I want to use my main FSX only for the front view (outside). Using three monitor setup in a hw cockpit setup.

 

Now, is it possible to remove any of the 2D Panels or other aircraft panel config tweeks to disable or remove from add on aircrafts help frame hits? Or would this not help?

 

If it does help, what are the things I can remove from an aircraft configs/panels?

 

 

Manny

 

I tried hitting "S" and "A" keys to get the outside views..but since the aircraft has loaded all the panels. I did not see any FPS performance gains.

Frame rate generally won't be affected by panels that are not actively being displayed... (excluding situations where you're hideously short of RAM on the video card)

 

That said, there are a couple of ways of doing what you want:

 

1) set fsx to use 2d cockpits, and remove the guages from 'window00' in panel.cfg from your selected aircraft

 

2) set fsx to use 2d cockpits (or just switch to the 2d cockpit) and then press W twice (or until you have the panel-less mode),

 

(3 - you might get the same result by editing panel.cfg and making window00's 'visible=1' line into 'visible=0', then setting fsx to use 2d panels)

 

I see a drop of about 8-10 fps with the VC vs 2d+pressing W

 

For a proper hw cockpit setup, manually removing the guages from the panel.cfg 'window00' section is probably the best option, since you won't want to fiddle about each time.

Press the W key while in 2D cockpit