FSX-MS Settings Advice regarding FSX and P3d

[Hammer308 4]

Recently finished a upgrade to my system and am having some fps issues and not sure what to try to smooth things out.

My sys. includes : i7 8700 3.2Gb, EVGA RTX2060, 32Gb Corsair "Vengeance LPX" RAM, FSX Gold, Orbx Global Base pkg., REX4 w/ Soft Clouds & AS16.

For FSX, I'm currently running the following settings: overall res. 1920x1080, Display settings (Hi), Scenery (Custom), Global Text. Res. (Hi), Filtering (Anistropic/Anti-aliasing),

               Detail Radius (Med), Mesh Complexity (50), Mesh Res (19m), Texture Res (1m), Water FX (High1), Scenery Obj.: Complexity (dense), AutoGen. (dense), Special FX detail (Med),

               Traffic: Airline traffic (50%), GA traffic (33%), AP Vehicles (Med), Land & Sea (50%), Ships (20%), Boats (20%).

 Am using mostly default A/C except for: Aerosoft A320, Flight1 B200, Carenado Phenom 300 & Premier P1A, Dino Cattaneo T-45 & F-35, Virtuacol A220 & Embraer Ejets E2 pkg. and

                                                                Wilco CJR700/900/1000 pkg.

No major addon airports.

The issue is that with the above sys., settings and a/c, on the ground, I'm only getting avg fps in the low- mid 20's. It seems like I should be getting better than this.

In the air, I'm consistently averaging 60+ fps.

Not sure what (if anything) I'm doing wrong. The reason I'm asking is that I'm wanting to get P3d, but not sure what the results would be as far as fps.

Sorry for the extended amount of info, but wanted to give as much as might be needed.

Any help with this would be very greatly appreciated.

Thanx.

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

Your system should be able to run P3D at moderate settings.. It will make better use of your GPU and actually reduce the load on the CPU a bit..

Having said that, what is it that you are hoping to gain by going to P3D?

It sounds like you have a perfectly fine FSX system, and your fps "problem" can probably be addressed by lowering the traffic and autogen settings a bit.. or just left as is..

[Hammer308 4]

Thanx for the info.

Wanting to get P3d so I can get some PMDG a/c. 

Am concerned about fps issues & what settings I mite have to use to make it relatively smooth.

[787flyer 633]

A couple of other considerations for FSX...

• How many cloud layers do you have set in AS16? In FSX I was running 3 layers max. If you are high and in clear air your FPS are likely reasonably high but at lower altitudes this may play a part.
• 2nd, the water effects in FSX takes a lot of computing power. Adjust your water fx to a lower setting (I think High 1x is mid range on the slider if I am not mistaken) and see if this improves FPS.

In general, I would start off in FSX with the default Boeing 737 loaded with no add-ons running (incl AS) and make sure your FPS are high both on the ground and in the air and then optimize from there by enabling the various add-ons.

Regards