Who of you can max out all sliders and get reasonable framerates (= well above 25) with FSX and if so which hardware are you using?Andreas

Hi Andreas,I normally don't put all sliders to max, but I tried it. Prerequisites:WinXP ProAsus P5W DH DeluxIntel Core2 X6800 (OC to 3.3)4GB RAMBFG 8800GTX (no OC)Screen resolution: 1920x1200 (32bit)Antivirus protection (AVAST!) running and enabled.No tweaks in fsx.cfg.No texture or any other fsx tweaks.Default FSX AI traffic.Some settings in the nVIDIA control panel:- AF: Controlled by program- AA: Enhance program settings and AA set to 2x- Texture filtering: Quality- Trilinear optimizing: On- Tripple buffering: On- Vertical sync: OnIn FSX I've enabled AF and AA. I think that these settings ar the recommended ones by MS and nVIDIA for the 8800GTX card.I run the fps test with all sliders to max. I had Light Bloom and Scenery shadows off (unchecked).I had one Stratus cloud layer and visibility set to 30 miles. FSUIPC adds occationally a cirrus layer.Over a rural scenery with lots of forrests I got avg 26 fps.Over a rural scenery with mainly farmland (no forrests) I got avg 39 fpsOver London City I got 19 fps. If I turned Light Bloom and Shadows on I got 13 fps over London.I flew the test flights with the default Cessna 172 in a straight line with the AP on and at 2000 feet msl.To move between the different sceneries I used slew mode. After finishing a slew it takes FSX a very long time to load the textures, so I use a short cut key to invoke the Refresh scenery command. Very useful when your'e slewing around and want to reload the scenery fast.Ulf B :-)

The biggest framerate killer will and always will be - traffic!

>The biggest framerate killer will and always will be ->traffic!No that would be Light Bloom! I fly with 100% very large Airline Traffic file, and get very respectable frame rates, even at JFK and NYC (23). This is with all sliders maxed except Autogen which is set to Dense, and water which is set to 2xlow. I have aircraft shadows on, but ground shadows off. (I'll show you a screenshot if you like!!) Light bloom though effectively cuts frames in half!

Hi again Andreas,I've made a lot of tests with SP1, but by some odd reason I've succeeded to avoid the default aircraft with glass panels. To my surprise I discovered that I got only 2 fps with the default airbus and B738. Wow - pretty big chock. I then applied the suggested tweak:DirtyRegionUpdateLimit=1 (below the GRAPHICS section in fsx.cfg).This gave me a real boost in fps, but I still loose about 15-20 fps compared to the default C172.Flyable with max sliders? Glass panel aircraft? Not without tweaks. None glass panel aircraft? Yes, but not over big city airports with 100% AI.Ulf B :-)

>Who of you can max out all sliders and get reasonable>framerates (= well above 25) with FSX and if so which hardware>are you using?>>AndreasDepends what you mean by maxing out sliders and depends on your system. You can max out scenery sliders but won't be able to max out AI and related traffic. You can max out scenery but won't be able to use lightbloom without some serious hits, etc. There has to be some give somewhere.

For many "maxing" sliders is a religion of some kind.I never max sliders because in my opinion many items actually looks worse when maxed.Michael J.http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9320/apollo17vf7.jpg

Better to ask in a year. FSX is designed with future hardware in mind. I doubt anyone (nor do I expect anyone) to be able to run FSX full out with a frame rate of 25+Regards,MarkPS: Having said this I'm very happy with most of my sliders set at high. Where I achieve anywhere from 18-45fps on a single core P4 at 3.5GHZ :)

If you have a computer which can run FS2004 at "well above" 250 FPS with all sliders maxed, then it should be able to run FSX as you stated above.The sliders for many items in FSX are 100 times more than in FS2004.For some items, the minimum settings in FSX are equal to the maximum settings in FS2004.