FSX Fiber Accelerator?

[ajaybala 66]

tried it

 

my pc specs i5 2310@3.1ghz

8 gb ddr3 ram

r9 280x

 

aircraft Iris PC21 (Hog Hog Hog)

Scenery Orbx Pnw KSEA (Hog x 5)

 

takeoff fiber on 5.1 fps fiber off 4.5 fps

 

over Seattle fiber on 8.9 fps fiber off 5.2 fps

 

>30 nm from seattle fiber on 12.2 fps fiber off 7.3 fps

 

 

effectively this add on gives a good relative boost but does nothing to hold desired fps.

[Dirk98 354]

Assuming the path does definitely lead to where the program was installed, try enclosing the full path in quotes, thus:

 

RunIf1=Ready,Close,"C:\Program Files (x86)\FSPS\FSX Fiber Accelerator\FSX Fiber Accelerator.exe"

 

 

My FSX full screen minimizes to the tray each time FA starts with the above even though "Start Minimized" is selected in FA. Is there a way to auto-return to the full screen?

 

Thanks.

[BD - FSPS 0]

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No need for me to test elsewhere -- if it makes me happy in my EGLL test it'll be fine everywhere else.

 

So, I purchased it. Well done FSPS!

 

Regards

Pete

 

I told I will be back for something special, and this is something special. All these years Pete we wanted to thank you for what YOU had done to our hobby. 

Getting as feedback words like these, by one of legends of FS industry, gives us a little dizzy feeling.

 

So thank you, not only for the kind words, but publicly a big THANK YOU and RESPECT for your own efforts making FS what it is now ! 

[Adamski_NZ 942]

I was prepared to be unimpressed - particularly as I'd already had a bad experience with 1.0 (.net grief - my fault - I had 3.5.1 and 4.5 on the system, but I'd deselected the two tickboxes for 3.5.1 at some stage). Anyway - 1.1 install went fine - and I think I've had long enough (just!) to see whether it works on my very average system.

 

Background: I run FSX in full DX10 mode (with Steve's Fixer) and have, therefore, a highly specialised fsx.cfg that's taken months to get right. It's been working beautifully for a fair while now.

 

The test flight: In a JF EE Lightning around Auckland (NZAA) with the usual raft of UT2 AI traffic and full dynamic weather (v.cloudy) supplied by OPUS. Apart from using a Lightning at illegal low-level speeds (!) everything else was as per usual - and it's an area I know well. With all this going on, I get around 30fps on average.

 

I had to disable the NVI-fixed framerate limiter to test, but that's no big deal as I only run the one monitor. Setting up multiple screens without tearing is simply not an issue for me (at the moment).

 

The conclusion:

1) I didn't notice any marked overall improvement in framerates.

2) I didn't suffer the blurries that other people mention (other than the usual/inevitable ones you're bound to get in FSX doing Mach 1.5 at 100ft)!

3) Overall smoothness definitely seemed better. I wasn't getting so many of the *big* jitters.

4) I could move the slider back and forth and see the difference in visuals (though it takes a little while). The lowest framerate setting looked identical to my maxed-out screenshot non-FA visuals - and the slider moved way to the right (well past what my PC could realistically achieve) produced exactly the [degraded] visuals that my speed-tweaked .cfg would have done. All well and good!

 

No OOMs - but I don't get them in DX10 anyway (I used to in DX9/PMDG 737).

 

My first impression is that FA is doing nothing other than apply/inject (in real time) all the effects I'm used to seeing when testing all the usual parameters fsx.cfg. I haven't been able to use FA for long enough to see whether it does anything beyond that. Personally, I don't think it does, but I'm prepared to be proved wrong.

 

*However* ... to be able to do all this in REAL TIME, without having to quit FSX and load a standby framerate friendly fsx.cfg is quite an achievement, I reckon - not such much for performance enhancement, but for pure *convenience*.

 

To sum up: it's no magic bullet ... but very handy!

 

Adam.

[Pete Dowson 558]

I was already getting decent performance on my machine which is pretty fast.  Installed the demo and tried a few flights, did not notice any improvement, in one case it went down.  Note:  My fsx.cfg was hand tweaked for perfomance.   Anyway, I uninstalled it.

 

My specs:

Intel Core i7-4770k @ 4.2Ghz

GeForce GTX 780i 4GB

MSI Z87 M/B

Corsair H60 Water Cooler

32 GB of G.Skill Ripjaws X Series DDR3-1866

Samsung 840 EVO 250 gig  SSD     (FSX is on here)

 

Perhaps it only works on low end machines

 

No, mine is very similar to yours (overclocked to 4.4 in fact). but I tested it on a worst case scenario where it wasn't just frame rates which were low, but smoothness went out of the window. With FA I get smoothness where I never had it before, but leave that scenario for places i don't have a problem with, and it is as if it isn't there in any case.

 

If you don't have any situations where you don't already get smoothness then I guess you need nothing else, you have the perfect set up for your interests. I wanted a realistic Heathrow with realistic traffic and never before has that been possible with smoothness.

 

I'm pretty sure FA is simply manipulating values you can manipulate in the CFG file, but it is doing it dynamically. I can alter my CFG manually to get good smoothness at Heathrow, but then after leaving the area I would have blurries. With FA the blurries would presumably be out there when I'm at the airport, but I can't see them, but when leaving the settings are changed to regain clarity.

