All of you can figure this out....solid 30 (locked) FPS!

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

Here's the facts,...

 

Yesterday, I downloaded two OSM continent files from SimHeaven:

 

1: North America with autogen

2: Europe with autogen

 

I fired up XPX 64 bit and waited for it to place me at an airport. I shut down the program.

 

I then as per the instruction page within the North America zip file, did a total cut and paste of my .ini file, which I have included for your perusal.

 

I was at VERY HIGH as my standard (pre file install and re-sort) for my rez selection. With this, I would get anywhere from 18-30 (lock) depending on how involved the scenery was, etc.

 

I fired up XPX 64 bit with the 2 OSM and autogen in the mix...and found that I stayed at 29-30 FPS pretty much anywhere I chose to fly, rural, urban, mountains, etc.

 

Hmmmm, I thought. Let me see if I can get away with EXTREME for the rez setting.  So, I changed up, dropped out of XPX, and then fired it up again. To my utter amazement, I was STAYING at 29-30 as well, again across a lot of different scenic loads.

 

So, I leave what might have happened to any of you.  I wanted to share the 'good news' with ya....and so, you now have what it might take, to also enjoy this FPS 'happening'.  So below is my ini file exactly as was sorted yesterday, and what custom stuff, I have 'stuffed' into XPX.  I suggest that you try and sort whatever you have, after my fashion and see if when adding (you have to do this as well!) the two SimHeaven continent files with autogen, do you also find that you are running super efficient in scenery rastorizing, and so it spells out at top-of-the-line (as per your system) XPX.21 FPS output.  Below is my .ini file:

 

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I

1000 version

SCENERY

 

