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Most complex areas of FSX?

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Currently I've found New York City to be the busiest area in FSX in terms of terrain, autogen and AI traffic, hence best suited for benchmarking and stresstesting. The only thing it lacks is heavy mesh.Does anybody know an area that will stress FSX more than New York?

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Seattle is a common stress testing area, specifically with Orbx PNW installed. Also I find 1S2 Darrington (with autogen turned up) again in PNW quite taxing. Another scenery I commonly use now for stress testing is Earth Simulations Guernsey. Especially around St Peter Port that can really stress your system. If you're ever going to get autogen spikes you'll see them there for sure!

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NYC, Seattle and Paris are the worst ones for me. The default CDG is horrible if you are there during morning rush with full AI.

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Thanks folks!

Simmerhead - Making the virtual skies unsafe since 1987! 

If you want to really stress the system, add lots of car traffic (UTX) turn up AI, and add multiple cloud layers.Be careful, your computer could explode. Just%20Kidding.gif

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The city of London can be demanding approaching Heathrow.

Chris Howard
 

Seattle seems to be the most taxing. Lots of AI traffic roads, several busy airports in a small area (meaning lot's of AI traffic), lots of custom buildings, water, autogen, and terrain. Seattle has it all.

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Tokyo Haneda (RJTT) is also a good one to test your setup.good luck

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Tokyo Haneda (RJTT) is also a good one to test your setup.good luck
OK, thanks a lot! Had forgotten about Tokyo!

Simmerhead - Making the virtual skies unsafe since 1987! 

The default LAX is also very demanding on framerates. Lots of traffic too.

Paris, especially at night, brings my i5-2500k to its knees...

Cheers,

Jonathan

There's a 5m mesh for northern NJ that covers the Manhattan island as well - look it up in the AVSIM library. Of course Manhattan X is a must-have if you really want to bring your computer to its knees. I can barely eek out 12-15fps at the lowest visual settings I'm able to tolerate

Drew Sikora

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New York & Seattle really attacks my system :(

Chris Ferguson

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Try Haneda Airport(Tokyo International Airport) full traffic and auto-gen sliders!Take off and head for that huge 5 lane highway.

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