Mind FSX.

My target FPS are 30. I suffer when I can't reach them consistently,

Other simmers speak about concentrating on smoothness rather than FPS counting. What do they mean by that? 

Is there a video telling the difference?

Thanks.

Edited September 2, 20187 yr by raybaudi

Let's do it practical and simple:

Smoothness happens when your FPS are almost constant, with values consistently around 20 FPS. When your FPS are going as low as 20 and as high as 60-80 during a sim session, you really don't have smoothness, but lots of stutters.

The goal for a smooth experience is to reach an almost constant FPS count, with a minimum of 20, I would say. Obviously if your system is capable of getting a constant FPS level of 30 or more, it would be even better.

For a more in-depth discussion about this, do a search in the forums, you'll see a lot of interesting and very technical posts from well-experienced users.

Cheers, Ed

 

What works best for me is to set FPS to unlimited when flying complex planes into complex scenery areas. When I’m flying more FPS friendly planes unless demanding areas I set the lock at 30 FPS which it can maintain easily and is smooth.

Try it both ways and see what works best given the situation you’re flying in. 

I define smoothness as a lack of pauses, hesitations, stutters, jitters.  10 fps and perfectly smooth looks a lot better than 30 fps that suffers from micro pauses.

Well folks after years of working on my simulator thru years of tweaking FSX, a love and hate relationship.

Since FSX came out in 2006, I was excited on the new just released FSX.

That's when my days of headache came of years, upgrading and upgrading and tweaking just to play the sim.

Finally after years of tweaking , add ons, and all kinds of solutions and fixes to play this cpu hog software.

I could never seem to get a frame rate above 20 - 25, 30 ,  and when im down low ready to land in a busy city, it would go down to 12 -14 fps.

My system is 6700k, 2TB, 1170 vid gtx,, Asus Z170 ,  32 gig ram, Completely Custom water-cooled.

AS16, lil nav map, Pro-ATC, My Traffic, Orbit , Steves 10 dx fixer,Etc.

With all that I could never achieve a descent frame rate.

Now im running two computers with five monitors, one is 42inch and the rest are two 18" , one 17" , one 15".

Three on one computer and two on the other.

Being totally frustrated, I decided to dump my whole system and start from ground up.. I went thru both computers and reloaded windows 10 latest version.  That in itself was a whole lot of trouble. just getting W10 to work right . to get files shared was a nightmare. But I finally got W10 running just fine.

All was good with the new upgrade.

Now the loading of FSX.  I wanted to put FSX on the main com and the rest on the client computer.

All I have on the server FSX is MY Traffic, and the rest on the client thru simconnect.( which can be a bear to set up).  but I finally got AS16, lil,nav map, and PRO -Atc all on my client.  

After many hours of setting up both coms, I cannot believe the results . in fact I still cannot believe my frame rate.

I have several planes that I have flown over the years , level d, A2A 172, 757, etc. My plane of choice now is the TBN 850 from Carenado.

So I fired it up and was stunned to see the results. never have I achieved such high frame rates. in fact I thought it was a fluke a joke, or maybe I just thought  I was seeing something impossible.

Folks I turned everything up to the max, Display all graphics to the max, traffic maxed out.,direct x 10 , anti-aliasing, everything that I could max out I did.

And with the TBN 850 with all the fixings.

My frame rate.now soars in the 60 + 100 fps , no matter where im at day or night. when the airport is real busy it might drop to about 40-50 Fps, but that is Still with everything turned up and all software running smoothly.

I landed in Gillett, WY.   I know a small town , but im sitting here looking at 100 fps. I never thought it possible.  AS16 looks beautiful.

Just to be sure I was not imagining this I let it sit over night  , just running and watching the beautiful bird TBN 850.

I woke up and still hammering at 100 fps. and at night it will go up to 120 to 130 FPS.

Now my friends im in seventh heaven.

Jjust thought I would share my story.

RobertC