by NickN » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:49 pm
GEXn will give you better frames, much better
UTX on the other hand by default will nail a system, hard.. especially of you have car trafffic above 5-10% and the night lighting options enabled. Ont top of that, they are HUGE installs and you must defrag (I would do it twice) after installing.
Now, your system is not as fast as those on quads and 512-768Mb video cards and as such the hit from UTX is going to nail it hard until you set it up right.
This assumes you have not messed with anything in UTX and are running the default install of UTX
In UTX, start the interface and make the following changes..
On the right, top section ROAD SURFACES make sure the following is disabled:
MINOR URBAN ROADS RESIDENTIAL
URBAN ROAD ENCASEMENTS
RURAL ROAD ENCASEMENTS
*** Note: If the system is performing and looking good, you can enable the ENCASEMENTS and see how it does but leave the MINOR ROADS disabled for now. You must exit FSX to do that ***
In the list on the RIGHT make the following changes
NIGHT LIGHTING.. main roads OFF, intersection OFF
In the list, last OTHER TERRAIN FEATURES turn off glaciers, railway yards, highway interchanges
Then change these items from the main menu under ADVANCED:
WIDTHS
UT OCEAN PIER 3
UT RAIL ENC DRY 14
UT RAIL ENC SEASONAL 14
UT RAIL ENC TROPICAL 14
UT RAIL ENC BRIDGE 14
UT RAIL ENC TRACKS 12
UT ROAD ENC DRY 28
UT ROAD ENC SEASONAL 28
UT ROAD ENC TROPICAL 28
UT ROAD ENC2 DRY 16
UT ROAD ENC2 SEASONAL 16
Click SAVE - DONE
FLATTENING
UT STREAM LINE DRY -2
UT STREAM LINE WET -2 (those are MINUS 2)
Click SAVE - DONE
Close the UTX Tool
Please make sure your system is properly defragged.
see if things are not running better now. If they are and it looks good, you can try ENABLE the 2 ROAD ENCASEMENTS you disabled above... leave Minor roads disabled
Make SURE car traffic in FSX is NOT above 8% for your system UTX ADDS car traffic so 8% is quite a bit for your rig. I run 10-15% and I am on a quad
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NickN on Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:00 am, edited 1 time in total.