Hi Goran,will upload a sample setting in a few minutes - but as I mentioned before, it happens with almost every setting.My guess is that this is not a problem of a specific setting inside of XP.

The official solution for improving performance is to start with everything on its lowest setting and then adjust one setting at a time while monitoring your frame rates. Most people find that there are one or two "killer" settings on their particular rig, and as long as you keep those off or on low then you're able to turn other settings up reasonably high.

Hi Goran,will upload a sample setting in a few minutes - but as I mentioned before, it happens with almost every setting.My guess is that this is not a problem of a specific setting inside of XP.

I have an almost identical setup (except the SSD) as you do and I'm hitting 25-35 fps with HDR on and settings reasonably high. I posted a screenshot of my settings somewhere else in the forums.Are you using nhancer or nvidia inspector?Any other external graphics programs. What's your Windows rating in the Control Panel?

I´m still suffering from performance problems. Quite fast rig here but almost every test-flight ends in stuttering with around 12 FPS.Takeoff at 35-50 FPS, climbing into the clouds gets me down to 25 FPS, in clouds FPS jump to 120. As soon as I´m above the clouds FPS come down to 10-12.Turning off clouds "solves" this kind of problem but I have similiar problems with water, shadows, HDR rendering etc.: After a few minutes XP10 gets kind of "stuffed" and begins to stutter.At least I have to turn off almost everything to have it up and running. Problems seems independed of all other settings (resolution, cars, objects, distance etc.).CPU never gets maxed out during flight, GPU load is usually around 50 to 70 percent.PC in general runs very good, no problems with other applications. Something is totally wrong with XP10 here.Any hints/ ideas besides those Ben posted?ThanksFloBHardware: i7 [email protected], gtx560oc 1GB, 8GB RAM, 128GB SATA III SSD, Software: Win7 64-bit SP1, latest xp10 demo, latest nvidia beta driver (same problems with a different driver before), antivirus-software etc. turned off.

The 1gb of video ram is probably the culprit.

The official solution for improving performance is to start with everything on its lowest setting and then adjust one setting at a time while monitoring your frame rates. Most people find that there are one or two "killer" settings on their particular rig, and as long as you keep those off or on low then you're able to turn other settings up reasonably high.

Agreed. I started from scratch while monitoring CPU, Memory, Texture memory and FPS (No GPU gadget for my card yet) while dialing up each group of settings too my liking. I found I was able to max out texture quality, water reflections, 8x AA, 1080P resolution, clouds 50% with 100% opacity and lots of objects and trees. My CPU meter is showing my i7 2600 is not working very hard at all. I have over 6gb of unused ram and my texture load is right at 1024mb on the Radeon HD 6850. I get about 45 FPS flying around the water areas with homes and roads. Flying around the airports I get 25 FPS with spikes into the low 30's. The view is stunning and smooth enough for me buzzing the highways in the Bell 206.I'm not giving up on HDR just yet. I would like to find some good settings for night flying with HDR on. The lighting looks better in HDR.

Sorry, I´m currently unable/ too stupid to upload / add an image. Guess I have to find out about this voodoo-my media-feature first.Will upload later.Anyway, the last beta-update seems to have done some good. Of course I tried the official way but I never was able to find the "killers". Features sometimes work without FPS hit (at first), a few minutes later or in a different situation FPS break down. Sometimes reloading the situation brought back good performance. GPU Monitor shows me that VRAM is almost unused (max 25%) whilst XP tells my that about 500 MB of textures are loaded and RAM usage is up to 3 GB (by XP itself)...Not sure what to think of this.But taking other users comments into consideration my gtx560oc should be able to handel XP quite well with "normal" or even high settings.Can someone deliver his nvidia settings? Using the ordinary nvidia control center here but can upgrade to whatever...That might help.Thanks to all

You dont need the my media, its a bit distracting as a ot of sites have the add media there. Just click on more reply options under where you type your reply and an attach file option will appear.

I have an interesting report because last night my video card fried-a gtx 460 with 1gb. I went out and purchased a gtx 560 with 2 gb today. Not only did I gain a significant amount of fps-I seem to be able to run smoothly intense clouds and I tried the hdr and it only cost me about 4-5 which I now have plenty to spare (25-30 fps or so in the most dense city scenery with heavy hitting rw downloads). The new card made a huge difference in my case (i7 [email protected] ghz,12 gb ram, windows 7). Now I am really glad it fried! I have to say though-I still don't see the big whoop about hdr...and will probably leave it off.

I have an interesting report because last night my video card fried-a gtx 460 with 1gb. I went out and purchased a gtx 560 with 2 gb today. Not only did I gain a significant amount of fps-I seem to be able to run smoothly intense clouds and I tried the hdr and it only cost me about 4-5 which I now have plenty to spare (25-30 fps or so in the most dense city scenery with heavy hitting rw downloads). The new card made a huge difference in my case (i7 [email protected] ghz,12 gb ram, windows 7). Now I am really glad it fried! I have to say though-I still don't see the big whoop about hdr...and will probably leave it off.

I finally did see what they were talking about HDR when Georges, told me what to look for, it is most evident at night. Actually it appears to me about like bloom in FSX does, except not quite so pronounced. I saw it best when looking at a night lighted windsock about 100 ft/30.48 merters from me. For the kind of GA flying I do, i would rather have the fps. When I get that GTX 590 with 3G of ram, Then i will turn it up. I'm the same way about anti-aliasing, it never looks that much diffrent to me, to loose the fps.Beta 4 did away with the prop anomaly ok, but the doors still stay open on the F33 with wheels up.I'm sorry to hear of your GTX 460 giving up the ghost, tell me how to do mine so I can then tell the wife why we have to spend $749.95. "-)

I finally did see what they were talking about HDR when Georges, told me what to look for, it is most evident at night. Actually it appears to me about like bloom in FSX does, except not quite so pronounced. I saw it best when looking at a night lighted windsock about 100 ft/30.48 merters from me. For the kind of GA flying I do, i would rather have the fps. When I get that GTX 590 with 3G of ram, Then i will turn it up. I'm the same way about anti-aliasing, it never looks that much diffrent to me, to loose the fps.Beta 4 did away with the prop anomaly ok, but the doors still stay open on the F33 with wheels up.I'm sorry to hear of your GTX 460 giving up the ghost, tell me how to do mine so I can then tell the wife why we have to spend $749.95. "-)

DonaldJust a heads up. IIRC, The GTX590 will not work well with X Plane because it is a Dual GPU, and X Plane, in it's current state, does not work with Dual GPU's.If you can find a 3GB single GPU card, that would work beautifully. Then you can pump the settings up to max and enjoy!

It was my understanding that XP is not using anything above 1.5gb of GPU memory *right now*.

DonaldJust a heads up. IIRC, The GTX590 will not work well with X Plane because it is a Dual GPU, and X Plane, in it's current state, does not work with Dual GPU's.If you can find a 3GB single GPU card, that would work beautifully. Then you can pump the settings up to max and enjoy!

LOL Thanks for the heads-up Goran.Actually by the time I get that video card, X-Plane 11 will be completely fixed, and we all will be sitting on pins and neeles for X-Plane 12.I am more likely to get that Microvelocity Raptor too.

A dual GPU card will work fine with XPlane, but you will get no benefit from having the second card. More than likely a 3GB 590 would work like a 1.5GB 580 or 570 (whichever the base GPU is that makes up the dual GPU) performance-wise.