 

Maybe I'll find somewhere which defeats this action. So far it behaves fine.  If not, I'll post again.

 

Pete

[Adamski_NZ 942]

Pete - my sentiments *exactly* - except you put it far more succinctly! Also - if Pete Dowson is impressed - then I'm impressed ... period!

 

Adam.

[dolph98 24]

Still searching for the sweet spot in my system. I had earlier reported I was using 24/24. Well that didn't work so much with the NGX cross country so changed it up to 18/30 and have so far no blurries, no worries. I have clear ground detail as far as the eye can see and that's much better.

EDIT: I know I should not care about the ground detail but there's nothing more frustrating than turning my head out the window and seeing a blurry mess. I can't take that. So being a little less hungry for FPS at the bottom end is doable. Will see when I reach KPDX (from KATL).

[Olmba 27]

Just want to tell that this addon is amazing. Increased my fps in general with 8-10  ..Great product .

[nippa 26]

I tried the demo but it only made frame rates worse.

[benjamin.stickler 0]

I just tried the demo. I used up all 5 tries and I am happy with the results but also confused.

 

I have a rather slow computer (Core Duo 3.16). When I fly to a busy airport (KDCA for example) with REX on my framerate usually jumps around between 10 and 20. The worst part is the joystick input is usually delayed and it makes it difficult to control a Cessna when trying to land. So I loaded up this Fiber accelerator and within about a minute my controls are responsive and smooth again. However, there is not really any difference to my framerate. That is the confusing part. It kinda feels like I am on a faster computer. The controls are so much smoother and the graphics are decent too. I don't have any kind of good video card so my graphics were never really outstanding anyways.

 

In any case, I find that this product makes a big difference on my low-end computer. But you'd never know it by looking at the framerate.

 

Price is a little high for something like this. $20 would be more appropriate. My trail is going to be over in about 30 minutes. So I am going to try to fly back to DC and see how things go without it.

[StubbinMyToe 14]

No, mine is very similar to yours (overclocked to 4.4 in fact). but I tested it on a worst case scenario where it wasn't just frame rates which were low, but smoothness went out of the window. With FA I get smoothness where I never had it before, but leave that scenario for places i don't have a problem with, and it is as if it isn't there in any case.

 

If you don't have any situations where you don't already get smoothness then I guess you need nothing else, you have the perfect set up for your interests. I wanted a realistic Heathrow with realistic traffic and never before has that been possible with smoothness.

 

I'm pretty sure FA is simply manipulating values you can manipulate in the CFG file, but it is doing it dynamically. I can alter my CFG manually to get good smoothness at Heathrow, but then after leaving the area I would have blurries. With FA the blurries would presumably be out there when I'm at the airport, but I can't see them, but when leaving the settings are changed to regain clarity.

 

Maybe I'll find somewhere which defeats this action. So far it behaves fine.  If not, I'll post again.

 

Pete

 

I am glad it worked out for you, but it did nothing for me, in fact it even made things slower.   Like I said its uninstalled,  I just posted to give my personal results.  I do give them credit for the demo though, too bad not every developer did that!

 

BTW, as I said earlier a debugger can show exactly what it is changing, and how.  A bit of reverse engineering

[suleyman 0]

I like what this smart tool is doing and it works brilliant, smart and easy to use, good job FSPS, will definitely buy it cheers!

[Guest]

Ok I have used up all 5 shots and on the last one I used the same FSrecorder playback. This time I had NI deactivated So I had not Vsync. As suspected horrible tearing:-) However, that's not the point I sett the FPS in FSX to 50 and Minimum in fiber to 30. I think that's along the lines of what you are supposed to do. I used trackIR to look at the heaviest scenery throughout the play back without Fiber and then did the same with Fiber. With FIBER the FPS is significantly higher but more importantly a lot smoother. I think that the eradication of some stutter is much more important than the FPS improvement. And they are NOT the same thing. However and despite the fact that even without Fiber there are some blurries! The blurries with Fiber are far worse. Is it far trade off? Yes and no. It depends on you own taste and preferences.

 

It is early days and no doubt like all other software it was release as soon as the developer could get away with releasing it, so it will improve.

If I was sticking with FSX I would buy it! If not now in a few months when its on sale. If you spend a lot on FS its best to be patient for sales.

But, Despite the fact that I think that FSX is overall still better than P3DV2 I have already past the point of no return with that move so I will not be buying it. If I was sticking with FSX EEERRRR! those blurries!!!!! but I would probably still buy it:-)

[soundrats 2]

Assuming the path does definitely lead to where the program was installed, try enclosing the full path in quotes, thus:

 

RunIf1=Ready,Close,"C:\Program Files (x86)\FSPS\FSX Fiber Accelerator\FSX Fiber Accelerator.exe"

 

You need the quotes because of the spaces -- the data is fed to Windows and the first space it encounters ends the path name and the rest it taken as paramweters for the program.

 

Pete

Thnx Pete and Andy, now it works but

RUNFL1 is Linda

RUNFL2 is FA

my error was to write 2 times RUNFL1

Kind Regards Tom

[GodAtum 69]

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