Hi everyone, I hope this is the correct sub forum for this subject since I believe it's an FSX issue, if not Mods, feel free to move where needed.

 

For the past two years I have been running into issues where my computer is really having troubles running FSX, the past two months or so have worsened and flying into major cities or airports/mainline hubs are darn near impossible.

 

To start here are my computer's specs (it was built by a local shop when I lived in Seattle in January 2010):

Intel 3.2GHZ quadcore processor, 6GB of ram (three 2GB cards), Radeon HD5700 1GB video card, Asus Motherboard (Don't know which one) Windows 7 64bit, 1Tb HDD, Malwarebytes Pro

 

My current FSX Add-Ons consist of:

Utilities: Active Sky Next, REX 2.0, Ultimate Traffic II (with many added on schedules and models), Aivasoft EFB, FSDT GSX, Game Booster 3, FSUIPC (registered)

 

Aircraft: PMDG MD11, 747, B1900C, B1900D, LevelD 767, iFLY 737, QW757, QW Avro, Aerosoft AirbusX Extended & Twin Otter, CLS A330/340, FeelThere ERJ V2/E Jets & Ejets V2, Captain Sim 727, Majestic Q400 and various Carenado models

 

Scenery: FTX Global, FTX Vector, ORBX New Zealand NI & SI, Pacific Northwest, South Alaska, Pacific Fjords, Central Rocky Mountain & Northenr Rocky Mountain, various ORBX airports for PNW, PFJ and SA, AussieX OzX, many scenery's from Aerosoft and Fly Tampa as well as FSDT KLAX and many AFCADS from the Avsim library

 

When I first got this computer I could run FSX with most graphic and AI settings maxed and get a consistent 25-30 FPS regardless when on the ground or in the air.  When I added utilities such as REX, Active Sky 2.0 and UTX and GEX (US and Europe for both) I still had great performance.

 

Now a days if I'm on the ground at an airport or on finals I am lucky to get 10 FPS (If I'm going to a major city I average 4-5 FPS).  The other day flying into KMIA in a storm I had a FPS between 2-3 FPS. 

 

On top of that when I check my task manager it shows my computer usage bouncing between 60-100% with many spikes and my Physical Memory Usage History over 4.5 GB.  Even with REX, ASE, UTX, GEX and payware scenery/aircraft it never performed like that the first two years I owned it.  It was almost like an over night phenomenon when this started.

 

I have done numerous clean FSX installs throughout the years, and it's obviously time consuming with all the add-ons listed above.  I have turned down all of my settings and it still doesn't help. 

 

 

I have been told by some people I probably have a leaking RAM module and to run MEMTEST+ which I did.  I ran it over night for 13 hours and it showed 13 Passes and 0 Fails.  I am not the most techy person when it comes to computers so I'm not sure if that means I don't have a memory leak or I didn't run it long enough maybe??

 

Here are some shots from the task manager this afternoon.

 

Finals into a freeware RCTP in PMDG MD11

 

When I paused FSX the computer usage dropped and stabilized between 30-34%

 

Here is a shot of my task manager after rebooting my computer

 

I need some advice as to what course of action I should take to get my sim back to where it's flyable and most importantly enjoyable.  I'm definitely not techy when it comes to computers so I tried to provide as much info here as possible.  Any help or advice would greatly be appreciated.  Thanks in advance!!

 

Rob

 

 

I would back the sliders for scenery complexity and special effects down one notch, then retest.  If performance is still not satisfactory, back down the level of detail radius one notch and try again.

You have LOTS of addons loading down a middle spec PC. I think its lots of small things are adding up to bog the frame rate down.

 

Turn all the gfx to low, then work your way up.

I would agree, you are running some system intensive stuff on a 3.2 GHz CPU.

 

Mine is running at 3.8 and that is certainly not enough - you need around 4.5 GHz before you can really consider having all the sliders to the right and even then, I probably wouldn't.

 

IAN