I'm just curios

[macca22au]

Esselbach, I know this is OT, but you have one hell of a system.

I am thinking of getting a quadcore.  Which means a new chipset.  How does your rig perform?

And from the land downunder to whoever started this thread, curios is spelled curious!  Curios are collectors' objects, like my computer.

[BFMF]

[quote]Esselbach, I know this is OT, but you have one hell of a system.

I am thinking of getting a quadcore.

[macca22au]

Apart from server CPUs, your setup is about as powerful as a desktop can get nowadays (although Intel now have there new 45 nanometer processor with 12megabytes of cache on the market but not in Australia).  Presumably with the Job Scheduler/Affinity Mask lines inserted into the fsx.cfg your rig must get very close to maximum, though I suspect still with water and traffic turned down?  It's an important question for me, as I am going to make up my mind in a day or two whether to upgrade or wait.

[BFMF]

[quote]Apart from server CPUs, your setup is about as powerful as a desktop can get nowadays (although Intel now have there new 45 nanometer processor with 12megabytes of cache on the market but not in Australia).

[Mitch.]

I flew 15.6 hours, KLAX to YSSY in a 744. But my most enjoyable was a 14.2 hour flight in a Connie from EGLL to KJFK.

[Layne.]

lol

the shortest for me would be one second everything set full realism took off in concorde and stalled and crashed

longest is a flight from melb to hamilton island ( YMML - YMHB )
about 2.3 hours

[Ashar]

16 hours and 8 minutes... 8-)

OMDB-KJFK

A real route flown by Emirates on an Airbus A340-500...The real word flight clocks in at around 15 hours 30 minutes, but with FS9 ATC, things are much harder...Oh, and this was real time

[macca22au]

Esselbach:  if you go into FSInsider and find PTaylor's blog, you will find amongst his older posts and explanation as to how SP1 allows multi-threading across more than one core.  He suggests adding two lines to your fsx.cfg file (via notepad), that go something like:

[JobScheduler]
AffinityMask=

The number for dual core is 3 (plse check), but as it is factorial you would need to check his blog for the number for 4 cores.

This allows FSX to load textures across all cores, and this makes a big performance difference, as it is the scenery task that really chokes FSX and gives low fps and the stutters.  Its a big advance.

Also search in some of the older threads, where our gurus NickN and others go into the advantages of this change.

[macca22au]

Hey I've repented of being lazy.  I paste below the words and advice out of PTaylor's blog.


"For the fsx.cfg config file:

There is a tweak to control scheduling of threads on cores.

It is not recommended to change these settings unless you have a performance reduction and/or maxed out CPU loads in the PerfMonitor. The tweak is

[JOBSCHEDULER]
AffinityMask=n

where

n  num of cores scheduled   processor bit mask
1  = 1 core  0001
3  = 2 cores   0011
7  = 3 cores   0111
15  = 4 cores  1111


The processor bitmask shows you what cores will be enabled ( 1 ) and what cores will be disabled ( 0 ), primarily to allow you to see the pattern and be able to pick a bitmask for 8 and 16 cores or more when they are available."

[BFMF]

Cool, thanks. I'll have to mess around with it