Hi!

2 weeks ago, I got my new computer:

i5 3570K (overclocked to 4.4 GHz)

ASUS P8Z77 V-Pro

16 GB 1600 MHz RAM

GTX 670 2 GB

480 GB SSD

After some hard work, almost everything is installed again.

I´m quite happy with the result, without too much tweaking, all textures are sharp, loading times are phenomenal and the graphics are so much better than with my old setup.

FPS are really good, but as I use MyTraffic 2013 with the traffic slider set to 25% -I just need a bit of life on the bigger airpoirs- the performance with an airliner like the NGX or the new Aerosoft Airbus on final to, let´s say, Aerosoft´s EHAM in severe weather condtions (Opus FSX, cloud density set to medium) can drop to a framerate of around 17. After T/O and enroute, 30-60 fps are normal, frames are set to unlimited.

Overall the sliders in FSX are set to medium or slightly above, Autogen is set to dense. Only tweak I did so far is to use Bojotes automated FSX.cfg-tool.

So, when the action is getting higher, theres is not much headroom left.

That brings me to my question:

For Germany, where I fly most of the time, or at least start the most flights from, I use the VFR Germany series from Aerosoft.

Since there are no seasonal or night textures included, scenery looks a little boring and unrealistic during night or dusk/dawn flights and approaches. On FS9, I still use Flight 1´s UTE with everything turned off except its very neat night lighting feature. I still recognize a little loss in performance on the FS9-machine.

So, I imagine, using Ultimate Terrain Europe X could lower the fps on approach even more, what would be quite unacceptable. Is that right, or should my machine handle these 3D lights without a noticable performance drop?

That being asked, is there any alternative wich works with photoscenery?

Any suggestions and help are appreciated!

 

Thanks in advance and greets,

Michael

I just read that Aerosoft will bring out an addon called Deutschland X. As an landclass product it will have textures for winter and night and it will be 100% compatible with VFR Germany. Looks like that will be exactly what I am looking for.