Sometimes I hate FSX and sometimes I love it.

[huub vink]

Today I love it

Huub

[Gdavis101]

I have days like that!

[Mr.Mugel]

I´d truly love with a bird like that... brings back memories of Hahnweide...

Those are the days!

[marklaur]

In the wide open spaces I love it. Cities and airports I hate it.

Even on my new PC it is still too slow overall. Long live FS004, I hate to say.

Cheers Markl

[Ferry_vO]

Flying a Butcher bird will make most of us in here happy, Huub!

As for my love/hate affair with FsX; I'm still tweaking to get the best performance out of my new system. If I lock the framerate slider to 20 fps I barely get 13 fps no matter what settings. If I set it to unlimited I can get up to 100 fps but I get a lot of stutters and artifacts on the screen while panning around. Now I've set it too 31 fps and it seems quite stable at the moment.

Sometimes I think that Fsx will never run smooth on any computer as it cannot handle the newer processors and videocards well, but there isn't an 'older' system fast enough to run it properly...

[grunau_baby]

Ferry,

have you tried the bufferpools setting in the cfg? I´s the only cfg tweak I use and it works great, minimized my stutters completely.
Just add:
[BUFFERPOOLS]
Poolsize=300000000
to your cfg. I use a very high value, if I go any higher FSX completely freezes, lower is less efficient. I guess every system has it´s own balance. You have to set your framrates to unlimited, to use the tweak!

With this settings I was finally able to push up the autogen and use traffic, too.

Alex

[Ferry_vO]

I tried you suggestion Alex, but it didn't change anything. With the framerate set to unlimited the rate fluctuates between 15 and 70 with severe stutters and artifacts on the screen. With the slider set to 30 it is almost fluent and stable with very minor stutters. Lock it to 20 and the framerate drops to 13-15.

You have to set your framrates to unlimited, to use the tweak!

Yep; tried to lock it at 30 with the tweak but could hardly get over 10-12 fps (Aerosoft F-16). With the tweak removed I get 25 fps with the same aircraft.

[Ferry_vO]

But it's not all bad, because when I stop tweaking for a bit I can finally enjoy these three with a decent framerate, and that makes me happy:

[jankees]

I enjoy it all the time, and sometimes even a bit more...

[huub vink]

Another day almost gone....

[falcon409]

I enjoy it all the time, and sometimes even a bit more...

Yea, I would too with scenery like that. . . .geeeze, nobody likes a showoff jankees, lol, lol.

[limjack]

Today I LOVE IT!

[Tim-HH]

But the good thing is that you always forget the frustrating moments when you really enjoy it

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Greetings
Tim

[JT8D-9A]

@Tim
That's not fair
But excellent work

[noddy]

FSX does seem to be the tweaking sim, trying to find that mythical perfect setting!