Hello,

I recently made the switch from FS9 to FSX, on FS9 i had over 100FPS (i normally locked at 60) on max settings.

But on FSX i have average settings and i get 15-20 FPS, can anyone help me?

 

Here is list of addons installed:

 

-REX Essential Plus Overdrive

-UK2000 Leeds,Heathrow,London City,East Midlands,Gatwick,Manchester.

-Fly Tampa Dubai

-Aerosoft Gibraltar

-RAF Coningsby (ukmil)

-Quality Wings 757 and RJ series

 

As you can see not many addons as of yet     the only way ive found to get higher FPS is put view distance down to about 3 miles.

 

Any Help would be appreciated.

 

 

 

System Specs:

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel Core i7-2600k CPU @ 3.40GHz
8GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series

 

 

I recommend Word Not Allowed's "FSX/P3D Software and Hardware Guide" (you can find it by Googling "Word Not Allowed blog").

 

The guide isn't perfect, i.e., you may find yourself tweaking a few settings differently for your specific system, but it will get you started. Also, it goes without saying that overclocking your i7-2600k is a must for the best possible FSX experience.

Welcome to Avsim!

You will definitely have to tweak FSX. Best thing is to follow Word Not Allowed's guide (google "Word Not Allowed's FSX guide"), and also refer to the Avsim guide pinned on the very top of this forum.

From what I've heard, FSX does not always give as good performance as FS9 did, which is probably also due to the fact that it is capable of having much more details, both regardign the aircraft models and the surrounding scenery, but it still is a 32-bit application, thus limited in adressing RAM, and it also requires your CPU to be as fast as possible, so if you can overclock your PC, that will most likely help a bit, too.

Other than that, try to play around with the settings, some sliders don't have much effect at all, and some are really frame-eaters (such as high autogen and high traffic settings).

FPS are also highly dependend on the area where you are - Seattle, or in your case London are weaker regions in general, because there are lots of  airports in the area which means loads of AI planes, and London is a rather detailed city, even with default FSX,and that takes away a few FPS as well.

 

What I did/do is to test various settings under different conditions (aircraft addons of varying complexity and speed in different areas), and when I am satisfied with the results I save those settings, and then I can quickly load such a preset configuration for my next flight.

Also note, that smoothness does very much depend on the user - 15-20 sounds quite reasonable to me in London area, but of course if you are used to 100, this may be a frustrating experience.

 

Hope this was a bit helpful, and I'm pretty sure the "tech guys" will soon come here too and give further -probably even better - advice.

Kind regards,

Flo

 

EDIT: coa1117 beat me :rolleyes:

Edited May 9, 201313 yr by FloG

+1 for Word Not Allowed's gude

 

 

also take a look in simforums for Nick N windows 7 tuning guide, and use it to tune Windows 7, and to install fsx in correct way. It's important step too. 

Intel Core i7-2600k CPU @ 3.40GHz

 

FSX really likes fast CPU's.  3.40 GHz is not bad, but FSX really smooths out when the CPU runs at 4 GHz or better.  I found that my 3.0 GHz Q9650 cpu was adequate, but overclocking to 3.8 GHz made FSX enjoyable.

My brother has already over locked the CPU as much as he dares,

 

Also I'll have a look at the guide when I can,

 

Thanks in advance