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Edited, no longer needed. Thanks again for your help everybody!! You're all awesome!! Brick

I hadn't installed Bojote's shader mod prior to Steve's fix. However, I'm no longer using DX10, (forgot to mention that haha). It was doing some weird things to a lot of my textures and I wanted to see if I could get the same performance from DX9 so I reverted back and changed a few settings. I'm much happier with the way everything looks in DX9 and it's running well too!!

Well, I think I finally have FSX where I want it. I uninstalled my BluePrint Simulations LAX and downloaded a freeware Photo Realistic AFCAD to replace it. Got a minor performance boost. Flew a checkride for my VA in the ngx from LAX to LAS, I'm using a payware LAS (can't remember who makes it, too many addons ) and everything ran nice and smooth even on the ground at LAS. My last question is this: My FPS was looking rather nice and my frames rather smooth throughout the flight, however the one thing I have noticed is that my frames are jumping all over the place, from 21, all the way up to like 39. I've tried every Limited FPS setting imaginable as well as using external limiters and any time I cap the FPS I get a HUGE FPS drop. Is there any other way to maybe keep my FPS locked at a certain setting?? Thanks again guys, you've all been a MASSIVE help

Well I reset my CFG again and tried just tuning settings inside FSX to my liking. Along with enabling DX10 and inputting the required tweaks, I am now seeing around 16fps average on the ground at FlightBeam's SFO with heavy overcast weather. This is awesome!! I really hope I can keep these frames up. I know it's still pretty low, but I'm using FB KSFO, Aerosoft USCitiesX SFO, REX, GEX, UTX, OpusFSX, as well as (in this case) Aerosoft's Airbus X Extended. I'm gonna do some further testing and I'll let you guys know how it goes!!

Well I guess AA was working in DX10 after all. I wasn't even loading the game, I was just going off of what I saw in the menu, my models looked terrible. But I read somewhere that Fullscreen was necessary to see the AA effects so I loaded up a flight and there was in fact Anti Aliasing and it looked pretty nice. However, still wasn't getting more than 11fps at SFO with CATII IFR weather and Airbus Extended.

Yes I'm editing/saving the CFG in my AppData folder. I'm starting to get very frustrated here, (nothing to do with you guys, your help has been incredible). I've been flying with FSX since the first day it was released several years ago. Back then, my system was terrible compared to what it is now, and it always ran just fine. Of course, my settings were usually lower than what they are now. Recently, I joined a VA and I've been flying FAR more than I ever have before. I've also begun to accumulate MANY more payware addons. I know FSX is a poorly optimized piece of software, but I'm 150% positive my system shouldn't be running it at 10fps even though my settings are where they are. I've done every CFG tweak imaginable by now and I haven't seen a single one of them improve my performance at all. I'd really like to commit to DX10, but I can't even get AA working and I've followed all the steps in order to do so. I'm so desperate to get FSX to run well that I'm highly considering doing a complete format/reinstall of Windows, resetting my CPU/RAM/GPU clocks back to default, partitioning a section of my SATA drive primarily for FSX, reinstalling all of my drivers, etc, and reinstalling FSX along with every other addon one by one to see what's hindering my performance. This is something I'd NEVER consider under normal circumstances. My PC runs flawlessly in all instances except for FSX. I just don't know what to do. You guys have been extremely helpful and I really appreciate all the help, but I'm not seeing the performance that I should be with FSX and I don't know how to fix it. I think that before I do an OS wipe, I may reinstall FSX from the ground up and try installing my addons one by one until I see major overall performance drops. Maybe a clean install/config, as well as getting all my settings where they need to be initially, as well as reinstalling addons while more thoroughly monitoring performance may do the trick. Maybe my FSX is just running slow because it's bogged down with so many addons?... I just don't know. Like I said, thanks guys, and if you have any other tips for me that I have yet to try, or any tips at ALL on how to get AA working in DX10, they would be much appreciated. I really don't want to have to reinstall if it's not necessary.

I can't get AA to work in DX10 at all whatsoever. I adjusted my NI settings to accommodate, turned AA and AF on in FSX, still horrendous looking jagged lines. Also edited my CFG with these: MultiSamplesPerPixel=4 MultiSampleQuality=8 Because I heard it improves AA quality in DX10. I can't get this to work and even if it does give me a performance boost I hardly believe it's for any other reason other than the fact that I don't have any Anti Aliasing or AF anymore. I reinstalled Steve's tweaks and followed all his instructions. Everyone else seems to have great looking graphics in their DX10 setups, mine looks like garbage. Help?

