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I had wanted to see this topic take off, but I always forget to take note of the routes. But I did note Ariel's solo xcountry flight and thought I would drop it here. S03E06 - Radio Silence C172 PAUN PANV PARS PABE That dude snuggs also had a passenger flight from PAUN PAVA PAHP in a C340. I plan to fly these this weekend if the weather is bad here.

I am dying for any tri-cycle Cessna, I am not very fond of tail draggers. My votes are for any or all of: C-172, C-182RG, C-152

Word, same here. Makes me think I picked the wrong vid card, but at least I didn't drop a bundle on it. I did read it was the best bang for the buck, but I'm having serious doubts that it isn't the bottle neck in my system.

Thanks for the response. I too have gone with the fps lock (~30fps) for the purpose of reserving resources for more scenery loading and such. Does anyone have an opinion on the difference between the FSX fps limiter and the third party FPSLimiter? I have not seen a difference myself and just limit it in FSX without creating the funky batch to start FSX.

Wow thanks for the settings, I will give it a go. I had road settings up around 40% but only because it didn't seem to have much of an effect whether it was 1% or 40%. Up the Irons!!! (BTW, when I was still flying x-plane I made an Ed Force one paint)

Well Acceleration, but same thing yeah.

FYI at my home airport (KCDW 30nm outside of NYC) the fps still drops down to 15-20s, but at least it's not dropping below 15fps. I'm going to try lowering the autogen with the new settings and see if I can at least maintain 25, but I think northern NJ/NYC is too much for my CPU.

I set it in the nVidia console. I think the biggest boost was from lowering the water setting and filtering down to trilinear.

Ok report time. I bumped the water settings down to 2.x mid, filtering to trilinear, AA on, nVid Setting to perfomance, and everything else full. 27 to 50fps easy in Friday Harbor. Thanks Relax, I guess the 9800GTX+ isn't enough for full water and anisotropic filtering. Good enough though! One thing though, I had set the nHancer and nVid settings to override the application settings for filtering and AA, but it seems changing the FSX settings still changes the visuals in sim. I thought the driver would override, weird. I'll try this and see if it allows me to bump up the water. Nice Avatar! :( What's the verdict on the FPSLimiter vs FSX Limiter vs no limiter?Thanks for the help folks!

I tried last night. Looking at a low of 17fps and a high of 35fps. I'll try tweaking the settings to hit 40, at least I have a target. Edit... Found Nick's settings. These are the settings I used for my system.I had read the opposite about FSX and the limiter. To be honest I haven't noticed a difference in either because i can't get consistent frame rates above 30 so it's always dangling below that. I'll keep looking for that topic.

I went through the tuning guides and have FSX running OK, but whenever I get within 30nm of an urban area the fps goes south fast (around 15-20fps). If I up the autogen anywhere past sparse the fps tanks. I've tried going to DX10 and the fps was a little better, but the flickers are pretty bad at most airports. To be honest I thought with the 3.3Ghz quad core the autogen settings would be higher. Any tips given the configuration listed below? Or have I maxed her out? I've tried scaling back the texture settings but it doesn't increase performance at all.Also, a slightly related question. Is there any advantage to using the third party plugin FPSLimiter as opposed to the FSX limiter? System Specs-------------------AMD 940 Phenom II X4 Black Edition - OC'd to 3.30Ghz4MB RAMnVidia 9800GTX+ (Driver 180.50)Windows Vista 64I've also installed nHancer and configured according to the guide. FSX Settings-------------------Full except for AutoGen which is running at sparse. DirectX 9 modeLight Bloom is off.FPSLimiter set to 30fpsFSX Addons-------------------FSX AccelerationREX/GEX/UTX

My vid card only has a DVI output, but I have a DVI to HDMI cable that works pretty well.

19something by 76something. I'll check later. It's far from perfect, this LCD is a little bit old, I bet it would look better on a newer model with a better native resolution. But it is nice to be able to make out the runways from further away and stuff like that.

I had my sim rig setup to run sharing a monitor with the wife's internet machine and at the request of the wife I've moved the sim rig to the bedroom where I'm running it on a Samsung 42" LCD HDTV. The resolution could be a little sharper, but the sheer size of the display really brings an element of realism to the sim. I use TrackIR so I feel as though I really need to sit up straight to see over the panel on approach. It's a nice effect.Anybody else running a setup like that? Any tips?