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/CNL3 Brockville - Thousand Is. Reg/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/CYUL Montreal 850/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KABQ/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KAVL_Ashville_NC/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KCLE/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KERI/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Ohio_Airports_v1_9/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Salt Lake City, UT - KSLC/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/US Mountain Air 2NC0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KDFW2013/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/1Q-Nipissing-Ontario_Canada-LENEO1se/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/1Q-CompletionPack-Ontario_Canada-LENEO2-3fe/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/AirportsOfTheWestV10new/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Phoenix - KPHX/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada Ontario 02/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada Ontario 03/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada Ontario 04/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada Ontario 05/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada Ontario 06/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada Ontario 07/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada Ontario 08/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada CNC3 Brampton ON/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada CYEE Midland Huronia ON/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada CYFD Brantford ON/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada CYGK Kingston ON/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada CYHZ Halifax NS/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada CYOO Oshawa ON/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada CYQM Moncton NB/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada CYQY Sydney NS/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada CYZD Downsview ON/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada New Brunswick 02/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada New Brunswick 03/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada Nova-Scotia 01/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada Nova-Scotia 02/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Canada Nova-Scotia 03/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Quebec Landmark Beaupre/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/ABelgium_EBCF/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KORF/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KPHF- Newport News/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KPWK/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/1Z1 Bar Ten Air Strip - Grand Canyon/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/2S0 Twisp Municipal Airport/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/7S3 Starks Twin Oaks/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/aaa_PNWS - KBLI/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/ABSim_KCGX/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/AFRI-FOOL_Libreville_Gabun/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Crossville Memorial Whitson Field KCSV/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/CYSJ-Saint John New Brunswick_864/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/CYTZ Toronto Island Airport/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Toronto Island Airport v1.5.1/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zCanada CYTZ Toronto Island ON/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/CYYZ Toronto Pearson Airport (ISDG Group)/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Downtown Long Beach/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/EGTK London Oxford/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Global Airports/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Jamestown Municipal 2A1/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KALW_Walla Walla Regional_1.2/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KARB/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KAVO Buildings/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KBOS v10/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KBUR/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KCHS charlestone/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KCLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KELM/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KELN_Ellensburg - Bowers Field_1.1/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KFLL/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KFMY - Page Field/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KFNT/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KGRR - Grand Rapids/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KIPL Imperial County Airport/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KLAW - Lawton Ft Sill Regional/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KLAX, KHHR, KCPM/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KLGB/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KNIP - Jacksonville NAS/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KNRB - Mayport NS/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KORS - Orcas Island Airport/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KOWK Central Maine Airport of Norridgewock/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KPTK/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KPWM_Portland International Jetport/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KSEA Demo Area/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KSEA Demo Terrain/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KSMO/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KSMO-Santa Monica/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KTLH Tallahassee Regional Airport Photoreal/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KTOA/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KTRL - Terrell Municiple Airport/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KVNY/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KYIP/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/LA_Le Gros 3R2/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/LOWI Demo Area/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Madeira_1_LPMA/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/ME-LCLK_Larnaca_Intl-Cyprus/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/NWT/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/S52 Methow Valley State/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/San Diego/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Sault Ste. Marie__CYAM/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/SUAG/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_AK_PAED_Elmendorf AFB v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_AK_PALH_Lake Hood/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_AK_PANC_Ted Stevens Anchorage Intl Airport/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_AK_Z-41_Lake Hood Strip/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_FL_KDTS_Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_FL_KECP_Northwest Florida Beaches Intl Airport Panama City v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_FL_KNPA_NAS_Pensacola Forrest Sherman Field v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_FL_KNQX_NAS Key West Boca Chica Field v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_FL_KVPS_Eglin AFB-Northwest Florida Rgnl v 2.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_HAWAII_PHKO_Kona Intl Airport at Keahole v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_HAWAII_PHTO_Hilo Intl v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_KAUAI_PAK_Port Allen Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_KAUAI_PHLI_Lihue Airport v 2.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_MAUI_PHHN_Hana Maui Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_MAUI_PHJH_Kapalua West Maui Airport Lahaina v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_MAUI_PHOG_Kahului Intl Airport v 3.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_MOLOKAI_PHMK_Molokai Airport v1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_OAHU_NPS_Ford Island NALF Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_OAHU_PHDH_Dillingham Airfield v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_OAHU_PHHI_Wheeler_AAF v1.3/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_OAHU_PHJR_Barbers Point USCG v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_OAHU_PHNG_Kaneohe MCBH v 2.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_HI_OAHU_PHNL_Honolulu Intl v2.1/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_LA_KAEX_Alexandria Intl Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_LA_KBTR_Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport 2nd edition v2.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_LA_KHZR_False River Regional Airport v 2.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_LA_KLCH_Lake Charles Regional Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_LA_KLCH_Lake Charles Regional Airport v 1.0 - Copy/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_LA_KLFT_Lafayette Regional Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_LA_KMSY_New Orleans Louis Armstrong Intl Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_LA_KNBG_NAS Joint Reserve Base New Orleans v 2.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_LA_KNEW_Lakefront Airport New Orleans v 1.1/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_LA_KSHV_Shreveport Rgnl Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_NJ_KEWR_Newark Liberty Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_NY_JKFK_New York John F. Kennedy Intl Airport v 1.0/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/USA_TX_KIAH_Houston George Bush Intctl Airport v1.4/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zzz_new_zealand/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/ZYTZ Terrain/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EBBR Brussels/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EDDF Frankfurt/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EDDH Hamburg/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EDDK Cologne/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EDDM Munich/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EDDS Stuttgart/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EDDT Berlin Tegel/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EDDV Hannover/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EDLP Paderborn-Lippstadt/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EGBB Birmingham/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EGKK London-Gatwick/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EGLL Heathrow/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EGPF Glasgow/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EGSS London-Stansted/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EIDW Dublin/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - LEBL Barcelona/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - LEMD Madrid/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - LFMN Nice Cote d Azur X/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - LFPG Paris CDG/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - LFPO Paris Orly/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - LPFR Faro/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - LSGG Genf/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Osm_North-America_osm+autogen/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/OSM Canada Roads/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Osm_Europe_osm+autogen/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zCanada CYTZ Toronto Island ON-LIT Textures/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/YPAD Adelaide Airport Photoreal/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/YSSY Sydney Airport Photo Scenery/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KSEA Seattle Photoreal Underlay (chris k)/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zzz_Treelines_Farms_Europe/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zzz_Treelines_Farms_USA/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zzz_hd_global_scenery/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zzz_new_zealand_overlay/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/EnhancedRunwaysHD_by_FlyJSim_v1.20/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/ff_library_extended_LOD/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/flags_of_the_world/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/german_traffic_library/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/OpenSceneryX/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/R2_Library/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/ruscenery/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Vehicle Library Extension/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Wide Taxiway Markings Library Replacement/

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

Ok, been flying for about three hours.  In light cloud (real weather download) I stay at 29-30 FPS.

