I'm an idiot.... [Archive]

Brian_Gladden

April 17th, 2010, 15:07

I've been running FSX with only SP1. Only because the first time I tried to install SP@ FSX crashed and wouldn't run.

Today, I tried SP2 again...

I am STUPID!!!! FSX is suddenly so much smoother than I could have imagined. I was having trouble running the Carenendo C-185 and now it's almost as good as a default plane. UT AK was dragging things down too but now it's smooth. I can run it locked at 22 and get it in the rural areas where before I was lucky to get 15. I unlocked things and saw as high as 40 fps in spots. I got a low of 12 in Juneau Harbor with the Aerosoft Beaver Amphib with preset three in UT AK. But it was still flyable.

Not too bad for my ancient P-IV 3 gig with only 4 gig of ram and an old ATI vid card.

FSX is suddenly usable for me. If this works out, I might have to think about getting rid of FS9....

Maybe...

Brian

Lionheart

April 17th, 2010, 15:08

This is interesting..

Brian, are you still running WinXP?

Bill

txnetcop

April 17th, 2010, 15:15

Acceleration is even smoother, but there is nothing wrong with SP2. I glad you finally did it Brian
Ted
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Brian_Gladden

April 17th, 2010, 17:16

This is interesting..

Brian, are you still running WinXP?

Bill

Yep. XP SP2. I still can't run the default Garmin MFD's though. They still drag down the frames. I want to add some AI because It's pretty lonely in the skies as of the moment. I have Just Flight's My Traffic X but I don't like it. I'll probably install Flight 1's Traffic X. It's a bit more in depth. Now all I have to do is save up the cash.

Brian

txnetcop

April 17th, 2010, 17:40

Yep. XP SP2. I still can't run the default Garmin MFD's though. They still drag down the frames. I want to add some AI because It's pretty lonely in the skies as of the moment. I have Just Flight's My Traffic X but I don't like it. I'll probably install Flight 1's Traffic X. It's a bit more in depth. Now all I have to do is save up the cash.

Brian

My Traffic X should work just fine
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MCDesigns

April 17th, 2010, 17:48

fantastic news Brian, welcome to the ball! LOL. This is just one of the reasons everyone should have SP2 installed.

Brian_Gladden

April 17th, 2010, 19:02

I've done other things to improve frames. Reduced size autogen textures have helped immensely. I gained nearly 8 fps from that alone on my original install. I also put in reduced size clouds as well.

I'm slowly getting this thing dialed in....

Brian

tigisfat

April 17th, 2010, 19:33

I've done other things to improve frames. Reduced size autogen textures have helped immensely. I gained nearly 8 fps from that alone on my original install. I also put in reduced size clouds as well.

I'm slowly getting this thing dialed in....

Brian

You've got to tell me how you did that!!

Brian_Gladden

April 18th, 2010, 03:43

<table style="width: 648px; height: 57px;" align="center" bgcolor="#aaccee" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" align="left">Category: Flight Simulator X - Miscellaneous Files (http://library.avsim.net/index.php?CatID=fsxmisc) </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="*" align="left"> FSX Performance Textures </td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap">  http://library.avsim.net/images/ZipDive.png (http://library.avsim.net/zipdiver.php?DLID=119472) http://library.avsim.net/images/Download.png (http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=119472) </td> </tr> </tbody></table> File Description:
Performance_textures_FSXSP2 These are the textures I after testing, found best for performance in FSX SP2... Textures are just reduced in size, and some chanced format from 32 bit to dxt3 or dxt1. Mips are not changed from the original, to prevent flight simulator to failure or crash. The textures are VC-RAIN_textures, Auto gen Trees all seasons, Water textures and Sky textures. Place the texures in the main texture folder, the original textures from SP2 is included in this file, if You dont want to use the smaller textures.

<table width="50%" align="center" bgcolor="#aaccee" border="0"><tbody><tr> <td width="25%">Filename:</td> <td width="75%">fsx_performance_textures.zip
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">License:</td> <td width="75%">Freeware</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Added:</td> <td width="75%">29th March 2008</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Downloads:</td> <td width="75%">3542</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Author:</td> <td width="75%">Claus Vendelboe Holmberg</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Size:</td> <td width="75%">28227kb
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Brian_Gladden

April 18th, 2010, 03:45

And...
<table width="100%" align="center" bgcolor="#aaccee" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" align="left">Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery (http://library.avsim.net/index.php?CatID=fsxscen) </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="*" align="left"> Resized Autogen Textures </td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap">  http://library.avsim.net/images/ZipDive.png (http://library.avsim.net/zipdiver.php?DLID=93083) http://library.avsim.net/images/Download.png (http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=93083) </td> </tr> </tbody></table> File Description:
This release includes resized textures for autogen buildings in FSX. Textures were resized from 1024x1024 to 512x512, cutting filesize from 683kb to 171kb each. All resized textures have mip-maps included and are in DDS format. Resized textures decrease loading time and increase framerate (FPS).

<table width="50%" align="center" bgcolor="#aaccee" border="0"><tbody><tr> <td width="25%">Filename:</td> <td width="75%">resautogentexfsx.zip</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">License:</td> <td width="75%">Freeware, limited distribution</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Added:</td> <td width="75%">1st November 2006</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Downloads:</td> <td width="75%">28395</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Author:</td> <td width="75%">Bart Dylkiewicz</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Size:</td> <td width="75%">6484kb</td></tr></tbody></table>

Almost forgot...

<table width="100%" align="center" bgcolor="#aaccee" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" align="left">Category: Flight Simulator X - Miscellaneous Files (http://library.avsim.net/index.php?CatID=fsxmisc) </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="*" align="left"> FPS Enhancement Package V2 </td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap">  http://library.avsim.net/images/ZipDive.png (http://library.avsim.net/zipdiver.php?DLID=142373) http://library.avsim.net/images/Download.png (http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=142373) </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tbody><tr> <td> http://library.avsim.net/sendfile.php?Location=AVSIM&Proto=file&ImageID=250472 </td> <td width="*"> File Description:
FSX FPS Enhancement Package updated and corrected version. A collection of textures that are resized files for better performance, all files are amended and sharpened for best experience. This update includes an alpha channel for all 342 textures. The package has proved to offer reported increases of 10 to 15 FPS.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table>
<table width="50%" align="center" bgcolor="#aaccee" border="0"><tbody><tr> <td width="25%">Filename:</td> <td width="75%">fps_enhancement_package_v2_267188.zip</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">License:</td> <td width="75%">Freeware</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Added:</td> <td width="75%">2nd January 2010</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Downloads:</td> <td width="75%">5981</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Author:</td> <td width="75%">Tom Knudsen</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25%">Size:</td> <td width="75%">34289kb</td></tr></tbody></table>

Hope this helps.

Brian

Snuffy

April 18th, 2010, 04:24

I'm an idiot....

Welcome to the club. (mebbe not for the same reasons as you ... but we are all a little bit together in this!)