Plus no matter what system you have, you can't just expect to throw multiple, performance-intensive add-ons into FSX and have it come up running at 60fps.

 

A Piper Cub flying into ORBX Seattle at night, around the city, with FTX Night on (i.e. lights enabled), is a far different thing from flying a PMDG 737 into that same scenario at 3x the speed.

 

Are you looking to enjoy IFR? VFR? Very different focuses. High and fast with heavy clouds out to the distance, or low and slow with fog in the valleys? Ditto.

 

Money does not solve the problem, thought does (although no amount of ingenious mystery tweaking will turn slower hardware into faster hardware, either).

 

I'm a bit concerned about your video card, does not sound like the highest quality manufacturer/repackager. Cheaper variants of a piece of hardware often means you get a component that didn't test out at spec or top of class, so there might be a problem there, too. If possible, I'd trade that card in for a different one, like EVGA. You barely get what you pay for these days, and there's all sorts of cheap-out skulduggery out there to trick you into a "bargain" which is anything but.

Plus no matter what system you have, you can't just expect to throw multiple, performance-intensive add-ons into FSX and have it come up running at 60fps.

 

A Piper Cub flying into ORBX Seattle at night, around the city, with FTX Night on (i.e. lights enabled), is a far different thing from flying a PMDG 737 into that same scenario at 3x the speed.

 

Are you looking to enjoy IFR? VFR? Very different focuses. High and fast with heavy clouds out to the distance, or low and slow with fog in the valleys? Ditto.

 

Money does not solve the problem, thought does (although no amount of ingenious mystery tweaking will turn slower hardware into faster hardware, either).

 

I'm a bit concerned about your video card, does not sound like the highest quality manufacturer/repackager. Cheaper variants of a piece of hardware often means you get a component that didn't test out at spec or top of class, so there might be a problem there, too. If possible, I'd trade that card in for a different one, like EVGA. You barely get what you pay for these days, and there's all sorts of cheap-out skulduggery out there to trick you into a "bargain" which is anything but.

 

Exactly, people want it all but wont compromise. They get OOM and CTD the most too extreme in thier tweaks.

Edited February 11, 201313 yr by gizmosellsbunnys

My understanding is that for hardware like yours Kostas FSX Blogs tweaks will give you the best result.

Ever since I wasted over 1800 on my gaming rig for fsx, I can't get it to stay stable and load textures fast as well as autogen. When I watch videos on youtube I see people with lower specs playing the game better then me, and no-to little scenery popping. My specs are ; i5 3570k oced to 4.3ghz on Air, galaxy gtx 580 -- 860mhz core , 16ddr3 ram 1600, p8z77 mobo, ocz vertex 4 ssd 128gb ( FSX AND OS ).

I've tried the bojote tweak, as well as numerous amount of tweaks. I am currently running 4- 5 addons ( GEX, REX, AERO SOFT CHICAGO, SAN FRAN, ETC ). I am at the last point of either literally destroying my machine and recording it on video, or giving it away.. Can someone please give me their fsx.cfg that runs fsx well with specs close to mine? THANKS SOO MUCH.

 

REGARDS,

 

Desperate FSX Player..

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I was feeling the same you did a few days ago . Now i have found a way to narrow it down the problem with fsx, i recently purchase Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge -E 3.5 GHz Six Core. An instead of getting nice FPS an smooth FSX what i seem to get is 2 second stutter when speeding down the runway. My FPS will be stable 30 Lock an then when speeding down the runway it will drop to 10FPS . I felt like i spend all this money on a CPU that doesn't do nothing to FSX. My First thought was to overclock it but then i said no way because it is new an it runs perfectly well with other games, software even music production software why can't it work with FSX. So i deleted my FSX.cfg file an started fresh from start, i had problem trying to view my aircraft they all appear to be white an texture tearing with out DirectX 10 being enable. So my next step was to try a different fsx guide. Word Not Allowed guide is more for Nvidia user also Nick . But they are several tips nick stated out that really help me , basic steps to do before running fsx. I have tried them an also fallow his guide with out even having an Nvidia Card an it works smoothly more. Am still getting those 2 second stutter when speeding down the runway but i think it is because i have the window automatic update enable in my pc or something seems to be loading at the same time am speeding down the runway.

