the Excel spread included in the download is never updated.What am I missing?

None of the files should go to your FSX drive. I put all files in my documents ("Flight simulator x"). Set Fraps up as in the guide. Start Fraps first then start FSX.

Ahhhh, much better! Vanilla FSX, apparently REX didn't restore all textures.Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 8635, 300000, 18, 45, 28.783

It's on page 2 of the guide

My apologizes, for some reason when I looked at the guide I never noticed it had multiple pages.

My apologizes, for some reason when I looked at the guide I never noticed it had multiple pages.

No worries. I'm currently working on a much more detailed version of the guide that will walk you through installation, setup, and execution complete with screen shots and all. There will be a whole new section on disabling NVIDIA Inspector and NVIDIA Control Panel. I'm not familiar with any of the ATI/AMD utilities, so if anybody wants to contribute a guide for that it would be much appreciated. Look for it tomorrow or Monday.

Here are my results and the setup for the FSXMark11 tests were followed to the letter.For all tests the Nvidia Control Panel and Nvidia Inspector were enabled, I could notquickly figure out how to disable them and wanted to run the tests.I find it interesting that disabling UTX, ST & MSE Massachusetts resulted in lower FPS. Only FSX.cfg tweak in all tests shown below is HighMemFix=1. UTX, ST & MegaSceneryEarth Massachusetts enabled - FSXMarkII SetupTest Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 10597 300000 19.0 49.0 35.33 10154 300000 18.0 47.0 33.8 4 11054 300000 19.0 49.0 36.8 AVG 10602 300000 18.7 48.3 35.3 UTX, ST & MegaSceneryEarth Massachusetts disabled - FSXMarkII SetupTest Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 9775 300000 17.0 41.0 32.63 9495 300000 17.0 41.0 31.7 4 9339 300000 16.0 41.0 31.1 AVG 9536 300000 16.7 41.0 31.8 My usual FSX display settings, see below. All scenery addons enabled.UTX, MSX, MSE, ST, FSG, FTX, GEX, MTXTest Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 15701 300000 21.0 72.0 52.3 3 15911 300000 21.0 73.0 53.0 4 15640 300000 21.0 71.0 52.1 AVG 15751 300000 21.0 72.0 52.5

When I get my FSX SSD back from being RMAed to G.Skill I will run the benchmark on a fresh FSX install. They mailed it back to me by USPS from California to New Brunswick on Thursday. Whenever it actually gets here and it works, the tests will be rerun. That should also add useful data comparing basic FSX performance to highly modified FSX performance on the same machine.Kind regards,

Here are my results and the setup for the FSXMark11 tests were followed to the letter.For all tests the Nvidia Control Panel and Nvidia Inspector were enabled, I could notquickly figure out how to disable them and wanted to run the tests.I find it interesting that disabling UTX, ST & MSE Massachusetts resulted in lower FPS. My usual FSX display settings, see below. All scenery addons enabled.UTX, MSX, MSE, ST, FSG, FTX, GEX, MTXTest Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 15701 300000 21.0 72.0 52.3 3 15911 300000 21.0 73.0 53.0 4 15640 300000 21.0 71.0 52.1 AVG 15751 300000 21.0 72.0 52.5

I just ran this same test you did with your displayed settings with my Active Sky and REX settings and textures on and came up with the following average numbers:Frames: 17894Time (ms) 300000Min: 46 FPSMax: 62 FPSAvg: 59.647 FPSThese results show the i7-2600K well ahead of an overclocked i7 980x in this particular test. Somehow or other something is screwed up in our methodologies when there can be such huge performance variations within types and such wide ranging results. Perhaps we better do a rethink and tighten this test up a lot more yet, and then do a new restart.Kind regards,

Here are my results and the setup for the FSXMark11 tests were followed to the letter.For all tests the Nvidia Control Panel and Nvidia Inspector were enabled, I could notquickly figure out how to disable them and wanted to run the tests.I find it interesting that disabling UTX, ST & MSE Massachusetts resulted in lower FPS. Only FSX.cfg tweak in all tests shown below is HighMemFix=1. UTX, ST & MegaSceneryEarth Massachusetts enabled - FSXMarkII SetupTest Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 10597 300000 19.0 49.0 35.33 10154 300000 18.0 47.0 33.8 4 11054 300000 19.0 49.0 36.8 AVG 10602 300000 18.7 48.3 35.3 UTX, ST & MegaSceneryEarth Massachusetts disabled - FSXMarkII SetupTest Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 9775 300000 17.0 41.0 32.63 9495 300000 17.0 41.0 31.7 4 9339 300000 16.0 41.0 31.1 AVG 9536 300000 16.7 41.0 31.8 My usual FSX display settings, see below. All scenery addons enabled.UTX, MSX, MSE, ST, FSG, FTX, GEX, MTXTest Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 15701 300000 21.0 72.0 52.3 3 15911 300000 21.0 73.0 53.0 4 15640 300000 21.0 71.0 52.1 AVG 15751 300000 21.0 72.0 52.5

Guys,It makes no sense to post results that are not following Corey's EXACT instructions if we wish this benchmark to remain relevant.

I'm working on tightening it up with the new benchmark guide. It's proving difficult to do without making things too complicated. If you have any suggestions, let's me know!

Guys,It makes no sense to post results that are not following Corey's EXACT instructions if we wish this benchmark to remain relevant.

I agree completely. That was actually my point in showing my last numbers. I clouded the issue myself when I published the maxed out quality version. Perhaps we should insist on virginal FSX installs only in order to be recorded here. Before we automatically turn that down, think about it. Many people have to do fresh installs from time to time so they could contribute at that time. It would give us a solid base to work from. That might be the only way to accomplish that.Kind regards,

We HAVE to run the test at the same settings all the time to be able to compare one's rig from another, period.@ Stephen, any results in one's rig involve all hardware not only the CPU, I understand the difference between the 2600K and the 980X but feeding the CPU with good hardware and receiving from the CPU is as important as the CPU itself, the best CPU in the world surounded with hardware who can't keep up with it (lets say an 2600K overclocked at 5.0GHz) means nothing.Just for my own satisfaction I did the same test you did from Indahosurge with the same settings without Active Sky but I did it with ENB on , here's what I got, all 4 test resulted with the same average, and I agree with you that's why we need to run the same exact test all the time.See the result, that is why we will always have different numbers, no one's rig is the same.

I retested with UTX disabled. GEX remained installed. These figures closely resemble Stephen's figures in #3, Corey's in #2 and David's in #44 (taking into account system differences).2011-02-27 18:19:20 - fsxFrames: 11550 - Time: 300000ms - Avg: 38.500 - Min: 15 - Max: 472011-02-27 18:25:36 - fsxFrames: 11401 - Time: 300000ms - Avg: 38.003 - Min: 25 - Max: 482011-02-27 18:33:58 - fsxFrames: 11290 - Time: 300000ms - Avg: 37.633 - Min: 25 - Max: 48

Seems like a fresh FSX install may have to be the standard. For FSX.CFG tweaks, we'll just make a straight forward use Bojote's online tweak tool - no modifications otherwise. Any objections?

Shouldn't the effects of tweaks already been known.... Obviously these so called tweaks improve baseline performance or why install them in the first place? Highmemfix should get you 10% more, Buffer threshold: 5% more, etc.