Thanks. I wish there was a good alternative to the Inspector for AMD video cards.

 

I tried your settings, but the performance difference was negligible. The more I use the Catalyst Control Center, the more I dislike it. It usually causes issues with FSX, but when it does work, I experience no performance benefits.

I do not find this to be true, for unknown reasons. My frame rates are worse when I do not use an external frame rate limiter. ...

Sorry for the really late answer, but somehow I missed that part. Maybe I inartfully expressed myself but I meant the same as you. External limit + internal max = more fps, internal limit + external no limitation = worse fps

Owen, your video card will not work without CCC. The settings in CCC tells the software driver how to use the hardware to display video on the monitor. They have a huge effect! When I set all my CCC settings to on and highest, my fps drops 20+ and stutters and blurries. My settings were a suggested starting point for trial and error to tune your card. Just plugging them in will give you good fps but can be adjusted up for better video quality. Use Word Not Allowed's Guide for everything else.

 

Dav

Since I've installed FSX, I've had my fps locked at 30 and I achieved that 30 fps in about 99 pct. of all my flying. Never gave a thought about changing it. Then I recently DL'd the Carneado King Air, and for the first time, I saw a dip in that performance. Moreover, the King Air had an effect on Tileproxy--tileproxy's textures would blur more often. I did not want to give up the King Air or Tileproxy, so I decided to reduce my fps to 18, which took a bit of trial and error. From the beginning, it seemed less smooth but Tileproxy was back to crisp and sharp textures for me.

 

I figured I would just change the fps back to 30 whenever I wasn't using the King Air. Fast forward a few weeks, and here I find myself, with the fps still locked at 18 (if only due to my being too lazy to change it back and forth). And you know what? I've gotten used to it! It's not as smooth as 30 fps was, but it seems a lot smoother than my first trying it out. I think I am beginning to understand what simmers mean when they say FSX is smoother than FS9 was. FS9 did not seem smooth back in the day of my old P3-800 when I could only crank out 18 fps around heavy scenery.

 

Anyway, I thought I would share this. I've have logged hours of flight time since my change, mostly in the King Air, RealAir turbine Duke, and Carenado's C210. It's all been enjoyable flight time spent soaring over Tileproxy's scenery.

 

Regards,

 

John

 

Hello there! Just a little suggestion: put your FPS locked at a dividend (language error here) of your monitor refresh rate... is it 60Hz? then lock FPS at 30, 20, 15 whatever.

This is recommended by 'bojote'. one of the top-tweakers round here. I have mine locked at 18 too (but because 20 is too much strain and 15 gets too choppy so no hypocresy! ),

Glad to see you enjoying FSX! my crappy laptop struggles to handle. no ORBX, no HD craft... as we say in our country: "I healthily envy you" :D

 

Cheers and keep happy flying!

Nicolás

Edited November 26, 201213 yr by ltnicolas

My settings were a suggested starting point for trial and error to tune your card. Just plugging them in will give you good fps but can be adjusted up for better video quality. Use Word Not Allowed's Guide for everything else.

Okay. I will try readjusting them over the weekend. Your settings worked fine, but adjusting them seemed to cause issues, such as the blurring of textures and frequent blackouts. I'll have to perform some more-extensive testing. I have since recreated my FSX configuration file and tweaked it using Word Not Allowed's guide.

 

Hello there! Just a little suggestion: put your FPS locked at a dividend (language error here) of your monitor refresh rate... is it 60Hz? then lock FPS at 30, 20, 15 whatever.

Yes. I believe my monitor refresh rate is 60 Hz. I currently lock my frame rate at 24 frames per second (I can not manage anything higher consistently with the PMDG B747), which somewhat invalidates the V-sync tweak. I had not thought of locking the frame rate at 20. I'll try it next weekend. Thanks for your suggestion.