Okay guys, 

 

So with one try with the demo for about 10 minutes i was already impressed. So i bought it.

 

I locked the FPS in the sim at 35, made sure the frame rate limit in Nvidea inspector was turned off. I loaded up at KLAX with max settings, i was averaging about 21 - 24 fps in the NGX with the default Major thunderstorm weather on ( like it says to do in the manual ) When i turned the fiber accelerarion on, i set it to 30. Then i noticed the fps shoot up to maintain what i had set. For me the werent as many stutters. I will continue to mess with setttings, with the cfg ect. But for now im very happy with the purchase i have made  

 

Jack

Edit - The KLAX airport was FS Dream team, and i had maxed out settings

Great program, well worth the money!!

 

Read the video comments, Froogle did more testing and he is not sold on it.

Edited July 10, 201411 yr by n4gix
Removed the excessive quote.

Read the video comments, Froogle did more testing and he is not sold on it.

 

 

He is pre-occupied with frame rates. It isn't about frame rates, it's about smoothness. I have no problems with lower frame rates, which is what I get with FA, but I am well put out when I get jerks and stutters, and so far FA seems to remove them quite well. You have to be less ambitious with the settings.

 

Pete

Hi Guys, do you use Vertical Sync a NVI (Force On) or FSX or maybe 1/2 refresh rate (what does not seem to work).

Cheers Tom

RE Post 439:

The flight over Orbx Ireland was very successful - smooth graphics with little blurring.

Suitably encouraged I decided to try another flight over photographic scenery in the PMDG 737NGX - EGKK to EGPK with ASN and Texture Direct. After some experimentation I settled on 15/40 FPS limits

The view from inside the cockpit had some landscape blurring but nowhere as severe as on my first flight. Switching to an external view, the landscape became perfectly sharp over a few minutes as the graph bars gradually moved over to the right.

Switching back to an internal view resulted, as expected, in some blurring of the landscape but throughout the graphics were very smooth apart from a very occasional stutter.

On a couple of occasions the screen flashed and the sim paused - events which usually precede an OOM crash. With Fiber running though, normal service was resumed after about 2 seconds

 

I also experimented using a less complex aircraft and had perfect smoothness and graphics. My ageing i7 920 is clearly struggling with PMDG complexities.

 

I was convinced and so, Reader, I bought it.

He is pre-occupied with frame rates. It isn't about frame rates, it's about smoothness. I have no problems with lower frame rates, which is what I get with FA, but I am well put out when I get jerks and stutters, and so far FA seems to remove them quite well. You have to be less ambitious with the settings.

 

Pete

 

If you look at the very last part of the video (where he turns FA on and off), you can see very bad artifacts in the ground textures while FA is running.  Soon as he turns it off, they become crisp and the frame rates go back.

 

Based on what I seen personally, and what I read, people seem to get mixed results.  But it's all cool since,  people should just download the demo and give it a shot themselves instead of listening to Froogle or anyone else.  It is cool that they have a demo!

If you look at the very last part of the video (where he turns FA on and off), you can see very bad artifacts in the ground textures while FA is running.  Soon as he turns it off, they become crisp and the frame rates go back.

 

But turning FA off doesn't restore the FSX internal values that FA has been manipulating, so the results you get depend on what it did last not on what it might do next.. So there's no point in turning it off and comparing results without restarting FS too. I hope this might be changed in a later version. (Froogle wasn't even on version 1.1 I noticed).

 

Also, it needs optimizing. He's clearly not done that. He set arbitrary numbers, what 30 and 35? That's all wrong. The lower frame rate should probably be lower and the upper frame rate certainly much higher. Mine are 28 and 58. The upper frame rate can be well above what you really want or expect. Both numbers control what FA s doing. The instructions are quite clear and should be followed, but then you can experiment a little especially with the upper limit. I found that the lower one is best adjusted exactly as it says, till you don't see 'unlimited' being set by FS too often (use Shift+Z for that, not FRAPS of course).

 

Although, as I said,  mine are set to 28/58, the actual frame rates in my worst case scenario are 16-31. Before FA they were 18-35 (with FS set to unlimited). But the FA results are better because without FA it is very noticeably jerky. With FA it's pretty smooth. Nice, in fact. ;-)

 

Pete

But turning FA off doesn't restore the FSX internal values that FA has been manipulating, so the results you get depend on what it did last not on what it might do next.. So there's no point in turning it off and comparing results without restarting FS too.

Pete, that is a very cogent point you have made, and one that bears repeating as many times as it takes to be fully assimilated.

 

If one turns off FA at a low point, that low point will persist until FSX is finally shut down.

But it's all cool since,  people should just download the demo and give it a shot themselves instead of listening to Froogle or anyone else.

 

Definitely agree here ... it's a plus when products provide a try before you buy option.  End user is the best judge of what is or isn't good for their needs/desires.

 

And I'll keep pushing LM to integrate a product like this into P3D.  

 

Cheers, Rob.

 

EDIT: interesting to see such a hot topic and lots of interest when I've been repeatedly TOLD that FSX is as smooth as glass ... hmmmm

This is painful to watch.  Froogle spends half the video flying a circuit without even using the Fiber Accelerator.   Too much goofing around in this for me.   

 

 

Froogle spends half the video flying a circuit without even using the Fiber Accelerator.

If you're going to show the effect of FA surely it's necessary to do a before and after demo.

 

 

But the FA results are better because without FA it is very noticeably jerky. With FA it's pretty smooth.

 

This go's to show how system dependent FSX is, because I have exact opposite results! 

This go's to show how system dependent FSX is, because I have exact opposite results! 

 

Same here, FA did nothing for me, and that is why I am glad there was a demo

 

 

EDIT: interesting to see such a hot topic and lots of interest when I've been repeatedly TOLD that FSX is as smooth as glass ... hmmmm

 

Everyone is just trying to get their sim to run better. Let folks have some hope,

For my part, P3D runs horrid on my PC.I haven't received much help in getting it to run better. However I refuse to use sarcasm on those who claim to have stellar performance in it... Live and let live.

But turning FA off doesn't restore the FSX internal values that FA has been manipulating, so the results you get depend on what it did last not on what it might do next..

Pete

 

Hi Pete.

 

I don't believe an external program can modify stuff like "fiber", "autogen" internally, without injecting own dll inside the simulator process,

 

Does FSUIPC.dll provide access to FPS reading, Fiber (Memory reading, not the setting that can be read from "fsx.cfg" file?

 

Thanks