Glitch maybe!?

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Glitch maybe!?

Postby Gunny04 » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:31 pm

Maybe you guys can tell me, Its probably my graphics card but this happens all the time in FSX in different ways, sometimes the scenery is gone, sometimes it gets mixed up... have a look for yourself

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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby flymo » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:36 pm

its not loading properly, usualy due to settings to high :P

however this can be helped with 2 simple changes
1. Add the following to the [MAIN] Section of your FSX.CFG file

FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=??

Replace the ?? with a number between 0 and 1. This controls how much time the processor spends on scenery. Bigger number means more time spent on scenery and less FPS. Smaller number means less time on scenery and more FPS. Recommended value is .33. Not sure, but should probably choose numbers that are easily divisible into 1, such as .25, .33, .5.


2. when in the FSX open window (free flight, MP and that stuffs) open ur task manage, find FSX.exe right click go to set priority and select high, DO NOT SELECT REALTIME BECAUSE THIS WILL LOCK YOUR SYSTEM UP. all this basicly does is dedicates more memory to FSX

try those and see what your results are

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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby Gunny04 » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:39 pm

Well flymo, FSX already takes all of my memory anyways, but as for the first tweak, I'll give it a go!

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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby KDSM » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:41 pm

heh you flying mooney too!
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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby flymo » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:45 pm

what are your specs gunny??
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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby Gunny04 » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:49 pm

Well both of those suggestions did the trick, Thanks mate!

Cheers, Gunny

Specs you ask?

AMD athlon 3800 Venice Socket 939 at 2.4Ghz, 6100K8MA-RS Foxconn Motherboard, 2 gigs (4X512MB) PC3200 Ram, 128MB Nvidia 7300LE PCI-E (Takes some system ram) 250 gig SATA Hard drive,300W PSU, This concludes my shabby rig

This is how I run FSX

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Aircraft have High detail cockpits but shadows off, Frames are locked at 15 (I get between 10-15 usually where I fly) low clouds and lowest visibility possible. Hope this helps!
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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby flymo » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:38 am

put ur frames target to unlimited that helps me a little, it was locked at 15 and then it shot up 2 around the 30 mark :D

so that was worth it, also turn of advanced effects, you wnt notice much differance and youl get loads of frames
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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby Gunny04 » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:42 am

If I dont run unlimited it stutters a lot... I've never run a frame rate lock in FS9 because I didnt have a card that supported the features so it ran fine unlimited, however my 7300LE just cant do it.... I am eventually going to replace the card. I am happy how FSX runs on this crappy 7300LE (Though it is overclocked 161Mhz above stock) so maybe thats why I run it as well as it is. Though it looks fine with me, many wouldnt like it probably! Thanks for the help flymo, solved the issues 100%

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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby commoner » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:00 am

put ur frames target to unlimited that helps me a little, it was locked at 15 and then it shot up 2 around the 30 mark :D

so that was worth it, also turn of advanced effects, you wnt notice much differance and youl get loads of frames



...when you lock the frame rate at a set figure...as soon as that figure is reach the processor is free to do other things..........set at  unlimited and this doesn't happen, the processor is tied up looking for higher rates...........that's how I see it..........Unlimited never did me any good...........commoner ;)
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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby Politically Incorrect » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:43 am

Commomer speaks the truth you are wasting resources with frames unlimited ;)

First off don't worry about FPS, set it to where you can fly smooth and then forget it, don't watch the gauge (btw the fps meter wastes resources also), being able to fly with high frames is just false bragging rights it doesn't make your sim experience any better, and definitely isn't something to judge how well your setup is ;) it isn't all about how many FPS you get it is about getting the smoothest most enjoyable flight simulation out of the gear you have.
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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby commoner » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:00 am

.......Yes remember this....after a certain figure (20 maybe?) Frame Rates = Brownie Points..nothing else!....or as PI puts it "Bragging rights"..Personally I use 17FPS and for me it's just amazing............keep it smooth, and trade off the scenery until you get that...........then ENJOY this wonderful FSX ...............commoner ;)
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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby flymo » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:21 am

il try locking my frames and see how that does me.... but FPS does matter because 20 is perfectly flyable but the more you have its just better because at 20 a drop of 5 frames is vert noticable but at 30 a drop of 5 frames is not at all noticable.

and 17FPS is ment to be cinematic quality so that is the lowest you want to be hitting for a smooth flight
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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby Tweek » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:12 am

il try locking my frames and see how that does me.... but FPS does matter because 20 is perfectly flyable but the more you have its just better because at 20 a drop of 5 frames is vert noticable but at 30 a drop of 5 frames is not at all noticable.


Then lock it at 30, and don't have it on unlimited.
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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby ryan2005 » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:42 pm

are the trees really small or are you in the air and the ground texture really reallt big
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Re: Glitch maybe!?

Postby Gunny04 » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:01 pm

I'm on the ground in that shot actually (Notice the gear down and the Yellow taxi line) But its all fixed now  ;D

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