by Daube » Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:50 am
SuperMonkey, just to give you a little bit more details:
The amount of FPS that your computer will be able to deliver will depend on the power of your CPU, and according to this power you have to make some precise tunning of the various tweaks in the FSX.cfg, you know that already.
Once this is done, your computer will be able to deliver a certain number of FPS when you set the FPS limit to "unlimited". However you will quickly notice that even if your FPS can reach very high numbers in some areas (mine can reach 50 FPS away from big airports), the movement will be anything but smooth. The worse will be when looking at 9 o'clok or 3 o'clockm the way the scenery moves on the screen is terrible.
The solution to get a smoother sim is to set the FPS limit to a reasonnable value, most often between 20 and 25 (provded you're getting more than that with unlimited FPS), because it will free some CPU power that will be used for building the scenery faster, refreshing the ground textures faster, processing the autogen faster etc...