Hi guys!
First of all, many many greetings to all to have the most wonderful XMas and New years days to you and your families!
I think to have reached almost the maximum i can run FSX on my pc
P4 3 Ghz
!024 Gig Ram
ATI X 1600 XT
I have followed the tips from Nick and now, with these setting i reach from 18/ 20 FPS with a nice smoothness in the sim.
Remember that FPS is not so important to have the/any game smooth as much as possible, the xpert say that is a right balance in the pc that is giving better performance.
One can have a very smooth game with 15 FPS than one that has 50 fps and stuttering all the time...
Of course this is the theory, but is true, unfortunatly, specially with medium end system we have to compromise performance with fine graphic, and i have choosen this.
I am always testing the game in the hardest way to see what are " the limits" of my system, means find a nice performance with the system really working a lot, than from here, try and find also a good compromisewith the graphic setting.
I think to be on the right step, if i think that a week ago i was telling myself, well you have throw 55 euro in the trash can, now i can tell, well this is a onderful game.
In the beginning of my post, i was totally wrong about my discover, and, i have to thank him, nick open my eyes and make me realize that was logic the improvement of the fps, but with a loss in the graphic seight.
Now i am running with:
AA= 4X
AF= 16X
Adaptive antialiasing= performance
SO exactly the opposite way i was trying in the begining.
I will post my cfg file to make see the changes i have made.
I have found, on my system, that lowering FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=.001//OR 0.001
to this size, has given me the kick to have smooth fligth and good FPS, with a not big loose in the graphic site.
Well, as i have said before, we have to compromise and i have done...
It is still time to experiment, but with these seting i am happy enough, and i will wait for the patch, that seems will come out in the new year, and bevouse of this, i will not hack texture and so on, or better, the only thing i have done has been to chenge the resolution of the clouds and installed a patch from MS i think that has performed some terrain texture, nothing else, only cfg tweeks and graphic settings.
About the long loading time, it ia a known issue, is because, seems that in the game there is a wrong code or something like this that make the game, at the startup, searching for all the textures, that are not in the right folder or are failed, this is what i have read about, the expert can confirm this or not, but if someone has Filemon and setting the filter to FSX.exe, will see if is really true what these people is telling.
Sorry for this long post, but i want to give info to all and see if i can help.
Maybe i have been lucky with my setting, but right now i have a game running very smooth and with almost no stuttering ( other thing to check)
I post now my CFG, i prefer not my setting in the game, they are too much depending from pc to pc and hardware, but if someone want to know them,i will very happy to show them..
Thanks so much for the attention
Stefano
[SOUND]
AmbientUIMusicVolume=-6.000000
SOUND_FADER1=0.060000
SOUND_FADER2=0.080000
SOUND_FADER3=0.090000
SOUND_FADER4=0.050000
AmbientUIMusic=FSX02
SOUND=1
SOUND_QUALITY=2
SOUND_LOD=0
UISound=1
AmbientUI=0
[Display]
ChangeTime=4.000000
TransitionTime=4.000000
ActiveWindowTitleTextColor=255,255,255
ActiveWindowTitleBackGroundColor=0,28,140,64
NonActiveWindowTitleTextColor=255,255,255
NonActiveWindowTitleBackGroundColor=24,33,87,64
InfoUpperRightTextColor=255,0,0
InfoUpperRightBackGroundColor=0,0,0,0
InfoLowerLeftTextColor=255,255,255
InfoLowerLeftBackGroundColor=255,0,0,128
InfoLowerRightTextColor=255,255,255
InfoLowerRightBackGroundColor=255,0,0,128
InfoBrakesEnable=True
InfoParkingBrakesEnable=True
InfoPauseEnable=True
InfoSlewEnable=True
InfoStallEnable=True
InfoOverspeedEnable=True
BLOOM_EFFECTS=0
SKINNED_ANIMATIONS=1
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=100
UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=19
WideViewAspect=False
[Main]
DisablePreload=1
User Objects=Airplane, Helicopter
SimObjectPaths.0=SimObjects\Airplanes
SimObjectPaths.1=SimObjects\Rotorcraft
SimObjectPaths.2=SimObjects\GroundVehicles
SimObjectPaths.3=SimObjects\Boats
SimObjectPaths.4=SimObjects\Animals
SimObjectPaths.5=SimObjects\Misc
Maximized=1
Location=124,102,1156,876,\\.\DISPLAY1
HideMenuNormal=0
HideMenuFullscreen=1
FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=.001//OR 0.001
[PANELS]
IMAGE_QUALITY=1
DEFAULT_VIEW=1
QUICKTIPS=1
PANEL_OPACITY=100
PANEL_MASKING=1
PANEL_STRETCHING=1
UNITS_OF_MEASURE=0
[Weather]
WindshieldPrecipitationEffects=1
MinGustTime=10
MaxGustTime=500
MinGustRampSpeed=1
MaxGustRampSpeed=200
MinVarTime=5
MaxVarTime=50
MinVarRampSpeed=10
MaxVarRampSpeed=75
TurbulenceScale=1.000000
WeatherServerAddress=fs2k.zone.com
WeatherServerPort=80
WeatherGraphDataInDialog=0
AdjustForMagVarInDialog=1
DynamicWeather=1
DownloadWindsAloft=0
DisableTurbulence=0
CLOUD_DRAW_DISTANCE=3
DETAILED_CLOUDS=1
CLOUD_COVERAGE_DENSITY=6
THERMAL_VISUALS=0
[DISPLAY.Device.Sapphire RADEON X1600 XT.0]
Mode=1280x1024x32
TriLinear=1
[CONTROLS]
Controls_Default=Standard
Controls_Current=Standard
KBDAIL=64
KBDELEV=64
KBDRUD=64
[TextInfo.1]
Latitude=1,1
Longitude=1,2
Altitude=1,3
Heading=1,4
AirSpeed=1,5
WindDirectionAndSpeed=1,6
[TextInf
