Good evening people,

 

I am trying to find the best Bufferpools and RT settings for my setup, i am using FSX in DX10 mode, using the freeware shaders, and not yet Steve`s DX10 fixer, which i am going to buy soon...

I have everything set up according to the DX10 guide, i know i won`t get very high FPS with this system, but i very much would like this to be as stutter free as possible...I have most sliders at medium and locked the FPS at 31...

 

My system:

 

 

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

Intel Core i5 3,4 ghz

8192RAM Memory

Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 2GB

 

I have added these tweaks to the fsx config:

 

Graphics:

 

Highmemfix=1

MultiSamplesPerPixel=2

MultiSampleQuality=0

 

Display

 

Wideviewaspect=true

 

Main

DisablePreload=1

FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.12

 

[bufferPools] 

 

UsePools=1

PoolSize=20971520

RejectThreshold=98304

 

I have setup inspector following the guide, Transparency Supersampling is 2x Sparse Grid Super Sampling..

 

Regards...

 

 

Sorry but thus is one only you can do, every machine is different. You need to set up a flightwith fixed weather and save it than use taht as your reference. Change one setting at a time and play for a few days to see teh results than change another, its slkow but the only way.

I think that you have enough memory to ignore buffer pools so set it like this:

 

 [bufferPools] 

 

UsePools=0

 

Sherm

 

Of course there is no one size fits all answer and many other variables come into play.

 

Sherm

Me thinks it's not just about memory.  It's about a balance of Vram and GPU processing power.  And the 750 lacks the latter... which means mjrhealth's advice is critical.

 

Greg

Hageneezz, I have very similar spec to yours, and I found that UsePools=0 is giving me best smoothness and performance.

With all those buffers/tresholds I had stutters, and I couldn't find 'sweet spot'.

Sorry but thus is one only you can do, every machine is different. You need to set up a flightwith fixed weather and save it than use taht as your reference. Change one setting at a time and play for a few days to see teh results than change another, its slkow but the only way.

Excellent response! 

 

For OP:  Wrong settings for "your" machine will lead you to the AVSIM CTD Forum.  Tweaks like this use to be good for old computer systems.  Today's computers are pretty powerful and you just need to tweak your settings.  If there was a setting that worked for everyone, you would see it included in all configurations. 

 

Best regards,

I've been using the FSX DX10 fixer well before the paid version was released.  I have a rather strong system: 4770K at 4.5Ghz, DDR3 @ 2133 9-10-10-24 T1, gtx 780 and I can't detect any noticeable difference in using UsePools=0 vs. reasonable BP with RT settings, so I use the latter because IMO FSX seems better behaved overall (placebo?) and on Steve's DX10 Fixer blog he proves his GPU gets faster throughput with BP/RT enabled.  But then again as mentioned, that is for his system (and mine too).  My advice for any tweak: try it (but first make sure you can back it out) and see if it works for you.  Don't be fooled because others claim it is such and so, all that matters is your own satisfaction.  BTW, this is why I don't use any affinity mask settings in my fsx.cfg while so many swear it is a necessary tweak; for them I'm sure it is.

+1 to the post above, I really don't think Bufferpools does anything in DX10 mode. In DX9 mode I saw a very noticeable difference but I really don't see that in DX10.