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Postby Tomcat5 » Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:35 pm

(Not sure if posted in right place, but had to get this out if nobody else noticed.)
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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby Rich H » Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:27 am

It says it might cause system instability? I'd just like another opinion to make sure it's ok.
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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby RacingLad » Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:02 am

What about Win XP? Can XP pull the same trick?
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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby Tomcat5 » Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:51 am

It says it might cause system instability? I'd just like another opinion to make sure it's ok.


It never caused instability even when I had 512 mb of RAM, so I don't think it matters.

EDIT: It  might if you do it to a whole bunch of processes, but I don't think just FSX will matter too much.
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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby Tomcat5 » Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:52 am

What about Win XP? Can XP pull the same trick?

Yep.
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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby firemonte007 » Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:53 am

It says it might cause system instability? I'd just like another opinion to make sure it's ok.


I have windows XP with 2 gigs of RAM...I'll give it a try and let you all know. ;)

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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby firemonte007 » Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:47 pm

the ac is a twin otter taken at Honolulu International in Hawaii with everything turned up except airport ground traffic...I took a shot with it on normal then put it onto high...i went to put it to realtime and my system was wanting to crash. the pictures also show not a real difference between normal and high prioity setting.

Before with normal setting
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after-with high prioity setting
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I personally did not see a difference worth the possible trouble that it could cause....Maybe NickN could give us simmers some insite on this.

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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby Tomcat5 » Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:00 pm

I personally did not see a difference worth the possible trouble that it could cause....Maybe NickN could give us simmers some insite on this.

Jason 8-)


That's really interesting...  Maybe it's just me.  Thanks for sharing.  :)
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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby Tomcat5 » Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:46 pm

High priority with A340 at JFK:

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Normal priority:

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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby stevehookem » Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:58 pm

How do you do this in Win XP?
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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby ShaneG_old » Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:02 pm

How do you do this in Win XP?



Open the Task Manager, right click on FSX, select Priority.
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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby Ang2dogs » Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:23 pm

It says it might cause system instability? I'd just like another opinion to make sure it's ok.


[quote]Like Tomcat5 said;
P.S. the setting does not save.
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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby lunitic_8 » Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:09 pm

I run FSX with 25 fps with normal priority  ;D
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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby Thai09 » Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:52 pm

Probably more effective to KILL som processes and programs at start-up me think...

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Re: Better FSX Preformance

Postby pear40 » Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:21 pm

I have 8 gigs of RAM, so I don't think I'd be causing any problems.
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