 

In heavy cloud and T storm environments, I can go down to no lower than 23 FPS.  

 

This is fabulous performance, as i see it.  Everything is smooth in animation.  I think that on average, after my OSM adding, and cut and past of the .ini file yesterday, I have picked up a strong plus 7 FPS in most scenic situations and loads. More than not, XPX now wants to just stay at my 30 FPS lock-down.

 

I run now as my standard rez setting; EXTREME.

 

CPU: i7 975 Extreme

GPU: EVGA Signature Plus GTX 680 

BIOS: Alienware A11

[Blaze 102]

I'm real happy your enjoying the sim, perhaps one explanation could be that the new files and autogen are simply not high enough resolution so as not to affect your frame rates when you went from high res to extreme res in your settings?  Maybe its just more efficient or some combination of the above but why question it?  If your happy and it looks good...rock on!

[MdMax 233]

I'm real happy your enjoying the sim, perhaps one explanation could be that the new files and autogen are simply not high enough resolution so as not to affect your frame rates when you went from high res to extreme res in your settings?  Maybe its just more efficient or some combination of the above but why question it?  If your happy and it looks good...rock on!

With OSM2XP you have the real footprint for all the buildings in OpenStreetMap, but the no details around the buildings (no garden furniture...), low resolution textures for the walls (if you don't change them) and the simulator does not need to guess/calculate where the houses are. That's using less resources than default plausible buildings where the simulator needs to "build" each village from the ground up depending on the streets and where you can even see a long chair:

http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?245634-VFR-Test-Flight&p=1665488#post1665488

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

With OSM2XP you have the real footprint for all the buildings in OpenStreetMap, but the no details around the buildings (no garden furniture...), low resolution textures for the walls (if you don't change them) and the simulator does not need to guess/calculate where the houses are. That's using less resources than default plausible buildings where the simulator needs to "build" each village from the ground up depending on the streets and where you can even see a long chair:

http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?245634-VFR-Test-Flight&p=1665488#post1665488

...ah, then that could be it.  It still looks great, and the performance is stellar.  

[Benny_ 3]

Osm2xp is using facades for buildings, which are basically textured cubes.

So fps performance is better than for a complex 3D object  , but it's not very pretty, and that's the biggest problem of osm2xp in my opinion.

 

I'm currently working on an evolution that will let osm2xp use 3D objects for buildings.

It's still in progress/testing, but i think it will be a huge leap in graphic quality for those osm generated sceneries.

(windsocks are used for tests to validate buildings compliance to footprint)

 

 

 

 

[Pascal_LSGC 298]

Hi Benny,

Are you aware that a new kind of facades exists in XP10? Those are not only simple faces with a roof where possible, it's 3d objects that can be developed along the footprint (like prisms), and other objects can be attached to it.

The doc for these v2 facades is brand new:

http://developer.x-plane.com/?article=x-plane-10-facade-fac-file-format-specification

 

In fact, the new facade type can probably be used with OSM2XP as it is now. Just have to tinker with definition files.

 

I can't wait for the new version, it seems you added the ability to imports multi polygon footprints. And of course the new amazing night lighting ! Great job !

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

Well, I just took off from Frankfurt (SimHeaven OSM Europe+AUTOGEN, using the EXTREME rez setting........,

 

dropped by half to 15 FPS, from the usual of 30 when flying in N.A.

 

Yepper, there are many more features in SimHeaven's Europe, over North America.

 

I'm about to try it at Very High, and see if what I might climb back up to.

 

...........

 

Post Edit:  Just took off from same runway at Frankfurt, and with Very High, came back up to : 25 FPS. I also think that Europe looks better at Very High, than Extreme. Extreme made it too 'busy'....p.o.

 

Post Edit 2:  Well, Europe certainly give you a different flying 'flavor' than my usual N.A. haunts.  I think that I will catch a ride down the Rhine, and see what's up.  It looks really good, and have settled into about 27 FPS as a general FPS high for this region.