Frame Rate Tips

[RoY]

Hello guys and gals, Over the weekend I rebuilt my rig to gain more drive space, Broke up my puny SSD 120 gig raid zero and replaced it with 500 gigs same setup so I could make room for all the scenery and other ad-ons I eventually will be adding . I have all my Orbx, REX and a few of my favorite aircraft installed and working great but for some reason my frame rates have been neutered. In places where I use to get 40+ FPS I Am now seeing as low as 8 fps and as high as mid 40's if I get out over the water and way from dry land Previously before rebuild, mid 30's fps was the lowest I ever saw and went as high as 90's. I call on you long time FSX Gurus to offer any idea's or areas to look at I may have over looked in my tweeking. Thanks

[pirateinparadise]

Tell us what CPU, Memory, Graphics card, and OS you have. Nobody can tell you anything without that information.

[RoY]

Absolutely, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit i7-2600k ~3.7GHz , SSD Raid 0 500 Gig, Corsair Memory 16Gig DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6900 HD 2 Gig GDDR5, 850W IN WIN Commander II Power, Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Mainboard

[John_J]

Simple, Intel i7 4790k & Nvidia GTX 970/980. Then DX10 fixer and a good Nvidia inspector profile/setup. I couldn't do FSX with any of less.

[RoY]

Well I re seating the video card and it now pulling better FPS. Still needs some tweeking though but its not running too bad at the moment

[河马仔]

since last update by DTG in late april fps get increased by up to 5. but I still think the key to fps is your CPU

[pirateinparadise]

Use the AMD control panel to override the FSX settings. I did this with Nvidia Inspector and it made a huge difference. Inside of FSX, set filtering to bilateral and AA off. Google the correct settings for your video card and put them in the FSX profile in the AMD Control Panel.

This will offload the work of doing filtering and AA from FSX. It forces the video card to do the work.

[denjame]

use FS SUPERTWEAKER (its free) and keep your mouse arrow down on the windows task bar

4790k GTX 770 16GB ram windows 8.1

[John_J]

All these things help but the biggest improvement is to get the best cpu you can afford, I got the 4790k and it was worth every dollar. All these tweak programs, fsps tweaker are garbage or do less than expected. I tried them all. Again the best combo is 4790k & GTX 970. Do this and the only focus you will be on is tuning the GPU cause my FPS is at +70-150 with MAX settings but airline traffic at 20%. I just fine tune my settings to get the best visuals, performance is no problem.

[denjame]

Originally posted by »The Airbus Driver®:

All these things help but the biggest improvement is to get the best cpu you can afford, I got the 4790k and it was worth every dollar. All these tweak programs, fsps tweaker are garbage or do less than expected. I tried them all. Again the best combo is 4790k & GTX 970. Do this and the only focus you will be on is tuning the GPU cause my FPS is at +70-150 with MAX settings but airline traffic at 20%. I just fine tune my settings to get the best visuals, performance is no problem.

what you get them fps in a cockpit of a payware A2A or PMDG

[pirateinparadise]

The OP has an i7-2600k ~3.7GHz. That CPU has more than enough horsepower to run FSX extremely well.

I believe that his "problem" is that FSX is trying to do all of the filtering and AA (using the CPU), and he just needs to get it set up so that the video card is doing most of the work on the GPU.

[pirateinparadise]

Originally posted by »The Airbus Driver®:

All these things help but the biggest improvement is to get the best cpu you can afford, I got the 4790k and it was worth every dollar. All these tweak programs, fsps tweaker are garbage or do less than expected. I tried them all. Again the best combo is 4790k & GTX 970. Do this and the only focus you will be on is tuning the GPU cause my FPS is at +70-150 with MAX settings but airline traffic at 20%. I just fine tune my settings to get the best visuals, performance is no problem.

I'm getting over 100+ FPS with an i5-3570k and a GTX 750 Ti. I have the frame rate slider locked to 30, and the sim runs smooth as glass with 100% airline traffic. I set vehicle traffic to 0%, but only because I don't find that it adds much to my simming experience. I can't see wasting the CPU cycles to draw things I don't care about it..

Yes, more CPU is always better, but not everyone is trying to get 1000FPS. Most folks are just shooting for a smooth running sim.

[shewbrookj]

Another factor is what screen resolution you are using. I used to get great frame rates until I bought a ultra wide 34" monitor which uses twice as many pixels. I'm using a fast cpu i7 5820 and one gtx980. For ultra wide I reckon a titan x is really required. I've heard two 980s don't make a difference because Nvidea haven't developed the drivers to take advantage of an SLI set up...

[Jeff]

Originally posted by »The Airbus Driver®:

All these things help but the biggest improvement is to get the best cpu you can afford, I got the 4790k and it was worth every dollar. All these tweak programs, fsps tweaker are garbage or do less than expected. I tried them all. Again the best combo is 4790k & GTX 970. Do this and the only focus you will be on is tuning the GPU cause my FPS is at +70-150 with MAX settings but airline traffic at 20%. I just fine tune my settings to get the best visuals, performance is no problem.

Thats good too hear my new rig is almost done.I went with the 4790k also plus 32gig gskill ripjaws Z ram.Will be getting 2 970s next. Glad to hear good things about that CPU.