fcisuperguy

Welcome back to simming! You'll find that we've taken a few great leaps since you last flew... Since you're starting anew, I'd highly recommend going down the P3D route for your simming future - it's supported and will be for the foreseeable future, has MASSIVE performance enhancements compared to FSX (in situations where you'd be getting 20-30fps in FSX, you could very well be getting 50-60fps in P3D), and has a very large selection of aircraft addons - much more than XP10 has - most of which, if already purchased for FSX, can be transferred to P3D with no/little cost (with notable exceptions, however). For joysticks, I recommend grabbing the Saitek X56 - it's a reliable and very capable HOTAS stick that does its job well. If you're also interested in rudder pedals, the MFG Crosswind rudder pedals are a great option that have received quite positive reviews in the FS world, notably by many famed simming YouTubers.

Hey there! Assuming you are currently using hyperthreading, could you try an Affinity Mask setting of 80? I've found that it dumps the FSX load on the physical CPU cores (basically, disabling hyperthreading for FSX). It gave me a couple of extra frames, especially in laggy areas such as Heathrow. What GPU are you using? No matter how CPU-heavy FSX can be, you still need a decent GPU to run it at high FPS. Assuming you're running a modern GPU such as the GTX9xx series, I'd recommend a bufferpool setting of 0 (basically, disabling bufferpools completely). GPUs nowadays can handle the loads in FSX without any sort of upper limit just fine.

I'll most certainly be sharing my knowledge around AVSIM! Thanks for the welcome -FCI

For most addons, you will have to reinstall them as you would if you were reinstalling FSX-MS. However, addons which don't directly modify FSX (ex. PFPX, TOPCAT, any sort of ACARS software, etc.) can be kept without issues.

Hi, everyone! I've been lurking around AVSIM for the past two years, since just after the start of my enthusiasm for flight simulation. I've been an aviation enthusiast since I was young, but I grew up without any knowledge that flight simulators such as FS2002 even existed. Nowadays, though, I fly on VATSIM and/or IVAO with FSX-SE at least once a week, mostly for my three VAs - BAVirtual, vRYR, and vEZY. Hope to see you in the virtual skies soon!