My FS9 Experiment

[a1]

OK so I want higher FPS and good graphics with my very bad ATI Radeon Xpress 200. I did a little experiment on the settings for the in game and the card and here are my results.

I set the card on the Direct 3D for performance. The AA is 4x set at Performance. Anisotropic filtering is set at 4x. Texture preference at the maximum quality. MipMap detail level for the card is set to high quality. Vertical sync is set at Always on.

In game scenery and the environment were all maxed out.

FPS setting was for 28. Trilinear filtering and global texture size is set to massive. Mip is set to 4 and rendered lights are set to 6.

The aircraft settings are all maxed out.

Weather is set to sight distance 60mi. Cloud draw at 40mi. Cloud percentage is at 100%. all 3D clouds and is set to high.

I used this tweak from Nick N:
[quote]SYSTEM - ADVANCED TAB

Performance Section - SETTINGS button

[Sir_Crashalot]

You want better frames per second? Then reduce your cloud settings to 30 or 40%. Clouds kill your FPS.

Crash

[DizZa]

x200 uses very slow memory or your RAM. Reduce TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=100 to below 100. Resized cloud textures should also help.

As for me... I use 512x512 DXT3 cloud textures for my X850XTPE. Runs and looks awsome.