Hello all. I recently installed a GTX 580 3GB from MSI, the lightning extreme edition. I did a system upgrade over the past 2 months and now have 16 gb's of ddr3 1600 ram, Intel i7 2600k with a asus p8z68-v-pro. I have a 60 gb sata 6 SSD running for windows and a sata 6 caviar black 64mb cache running fsx and other apps. I am getting worse frames then I was with a 9800GTX+, I was getting about 32,000 in 3dmark vantage so I dont think the graphics card is bad or anything. I had to roll back my drivers to an older version as the newest version was causing the display driver to stop working when I launched fsx as well as 3dmark. One I rolled back I was able to run 3dmark and fsx. I have rex installed and I spawned in with my 737 ngx and am only getting 20-30 frames if I am lucky in the virtual cockpit. I was getting 30 steady in the vc with the 9800GTX+. I am not sure what is going on but when I spend 600 dollars on a graphics card I would expect to increase performance and not decrease performance. I even took the external fps limiter off and now have it set to unlimited. My setings are everything on the highest it can go with tweaks here and there as well as the fsx tweak editor online. Vsync is off. CPU is overclocked to 4.6 GHZ and card is at 980 MHZ core clock 1960 shader clock and 2400 memory clock running at about 34C idle and barely pushing above mid 40's with fsx. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

The fact you're trying to run everything on max sliders should tell you why you're running slow

The fact you're trying to run everything on max sliders should tell you why you're running slow

I should be able to run everything on max sliders as per the system specs I have. I see others running on max sliders with no issues at all with worse hardware then I have. So I do not want to hear that being my issue. I spent over 1800 dollars on this whole build and I expect everything to run smoothly.

Moral of the story. You do not need a 600.00 video card to run FSX excellent. GTX 470 OC 1.5g

I did not ask you what card I should have gotten. I bought the card that I wanted which I will use for other things than FSX. If you dont have anything to say about trying to help me with the process of getting better frames then please dont post here. You arent helping with your little comments regarding my purchase.

Moral of the story. You do not need a 600.00 video card to run FSX excellent. GTX 470 OC 1.5g

Pest

I should be able to run everything on max sliders as per the system specs I have. I see others running on max sliders with no issues at all with worse hardware then I have. So I do not want to hear that being my issue. I spent over 1800 dollars on this whole build and I expect everything to run smoothly.

Wrong. Nobody can run FSX on max settings with heavy addons. Especially the NGX

Ok Sam, let's start from scratch.First, you should have very good performance with your new upgrade: 2600k, 580gtx , ram and mb.I and many others have a similar setup and can run FSX like never before.Quick things to look at:1. Let FSX rebuild a new fsx.cfg; (keep your old fsx.cfg as backup)2. Insert the highmenfix=1 only in the cfg file;3. What are your water quality settings?;4. What AI do you use? and what setting?;5. What are the quality settings (AF, AA etc..) used for your video card? Do you use Nvidia Inspector? (you should);6. Did you defrag? A new FSX installation will require regular defrags for each major installation (like Rex, FTX, UTX etc...) These are just basics quick to-dos.There are more complete guides in these forums.Pierre

The above post is a very good one, #1 + , and had the

1. Reinstalled FSX so It built a new config2. Well I used the ******* config checker and am getting better frames then before now.3. I have the water on Mid 2.x4. I have traffic set to none plane wise. Airport vehicles are set to medium Road is 20 percent ships are 40 and leisure boats are 405. I havent messed with inspector since the reinstall of fsx a few hours ago. I will try that now to see what I can get frame wise. I think 8Q is pretty good so I might try that.6. No I havent defragged because its a new HD. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. I appreciate the tips that you gave me. I have seen an increase in frames a little but but its still in the 20 fps range. I even turned down scenery settings to Detail radius: Large Mesh complexity:97 Mesh resolution:2M Texture Resolution:15 cm Water effects: Mid 2.x Scenery complexity:Very Dense Autogen Density: Very Dense, I dont have the ground scenery shadows checked and Special effects detail: High Thanks alot ppo.

Okay. Car traffic is a CPU hog. Try turning that down to 7%.Also set[JOBSCHEDULER]AffinityMask=14 in the FSX.cfg

I would suggest lowering water to Low 2.x

Did as you said NGX, looks like I am getting 30-40 frames now. Any other suggestions you might have? xD

Did as you said NGX, looks like I am getting 30-40 frames now. Any other suggestions you might have? xD

Do you fly airliners or props? (ie high or low flyer?)

Do defrag. your HD.

Do you fly airliners or props? (ie high or low flyer?)

Airliners.

Reduce autogen to normal or dense. The difference visually between this and extremely dense is minimal but performance impact is huge