First Screenshots with new build and FS X

[KP05heavy]

I just put together a new computer- Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 Ghz - 2 gig Ram- 8800 GTS 320 MB - Gigabyte S-Series

These are my first screenshots with FS X- Used the built in screenshot function and edited with Microsoft digital image 2006

Any tips or tricks would be appreciated!

[MOUSY]

Pretty cool shots, but the first thing I noticed were the jaggies... and with an 8 series card, thats quite surprising.... I suggest turning up your resolution and adding some Anti-Aliaising... those shots should be as smooth as a baby's bum... 8-)

Congrats on your new build BTW.

[a1]

Cool. How many FPS you get?

[haroldkip]

with an 8 series card, thats quite surprising

Too right! He probably didn't setup the card the way it should be set up

Cool. How many FPS you get?

Still obsessed with FPS aren't you? Flight Simulator is not about a lot of FPS ... it is a simulator not a shooter.
Anything about 40 FPS is a waste of resources! Although I know you can be some good results in FSX by setting it to 'unlimited' with a correctly set up cfg file

But why did you choose an 8800 GTS 320 in a ICD 2.6? I would've gone for its bigger brother but I also know that thing is more expensive. It might be premature judgment but I think the bottleneck in your rig is the card although that is a very card.

Having said that I think the shots are nice but your system can boast out far better shots if you put in a little effort.

And if you've edited your shots they should be in the edited forum, not here :-?

[KP05heavy]

When I said edit - I was only referring to resizing and cropping.

[a1]

I am not obsessed about FPS much anymore. I am just curious about how FSX is running on different systems. It really interests me to see people run FSX.

[haroldkip]

I am not obsessed about FPS much anymore. I am just curious about how FSX is running on different systems. It really interests me to see people run FSX.

Good! Because there's more to running FSX than just a nice 8800

[francsal]

Well, my first "trick" would be to have you ship the computer to my home...

[haroldkip]

right, Alrot?

And Harold?

[francsal]

right, Alrot?

And Harold?

Another irfanview hater? May I be the only one who likes it???

[mpicco]

Cool. How many FPS you get?

Still obsessed with FPS aren't you? Flight Simulator is not about a lot of FPS ... it is a simulator not a shooter.
Anything about 40 FPS is a waste of resources!

Aw you wouldnt be saying that if you were trying to land a plane on 10 fps Harold! FPS is very important! besides the smoother it is the more real it feels... *sob* i want more fps!  :'(

[haroldkip]

you wouldnt be saying that if you were trying to land a plane on 10 fps Harold! FPS is very important! besides the smoother it is the more real it feels... *sob* i want more fps!

FPS is not very important but indeed, 10 FPS is not a lot. But what I meant is that you'll need very good eyes to see the difference between 30 and 40 FPS ...

Typically, you'd want a nice and crisp looking sim and not a lot of FPS. I would not push FS9 to it's limits, but try and lock it at 20-25 FPS, and have a little reserve for what else the sim wants to do. I see a lot of nice shots in here but a lot also have blurried ground textures, which I don't think is necessary ...

If you're on 'unlimited' the sim will try to get as much FPS as possible. If you lock to a lower value then you will give the sim some breathing room to work on building (for example) ground textures or clouds.

I know my sim can do 40 FPS but I lock it at 30 which is 25% lower than what it can do. I have a very smooth sim when flying in Alaska, but when I get to a busy airport with a lot of traffic and animations (like PANC with Elmendorf just around the corner) my frames also drop to 'hardly acceptable'. I too get dips to 10 FPS but luckily not very often

Look at my system specs in my sig and you'll see that I don't have a very modern, state of the art high performance machine, although it was when I bought it three and a half years ago. Sure, it has a lot of RAM and a fast hard disk drive but it doesn't have a fast dual core processor. And although I have a very nice graphics card in the 7800 series, my rig still has an AGP slot instead of PCIe ...

But I've invested a lot of time and effort (and some money) to tune my system and that pays off 8-)

If you're willing to invest time and effort in boosting your experience too, then read this tread and this one. It worked miracles for me! And if you have a dual core machine this is also very good reading material

But of course, if you want the icing on the cake, go and talk to Michael Greenblatt of Flight Simulator Graphic Solutions. It is such an eyeopener ... and if you'd ask me that

[machineman9]

When I said edit - I was only referring to resizing and cropping.

why did you do that?

when you get your image setup right, pause and go to the menus and change the output resolution to 800x600. it wight stretch depending on your resolution, but the image wont come out like that

print screen and paste. the image will come out at 800x600, and look clean. it might get rid of those jaggies as they do look slightly resize gotten

[Tweek]

When I said edit - I was only referring to resizing and cropping.

why did you do that?

Because he wanted to? :-?

[mpicco]

Yeah i know, followed those threads, didnt have much gain since ive been around computers a lot and kinda had my sistem tuned anyhow... my specs are even lower than yours and here where i live, because of money devaluation facing dollars, technology is very expensive.

My rig right now runs an Athlon 3000+, 1gb DDR 400, 2 SATA and an IDE drive totaling bout 500GB... As youve seen on my screenshots pretty much everything is default cos im pretty sure if i install environments or ground textures its gonna plow my Fsim installation into Unplayable :S

I do have my FPS limited to 27 since i know the human eye basically doesnt detect anything above that number, but what we all know is that game have spikes, or hiccups, whatever you wanna call them, where the FPS go up or down a certain ammount (maybe due to disk activity, whatever reason) and if you run at 40, maybe you spike down to 25 and its not noticeable, but if you run at 25 and spike to 10, then it is very noticeable and not too enjoyable.

Heck i finished medal of honor on a pentium 2 with a geforce 2 card so i know what it means struggling