Classic British Flight Sim

Sorted it guys........gone back to Vista......Go figure....

Fps back into the 50's now....with everything on Ultra high.... :think:

Tony

Hey Tony, my rig is very similar to yours - except I have the E6850 and X1950XTX with the P5K-E WiFi AP and 4 gigs (OCZ HPC8500 Reaper). My cpu is at 3.64GHz and the RAM at 1014MHz.

I have a little stuttering - especially at airports or low-altitudes, but found it acceptable. I always have the settings max'd out. The advice I got was to lower the frame rate setting in FSX - as it doesn't mean you won't get over that, but it does mean that FSX is less likely to start cutting things out of the picture.

I never actually checked the FPS rates - but I can give it a go with FRAPS.

Fancy a comparison?

I'm up for that JD....name a default A/C and location and we will give it a try.....? Exterior and interior footage ok...?

;-)

Toy

Okay Toy - errmm Tony

How's about 737-800 Edinburgh, 2000ft msl?

If you like - we could then do the same further south, but with VFR scenery?

Oh dear!

I just did a few FRAPS recordings over Edinburgh.

Embarassing to say the least - my average framerate is a measley 6 fps. Shock! That's both internal and external viewing, using TrackIR. Went up to 8 a couple of times and down to 5 a couple of times - but mostly stayed on 6. I never thought it would be that slow - it always seemed quite acceptable to me.

The problem is, despite me having set FRAPS to show the framerate in recordings - it hasn't. Maybe because it's unregistered?

I'll have to fly it again and get either FSX or Tray Tools to display the framerate instead.

Hi JD,

The frame rate in Fraps is there for your information only.. nobody really wants big red numbers in the corner of their video... do they?

Just hit control + z a few times to bring up the FS frames per second indicator, and Fraps will record it for you. ;-)

How do i get the scenery to refresh or redraw quicker in FSX....?

My card is capable...i know that....but the refresh rate is poor....?

25 Locked and 25 got over Edinburgh JD.....

Tony

Well done, Tony. ;-)

I forgot to add I was using "Fair Weather" with Trilinear and Anti-aliasing set.

When I disabled anti-aliasing and trilinear (ie "none" setting for texture filtering) it made no difference at all to the framerate - so something is most definitely wrong somewhere. The picture was complete cr@p, though! :tab:

JD...I am using Anisotropic with Anti-aliasing and fair weather...!

Tony

Yeah - I tried that, too, mate - it made no difference at all. I also tried sliding the minimum FPS setting from 10fps (the lowest it will go ) to unlimited and there was still no difference.

I think it would take a long time to suss that out, so I'll probably not bother!