I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours...

[sinjun]

I felt the need to make this post directly due the the actions of a select group of others who post here. The ones I am talking about are the ones who post the beautiful screenies of gorgeously lit aircraft with busy airports as the backgrounds.

I should clarify that I am not going to complain other than to say how do you do it. What kind of alienware machine are you running that you are able to make such brilliant screenshots and not end up watching a slide show while doing it.

But Aha!!! That is the catch I suppose, what with these all being still pictures and no one ever including their fps I suppose they could be all be screenshots of slide shows.

What I propose is that everyone who is interested please reply to this post with a one of your own screenshots.

What I am looking for in order to determine whether everyone is in the same boat as me or if I need to upgrade is this.

Make a post of Chicago O'hare. Preferably during the day, keep the clouds off, I won't even go into what they do to my framerate. Try to include as much AI as possible, anything else is a go. Please post your approximate system specs, Processor, Vid card and RAM AI level and type, also be sure to leave your fps indicator on. To those who don't know, it is shift-Z.

I think this will be beneficial to a lot of people in two ways;

1: it will make us feel better about our own machines

2: it could lead us in the direction of someone who knows how to milk ever last drop of performance out of this sometimes stunning game.

I will start with me

Athlon XP 2700+
Sapphire Radeon 9700np o/c'd to 344/299
512 MB DDR 333mhz
AI = 90% (Mytraffic, Project AI and default)

Also please leave the images untouched except to resize for proper visualization.

Lets start with this and see what we can come up with.



http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...f67a8a33c3.jpg

[falcon16]

sorry man, this is waht I've been asking for the past three weeks!!! how do they do it!?!?! first PHCO told me it was RAM also that they use this photo programs and they edit them (Pol!;))

ALso, you got a pretty good system man;)

[Kimber]

Hi Guys:-wave

We have a lower end setup

988hz
512ram
on board video{256m}

locked on 12 and never changes

We don't fly the big airports, mostly around home
and the Alaskan bush!!

Kimber

PS; I just got this plane and it's a 'Dandy'!!

[airkevin]

Question: Is this FS2002 or 2004? If it's 2002, I will try to post one. If it's 2004...sorry, man, no can do.

[Kimber]

sorry!

Kimber

[Kimber]

dito

Kimber

PS; Will a mod please remove my first post

[sinjun]

So far this is turning out to be a complete waste of time.

Please read the original thread and respond accordingly please.

Your co-operation is appreciated.

[trdc]

My system:
Dell Dimension 8250
2.66GHz Intel Pentium IV processor (no HT)
256MB SDRAM(dunno what's the speed)
ATI Radeon 9700TX 128MB 4x AGP graphics card
SB Audigy 2 soundcard
settings: everything "Ultra High", 1024x768 resolution, mimapping 4, hardware lights 6, trilinear filtering + anti aliasing, global scenery texture size massive
My aircraft: POSKY 757-200 with NWA texture

this is a shot at the AA hub, 2 aircraft taxiing
http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...0d2fef0cb0.jpg
one at the United hub
http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...6c30229e76.jpg
more planes in the pic, no planes moving around
http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...8030274916.jpg
the same position, at 800x600 resolution
http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...97302d3179.jpg

Overall what I got was mostly between 15-35 fps, with the bulk of the time around 19-22 fps. For 800x600 resolution at exact same settings, the range was the same, but the bulk was between 25-30 fps. In the air, I usually get between 35-75 fps, depending on various factors such as weather and traffic. The POSKY 757 is a reasonably intensive aircraft, so it should provide a good gauge.

[lazerin]

Here's two shots.

Firstly, an overview of the airport:

http://kianlim.e-access.com.au/img/chicago01.jpg

And a view from inside the tower:

http://kianlim.e-access.com.au/img/chicago02.jpg

These shots are scaled down from 1024x768.

Settings:
FSAA 2x
Anis Off
Autogen max
Traffic max with MyTraffic

Specs:
XP1800+ @ 1.8ghz
Ti4400 @300/650 running 44.03 omega performance drivers
1024Mb ram
WinXP Pro

This is a highly tuned system, so don't expect the same frames if you just go and purchase the same hardware and run it.

[sinjun]

WOW!!! those are amazing screenshots with killer fps's

Please keep them coming

They have already given me a few ideas on how to bring the fps up.