What should I do?

[cloakster]

FSX might not take advantage of quad cores, so that could be why faster dual cores are better than your quad core.

[Cave]

Old thread but had to be said.

FSX hardly uses your graphics card. A processer of at least 3GHz is reccommended to play FSX on decent settings.

And I reccommend downloading TweakFPS, as well as Game Booster and CCleaner.

I get 100FPS+ in FSX when using IFR - Best Performance mode in TweakFPS.

Also be sure to kill explorer.exe when playing FSX, this improves performance immensly.  You can open it again by using "New Process".

[Killer_Klient]

Old thread but had to be said.

FSX hardly uses your graphics card. A processer of at least 3GHz is reccommended to play FSX on decent settings.

And I reccommend downloading TweakFPS, as well as Game Booster and CCleaner.

I get 100FPS+ in FSX when using IFR - Best Performance mode in TweakFPS.

Also be sure to kill explorer.exe when playing FSX, this improves performance immensly.  You can open it again by using "New Process".

My friend has a duel core 3.0ghz processor and a 512mb 8800gts nVidea graphics card and yet he can't run it on max, I have a shitty 256mb Ati Radeon card and a quad core processer with 2.4ghz and mine runs smoother than his when we set it to the same quality .

[Jhon]

@ Cave: Right now the problem isn't that big, I can play with decent FPS disabling the autogen scenery, that's what slows the game down a lot, and I already got used to play without trees/houses, all I care about are the buildings in the airport

Also be sure to kill explorer.exe when playing FSX, this improves performance immensly.  You can open it again by using "New Process".

Never heard that before, gonna try it next time I run FSX. Thanks for the advice

[LobbyZ]

Hi there Jhon.

I've played FSX with high settings and i have a Intel Dual E2200 at 2.20 GHz with Nvidia Geforce 9300 GE which is more suckier then your card but it can steal my 3 GB ram when it needs it. It can go up to 1.5gb but its 256mb normally. I have Vista Home Premium (OEM faggot, legit too.) and i also have your screen resolution at 1440x900, i got as i said 3 GB ram with up to 6gb VRam and 450gb HDD. I ran FSX perfectly fine on high/medium settings so no, its not your computer. However it should be noted i ran 1152x864 and not my full resolution, try that and see what happens. So in conclusion it is not your computers fault, its either your game or your OS. Is both legit or what?

Thanks
LobbyZ

[Jhon]

Well, actually both are "legit", I got the Windows 7 Release Candidate beta (build 7100) and my FSX is genuine, so I don't really know what the problem was, but anyway, as I said before, thanks for your advice, some of the hints you gave me helped a lot to improve the performance not only in FSX but in every game I have, and right now my performance in FSX is decent (60-70 FPS with everything full EXCEPT autogen scenery) so I can be happy with that for now

[LobbyZ]

Well, actually both are "legit", I got the Windows 7 Release Candidate beta (build 7100) and my FSX is genuine, so I don't really know what the problem was, but anyway, as I said before, thanks for your advice, some of the hints you gave me helped a lot to improve the performance not only in FSX but in every game I have, and right now my performance in FSX is decent (60-70 FPS with everything full EXCEPT autogen scenery) so I can be happy with that for now

Ah Win7 well killing explorer.exe does indeed give you alot of performace as explorer takes quite alot of RAM and CPU due to Aero and shit like that. Its also good to kill any downloading software you have open, music programs are ok but the rest is not. Funny thing is that i never had to kill explorer.exe yet it was like 50 FPS

[Jhon]

Lol yeah, I had never heard about the explorer thing, gonna try it as soon as I'm able to run FSX again, been busy lately Anyway when I use it I barely have any different program/download on, only Winamp, and I only play music when I'm on ground and on cruise altitude. When maneuvering (like pushback, taxi, takeoff, approach, landing etc)  I use the sim sound to feel a bit more "concentrated"

[LobbyZ]

Try crashing into another plane. MUCH FUN!

[Cave]

Did you download TweakFPS?

Use "IFR - Best Performance" and click the FSX button. When the game loads go to options and then set everything as you usually have it.