Buccaneer

Hi All, Hope someone can answer what is going on here & have a solution.. After installing a new graphics card, I'm seeing a reduction in the rendering radius, despite my settings being the same as they were before. - I'll be dealing with the slower scenery & autogen loading time separately. More specifically for this question, I'm seeing a 'reduction' in what seems to be the rendering radius of both my own aircraft AND Ai aircraft. For starters, if i perform a flyby at speed with the zoom at 1x .. my aircraft is invisible (contrails coming out of nothing), UNTIL the aircraft flies past the 'flyby' view, at which point the aircraft pops into existence... When flying past, the aircraft reaches some render decision point and disappears again.. HOWEVER if you ZOOM IN significantly... apart from distorting the flyby, the aircraft IS rendered!? - It's almost as if a setting somewhere that was previous allowing aircraft to be viewed up to 10 miles away (both you and AI), has shrunk down to 1 mile!??? With my older card... The aircraft would be visible the whole time... starting as a tiny dot if flying very fast. Ive' also noticed that this phenomenon is also affecting the visibility of AI aircraft... If i fly over an airport at 35k, the Airport looks empty... Zoom IN & the AI aircraft appear.... Hope you can help with an solution. Cheers Buccaneer

Putting aside the older specs of the PC, one wouldn't expect a 'degrade' in the loading rate from what i was getting before with a weaker GPU. One thing i HAVE noticed that might shed light on what is going on that someone more 'expert' that I may have a solution to.... When I select 'flyby' of an aircraft that is at speed ' say cruising at M.85. The plane is INVISIBLE until it is almost passing the viewpoint, then disappears again when reaches the same distance again moving away. In the past i have noticed this before with the older card.. Bit it would ONLY happen when the plane was at the BEGINNING of the flypast cycle, thus a tiny dot anyway.. & WOULD be displayed most of the time.. It is as though the card or some hidden setting is CHOOSING a very SMALL render radius,, Which might explain why textures & auto-gen are disappearing so quickly & taking so long to re-render as i fly through the scenery? And before anyone suggests it, YES i DO have the rendering radius set to MAX within the sim... So it is NOT that. Could the two phenomenon be interlinked? Alas none of the above so far is helping to answer WHY graphics are loading SLOWER than before?

LOL Spook that was helpful :-/ Seriously though.. Yes i agree the surrounding HW is 'aged' somewhat. (Athlon X2 @ 2.4ghz, DDR2 & IDE drive) But the load rates of Autogen, mesh & ground textures WERE OK before with the older GPU. What seems to be happening is that all the above seem to be taking LONGER than before to load, when apart from the new GPU, nothing has been changed. I would have expected to see the SAME rate of loading of the above, like before, but just with more FPS? (which i do get) So WHY the slowdown in loading? - It's like the new GPU is being 'starved' ?

Hi there, Yes i did scrub the PC before installing. I even used the http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html website to get the cfg file cleaned up. (Which HAS improved things a bit). The main thing also seems to be that because the new GPU is so much 'faster' than the surrounding HW etc, The FPS seem to jerk about when textures are loading in the background etc, instead of just doing what you'd expect, which is have the GPU animate frames while data loads in the background? However this wasn't nearly as bad with the old card. I DO plan on upgrading my PC to something more substantial at some point, but in the meantime.. Any tips on how to 'smooth' this out.

Absolutely... watch this vid... around the 2:40 min mark you see it making a tarmac landing..

???? - Any thoughts?

Ummmm... it IS a tail dragger by nature! - So no problem there.. You'd land like any tail dragger over sea or land... Level. on the front wheels, or fins, if over water.

Much rather have this! http://www.lisa-airplanes.com/en/akoya/ultra-versatile-lsa-airplane/astonishing-performance.html

Hi there, I've just upgraded my GPU card. They're both not top top end, but the new one 'was' top end a few years ago. I've upgraded from a ATI HD 3870 to a HD 4890. Basically the new card has at least twice the horsepower than the older one. However i'm noticing something odd. Whilst the frame rate is predictably UP, the rate at which the auto-gen & terrain textures load is DOWN!? The end result is that i find my self very quickly flying over a 'bald' landscape with fuzzy low res. ground textures, FAR SOONER, than i did with the older weaker card. I have NOT altered any of the in-game settings from how they previously were. Does anybody know what might be up? Cheers Bucc