After a mess of few things with AA, finally have FSX straightened out and running properly how I want.

 

Now about my hardware upgrade....

 

First, whoever says they are running this game maxed out with a few addons and has great frame rates is full of BS.

 

FSX appears to need something like a 8GHz cpu to truly run 30fps at all times maxed out. Here are some of my worst case area before and after frame rate results I did. I have UTX, dozen addon planes and airports, FSGenesis mesh, Obyx high res texture pack and few area specific freeware sceneries.

 

I tested in 8 different saved Free Flight areas with settings truly maxed out or on.

 

[email protected] setup, max. temp 75C

After=i5 [email protected] setup, max. temp 72C

 

Before to After fps DX9

6 to 9 fps

9 to 14.5 fps

19 to 29 fps

3.5 to 7 fps

6 to 9.5 fps

2.5 to 4.5 fps

7 to 9 fps

2.5 to 5.5 fps

 

Before to After loading times DX9

2:04 to 1:06

1:07 to :47

:52 to :33

4:41 to 3:15

:51 to :28

1:59 to 1:10

1:15 to :44

1:52 to 1:03

 

 

Interesting, right after the hardware swap, FSX would not run due to DRM kicking in. Had to call into Microsoft and get a mile long code from them, very much like Windows activation...which I have to also btw.

 

The best thing my upgrade did was it improve my loading times. HUGE improvement, much more important than an SSD alone in my system which I tested before hand on my E8500 setup and only lowered load times by ~10%.

 

I plan to do some DX10 tests in a few days to compare to DX9 frame rates but I'm a bit burned out at the moment to engage in this task.

 

So this is my story. Overall, I'm kind of disappointed that I still can't manage 15fps min. in all situations. I did double my frame rates in worst case areas but 5-7fps is nothing to get excited about. Maybe 3 years from now in my next major upgrade 15fps will be more real.

Are you using the cfg posted above? I don't see AffinityMask.

Are you using the cfg posted above? I don't see AffinityMask.

 

No, not any more.

 

 

 

 

 

Here are my new system numbers of the different renderers. Rather amazing performance difference in out right frame rate BUT there are several graphic glitches I'm still dealing with:

 

-blue textures/squares when switching views and now and then when flying along

-major texture anomalies from car traffic at certain angle ground level views

-night lighting stuff which others have reported

 

DX9 to DX10

9 to 21.5 fps

14.5 to 28.5 fps

29 to 60 fps

7 to 12 fps

9.5 to 20 fps

4.5 to 10.5 fps

13 to 32 fps

5.5 to 13.5 fps

 

Edit: I had to double check this one (13 to 32) cause I found it hard to believe but here are the pics. Notice the better bloom in the DX9 shot, least I feel it's better.

Notice the better bloom in the DX9 shot, least I feel it's better.

 

The bloom feature was made for DX9 only (according to Steve). I received the blue texture (FS Sim) graphics with a tweaked FSX.cfg. Yesterday, I decided to rename the config, then rebuilt the config. I kept all default settings Microsoft provided based on my system specs. I did lower some of the default AI settings like ships, cars, etc., but kept the default AI. I changed the TML to 4096. The default frame limit was 20 but I moved that up to 25 as I ran FSX in a FTX location (well the Vancouver area) and frames stayed constant at around 23-24 fps. No tweaks. Not even the highmemfix=1 (as NickN said in his guide, it doesn't work for everyone). I'm a happy camper right now. I do like the textures in the posted pictures. Very realistic! I see you were getting about 32 fps with an unlimited setting so 25-30 fps limit would work great for you too!

 

Best regards,

Jim