Thanks again guys. I tried Steve's DX10 tweaks yesterday but I could NOT get AA or AF to work so I turned it back off. I'm going to try reinstalling it and giving it another try. I'll also post my new CFG here: JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=14 [bufferPools] //UsePools=0 BufferPools=1 PoolSize=90000000 RejectThreshold=126976 //512Kb = 524288, 256Kb = 262144, 124Kb = 126976, 96Kb = 98304 [GRAPHICS] ForceFullScreenVsync=1 HIGHMEMFIX=1 SHADER_CACHE_PRIMED_10=1693458432 SHADER_CACHE_PRIMED=1693458432 TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=4096 (SHD) NUM_LIGHTS=8 AIRCRAFT_SHADOWS=0 AIRCRAFT_REFLECTIONS=1 COCKPIT_HIGH_LOD=1 LANDING_LIGHTS=1 AC_SELF_SHADOW=0 EFFECTS_QUALITY=2 GROUND_SHADOWS=0 TEXTURE_QUALITY=3 IMAGE_QUALITY=0 See_Self=1 Text_Scroll=1 D3D10=0 [sOUND] AmbientUIMusicVolume=-6.000000 PrimaryDevice={DEF00000-9C6D-47ED-AAF1-4DDA8F2B5C03} VoiceDevice={DEF00002-9C6D-47ED-AAF1-4DDA8F2B5C03} SOUND=1 SOUND_QUALITY=2 SOUND_LOD=0 UISound=1 AmbientUI=0 SOUND_FADER1=0.600000 SOUND_FADER2=0.730000 SOUND_FADER3=0.600000 SOUND_FADER4=0.500000 AmbientUIMusic=FSX01 [Display] ChangeTime=4.000000 TransitionTime=4.000000 ActiveWindowTitleTextColor=255,255,255 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Location=440,130,1480,908,\\.\DISPLAY1 Maximized=1 DisablePreload=1 FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.1 [PANELS] IMAGE_QUALITY=1 QUICKTIPS=1 PANEL_OPACITY=100 PANEL_MASKING=1 PANEL_STRETCHING=1 UNITS_OF_MEASURE=0 DEFAULT_VIEW=0 [Weather] WindshieldPrecipitationEffects=1 MinGustTime=10 MaxGustTime=500 MinGustRampSpeed=1 MaxGustRampSpeed=200 MinVarTime=5 MaxVarTime=50 MinVarRampSpeed=10 MaxVarRampSpeed=75 TurbulenceScale=1.000000 WeatherServerAddress=fs2k.zone.com WeatherServerPort=80 WeatherGraphDataInDialog=0 AdjustForMagVarInDialog=1 DynamicWeather=0 DownloadWindsAloft=0 DisableTurbulence=0 CLOUD_DRAW_DISTANCE=4 DETAILED_CLOUDS=1 CLOUD_COVERAGE_DENSITY=8 THERMAL_VISUALS=0 [DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti.0] Mode=1920x1080x32 Trilinear=1 [CONTROLS] Controls_Default=Standard Controls_Current=Standard KBDAIL=64 KBDELEV=64 KBDRUD=64 [TextInfo.1] Latitude=1,1 Longitude=1,2 Altitude=1,3 Heading=1,4 AirSpeed=1,5 WindDirectionAndSpeed=1,6 [TextInfo.2] FrameRate=1,1 LockedFrameRate=1,2 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ShowLabelHeading=0 LabelDelay=1000 LabelColor=FFFF0000 [iNTERNATIONAL] ASLAT=2 ASLON=1 MEASURE=0 [REALISM] PFactor=1.000000 Torque=1.000000 GyroEffect=1.000000 CrashTolerance=1.000000 General=1.000000 UnlimitedFuel=False TrueAirspeed=False AutoCoord=False RealMixture=False StressDamage=False GEffect=True ManualLights=True GyroDrift=True CrashWithDyn=True CrashDetection=True AutoTrim=False [sIM] SYSCLOCK=1 [sTARTUP] DEMO=0 SHOW_OPENING_SCREEN=1 STARTUP_DEMO= LoadWindow=1 [FACILITIES] COUNTRY= STATE= CITY= GTL_BUTTON=1244 [Misc] Com_Rate=7 [DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti.0.0] Mode=1920x1080x32 Anisotropic=1 AntiAlias=1 [MULTIPLAYER] condAccoutPassword=0 I'll try to get the DX10 stuff working again, I'll post back with an update.

Well here is my update: After rebuilding my CFG, getting my settings all near where they were before, I'm not seeing any improvement in FPS. I turned weather to Heavy Thunderstorms to see if maybe that would stress my GPU some more, to no avail. My GPU is actually using LESS memory than it was before. I've got some SERIOUS CPU bottlenecking issues here. I've noticed my FPS is very reasonable until I actually pan across or look directly towards the terminal at my payware airports. Then it drops by almost 10fps. Right now I'm averaging about 12FPS at FlyTampa Seattle, which is not a huge airport or as well detailed as LAX or some of my other fields. However, Seattle is usually a pretty intensive area so I decided to do some tests here with my weather going crazy to try to stress my GPU more. Nothing. Tested in the NGX as well as Airbus X Extended. I'd really prefer not to have to do an OS reinstall to get improved FPS, I defragged last night, cleaned up the registry, etc. My FSX seems to be running WAY slower than it should be with my specs, I know I don't have the nicest specs out there by any means but I'm fairly positive my pc can handle FSX at more than 10fps. Something isn't right here and I can't seem to figure it out.