 

 

If you will like to read what Nick have to say about tweaking your cfg file here is the link - http://www.simforums...077.html#198077

If you turn off all cars traffics, the slight stutter as you do your take off roll will be gone. I had the same issue as you, and I solved it with two changes: turn off highway traffics and put autogen to normal. It's a hard thing to do, but I had enough with tweaks. Also if you use UTX, or ORBX use the lowest recommended settings. All the beautiful sceneries won't do you any good if you have OOM and CTDs.

or giving it away..

 

I'll take it off your hands.

 

Tweaks I use are

 

[bufferPools]

UsePools=0

 

[GRAPHICS]

HIGHMEMFIX=1

TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=4096

 

[Main]

FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.33 (default)

 

[TERRAIN]

LOD_RADIUS=6.500000

 

[Display]

TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=40

 

Sliders

[Graphics]

target frame rate: 30

filtering: anistropic

anti-aliasing: checked

global texture resolution: very high

lens flare: checked

advanced animations: checked

[aircraft]

aircraft landing lights illuminate ground: checked

[scenery]

mesh complexity: 75

mesh resolution: 10 m

texture resolution: 7 cm

water effects: none (I fly high and found this is my frame killer)

land detail textures: checked

scenery complexity: very dense

autogen density: dense

special effects detail: high

[weather]

cloud draw distance: 80mi/128km

thermal visualization: none

detailed clouds: checked

cloud coverage density: low

[traffic]

airport vehicle density: medium

road vehicles: 15%

ships and ferries: 100%

leasure boats: 40%

 

another thing I do is turn off everything else on my computer before I run fsx, like little apps from adobe that checks if you have the latest version always. Try this http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster

 

Watch this video for some insight into using more then one core at a time

 

Result crisp textures with 30 fps locked in the air, 18 on the ground at kjfk with ai airplanes.

 

and my processor is much slower then yours

 

Regards;

 

Fritz

Can someone please give me their fsx.cfg that runs fsx well with specs close to mine?

 

I made some slight modifications to my config I posted in #13 above. I forgot to add the tweaks I use.

 

Best regards,

Jim

The only way to get rid of the blurries is to turn your settings down in both the FSX.cfg and the display driver. The more request for resources thrown by FSX at your CPU/GPU, the more blurries you will get.

 

You cannot interchange FSX.cfgs so here are my relevant sections and lines -

 

[Display]

BLOOM_EFFECTS=0

SKINNED_ANIMATIONS=1

TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=40

UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=46

WideViewAspect=True

TextureMaxLoad=6

 

[Weather]

WindshieldPrecipitationEffects=1

MinGustTime=10

MaxGustTime=500

MinGustRampSpeed=1

MaxGustRampSpeed=200

MinVarTime=5

MaxVarTime=50

MinVarRampSpeed=10

MaxVarRampSpeed=75

TurbulenceScale=1.000000

WeatherServerAddress=fs2k.zone.com

WeatherServerPort=80

WeatherGraphDataInDialog=0

AdjustForMagVarInDialog=1

DynamicWeather=2

DownloadWindsAloft=0

DisableTurbulence=0

CLOUD_DRAW_DISTANCE=5

DETAILED_CLOUDS=1

CLOUD_COVERAGE_DENSITY=8

THERMAL_VISUALS=0

 

[DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580.0]

Mode=2560x1600x32

Anisotropic=1

AntiAlias=1

 

[GRAPHICS]

TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=4096 this is HD

NUM_LIGHTS=8

AIRCRAFT_SHADOWS=0

AIRCRAFT_REFLECTIONS=1

COCKPIT_HIGH_LOD=1

LANDING_LIGHTS=1

AC_SELF_SHADOW=1

EFFECTS_QUALITY=2

GROUND_SHADOWS=0

TEXTURE_QUALITY=3

IMAGE_QUALITY=0

See_Self=1

Text_Scroll=1

D3D10=1

HIGHMEMFIX=1

 

[MAIN]

FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.33

PerfBucket=5

 

[sCENERY]

LENSFLARE=0

DAWN_DUSK_SMOOTHING=1

IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=5

SmallPartRejectRadius=1

 

[TrafficManager]

AirlineDensity=25

GADensity=25

FreewayDensity=11

ShipsAndFerriesDensity=22

LeisureBoatsDensity=0

IFROnly=0

AIRPORT_SCENERY_DENSITY=2

 

[TERRAIN]

LOD_RADIUS=4.500000

MESH_COMPLEXITY=100

MESH_RESOLUTION=23

TEXTURE_RESOLUTION=26

AUTOGEN_DENSITY=0

DETAIL_TEXTURE=1

WATER_EFFECTS=5

TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_TREES_PER_CELL=1000 These two entries I really don't need as I have autogen turned off but just in case I enable it....

TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_BUILDINGS_PER_CELL=800

 

[bufferPools] // PJ DX10

BufferPools=1

PoolSize=10485760

RejectThreshold=524288

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

EDIT: I made some slight modifications as indicated in RED above. Forgot to add my "Tweaks". Jim

 

can a ssd thats almost full ( 12 - 13 percent available ) cause this as well?

as far as i know ssd's don't suffer any performance issues when they get full,like HDD's(i just know someone is going to say yes they Do!!)

I have never seen this on any SSD i have.

 

steve

My tip for smoother performance...CNTRL ALT DLT and stop any processes that FSX doesn't need.IE Java,internetdownloadmanager,acronis,any updater the least amount of processes running the better...oh and NO screensaver,powersaver setting.

My tip for smoother performance...CNTRL ALT DLT and stop any processes that FSX doesn't need.IE Java,internetdownloadmanager,acronis,any updater the least amount of processes running the better...oh and NO screensaver,powersaver setting.

 

Which is only part of why Nick Needham's guides are so valuable - they get at fundamental issues like this, rather than plunging into a whole variety of magical tweaks. Just sayin...

 

EDIT: Am not sure how or why things become official or unofficial hereabouts, and I have no desire to get crosswise in any disputes, but I'd say the same about Word Not Allowed's guide and would recommend seeking it out on his blog. Nick's guides can be found at Simforums - see the links in my earlier post.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6489/playing-with-op

 

Seems to indicate potential of significant (up to 10 times) performance degradation of SSD under certain parameters, have no personal experience to validate this either way.

 

Roy

I am at the last point of either literally destroying my machine and recording it on video, or giving it away..

 

There is good posts now here to try to help you out, have you applied any of the ideas before or is this all new information? Can you please report on your results? As I said before, if you don't do a video destruction and really want to give the computer away, I will be happy to accept :smile:

 

Regards;

 

Fritz

I used the Bojote's Tool. Made all the difference in the world. You can literally spend ALL your time tweaking and achieve little more than frustration.

You can literally spend ALL your time tweaking and achieve little more than frustration.

 

True that.

 

Something that's occurred to me after years of tuning on multiple systems is that it might be best to pick one guide - I'm not sure it matters which one - and work with it all the way through, before experimenting with any of the others. It's not clear to me how well these different approaches play with each other (though I've never had the time to test out that theory). For example, as I've said before, I've never gotten good results out of Bojote's tweaks, and I did badly with the DX10 setup as well. A lot of people I respect swear by both Bojote and DX10. It may be that something in NickN's setup (which was my starting point) works against the others. So the trick may be to avoid mixing and matching, at least until you've got one setup fully applied. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had similar experiences.

I can't be bothered anymore with any tweaking. I remember when I gave up trying to spot real or imaginary imperfections and chasing a few fps. I just use the sliders in fsx and turn them down until it works. I can run most things ok and it looks ok. If not, I don't care. Try it. It's very liberating. :-)

 

 

Just my position too, and if you can be bothered, spend 10 EUR on Xstreme FSX PC V2. Start it up, ask it to tweak your PC for IFR or VFR and apply. I did it last evening and I have never had such fluidity by manual tedious tweeking. Don't ask me why or how, it just works, I can yank my sliders much higher than before, no stutters. Did not bother to check my FPS, and I'll propably will be bashed but anyway, now I am done tweaking, just wanna fly

I'll get back to you today, had to do some work recently didn't get time to play.

 

There is good posts now here to try to help you out, have you applied any of the ideas before or is this all new information? Can you please report on your results? As I said before, if you don't do a video destruction and really want to give the computer away, I will be happy to accept :smile:

 

 

 

Regards;

 

Fritz

 

Thanks, I'll try that today

 

Just my position too, and if you can be bothered, spend 10 EUR on Xstreme FSX PC V2. Start it up, ask it to tweak your PC for IFR or VFR and apply. I did it last evening and I have never had such fluidity by manual tedious tweeking. Don't ask me why or how, it just works, I can yank my sliders much higher than before, no stutters. Did not bother to check my FPS, and I'll propably will be bashed but anyway, now I am done tweaking, just wanna fly