what I can do with DX10,

 

If  you going  down this  road I would   look at   steves   fixer that imo  others  might  disagree  though

Yes, that was what magnetite already advised me to do (see above). But anyway, thank you!

I also endorse Steve,s fixer. And, in an earlier post I recommended you turn air traffic down to 20%. I neglected to add that I bought and used Traffic 360 which gives me plenty of AI even at 20%, though on my rig, I can boost to 30+ with little or no problems.

 

Also in re artifacts, I think this also could be a cooling issue. Your system might be running too hot. An app like speedfan could sort that out for you

 

Www.speedfan.com

 

Sherm

FWAviation, in FSX-SE I have the same problem on my 6 year old AMD dual core/ATI 7850 (2 gig memory) graphics card, PC which has 4 gigs of RAM and a 32 bit OS.    Flying 'wild Alaska' with loads of add-on scenery and Orbx textures and freemesh, I fly with fps limited to 30 fps and can get that with no trouble, rendering is always smooth, no stuttering.  However, after 30 minutes with virtual memory still showing around 1000 Mb, I get flashing textures and spiking scenery, and the graphics card is overloaded.

 

If you have manual fan control on your graphics card software, run it at 100% as suggested above and see if that helps.

 

Now, I am about to 'blow' any street-cred I may have had here and please ignore the howls of derision and cries of 'snake oil' which may follow, but if you still get trouble and can afford a small 'investment' or 'gamble', do what I did and try these...

 

I use FSPS FSXBooster2013 to choose and set my initial fsx.cfg settings and in-flight I run FSPs Fibre Accelerator.  With these applications managing the variety of .cfg variables, I don't get any graphics artefacts at all, whereas, flying the same scenario without them, I do.

 

I am no beginner at flight simming, and have reasonable IT skills, certainly enough to change some values in a text file (fsx.cfg) with Notepad.  What I don't have is time, inclination and patience to research, fiddle and tweak, nor money to spend on a computer upgrade.

 

We have to speak as we find, and I find FSPS works for me, and so I offer this for what it's worth, a small amount of money spent on trying the same might make that laptop a viable platform for your simming.  If not, no great loss.

 

Best wishes,

 

Phil