I just fired up FSX for the first time, and just starting a default flight without radar contact, I get <1 FPS!! Before I installed RC, I would get around 10 - 15 FPS (not much, but its amazing on my feeble little pc, plus the sliders are not the farthest to the right...) but now I get <1 FPS. Any help?

I just found out that this only happens with my Concorde X, the default aircraft get frames of 10 - 15 as normal

The only thing RC adds running when FS is running is fsuipc4 (for FSX). It is a low resource user. Be sure, though, it is updated from the site located in the pinned topic at the forum head. I suggest you look for apps not needed that are running or other apps like weather, etc., that you have added.

 

I would also insure you have plenty of hard drive space available.

 

Test an FSX flight with a default aircraft and no other add-on app running. Bring up the task manager and select the performance tab to insure the processor is not overloaded. Bring up the processes tab to see what CPU% the running processes are taking. FSX on its own will draw quite a bit. The system idle process normally uses what is left so a high reading there is not a problem.

 

Here are the specs on your processor:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processor-comparison/processor-specifications.html?proc=49653

 

Note it is a dual core and each can run hyperthreading. FSX can not take advantage of multiple cores nor hyperthreading. You also can increase performance by turning off the Aero interface in Win 7. If you are running on a laptop, be sure you have Intel Superboost options enabled. If you are running on its battery, without bios and power settings, laptops can slow the processor to reduce battery drain to stretch battery time. FS uses the CPU for a lot of its graphics rendering instead of the graphics co-processor howeever Win 7 can catch complex math calls as used in rendering models and textures and pass those to the graphics processor if it is available. Check your laptop manual.

 

If you wish to try disabling FSUIPC4 temporaily go into your FSX modules folder and rename it FSUIPC.dlx. To enable it rename it back. Often on a complaint like this it is not FSUIPC4 that taking much of the resources but the products it enables such as some weather apps that might use it.

 

Also, are you using the motherboard processor built in graphics or a separate card with its own processor. That makes quite a difference. If you have a separate self contained graphics card then you may need to go into your laptop bios settings to turn off the built in part of the CPU which offers graphics.

 

 

I think you'll get more relevant answers in the hardware forum.