It is by far, NOT your system....

Go....buy a current game and place all on ultra and report back.

 

It is sad, but these sims are a whole different ball game than what everyone else plays. It is almost like "us", bodybuilders....playing ping-pong.......size matters....in same aspects.

 

It is all about how you use that muscle in FSX/XP10/P3D. Pick and choose what you use, Heavy planes? Less detail terrain, small aircraft, smaller footprints on the CPU, better terrain.

 

There is always a happy medium. I have found mine with P3D, and I can run almost max with the exception of autogen and clouds with the AXE.

 

It will just take time to figure out your sim. None are alike.

Guys!

 

Look at this video

 

 

This guy has an old system!! Can any one explain how this guy got this beautiful amazing smoothness!!

 

And by the way, this guy from Saudi Arabia thats my country! I tried many times to ask him but no response :(

Why your GRAPHICS section has only two lines? Where is the rest of it?

You mean the one I have now which is the R9 290 is good enough?

 

That's not my whole Graphics Section, it has many more lines than that, however those are the specific TWEAKS that I have in that line.

 

Personally I would go with an Nvidia EVGA/MSI/ASUS GTX 760, that card will pretty much ensure you have solid frames on many modern games. As for FSX it will help you with HD textures for Clouds and other stuffs, just remember its still more based on your CPU performance and that i7 4970 you have is a beast for FSX.

 

Also many people who make As Real As It Gets videos heavily edit them, they generally record at half rate then speed the video up for smoothness.

That's not my whole Graphics Section, it has many more lines than that, however those are the specific TWEAKS that I have in that line.

 

Personally I would go with an Nvidia EVGA/MSI/ASUS GTX 760, that card will pretty much ensure you have solid frames on many modern games. As for FSX it will help you with HD textures for Clouds and other stuffs, just remember its still more based on your CPU performance and that i7 4970 you have is a beast for FSX.

Alright! Will wait and test some other tweaks and will decide later for GPU!!

 

Please take a look into the video I posted above!

Guys!

 

Look at this video

 

 

This guy has an old system!! Can any one explain how this guy got this beautiful amazing smoothness!!

 

And by the way, this guy from Saudi Arabia thats my country! I tried many times to ask him but no response :(

 

Because it isn't real gameplay. Exporting a video with various settings and filters used in Vegas will make it look smooth due to the frame blending that is done on the export, as well as any blur/anti-aliasing effects and a number of fake ENB type filters.

 

That isn't gameplay. It's simply a video. They are usually 29.77fps (a standard) but the frame smoothing makes it look even better. That isn't something our computers can do yet.

 

Now if you look at these videos, these are real gameplay: 

 

He runs this at a high resolution, uses a lot of tweaks, and is running a Titan. He has spec info and suggestions here: http://www.robainscough.com/FSX.php

 

Also note he is running the DX10 fixer, which improves performance. Unfortunately that isn't available anymore that I know of.

 

EDIT: That site isn't the only resource. There are others  like the configuration guide here on the forums.

 

Also don't be concerned more with framerates, and just look at the look of it, whether it' flyable, and whether there are any major stutters.

 

My advice: Don't cap your framerates at all at the start. Sometimes really high end systems don't need that, and limiting the framerates actually LOWERS the base frame rate.

 

Set your amount of cars on the road to about 20%. All the way to the right is quite insane.

 An R9 290 should be more than fine, pretty close to a GTX 780.. It's all in the setup and there are plenty of happy AMD video users around. It takes time to tweak and find what works for your system, don't rush it.

 

 No offense to the GTX 760, but that would be going too far backwards..

 An R9 290 should be more than fine, pretty close to a GTX 780.. It's all in the setup and there are plenty of happy AMD video users around. It takes time to tweak and find what works for your system, don't rush it.

 

 No offense to the GTX 760, but that would be going too far backwards..

 

As I stated I am not that familiar with AMD Video Cards, I specialize in Nvidia, just never liked Catalyst Control Center. However my reference for a GTX 760 was made because he was looking at an Nvidia card which is 10x inferior in performance to a 760 series, if he paid for an R9 290 the equivalent to a 780, then by all means get a 780, or if he really wants he can shell out the money for a Titan Black. AMD cards are most certainly capable of giving a good flight experience in FSX, same can be said for certain AMD CPU's (hell I have an FX 8350 and it does well) thing is that Nvidia cards do inherently perform better than AMD/ATI cards do in FSX.

I think his mention of the GTX 280 was a simple typo instead of a 780.

I think his mention of the GTX 280 was a simple typo instead of a 780.

 

That is likely, its what I get for taking a Benadryl and continue typing, stupid allergies....

Set your amount of cars on the road to about 20%. All the way to the right is quite insane.

 

Or set freeway traffic to zero, if performance is critical.. those silly cars take a lot of resources, especially in big cities.

Alright! Will wait and test some other tweaks and will decide later for GPU!!

 

Please take a look into the video I posted above!

 

Get an Nvidia in that system 780 at least for flightsim - I have a titan and need more

 

[GRAPHICS]

HIGHMEMFIX=1

TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=4096

 

4096 is to high for that card  - should be this TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=1024

 

FSX needs tons of tweaks.

 

It really doesn't.

 

 

I also prefer to use a LOD radius of 5.5, some people like to use 6.5 but using that in some really detailed environments can cause OOM's and I have never really heard of anyone getting OOM's at 5.5 or less.

 

You can't have asked many people. I have had numerous OOMs at a LOD radius of 4.5.

 

 

I have a titan and need more

 

Why on Earth would you need more than a Titan, Richard? :huh:

4096 is to high for that card  - should be this TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=1024

 

Remember that 4096 being set does NOT guarantee 4096 textures unless the 3rd party program/aircraft has 4096 textures installed, using REX4's 4096 airport ground textures is the ONLY reason I use TML 4096, all of my clouds are 2048 and I get 25-29.9 FPS on average with minimal stutters, and this is on an EVGA GTX 560Ti 448 FTW.

 

 

 

You can't have asked many people. I have had numerous OOMs at a LOD radius of 4.5.

 

OOM's at LOD of 4.5??? That's now the first I have heard, I run ORBX and FlyTampa Scenery with Carenado & Other high quality payware aircraft and I have yet to have an OOM with a LOD of 5.5, I know that PMDG Jetliners use more memory than most others, perhaps that might be the issue is HD scenery, HD Textures, and High Fidelity aircraft would cause an OOM at 4.5, but that just my 2 cents.

GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I've just formatted my whole system, re installed WIN7 64bit, then installed a fresh copy of FSX then fly for about 5 minutes, then installed FSX ACCELERATION pack then restart the computer. 

 

finally, I've maxed out almost every thing except the traffic

 

look into the attached pictures!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

now the last one is what did the MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!

 

BEFORE i DISABLE IT THERE WASN'T ANY THAT IMPROVEMENT, AFTER DISABLING IT i NOTICED HUGE IMPROVEMENT!!!!!!!!! 

 

The FPS was almost stabled at 35-50 over the big cities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

And I've got around 90-150 FPS OVER small cities!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thats unblivable!!!! I've never touched any CFG files

Great stuff but all new installs run super - when you add all of the payware then things will change very fast - but good luck with it