Don Burnette
01-28-2007, 11:22 PM
"David Wilson-Okamura" <dswo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1170026184.563024.246960@m58g2000cwm.googlegr oups.com...
>A few weeks ago I built a new rig, total cost about US$1100:
>
> Core2Duo 6600 (2.4 GHz)
> 2 Gb fast RAM
> 300 Gb hard drive (7600 RPM)
> Nvidia 7600GS 512Mb (fanless!)
> WinXP Pro
>
> FS9 performance is, as you would expect, excellent. But I didn't try
> FSX right away, for fear I would be disappointed.
>
> In general, I haven't been. I lock frames at 20 and get between 18 and
> 20 most of the time. The most noticeable exceptions: busy airports,
> big cities such as Seattle, and ActiveSky updates. I'm hoping
> something can be done about ActiveSky... In all fairness to FSX, it
> should be said that I really like my eye candy, so detail radius is
> large and anisotropic filtering is 8x on the card.
>
> Minimal tweaking, beyond lowering the max autogen and using a thinned-
> out default.xml. (Would have forgotten that, but I've been keeping a
> log.) I don't know if it has a performance impact, but I'm also using
> a cloud set from Flight Environment. Settings below.*
Thanks for the info, very helpful.
Right now , I am running, and enjoying very much, FSX - but, with autogen
set to none, and AA off in sim and on 4X in video card drivers. This allows
me to achieve consistant 20+ fps in flight, and mid teens landing at larger
airports.
I am considering, upgrading to the Intel Core2 Duo, just curious - what
motherboard did you go with? Don't know if I will go ahead and upgrade now,
or wait a few months, just trying to gather some info at this point.
--
Don
news:1170026184.563024.246960@m58g2000cwm.googlegr oups.com...
>A few weeks ago I built a new rig, total cost about US$1100:
>
> Core2Duo 6600 (2.4 GHz)
> 2 Gb fast RAM
> 300 Gb hard drive (7600 RPM)
> Nvidia 7600GS 512Mb (fanless!)
> WinXP Pro
>
> FS9 performance is, as you would expect, excellent. But I didn't try
> FSX right away, for fear I would be disappointed.
>
> In general, I haven't been. I lock frames at 20 and get between 18 and
> 20 most of the time. The most noticeable exceptions: busy airports,
> big cities such as Seattle, and ActiveSky updates. I'm hoping
> something can be done about ActiveSky... In all fairness to FSX, it
> should be said that I really like my eye candy, so detail radius is
> large and anisotropic filtering is 8x on the card.
>
> Minimal tweaking, beyond lowering the max autogen and using a thinned-
> out default.xml. (Would have forgotten that, but I've been keeping a
> log.) I don't know if it has a performance impact, but I'm also using
> a cloud set from Flight Environment. Settings below.*
Thanks for the info, very helpful.
Right now , I am running, and enjoying very much, FSX - but, with autogen
set to none, and AA off in sim and on 4X in video card drivers. This allows
me to achieve consistant 20+ fps in flight, and mid teens landing at larger
airports.
I am considering, upgrading to the Intel Core2 Duo, just curious - what
motherboard did you go with? Don't know if I will go ahead and upgrade now,
or wait a few months, just trying to gather some info at this point.
--
Don