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If I move the frame rate up, what will happen? What is a good frame rate setting?

If I move the frame rate up, what will happen? What is a good frame rate setting?

There is no one correct answer as it is strictly system dependent but what happens as turn up the frame rates is your system will try it's darnest to display the rate you have selected, but at some point and time you will ask to much from your system and as a result your views will suffer with stuttering and bluries. I suggest you read the sticky notes at the top of this forum and you just have to tweak and try. The rates will improve with a top system. In order to max out everything you will need a huge system and to honest with you I am not sure if anyone out there is running FSX maxed out. As a rule of thumb the faster your CPU the more memory you can hang and the speed of the memory and last but not least your video card will all effect frame rates. 8-)

Okeeyday

To give some examples, a frame rate limit set too high will mainly result in:
- blurries in the ground textures when flying fast
- late-appearing autogen
- stutters due to autogen processing and disk loading
- airplane jumping on the runway

Lock framerates between 20-35...experiment a bit