b4thman

This game is buggy. My framerate is normally good, but sometimes (it has no sense) if I change the aircraft I experience important drop in framerates, it has no reason and it do not happend with a plane in special, it happend randomly when changing to see different planes. But not only I loose framerates dramatically, also with some external planes (no problem with microsoft defect ones) I Ioose the F9 key functionality, so if I move to external fiew (F11) I can´t return to virtual cockpit using F9 key until I restart FSX, but I can change view using right mouse and selecting the view in the menu (but I can´t do them with my joystick assigned mapped button). This simulator is really a pain, I can fly normallly with good framerates, but theree are lot of things that can perturb the experience. I don´t understand this game, and I think nobody understand, also the creators, otherwise we would see a patch to solve problems.I think some addons may interfere framerates seriously, and not only because gives more details, also because different kind of incompatibilites. There are scenarios that drop dramatically framerates to all people (like Aerosoft Madrid), plugins that drop seriously and randomly framerates (like FS Discover), aircrafts with F9 and F10 keys that do not works (and kill these mapped until restart the simulator) and also drop framerates a lot. I have not installed a lot of external things, but enough to became to a conclusion... this game (or simulator, you dedide) is a bug program. What extrange to me is why so many expansions and efforts with a program that is buggy, consumes so many resources, and do not offer a real phisic simulation of airplanes. Maybe the optimization is a game itself. I still fly FSX, there are some experiences really wonderfull when all is ok..., but sometimes I have te tentation to directly unisntall from my computer.

It seem that FS Discover plugin is the cause of my slowdowns. If i prevent the use of the plugin all works very well.

I think my system is in very well conditions. Also to ensure usually start using fps booster, but the framerate is more or less the same. I´ve read Nick post and most important things to be checked. My FSX has improved a lot since I begun with tweaks, very very much. I fly over Spain with ortophotos 1m and + autogen max and all settings but water to max. But with some scenarios my framerate drops, and sometimes happedn strange thigns with framerates, or with my trackir. There is apparently no reason. Other flights are perfect. Flying aerosoft Barajas I have a really poor framerate, and people says it is because the scenario bad done. I have returned to affintymask=14 and seem to be better than 15. Also texturemaxload=100 makes textures better and loaded quickly. I use usepools=0 and works better. The utility gives me most usefull tweaks, and seem to be a good point to start with tweaking. But I don´t know why developers have forgotten the support of this simuilator is still alive (maybe more than ever) and new powerfull hardware is in our houses.

FSX is an erratic program with bugs. Sometimes crashes only doing a mouse movement trough menu, and sometimes framerates goes low without any sense. Personally I have get decent framerates tweaking following these forums, but also with fsx.cfg tuned the program gives me problems. I notice that trackir sometimes interfere with another process using (supossely) the same core and trackir movement goes choppy, and only alt+tab and doing anything return to work properly. Also when launching fsx the time expent in loading is VERY high, and launching a 2nd time without restart windows launch the program much quick (I thik I understand why happend, but...). Also FSX does not use the graphic card as desired, and the prove is that I can use the Nvidia 3d Vision googles and the framerate is exactly the same, so the graphic card is working very cold when not using googles.And the most strange thing... when I launch FSX just the 1st program after entering Windows (windows 7 64bits) the framerates is bad, too bad. But only launching another game before (not all games work for this, I use Mount & Blade Warband normally) gives me a much impprovement in framerates... why? no idea, but it doesn´t happend with any other "game/program", only with FSX.FSX is special, yes, it is a good simulator but plenty of bugs and problems. Tweaking thius program is a game itself. I don´t know why Microsoft has not tweak and patched better this program in so many time. Maybe it is a program not well done (I have no idea) and can´t work better.

Changed affinitymask from 14 to 15 and now it is better runing in windows 7 64bits. Still not smooth as desired using 1m ortophotos (14 to 20 fps). If feel like usage of i7 cores is far away to be optimized in this simulator.

I have slowdowns after a few minutes fliying, and also framerate is not smooth as desired. I think the best is to paste my fsx.cfg. Sorry for the big post. 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Hello, I´m new to this site and I have register only to say a thing. I have FSX Acceleration installed with REX, UT, GEX, and I use an external limiter. I use all recomendations (I think) explained, and also I have edited fsx.cfg to modify essential parameters like:[bufferPools]UsePools=0 [JOBSCHEDULER]AffinityMask=14[GRAPHICS]HIGHMEMFIX=1 [Display]TextureMaxLoad=30TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=400I have Intel i7 430@4Ghz + Nvidia GTX 460 OC + 6gb DDR. I also fly FSX using Nvidia 3D Vision (it is spectacular). I usually fly over 1m ortophotos + autogen at 1680x1050.I have not a lot of knoledgement about, but I have noticed strange things in FSX that do not happend with other games. When I start Windows 7 64bits and run FSX the framerates are low, and if I exit the simulator and enter another game first (usually I use Mount & Blade Warband), after entering FSX the increase of fps is noticeably better (per example from 7 before to 20 after). It has no reason aparently because drivers are perfectly installed and all the pc run smooth and without problems with other games. I use Game Booster to prevent problems, and also I defrag the hard disk and test the CPU, VGA and RAM ussage, and all seem to be correct.About CPU ussage, the 4 cores was always working, but affinitymask helps with autogen a lot. Usepools gives a lot of smooth. It is strange but the simulator usually start not using the 4 cores at full, but the framerate is the same than when afther some seconds the cores are at full speed. It seem like if the usage of CPU´s would be a trick to convince us that the simulator has really multicore support. I have used the bojote autogenerated fsx.cfg, but do not improve my fsx experience more than I have when using manually those tweaks.My fsx is fliying better than before, of course, but I´m not happy with the results. I fly over Barajas (Madrid) with only 6 fps, and some people can do it with 25. Something happens and I can´t understand. Also testing the VGA ussage it is like if my VGA would be sleeping with 10% ussage, and only videoram is really exploit at 80% when using nvidia 3d vision. I have exactly the same framerate with or without Nvidia 3d vision, and this let me to think that the VGA is not used as desired, otherwise framerates could decrease a lot as with other games. System RAM ussage is anotehr think not exploited, I usually do not fill more than 40% or similar, and I don´t know if it is a normal thing, it is like having 2gb would be practically the same as 6gb.The thing that more causes ununderstanding in my mind is what happend when I launch Warband before FSX. It really gives me the impresion that FSX do not work alone and need another external thing from windows to be activated. Could be anything related with codecs or directx?... it never happend before with any game.