Hi all, I took the plunge re-installed fsx since the patch came out. i must say, FANTASTIC patch!Only 1 issue for me now, the #### stutters! Is there any tweak whatsoever I can do to reduce these?I have a stock fsx.cfgCheers!IanAMDx2 38001gig ddrII667mhz ramati X1600XT 256mb.

Have you got 'Light Bloom' on?

nah I dont have that on....Im really fed up, have fsx looking good, its just teh annoying stutters!

Its sooo frustrating this! its not the fact of low FPS, they are good. Its the fact they fluctuate so say they are solid at 22, they wil lshoot down to 2-6 for 1-2 secs and it seems like teh sim is trying to load textures or something? its doint this every 5-10 secs!Anyone got same problem?IAn

The one thing that gave me stutters like that was in full screen mode only and having antialiasing unchecked. Checking it in FSX utterly eliminated them. core2duo 6600, 4gb ram, 7900 gs, vista 32.If that's not it try turning a setting to minimal that pertains to textures to see if any of those eliminate the stutters such as global textures, then detail radius, autogen, AI etc.... It could be a combination of all of them or just one. With just 1gb of ram you may just be plain overloading your memory.Ian.

Its weird, im running on XP with everything stipped out (services) ive tried lowering all the settings etc...but still it shudders as if its loading something into the memory? Ive checked task manager and i am only using 600meg of my memory too?I run fsx with nothing else running in background whatsoever too!ermmmmm :(Ian

ok, it seems to be the video card that is stressing out? I have noticed dropping texture resolution from 2M to 5M improves things (but does not eliminate). Is there any way to get the vid card to process the textures quicker? i have a radeon x1600xt 256mb gddr3.Ian

A video card can only generate frames either: as fast as it can or as fast as the system can supply them. Finding out where a particular system's bottleneck is located isn't easy. It could be:MotherboardCPUMemoryGraphics cardOther software robbing FSX of system resourcesor a bit of each.Knowledge and understanding of your own machine is the most important aspect. You may be able to combine that knowledge with knowledge gained from this and other forums and reduce or eliminate your performance issues. FSX like FS9 is not a flightsim so much as a challenge but FS9 showed that such challenges can be overcome.John

Food for thought; my new rig was slightly overclocked and passed all reasonable tests including, Memtest86+, Prime95, Orthos, FS9, & 3DMark2006. But not FSX! After the patch, I was getting really low drops in FPS and stuttering sound. I had to go back and re-visit my overclock, change my FSB ratios and loosen my RAM timings a bit. The point is, this proves that this is one of the most stressful applications you can run.Also, for a starting-point, turn-off all dual-pass rendering items such as light-bloom, aircraft shadows on ground and self, ground shadows, and set water to 1x-high or lower, and see where that leaves you. With 1G RAM and a 256Mb video card, these things can drag you down fast.Good luck...