Hi FSX Gurus!

I am really enjoying pelting around the highlands of Scotland at low level thanks to the amazing new scenery from play horizon. Unfortunately if I go much over 120knots the scenery does not load fast enough. OK in the chopper as you can just throw it into a quick orbit or hover. But in the VRS Superhornet at 480knots there is not much chance.

Is there any tips for improving the load times? Can i un-check some of the useless scenery in the library for places I never go or something like that? My computer is not too shabby.

Hope you can help!

Best Regards

Richard

Not a "guru" but adjust the texture_bandwidth_multi setting to 70 or 80 as recommended by Nick N in his guide on setting up fsx and tuning it - http://www.simforums.com/forums/setting-up-fsx-and-how-to-tune-it_topic29041.html. It's the first item in the section entitled "The FSX.cfg and How I set Up My System". It's a setting you'll have to play with for best results. You could also disable all your scenery addons except for play horizon but that's a tedious task depending on how many you have installed. FSX always loads up and runs better without any addons. The one addon that causes the most load on a system is a commercial AI program like MyTrafficX. Flightplans and aircraft are loaded and running all over the world and not just where you are flying. That's why I keep my AI setting to about 30%. Changing your FPS slider to unlimited might help too. I'm shocked play horizon does not have some recommended settings for their scenery.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Changing your FPS slider to unlimited might help too.

 

i have observed the opposite (on my low end system). my old config was: FPS locked within fsx to 60 and with external limiter to 30. this resulted in smooth stutterfree flying but very blurry ground within minutes.

 

according to kostas FSX tweaking guide i locked the FPS within FSX to 25 (normally 30, but low end system), used the 1/2 vertical sync option in nvidia inspector and dropped the external limiter.

 

endresult: smooth fps with occasional very short stutters and most importantly an enormous reduction of blurry ground textures.

 

explanation (check kostas hardware guide for more indepth details): FSX will try to reach the FPS you set up in the options, if it cannot reach it, it will still try to pump its resources to reach the FPS and therefore doesn't have enough "time" to load ground textures faster.

now if you lock the FPS to a number that your PC can easily reach, FSX will have more time to load the ground textures faster!

Thanks guys I will try both suggestions!

I just bought a Crucial M4 solid state drive for all my Mega Scenery Earth photo scenery, and the load times are amazing.

I was wondering if a Solid state was going to help. Unfortunately mine is a gaming laptop so not easy to change the drive. Also the size of the playhorizon scenerys would mean you needed a really big solid drive and I reckon they are still quite expensive. In a couple of years though, yeah its going to be awesome.

 

I cant believe the difference this scenery has made to my simming experience. For several nights now I have been flying around in a dodosim chopper for hours, just exploring my own country. Several times I have seen traffic on the roads and out of the corner of my eye was sure it was moving down the road, Its just so real! Also been finding good new routes for mountain biking that I will be able to use in real life!

 

If I uturn off the unused add-on scenery, do I need to do that every time I enter the sim or just once?

 

Good tip about the traffic. I use UT2. I turned it down the other day because my local airport was acting like Heathrow. Maybe I will turn it off altogether, it doesnt add a lot for this kind of flying.

If I uturn off the unused add-on scenery, do I need to do that every time I enter the sim or just once?

 

Just once. When you disable the scenery in the Scenery Library, exit out and restart FSX to get it to work properly.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Yeah the SSD's weren't cheap. I bought a 60gb for the OS, a 120gb for FSX and Rex, ASE, etc., and 2 250gb for all the photo scenery and Orbx stuff. What I do is have different scenery configs in a folder that I copy and paste in depending where I'm flying, but with these SSD drives I can load the whole states of photoreal Calif., Arizona, and Oregon in under 30 seconds where as before it would take 10 minutes. So I don't need to switch around scenery configs now as much.

 

I was wondering if a Solid state was going to help. Unfortunately mine is a gaming laptop so not easy to change the drive. Also the size of the playhorizon scenerys would mean you needed a really big solid drive and I reckon they are still quite expensive. In a couple of years though, yeah its going to be awesome.

 

I cant believe the difference this scenery has made to my simming experience. For several nights now I have been flying around in a dodosim chopper for hours, just exploring my own country. Several times I have seen traffic on the roads and out of the corner of my eye was sure it was moving down the road, Its just so real! Also been finding good new routes for mountain biking that I will be able to use in real life!

 

If I uturn off the unused add-on scenery, do I need to do that every time I enter the sim or just once?

 

Good tip about the traffic. I use UT2. I turned it down the other day because my local airport was acting like Heathrow. Maybe I will turn it off altogether, it doesnt add a lot for this kind of flying.

2 things that may help. firstly you could try running with a lower FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION= setting and secondly reduce the framerate limiter.

 

The usepools=0 setting also helped with overall performance.

 

Also try disabling any photoscenery you have running for adjacent areas.

 

IAN