Very strange FSX problem...?

[Techy111]

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

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

Tony

[JD_Wyberton]

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?

[Techy111]

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

[JD_Wyberton]

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?

[JD_Wyberton]

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.

[TSR2]

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. ;-)

[Techy111]

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

[JD_Wyberton]

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:

[Techy111]

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

Tony

[JD_Wyberton]

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!