They say everyone will have different settings for different computers. So I wanted to share my settings and see if maybe someone else out there is in the same ball park as me (or in general is really good with computers) and can tell me what tweaks would work best with my setup. I wanted to replace my entire CFG with someone else's actually if it works for them and they run the same hardware.. Here is my stuff:OS: Windows 7 64-bitProcessor: Intel Core™2 Duo CPU E7400 @2.80GHZRam: 4096MBVideo Card: ATI Radeon HD 5670Running FSX with SP2, 148GB total storage.. down to 44GB. Running the PMDG NGX, REX, UTX and GEX.ANY advice would be great. There has to be someone out there with close to these specs.

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Have you got any tweaks installed? I'd say mid/mid-high max

What are your current settings and what are the frame rates are you achieving ?

I can pull 20's, obviously max out at highest altitude. In a populated airport with NGX 10ish frames.

I'd suggest you do following:Setup for takeoff in your favorite scenery, preferrably heavy scenery, put yourself into VC and zoom max out.Then pull all the settings down and start adding them one by one until you see the one that pulls you down. From here, experiment.I think the highest factors are gonna be water and AI-Traffic sliders, less impact probably scenery and autogen. Least impact mesh and textures, though might have some impact on slower processors.Noone can tell you what combination is right, but if you set yourself up to a nice 25-30frames in a heavy scenery, you are good to go.And things like high LOD, 4096 clouds are a no-go with your configuration. 4096 clouds eat my frames 5-10%...

They say everyone will have different settings for different computers. So I wanted to share my settings and see if maybe someone else out there is in the same ball park as me (or in general is really good with computers) and can tell me what tweaks would work best with my setup. I wanted to replace my entire CFG with someone else's actually if it works for them and they run the same hardware.. Here is my stuff: OS: Windows 7 64-bitProcessor: Intel Core™2 Duo CPU E7400 @2.80GHZRam: 4096MBVideo Card: ATI Radeon HD 5670 Running FSX with SP2, 148GB total storage.. down to 44GB. Running the PMDG NGX, REX, UTX and GEX. ANY advice would be great. There has to be someone out there with close to these specs.

A niffty little thing that was suggested by Holger over at ORBX when I was running a legacy pc was to configure the "reset scenery" keystroke for something like CTRL+SHIFT+S and when things start to bog down just hit the scenery reset. The sequence doesn't take that long to reset and redraw and you start off fresh again. I was flying in the PNW and had to do that little tweak often. Ray

It's not just that different systems require different settings. Different simmers also require different settings. Someone who wants to fly the Cub over very detailed scenery at 60kts and 1500 feet would not use the same settings as a bush pilot, and someone who flies the 747 between the big airports would use different settings yet again. Start by tweaking settings inside FSX. Learn how each setting affects the performance and the visuals. Decide which visual features are important to you, and which you can live without. Usually you will find a setting that affects performance quite a bit, without a noticeable impact on your simming experience. This might be something like AI Traffic %, autogen, scenery shadows, or maybe the Water setting... only way to find out is to try. Then, make a backup of your FSX.cfg file and start applying some of the documented tweaks, one by one, and test the effects of each one in the same way - does it improve performance? Reduce it? Cause something to behave funny?

Everyone experiences different performance even on similar hardware, its what suits your performance.