Hi,

 

I really don't expect any enlightenment on this but I'm just posting in case anyone else experiences any thing similar.

A few weeks ago I downloaded a DVD copy program. I thought I'd check it out last night. Rather than copying a DVD I just tried to save an image to the desktop. I started the program and it said it would take about 38 mins. I decided to load Flight and get the caldera cache. Every step took immensely longer to load. I was even asked if I wanted to sign in as a different user. I chose the RV-6 and selected the military airfield to fly from. When I was finally able to fly, the RV-6 performance was much smoother than without another task running. Much smoother. I'm bewildered.

 

Jim F.

Maybe your computer runs better multitasking?

Hi,

 

I really don't expect any enlightenment on this but I'm just posting in case anyone else experiences any thing similar.

A few weeks ago I downloaded a DVD copy program. I thought I'd check it out last night. Rather than copying a DVD I just tried to save an image to the desktop. I started the program and it said it would take about 38 mins. I decided to load Flight and get the caldera cache. Every step took immensely longer to load. I was even asked if I wanted to sign in as a different user. I chose the RV-6 and selected the military airfield to fly from. When I was finally able to fly, the RV-6 performance was much smoother than without another task running. Much smoother. I'm bewildered.

 

Jim F.

 

This is a known issue though seemingly not by Microsoft. Running DXTory in the background does the same thing.

Hi,

 

I'll check out DXTory.

Does DXTory have any impact on the Flight load time?

I think I can say without any exaggeration each step took a minimum of ten times longer than usual to load with that DVD copy program running.

Hi,

 

DXTory improved things considerably. No increase in load times. I had decreased several graphic settings to make the RV-6 run with less stutter. Increased and still runs smoothly. I'll have to tweak things a bit but just wanted to say THANKS!.

Is there help available for DXTory? I've never fooled around much with any recording programs. The settings within DXTory would probably be self explanatory if I had experience with other programs but they're all a mystery to me.

 

Jim F.

Antilag - which is a freeware frame rate limiter tool worked for me too.

 

It got rid of the stutters (especially with the RV-6) and made the game run much more smoothly.

 

It just involves installing a couple of files in the Flight directory.

 

http://www.kegetys.n..._antilag101.zip

 

Source: http://www.kegetys.net/

Hi,

 

Antilag works as well. It seems strange that either of these "fixes" are needed. Of course, with my lack of understanding as to what's going on it might as well be magic. But couldn't Microsoft have applied this "magic" as well? They surely don't lack the technical expertise.

I had Flight set to run at 1440 x 900 and increased the setting to 1920 X 1080, the native resolution of my display. I had been running at the reduced resolution so that I could keep the graphic settings at a level that didn't dramatically reduce how Flight looked, and performed.

If any one else tries these remedies please post the results. I'm curious if the improvement is hardware related. I'm using a AMD 2.8 GHZ quad processor and a Radeon HD 6670 video card with 12GB memory on Win7 64 Professional.

 

Jim F.

But couldn't Microsoft have applied this "magic" as well?

 

Yes, agree it is strange. I wonder if what is needed is a built-in frame rate limiter, as exists in FS9. (Don't know if FSX has one but I suspect not as I found the Antilag tip on the FSX forum). Good news that these external fixes work though. Flight for me was virtually unplayable as it was.

Great to have you back Trevor!!!

 

FS9 alternates perfectly with FLIGHT :-)

 

Yes, agree it is strange. I wonder if what is needed is a built-in frame rate limiter, as exists in FS9. (Don't know if FSX has one but I suspect not as I found the Antilag tip on the FSX forum). Good news that these external fixes work though. Flight for me was virtually unplayable as it was.

Yes, agree it is strange. I wonder if what is needed is a built-in frame rate limiter, as exists in FS9. (Don't know if FSX has one but I suspect not as I found the Antilag tip on the FSX forum). Good news that these external fixes work though. Flight for me was virtually unplayable as it was.

 

Yes, FSX does have an internal frame rate limiter.

Some folks however find they get better results, by setting the internal to " unlimited", and using an external limiter - which is why they are popular with many FSX users.

Also with Nvidia drivers, there is an external frame rate limiter built into them now - not sure if it is accessible yet through the normal control panel, but using Nvidia Inspector, which I do to set my graphic card settings for FSX, it does give access to the frame rate limiter. I run FSX unlimited internally, and set the frame rate limiter through Nvidia Inspector to 30 fps. Seems to give me the best results in it.

 

As far as Flight , my experience so far has been the opposite, I seem to get the smoothest and best performance by not using the external frame rate limiter through Inspector - however the one time I tried it, I pretty much used all the same graphic card settings I had set up for FSX, along with the 30 fps frame rate lock, and it introduced minor stuttering in Flight for me that I was previously not getting. I might could have gotten rid of that by tweaking the profile I was using for Flight, but did not take the time to get into that, as the performance for me with using Flight's own settings is very good.

 

I would note, I do run with vsync " on ", therefore my frame rates are locked at my monitor's refresh rate - 60 fps.

My system has an I7 2600 cpu and a nvidia9800 gpu. It runs FSX very smoothly. Flight had minor stutters which are now gone with the installation of Antilag. Thanks, Trevor, for your suggestion.

Hi,

 

Okay, the clues so far:

 

Antilag helps the performance of, at least, certain Nvidia and Radeon cards.

DXTory, running concurrently with Flight, produces similar performance improvement on, at least, one Radeon graphics card and a card of unknown type.

A DVD copy program running in the background produces similar performance improvement on, at least, one Radeon graphics card.

 

Hmm.....

 

Jim F.

Great to have you back Trevor!!!

 

FS9 alternates perfectly with FLIGHT :-)

 

Well, jcomm, thanks for the welcome back.

 

I did spend some time in FS9 yesterday, flying in New Zealand again for a change, but then jumped back into Flight for a quick turn around Kauai.

 

Enjoyed both.

Antilag - which is a freeware frame rate limiter tool worked for me too.

 

It got rid of the stutters (especially with the RV-6) and made the game run much more smoothly.

 

 

This worked great for me. I can't beleive the difference. It wasn't really bad but I did get some stutterers especially in tight turns and when looking out the side. Now it's smooth and I was able to up some of the settings.

Great find and thanks for sharing it.

 

Jon

Yes, FSX does have an internal frame rate limiter.

Some folks however find they get better results, by setting the internal to " unlimited", and using an external limiter - which is why they are popular with many FSX users.

 

Yes, thanks, I did not know that but I have just been reading a thread on the FSX forum that talks about this. It sounds like "unlimited" is required to taken advantage of the multi-threading capability in FSX.