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So what should I buy? Actually I thought my system would be quite good already, but that's not true apparently. I wouldn't mind not getting 40+ frames like some do, especially since I'm running the full FTX stack. But 8-15FPS is awful.

I think so, yes. Whatever I do these are the max GPU stats reported by NVInspector over a few hours: GPU Load 23% Fan 41% Temp 47°C looks all very cool and without much load for me. All 3 CPU cores are on 100% though, so I think I'm CPU limited.

No Aero does work always, no need to change anything about it. That's not the problem either. And updateing Intel graphic drivers shouldn't do anything while the integrated GPU is deactivated, maybe you updated the chipset drivers and fixed something else. Yeah, that's my problem. I know it's hard to grasp but I have a reversed effect where full screen is much slower than windowed which is illogical. And I'd like to fix that. Sorry for "shouting" but I feel that I'm not really getting through :mellow:

Tried it and it didn't help. Still max 15FPS as if Vsync 1/2 would be magically active although it isn't :mellow:

Thanks for the hint. Actually I'm running 8.1 and aero (or the remains of it aka the taskbar) stays on all the time. But I'll try to kill the window manager and see if it helps once I get home.

PMDG clearly needs a donate button so that we can throw some extra money on them to hire more devs to get updates ready earlier to reduce the occurrences of these threads. Right? Seriously speaking: when I think about it I would actually be ready to pay a small amount (say 5-10$) if they actually port (all) the T7 features (WX, comp link, better performance (for me)) back to the NGX. You know bug fixes are (have to be imho) obligatory but they really put a lot of effort into those feature updates… Maybe I’m starting something we don’t really won’t though

Well my point is that I get a 50% FPS drop when using full screen while everyone else seems to be experiencing the exact opposite. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it doesn't feel right. Anyway, as long as I get my quite stable 30FPS in windowed mode I'll pass on WideFS. Adding more networking usually creates more trouble in my experience. But if I'm losing FPS in full screen because I screwed up something I'd like to know and fix it ^_^

Sorry to revive this, but I have a strange problem: Going to full screen costs me 50% of my FPS. In windowed mode I get the ~30FPS I’m locked into in Nvidia Inspector (with FlyTampa Vienna, 737NGX, on the ground, ASN, full FTX package incl. openLC and REX clouds). Once I hit Alt+Return it drops to ~15FPS. Call me crazy but I would actually prefer fullscreen mode… Tweaks I applied: I followed Kostas guide and applied the setting in Nvidia Inspector Ryan (from PMDG) suggested. Only difference: I have to run DX10 because DX9 simply does not work at all for me and never has (it always falls back to 1024x768 resolution whatever I do). VSync is off. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! EDIT: I think because of Performance mode my system doesn't show up so I'll post it here: i5-3570k@4,4, GTX780, 16GB RAM, everything FSX related on SSDs, 2560x1600 native res.

It's not on sale currently. Steve made a fix for the FTX lights available for free (somewhere in the AVSIM archive) afaik.

I got it in the meantime and beside of a few annoying problems with FSUIPC & EZDOK I'm loving my new setting Only thing that disturbs me a little is the desk mounting since I always crash my knee against it, will have to build something myself.

Yes, basically I fully agree. But I wanted to try only one first (nr 1, nr 2, both cond levers on the third axis; flaps by keyboard) so that I only waste 53€ instead of 106€ if I'm not happy.

Sorry, I was busy the last days. Since the CH quadrant is currently sold out at every shop which delivers to my city I ordered one Saitek quadrant now. If I'm happy with it I'll get a second one, if not I'll switch to CH once it becomes available again. Thanks for your input!

I agree that I don't want another joystick since I have only aircrafts with yokes. So that's another another +1 for CH... It would be nice to have a poll for the Saitek/CH question since everything else I've seen so far is in the 500$+ == insanity range. Can I add a poll somehow or is that a moderator job here (have signed up only a few days ago, sorry if obvious)?

Yes, throttle is first because the Q400 is unflyable with the mouse for me, pedals and yoke are next but will have to wait a few months

Thanks for your input! Leaning toward one or two Saitek at the moment. I thought about pedals and yoke too, but since I have to buy a gtx780 now my budget is non existend already. Maybe I will complete the setup for Christmas (in case PMDG won't release for P3D until then which would cause heavy money drain)