by Formula_1 » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:42 pm
Hi
Just install it and fly your heart out!
If the version you have doesn't have the Service packs, or Acceleration, get SP1 and SP2. If the Gold version includes Acceleration, then you don't need to do anything else, I don't believe. Acceleration has the service packs and will apply them when it is installed.
So it is really like this.
FSX + SP1 + SP2 when running without Acceleration.
FSX + Acceleration if you are running it.
As you have found, there are a lot of tweak threads here. I tried most off and on since having FSX, both with Accelertaion and with only SP2. Currently I am running FSX SP2. The only tweaks I have done this time was to lower the amount of Autogen and Trees per-cell in the config file. hardly noticable visually, but made a nice difference in holding steady frame rates. That was all I needed to do.
Start slow and don't make but one or two changes at a time.
The AI page is where you can really gain or lose a lot of performance. I fly mainly low level in F-86 and lesser planes, down to the the ultralight, so I have commercial traffic low, GA traffic mid and lots of road traffic, boats so the world looks alive down there.
If I was flying up high, I would do the opposite. You will get used to setting them up based on what you are going to be flying, where and altitudes, etc.
Lots of ground trafffic at airports is very nice looking, but can get annoying while taxing. There isn't much at smaller airports, if you fly from them alot, so keep them really low.
Normally, unless you system just needs a good cleaning, FSX works pretty darn good right out of the box with very little need to mess with anything other than the ingame menu settings
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Formula_1 on Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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