Question in title. Get technical if you must. But I must say it seems very odd to me. I don't usually fly in circles and I suspect the O/S caches something that runs 2 - 4 get to use?

 

FSMark11 is a fantastic resource when planning an upgrade (as I am right now), thanks to all who contributed. And thanks Kostas for the guide - helped a lot so far to pick my new components.

 

 

Sorry if this has been explained somewhere - I have spent hours looking here.

 

I thought an SSD would have helped the first run times, but from reading SSD posts here it seems not. Thinking of skipping the SSD.

 

Tom

Look at it this way:

 

in FSXMark 11, the flight starts off in mid-air, and the first run it has to load in all the textures and autogen and mesh from disk. This dramatically affects the stability of the FPS, causing it to fluctuate greatly. A normal FSX flight isn't going to start off in mid-air with all this data needing to be loaded, it will start on the ground and have time to load these things as you prep the plane for flight. FSXMark 11 tries to recreate a realistic flight environment, in this regard.