Increase your FPS!!! (in flightsim)

[FrodoFraggins]

Hey all
I saw this on another Forum, it really worked,

"Hey all
I felt my flightsim was running quiet bad. So i begain fiddling with drivers and fs9 cfg. Heres how I did it.
It may only work on ATI cards though
READ IT ALL FIRST
Open up fs9.cfg
Find the lines
[DISPLAY]
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=40 --- change the 40 to around 400

Open your fs9.cfg file, and modify the following lines to
TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=9.500000
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=4.50000

Now, go into the ATI display Settings page by
Right  on desktop, click properties.
on the tab click Settings
Then Click Advanced
A window like this should appear:

Work your display settings to rouphly match mine.

DONE, click apply and then fly!
The sim should run better while flying. However, when on the ground, some textures might look blurry.
Before I did this, I got around 13-15 fps. Now I get 23.6 average

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR SYSTEM!!!!!!!111

More tricks here http://members.lycos.nl/vairkennis/FS9tips.txt
( i didnt write them though)


cya

P.S comments welcome"

Comments welcome

cya

[Saitek]

Haven't tried it because I doubt it wouold work. I have seen a number of these things over my time here and I never felt they ever worked.
I believe better computer specs = better performance and although there is a bit of leeway for different things it all goes back to this.

[Tweek]

However, when on the ground, some textures might look blurry

The idea of tweaking your system/sim to get higher FPS, is to keep the visual quality aswell Thing's like clouds can be sacrificed to a certain degree, due to their extreme hit on frame rates, and the fact that they look blurry already! But ground textures really can make a sim come alive.

[elite marksman]

I'm quite wary of things like these, the only way I manually ajdust performance is by trimming the hog(XP) down to size.

[RollerBall]

Don't worry, these are pretty standard settings. But nothing to increase FR though. The only reason why you will have got a FR increase is because you've reduced your graphics card 'quality' settings to the minimum in favour of 'performance'.

Everyone should control anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering through their card controls so nothing new there - no real effect on FR but image quality will benefit.

Increasing the texture_bandwidth_mult setting increases the speed at which terrain textures load - so you'll only notice in spot view or if you are 'looking out of the window'. And only higher end cards will be able to deliver the textures more quickly any way. 200 is a more usual setting I think - 400 is what was being proposed a while ago, but someone like Nick might be able to shed more light on it.

Terrain_default_radius is also to do with ground texture resolution and how far into the distance textures remain 'clear'. Again Nick might be able to explain but as with most of this stuff, don't expect any miracles (let alone any improvement) unless you have a pretty high end card.

And if you have, you should have spent time setting it up right anyway  ;)

[Jakemaster]

I don't even bother anymore.  I have gotten my computer to run with 20fps locked, always at around 17 and up, and the sim looks great.  I am not going to touch my settings until I get a new card.  I think that some of the fun in fs comes from tweaking your settings until you get what YOU want.  

[RollerBall]

Your right there Jake. You can spend so long fiddlin with the thing that you never get time to fly - no fun in that.

Keep away from the hardware forum- it's almost their total life down there. Shine a flashlight on em and they all blink back at you like rabbits - haven't seen daylight for so long, see  :D

[Jakemaster]

See, the thing is, I have a tendency to screw things up.  So now that I have everything right, I don't want to touch it or else itll break.  Once I get a new card, I will spend a month getting it perfect, but never tweak it after that.

[cavity]

Changing the values for the default radius made a huge difference in the textures.  Not only were they sharper, they stayed sharp for a much greater distance.  I do recommend this change if your going to try something.  I was really amazed at the difference, especially in spot view.  Todd

[FrodoFraggins]

It decreases ground texture loading time.
It also makes extended terrain textures further.
If all your settings are maxed. It will stop wild flickering on the ground while still having MIP mapping at full.

So, the textures are sharp on your plane. The ground looks better unless bellow 500feet, and dosn't flicker.Not to mention higher fps.

Cya guys

[Midnight_LS1]

I have 3.2 GHz Pent 4, 1 GB of RAM, 10,000 RPM WD Raptor 74GB HD, and a Nvidia GeForce 6800Ultra and this mod worked well, improved the graphics at the same time too.  Suttering is less.

I wonder why by default were these settings?

Terrain_default_radius=0.000000
Terrain_Extended_radius=0.000000
Terrain_extended_Levels=0

I changed them to:

Texture_Bandwidth_Mult=400
Terrain_default_radius=9.500000
Terrain_Extended_radius=4.500000
Terrain_Extended_Levels=4

[Midnight_LS1]

[quote]See, the thing is, I have a tendency to screw things up.

[FrodoFraggins]

Also, it is HUGELLY unlikely you will mess up your cmputer by adjusting some sliders in the drivers page.

[Katahu]

My computer is due for another windows reinstall early next year, so I'm not gonna fiddle with the settings.

[FrodoFraggins]

Looks like I'll be one of the only people with get 25 no stutters.
To prove me wrong, Try it. Or you will loose to a looser  ;D

LOL

cya