First off, my info:
Motherboard: Dell, Model OTP406, Chipset: Intel X28, BIOS: A07
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
Windows Vista 32, SP2
(The first thing I find interesting is that on the specs sheet from my order, it says the RAM is 800MHz, but on CPU-Z it's telling me the DRAM frequency is 399MHz and that the max bandwidth for each slot says 400MHz - did I get ripped off? Shouldn't those numbers be 800MHz like the order sheet said? Anyway...)
Like everyone else, I'm trying to get max performance out of my system. I feel like I have a pretty good setup and should be able to run the game at a pretty high level. I do have nHancer, and my settings are:
AA: Combined, 16xS, gamma correction enabled
Anisotropic filtering: 8x
Texture filtering: quality
I also have multi-core support enabled. Those are my main nHancer settings.
I have UTX Europe installed (I do almost all my flying in Europe) with whatever the default settings are.
In the game itself, I have:
Framerates: Unlimited
For scenery:
Detail radius medium
Mesh complexity: 75
Mesh resolution: 5 m
Texture res.: 30 cm
Water effects: High 1x
Scenery complexity: dense
Autogen density: dense
Special effects: medium
Weather:
Cloud draw: 80 miles
Weather change: medium
Clouds: Detailed clouds, max density
Traffic:
Airline & GA: 100%
Road, Airport & other vehicles: 0 (I don't really care about boats and cars in a flight sim)
So with these settings, if I fly over an urban area (Paris was where I was doing my testing) my frame rates hover in the low 20's and sometimes drop to 18 or so consistently for periods of time. Over open land I get better rates, 30 and up.
The flying I like to do is in my Dakota, generally under 10,000 feet and what I really want is the best scenery I can get and a good frame rate (duh), but I really feel like I'm not getting either. The scenery is decent, but the frame rates aren't that great. I just think for my hardware I should be able to do a lot better than I do. I can jack up the scenery settings and it looks great, but once I get to an urban setting (I like to fly from major city to major city), frame rates drop to the low teens (and worse) and sometimes it just clunks out and I get the "computer has run out of memory" message and game over.
So I dropped my settings to what you see above, and like I said, even with what I would consider modest settings, the performance isn't all that great.
I guess my questions are: is my setup as good as I think it is? In other words, should I be getting great performance? And secondly, what settings would you recommend and/or what can I do to maximize my settings for the type of flying I'm doing?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
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