Hello guys! I have a problem, like many others, I can't get good FPS to play FSX, I have tried all .cfg and setings that I found posted on this forum, none will work for me. I am forced to play FS2004 because it's the only sim that works for me. My computer specs are: Intel I5 2500k 4Ghz, 12Gb Ram 1333Mhz, Ati HD6870 1GB 256, 300Gb+500Gb HDD. I think that I have a good PC for FSX but my frame are 12-15fps, with payware airports and payware aircraft. It's because I'm trying to play 1920x1080, should I lower my resolution??

I hope you can help me to resolve my problem. Should I buy other graphic card, more RAM, or try to clock my CPU higher? I just want to have a constant 25fps with any payware addon. :blush:

I'd suggest Word Not Allowed's tweak guide http://#####.wordpress.com/fsx-software-and-hardware-guide/ I was running up to 2 months ago FSX with Win XP on an Athlon at 3.8ghz, 4gb ram, and a Radeon 5870. Monitor was at 1200 x 1920. Using Word Not Allowed's guide I was able to get smooth game.....Ahh I mean sim play using medium settings. Of course I wasn't running any Orbx, almost all photoreal scenery, and had autogen turned off as it never looked right with the Mega Scenery stuff, so that helped smooth things up too.

 

Chris

Most important are your scenery and AI traffic settings; if those are set too high, you'll experience bad FPS. I have a system similar to yours, I'd say even a bit lower than yours, and FSX runs smoothly most of the time.

First of all run either Bojote's tweaking tool http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html or follow Word Not Allowed's tweaking guide.http://forum.avsim.net/topic/370594-software-hardware-guide-for-fsx/ or http://#####.wordpress.com/. Those tweaks are really great and helped me run FSX smoothly.

However in some extremely dense areas, such as London City area or Downtown Seattle I get some stuters, too.

 

Regards,

Flo

With very complex aircraft and scenery fps will drop on most computers. FSX does not take full advantage of current multicore CPUs and graphics cards. You can try some of the tweaks, but they don't work for every computer setup. I run no tweaks, don't overclock my computer, but have reduced traffic and graphics settings a bit. That gives me a stable 30 fps most of the time, sometimes dropping down to 15 when arriving at the most complex airports in heavy weather.

Thx guys, i will try Word Not Allowed's tweak and see what is the result. Thx for your quick reply!!!

This is such a subjective question and completely depends on slider settings. OK, you can tweak as much as you like but to be honest, even with all the correct tweaking and stuff, your performance will still be massively dependent on slider settings, by that I mean

 

Have you locked frames in FSX at 30 or 25

Unticked light bloom in FSX

Unticked lens flare

Unticked aircraft shadows on the ground

Unticked aircraft shadows on itself

Unticked ground scenery shadows

Reduced cloud cover to minimum

Run water at Med x2

If using Inspector ensure anistropic filtering is set to application controlled

Road vehicles set at 10%

Ships and ferries set at 0%

Leisure boats set at0%

Airport vehicle density set to none

 

and of course, sure, your chip should OC quite nicely to about 4.5ghz with a good cooler, that would improve things. So sure, tweaking the cfg and things is a great way of inproving performance, but also having not too high expectations from your sliders is just, if not, even more imporatnt IMO.

Thx Rockliffe! I will try your setings, but I love light bloom so much! :unsure:

I love light bloom so much!

You could give ENB Series a try. It's a freeware program, that does somthing similar to FSX light bloom, but with no effect to FPS. Also see this thread or http://enbdev.com for further info. There are some great modifications of this plugin, some of them are listed here.

Be aware, that ENB only works in DX9 mode, and it's known for causing crashes on some machines. However, I really recommend trying it, because if you don't like it or it causes your FS to crash, you can easily uninstall it by removing only a few files.

 

Regards,

Flo

OE-LAT thx man!!! You are great, i like this!!

You're welcome!

 

Happy landings,

Flo

Thank you verry much all, for your help! Last night I have install FSX and with your help I managed to get 24-25fps. I have installed PMDG NGX and Aerosoft Madrid to see what fps i get and it was 25fps. Now I want to ask you if i could find a free texture for clouds and terrain that has no impact on fps. I know that REX is a good program but i think it use a lot of resources. I'm also using Active Sky Evolution.

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Thank you verry much all, for your help! Last night I have install FSX and with your help I managed to get 24-25fps. I have installed PMDG NGX and Aerosoft Madrid to see what fps i get and it was 25fps. Now I want to ask you if i could find a free texture for clouds and terrain that has no impact on fps. I know that REX is a good program but i think it use a lot of resources. I'm also using Active Sky Evolution.

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Great, now if you get 25fps at Aerosoft Barajas, then you're doing well, believe me. OK, as for REX, no problem, REX simply replaces the default textures, sure, it offers to do so by creating some HD textures, but I simply use all 1024 res textures and IMO I actually think the clouds look better that way. So you have the choice, once again, to tune things. I am convinced why so many guys have problems, is because they expect simply too much from FSX. Setting all textures to HD, setting AG to extremely dense, running 75% AI, these are all things which have a massive hit on resources. So sure, go ahead and install REX, as I know it will change your entire immersion factor :wink:

Ok! Thx again! I will try it and come back with my result. For Christmas I will buy an NVidia card, to increase my performance, I`ve just read that NVidia is recomanded for FSX. I have to install FSUIPC I forgot last night. I need to know how to set my sliders in game options for best results. Should I set water to 1x for even good performance and leave the others to max, and uncheck BLOOM and Shadows

No, REX is not hard on frames. You can adjust the texture sizes of the clouds within REX, so it is possible to actually see an improvement. That said, most folks are looking for more eye candy rather than less. Unfortunately, if you want to fly complex aircraft into big cities your framerates will always be in the cellar, particularly with realistic weather and AI traffic. I don't think there are many add-on airports in big cities that don't have a frame rate penalty. Orbx have even stopped making them in preference to regional and country locations.

 

Cheers,

 

Noel.

Ok! Thx again! I will try it and come back with my result. For Christmas I will buy an NVidia card, to increase my performance, I`ve just read that NVidia is recomanded for FSX. I have to install FSUIPC I forgot last night. I need to know how to set my sliders in game options for best results. Should I set water to 1x for even good performance and leave the others to max, and uncheck BLOOM and Shadows

OK, so if you go for a Nvidia card, maybe a 660ti,or 580 are both good, also ensure you install Inspector which you should run your GPU settings through. One thing I now fully endorse is ensuring Anistropic filtering is application controlled and NOT through inspector. The difference in actual appearaance is minimal, but the difference you'll get with framerates over water is high. You should also get slightly better texture loading too. As Noel above has said, running hungry addons with big airports and high AG settings will always have a price. In the end FSX is all about balance, a little bit of give and take, the trick is knowing when to take but more importantly, when to give :wink: BTW. You have the same processor as me... if you want to get more perfomance then you could get a liquid cooler and take that baby of your's to 4.5ghz, possibly with ease.