Thanks Dave, I decided to try a completely new CFG. I backed up my old one and let FSX make a new one, I then added ONLY HIGHMEMFIX=1, and tweaked my GFX settings in the FSX UI. Now I plan on going back and tweaking Bufferpools as well as putting my Texture_Bandwith to where you said. I did get a performance boost by reloading my CFG file, so hopefully these tweaks will help further improve my FPS. I'll post back with an update after I do some testing!!

Ah, I see. I'll make sure to turn those back on. Thanks! Also, Mork, if you'd like to have a looksy at my config and compare it to yours, that would be nice still trying to get a little more fps

Update: Turning on DX10 Preview in FSX did boost framerates up to about 14-15 at SAN, however it's still not very smooth and it gave me a lot of jagged lines, like it overrode my AA settings or something...

Thanks again guys!! I'll have to try DX10, I had always heard to keep it OFF so I made sure to do that. Plus I may have a few addons that aren't compatible with it, we'll see but I'll give it a try anyway!! 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Well I tried all those tweaks, to no avail. It seems my CPU is seriously hindering my performance. Is there any way at all I can offload more weight from the CPU to the GPU? I know that's what Rejected Threshold is supposed to do but it doesn't seem to be working at all. I would prefer to find a way to get a slight FPS improvement without touching many of my Display settings. I know that's a lot to ask, but it runs just fine everywhere else. Airbus Extended gives me over 20fps most of the time, Level-D over 25, its just when I get to CS or PMDG products that my fps drops to an almost unflyable level. I'm still averaging about 10-11fps on the ground at LAX as well as SAN (payware). I have my FPS limiter set to Unlimited (I don't use an external limiter as it messes with EZDOK for some reason) and any time I set it to 30 my fps drops to about 7 or so, completely unflyable. So I keep that locked at Unlimited. I also use Nvidia Inspector but I only use very few settings on there, just enough to smooth some edges out, like 4x AA or so. Idk what to do!! I just want the game to run more smoothly, I don't care if I'm still not getting High FPS, and I'd like it to look the same too. I run every single game on my computer maxxed out, Crysis, Bioshock Infinite, Arma3, Arma2, Red Orchestra, Total War games, etc, all pretty demanding games, my PC handles them without a single hiccup. I know FSX is far different but I know there has to be some way I can balance things out here to still get good looks as well as smoothness. Thanks again guys Brick

Thanks for all the replies guys!! I've tested it with BP=0 as well and didn't see an improvement, however I had the weather set to Fair and Opus was disabled, maybe if I run all the programs I usually do it'll help stress it more. As for the other tweaks, I had a few of them already but I set the other ones and I'm going to do some testing WITH Opus enabled and see what happens. Thanks again guys I'll post back here with an update.

Hey guys, I've been searching around and reading tons of helpful guides on using the Bufferpools tweaks in my fsx.cfg file. I've tried using UsePools=1/0, Poolsize=0/490000000 (and a few in between), as well as RejectedThreshold=131072. I've messed around with plenty of different combinations of the three, enabling one while the other is disabled, tweaking values of one or the other and testing, etc. However I seem to be at a standstill. For testing I'm using BluePrint Simulations' KLAX, along with Aerosoft USCitiesX LA, and flying the PMDG 737-800NGX. My problem is this: no matter how much I mess with these three tweaks I'm not seeing ANY boost in performance, and on top of that, according to GPU-Z I'm still not even using more than 1005MB of my 2048MB GTX 550Ti. Here are my specs: ASUS M4A79XTD Evo MOBO Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB 1333Mhz AMD Phenom II X4 840 OC'd @ 3.5Ghz EVGA GTX 550Ti 2GB OC'd @ 1000Mhz Core 2040Mhz Shader Windows 7 Home Prem 64Bit With my video settings, which are tweaked quite a lot (I average around 25FPS and my game looks and runs GREAT, mid flight, except in some of my CS and PMDG aircraft and near large Payware airports). I'm just trying to get a nice little boost on the ground and near bigger hubs. My tests at LAX were giving me around 11fps on the ground in the NGX. BARELY playable. Not very smooth at all and it makes it quite hard to make precise control adjustments when your skipping along at 11fps... Is there something I'm doing wrong to not be seeing ANY fps or smoothness boost out of these tweaks?? My video card certainly isn't reflecting that I've even done anything at all!! Never goes above 45% mem usage. I know it can handle it because I'm not even using half of my memory normally! Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been working on this for a while trying to figure out what's going on. Also: I am using Bojote's tweaked config file as well as HighMemFix Thanks in advance! Brick