It is the last tweak that could help alot. Are you going to do one for the large buildings for big cities like Las Vegas? These really crush frame rates.I'm about ready to give up.Mike

Yeah. Reducing the building textures is going to increase the framerates big time. I hope the tweak is released soon...!

Sorry....Got distracted with some real world stuff. I should get to it this week.

Are we all talking about the specular dds textures on the custom buildings here? If so, then yes, these are big fps killrs..but I am not sure if resizing those textures will preserve the reflective characteristics of them?? Is it possible?RhettAMD 3700+ (@2.5 ghz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (94.47), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig 7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster Praetorian

I was going to try and resize the regular textures, specular and bump. Unfortunately I don't think there is anyway to just get rid of specular and bump altogether, but they should still work resized.Matt

Hi,I've been converting (resizing) textures in /global/texture for a few days now...I am not sure what to think anymore. Matt is right about one thing, though: we can't just delete _specular and _bump files. I noticed CONSIDERABLE amount of land and ship traffic are missing if I simply delete VEH_xxxxxx_specular.dds and VEH_xxxx_bump.dds files.Here's what I found out:Note: I always preserve the original formats!- Resizing _specular.dds textures doesn't work for me. I get funny textures, mainly on vehicles- _Specular and _bump textures should be present- normal and _bump textures resize OKLast, but certainly not least:- Resizing 1024x1024 and 512x512 files in Global/Texture folder doesn't do squat for FPS! I only have resized trees in there right now, all else has been copied back from the originals. And I resized literally ALL textures of the mentioned sizes! All I got in the end were stutters. I am not sure if Imagetool correctly saves .dds files. Any comment on that? For the record, my system:Athlon 64 3500+ATI X850XT PE 256Mb2Gb Corsair TwinX DDR2x 160Gb SATA Barracudas in RAID0Regards,Jure

I just uploaded some new batch files. See post from a few minutes ago at AVSIM. They are not at my website yet.I think I figured out a way around deleting specular and bump files. Instead of deleting I just replaced with very small blank files. That seems to work.>- Resizing 1024x1024 and 512x512 files in Global/Texture>folder doesn't do squat for FPS! I only have resized trees in>there right now, all else has been copied back from the>originals. And I resized literally ALL textures of the>mentioned sizes! All I got in the end were stutters. That's probably going to depend on video card memory, etc. >I am not sure if Imagetool correctly saves .dds files. Any>comment on that? Imagetool has never saved dds files correctly. For some reason it cannot read dds files that it saves. But FS seems to read them just fine.

Thanks Matt! :)Going to try your batch files right now. Reducing specular and bump textures to small blank files is a very clever idea. I'll report back...Regards,Jure

Hi,Where are these files? Which is the link to the discussion with these files?Thanks

You guys are putting in stirling work here but dont you think its a tad rediculous that this has to be done to get the stupid game to run properly.I may well end up using this method and i thank you in advance but i find the whole situation totally unbelievable.good luck anywayregards

Right here:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...id=366484&page=:)Jure

Well, I guess when DX10 cards come out with 1gig memory, we'll be glad for the large textures. I hope. ;)Go on and try Matt's files, you should gain some fps. It's a matter of minutes and if you follow the instructions, no harm will come to your FSX installation - on the contrary. :)An advice, if I may: ALWAYS keep track of the changes that you do. I keep an up-to-date file with ALL tweaks that I've done! And a clean backup FSX installation, too. After I first installed FSX, I copied the whole FSX folder to a safe place. Thus I have original files handy should something bad happen (it did, believe me, after three days of resizing files I am half nuts, can't think straight anymore) :-lolJure