Sooty332

Nice build, you have the same CPU as me and the motherboard is the one I wish to purchase as right now I am unable to OC and my memory is running at a slower speed than it should (completely messed up when buying a mobo). I am hoping to reach 4.4 on my IB without de lidding, my FSX experiecne right now is good but i really want another 20% out of performance

I've recently upgraded from a stable frame happy FS9 and spending alot of money upgrading to what i feel is a good spec for FSX, however I am still left a little disapointed. As soon as any real scenery and AI is generated, the stuttering begins and frames drop. Your system looks slightly better than mine, I am running a stock 3570k 3.4 and I am looking to overclock this in the next few weeks to over 4ghz to see if this helps FPS. Have you followed the recommendations in Word Not Allowed's guide as these really are a must? If not then i would suggest you do so. Also what settings are you using within FSX? Any addon scenery?

Sorry forgot to update, changed to a 660ti yesterday and its cured it all, crappy onboard intel graphics!

I am running the same CPU and graphics card here, but have not overclocked yet. It runs FSX fine aslong as I don't start with any AI traffic or HD scenery, my next step is to overclock to 4.2 and see if there is much change in performance. At present I can not even think of turning Ultimate Traffic 2 on, wondering if WOAI would be better

Actually I've just found it, I did not even know this existed thanks I will have a read through as I really like the bloom effect but to change 25fps to 15 is not practical right now, so hope the forum can offer some help! thanks again

ok noticed thanks, any reason why ticking DX10 is like halfing my frames? Im a bit wary of OCing my CPU, but i think 4ghz should be ok with a decent cooler, I know some people go to 4.5 without any problems however

Thanks for all the help Ben, I've also turned on AA within FSX and i'm now getting some really sweet visuals in GEX with addon scenery. I am struggling still to get large airports to run smooth free, so I will overclock to 4GHz next month I think. I notice the Use Bloom Effect literally kills FPS, is there any real reason for this? I love the effect it gives but the performance drop off is huge, is there an alternative?

I've followed that guide, its very good... is there anywhere I can view other peoples FSX.CFG files to compare?

Yeah Ben just applied it and its corrected the slideshow effect! I've also stopped Preview DX10 as i did not really notice any difference and it was eating my frames... I am now getting locked 30 around flytampa KBOS. what a difference I've also got [bUFFERPOOLS] Poolsize=0 is this needed now more than ever with a new card?

Ok first impressions its a HUGE increase in FPS over the integrated, however one thing is still occuring. When i pan around the aircraft from the outside when airborne I get a kind of slideshow effect on the ground, its not that my FPS are not high, its just not 'smooth' its hard to explain, its like the ground isn't reflecting the higher FPS i am getting (locked at 30 via internal limiter). I'm going to have a look in Word Not Allowed's guide to see if I am missing anything. Also should I be checking DX10 Preview in FSX?

I have just purchased and fitted my 660ti about to fire up FSX kinda excited!

That is from PMDG NGX and the FMC is already pretty small... I'm thinking its a lack of seperate GPU causing this as its all 2D panels, I've just never seen anything like this before in FS2004 and was under the impression the 2D panels were very similar if not the same

I'm in need of an FPS boost badly but then again I am running integrated graphics so I am expecting at least a 20% increase by running a dedicated GPU. I will be overclocking the CPU if possible soon, but nothing extreme. I think 4 to 4.2GHz at very most as I do not want any stability problems. struggling to get 20fps and I haven't even added any scenery or traffic yet to my NGX :(

Thanks Ben, that's the green light i was looking for. May ask, what is SGSS? Also does it handle the 'light bloom' option in FSX with preview direct X 10, any of these 2 options seem to kill my current setup. I am hoping i get some form of FPS increase from a new GPU but I am not sure what sort of % increase I am going to get just yet

Im running an i5 3570k 3.4 at present with on board GPU, its obviously very poor so I am changing the graphics card in the next phase of my build. I was thinking of the 560ti however the 660ti seems a beter buy all around. I do not want to spend over £250 / $400 on a card as this is really outside of my budget so I think a 660ti is probably the best choice. Also I can not see huge differences in performance between the 660ti and 670/680 cards for FSX as the software is CPU reliant for the most part. Does anyone have a 660ti running FSX and can report on performance? Obviously its alot of money and I don't want to be dissapointed. I have priced the card at £233 via my local store which is the cheapest around.