Emperor's New Clothes

[rodericksnr]

I have owned fs2002, combat fs3, fs2004 and had fsX since the day it came out. That does not exhaust the list of flight sim "games" I own.
I have bought

[Mobius]

En Garde....it's a duel!


[smiley=birthdays.gif] Have some cake, it makes everyone feel better.

[justpassingthrough]

I run 18 locked in the city areas and 22 in the country. The only thing I do without is traffic for now (set at 10%) and I get a lvery large portion of the visuals, flight dynamics and my sim is very smooth for everything I am rendering.

No frame junkie here. I learned my lesson about watching the frame counter and learned how to balance my system with the simulator instead.

No flames. This forum is not about flaming. Sorry your expereince was not what you expected but with the hardware you are running I would say you need to get use to lower slider settings if you want frame rates in FSX. Besides.. locking is essential and anyone running 70 even in FS9 is not setting the sim up right. Its a simulation, not a high speed game. Unlimited frames or high frame lock is no way to use a simulator, fs9 or fsx. People who do that usually do not know what they are missing in visuals and flight dynamics.

[Brett_Henderson]

20-30 fps is good  :)

[BourneID]

I still am a single guy....

no, I am not trying to pick up a date...

I have an AMD64 3500+ with winXp pro, 4 gigs of pc3200 duo channel 4000 and a BFG 7800gt 256 pci-e  and am running pretty respectable FPS .... running the game at 1400x1050.

game looks incriedable... you can check out my screenshots for that...


sorry that the game didnt meet you satisfaction at this time...    just think though... with continued playing of 2004 by you... you will most likely get your hard earned moneys worth outta them paywares

[Jakemaster]

Anything more than 22 frames (even 20) is USELESS.  Ive maxd out my FS9 at 250 once, and if I unlock at the right settings I can get your 70.  But Ive locked it at 20 and tweaked it to hit that 20 in most places, and my FS9 looks incredible.

Ive had nothing but trouble with FSX settings so Ive given up, but 20-30 FPS in FSX is perfect, so don't complain.

[pepper_airborne]

I really dont see the problem, sounds like FSX is running fine at your rig.

[Daube]

[quote]Anything more than 22 frames (even 20) is USELESS.

[Brett_Henderson]

I think 20fps is still good in the turns.. it's just that it drops below 20 in very brief spurts (sometimes too brief to show up on the fps counter) in those turns.. That's the visual sputter-lag you see.. On my machine, locked at 20, anyway..

[Daube]

Yes yes, I'm not saying 20 FPS is not good, I'm just saying that during the turns, more than 20 FPS would not be bad

[Daube]

Ok gentlemens, I would now do it in the good old Nick_N's way

[Brett_Henderson]

Wow !

Looks good to me !

[rodericksnr]

OK guys you've cheered me up. I will persevere with fsx. I will eat some of Mobius's cake , try Daubes settings and learn to love it.
I know anything much above 20fps is good and above what the human eye can see but its the turns wot gets me mad Stutter stutter. Saw the perfect rig at Alienware.

[kilotango]

Daube.
Did you get those nice scenery before or after tweaking some of miltestpilots outstanding informations?

[Fly2e]

Flame this post if you like but I will not reply.

First off, flaming rarely occurs here at SimV and
2nd, The FSX forum is not for people to stand on their podiums and slam the software. There are other sites for this as it leads to people getting too personal about something we are trying to offer help with.

Thanks.

Dave