Hey everyone, ive done a clean fresh install of windows XP, for FSX...all I have installed is FSX.....Ive done all the tweaks at that mat fox site (resized textures to 50%) every tweak on these forums, yet still I am plagued by the stutters!Ive capped frames at 16,18 and set unlimited, turned autogen on, off and still same result. the textures below the plane seems blurred then when am on top of them will load sharp, causing a stutter in the sim, this occurs every 4-5seconds rendering the sim unplayable because it just isnt smooth!Any other suggestions/tweaks?I have texture band multi at 180 (have tried higher and lower settings!)System is AMD AM2 x2 3800 dual coreX1600XT radeon 256MB GDDR31 GIG DDRII 667MHZ RAMFRESH INSTALLED WINDOWS XP fully defragged. FSX on seperate drive fully defragged.Please there must be something I am missing here?Thanks!Ian

I will not tell you that although my RAM usage hovers around 1,35G and tops out neer 1,8G at times, I will not tell you that your amount of RAM is only 1GSo where does your system put the extra 400 megs: I will not mention the virtual memory swap file. It does require a physical process, albeit fast, for me.

>I will not tell you that although my RAM usage hovers around>1,35G and tops out neer 1,8G at times, I will not tell you>that your amount of RAM is only 1G>>So where does your system put the extra 400 megs: I will not>mention the virtual memory swap file. It does require a>physical process, albeit fast, for me.Talk about double talk!!! Could you please use a straight syntax? :)Marco

You need more memory. 1gb is not enough So you get the hard drive going to virtual memory.Also ATI x1600 is not a great card.If you want to see what memory FSX is using try this little app its free with no adware or spyware.http://www.nuclearplayground.com/NuclearPl...ound/MemStatus/

but some people have it running on lesser video cards, and 1gig ram with no stutters???another gig of ddrIIram here in the UK is

ahhh its so frustrating....ive reduced the textures by 75% to 256x256....fully defragged etc...fresh install of xp......and FSX.exe says its only using 570meg of my avail memory, so still some to play with! Why oh why do I still have stutters!In all honesty, is adding another gig of ram really going to solve the stutters? I mean the textures are so blurred until i fly over them, then they snap into place, causing stuttering!hmmmmmIAn

Look, fsx cannot run smoothly on current hardware end of.The people who say it runs smoothly are missing out on 90% of the improvements, they just dont know it.I would ignore the people that say it runs smoothly, i mean forcing it to use shader 1, that is truely unbelievable and then the default.xml rename, what is the point - um you've now got no scenery, well done folks.I have 2gig of ram and at anything below 15000ft i get huge stutters, it sounds like you've already gone way beyond the call of duty to try and fix it.For your info the rest of my machine:4800x2x1900xt 512mb video ramI'm going to save up and only buy hardware when i can get at least double the performance in benchmarks and if they cant even be bothered to program sm3 how are they going to do dx10, but i will always hope for a miracle.

is anyone able to assist in this matter? its spoiling what would otherwise be a GREAT fsx experience!!Will upgrading to 2gig ram eliminate the stutters/texture loading im having?There must be something out there?IAn

2 GB of memory will help, yes.One thing you can try now, though, is increasing the size of your vertex buffer pools. Sometimes they cause stutters while pannig your view around. In FSX.cfg, try adding the section{BufferPools} (use square brace, not curly brace of course)and the linePoolSize=5000000The default poolsize is 1 million, but if you can spare extra video memory you can use it to increase the pool size which allows FSX to render more things without having to allocate new vertex buffers.

i still have scenery when default.xml is disabled... dont know what you're talkin about missing out... looks better than FS9 to me...

please please please! :( ian

hey Brian ive tried the poolsize tweak but it didnt really do much for me, surely I must be missing something somewhere?Ian

Hi Ian, I'm not sure I have any majic bullets for you, but I would guess that 2 gig of ram may help. I had 1 gig on ly machine while running the demo and decided wo go to 2 gig based on that experience. I think it did help with stutters and lots of other things. WHen I check memory usage now in FSX it's usually slightly over 1 gig used, so I definatley need 2 gig. I still get some mino stutters some time depending where I am. Have you tried all of the tips here on Avsim? I'd suggest trying all of them to se what may help. good luck...

Hi Ian,What I've done with past releases is set my fs.cfg file to "stock" (what was installed by default) then went into FS and turned everything down to the left. I would then go through setting by setting and turn them up and monitor performance. I know it sounds like a lot of work but, so does searching through forums looking for a magic fix :-) At the end of the day, your system is different than mine and my settings may or may not work the same on yours as it did on mine and I've found I had better success doing it that way versus trying every fix someone posts. Don't get me wrong, there are some very valid posts with regards to increasing performance by tweaking the autogen and stuff, I'm talking about "system" specific tweaks by adjusting your sliders.Regarding the memory issue. FS will use a proportionate amount of memory regardless if you have 1 or 2 gigs. Going from 1 to 2 "may" offer some improvements but FS will still look at the bank and chew up the same (or as close to) amount as when you had 1GB.Hope this helps out!!Mike

>>I will not tell you that although my RAM usage hovers>around>>1,35G and tops out neer 1,8G at times, I will not tell you>>that your amount of RAM is only 1G>>>>So where does your system put the extra 400 megs: I will not>>mention the virtual memory swap file. It does require a>>physical process, albeit fast, for me.>>>Talk about double talk!!! Could you please use a straight>syntax? :)>>>Marco>>>I thought he was using triple-talk! lolol