I'm running a GTX280 and a older QX9650 Core 2 Quad at 4GHz.Flight on 1920x1080 High setting with Sharpness bumped to maximum.Checked the framerate with Fraps and noticed over Honolulu it could be better.Here's a couple screen shots over the area, one at 18fps the other at 11fps.Just wondering what framerates others are getting in Honolulu area, how best to boost it ?

Edited March 5, 201214 yr by jackcnd

Well since you are running at 4ghz, even though it is an older processor, I would think you would benefit greatly from a better video card, like the 570 or 580, or even a GTX 460... Flight is not quite as dependant on cpu as FSX, and makes much better use of the GPU.I have not measured framerates yet, but am geting very good performance with all my graphics set to the highest levels, very smooth and no stuttering as of yet.

If anyone gets a chance, try downloading Fraps and checking the framerate over Honolulu.Be interesting to hear how newer setups are performing with Flight on High / Max Sharpness.Just might be time to get a 570 :)

Edited March 5, 201214 yr by jackcnd

All graphics settings as high as they go1920x1080 fullscreenAMD 6990 running in Crossfire overclocked at 920/1375I7 2600k @ 4.2GHZ8GB Mushkin DDR3 running at 1600MHZ

Edited March 5, 201214 yr by styckx

I agree, a better GPU would help. Think GTX 560 ti or 570.... Make sure your PSU is up to the task of course.

All graphics settings as high as they go1920x1080 fullscreenAMD 6990 running in Crossfire overclocked at 920/1375I7 2600k @ 4.2GHZ8GB Munchkin DDR3 running at 1600MHZ

Something must be wrong...you should be murdering the graphics! I don't imagine you should be dropping much below 50-60 FPS

Nah.. Seems about right.. Boths GPUs are maxing out at around 50% each. Which is basically 99% GPU usage on a single GPU if I wasn't in Crossfire (and when I disable Crossfire that's exactly what my GPU load is in this area).It's the sharpness, which I assume is controlling the AAIn the CFG file I have this.

AntialiasingQuality=16

I'm assuming that's 16x Antialiasing, also assuming it's Multisampling. Even on high end cards like mine 16X MSAA is asking a lot especially considering the complexity of Honolulu.

Edited March 5, 201214 yr by styckx

Could someone please send me their fraps settings,to make this work?I have th unregistered version.Thanks

AMD 1055T X6AMD 69501920x1200Everything maxed but Scenery Detail is Med, water Med.50FPS over down town.

I have a quadcore 2, ATI 5770, 4GB RAM. I have everything HIGH settings except Shadows and weather set at med. Screen res is at 1920x1080Getting 30-35 over towns and 40-50 anywhere else.Check out, you are not forcing AA, AF or morphological filtering, in the Catalyst control center.

I think the #1 thing you can do to get better FPS is to lower your resolution. 1280x720 should almost double your frame rate, and still look good. Your video card is not very good, so something must give. Water and Scenery Detail are the biggest killers of frame rate also.

To improve performance, I would suggest to find out if there are not one or two settings that could be reduced by one notch, but still look good enough.In particular, I found the Sharpness setting to perfectly fine for me when set to "high" instead of "maximum". This setting seems to follow the law of diminishing returns strongly, with the highest setting gaining only very little visual improvement at the cost of a lot more computing power required.To get a nice overview of what the individual settings do, please refer to the following excellent thread by J van E:http://forum.avsim.net/topic/364699-graphic-settings-examples/I'm personally running everything on "high", except Scenery Quality which is on "maximum" because of the water.MVGibbage, I would recommend to NOT reduce screen resolution, rather sacrificing a lot other things first, as any resolution other than the monitors hardware res. will result in an interpolated blurry image.(I had Flight running on a GTX275 - okay, I only had 1680*1050, but that idea would not have crossed my mind.)

Thanks for the tips, might just build a new Ivy Bridge system when it ships.nVidia has some new cards due shortly I understand too.I'm surprised the GTX280 does not do better compared to newer cards.With Scenery Quality at Maximum, the main highway in Honolulu becomes grey strip?Tried 1024x768 in windowed mode and performance did increase greatly,but full screen 1080p is too hard to give up, have to play with some of the settings for now.

Edited March 5, 201214 yr by jackcnd

Take the scenery density setting down to Medium, that will get you better performance and less "blurries"like your highway example. And scenery quality on High.

Edited March 5, 201214 yr by Bert Pieke