texture loading times... again.

[tonaz]

hello everybody, i have been around this forum and other forums trying to understand some settings in the cfg, for days, and i still can not get the point. maybe someone could help me.

i got a quite good rig, a quadcore, 8gig of ram, and a gtx 295.

i can play with bloom (lowered quality tweak + shader 3.0 forced) and quite high graphic settings, with a solid 30fps.

the point is that when i fly with a f18 the ground textures cant load fast enough.

i know it has something to do with the following settings, i write what i am using:

[BufferPools]
UsePools=1
PoolSize=8388608
RejectThreshold=131072

[GRAPHICS]
TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=1024

[Main]
FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.15

[Display]
TextureMaxLoad=9
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=120

i dont have nothing more relted to textures.
What should i do to make textures load faster?
thanks in advance for any help!!!

[CHUCK79]

I think this is what you're lookin' for. Increase the LOD_RADIUS until you get the result you want.
FSX cfg file under "Terrain"

[TERRAIN]
AUTOGEN_DENSITY=4
DETAIL_TEXTURE=1
[glow=yellow,2,300]LOD_RADIUS=4.500000[/glow]
MESH_COMPLEXITY=100
MESH_RESOLUTION=23
SWAP_WAIT_TIMEOUT=2
TEXTURE_RESOLUTION=28
WATER_EFFECTS=6

[tonaz]

thanks for your reply.
i tried increasing the radius but it is a fps killer, ofcourse, and loading times are the same.
i do not need more radius of detail in visual flights, couse i am near the scenarios enough when i fly a cessna in a canyon for example. increasing LOD would mean to make fsx load distant textures, which i do not need.
4.5 value is ok, it loads everything i need at the maximum LOD.
The problem is that it is slow loading.