Graphic Settings

[Pilot_Norman]

Hey Everyone,

I know you guys are probably getting sick and tired of all these posts regarding graphics settings but here is another one. I have searched through the forum and tried everything to get my frame rates up to about 10-12 but no luck. I tinkered with all the detail settings, fiddled with my graphics card, and installed the replacement cloud textures. I even shut down everything in my task manager except for Explorer and System Tray when running the game. With all this, I still only get about 3 frames per second on approach to JFK with a Boeing 737. My system specs are:

- PIII 866mHz
- nVidia GeForce2 MX400 64MB Video Card
- 384 MB SDRAM
- 20GB Hard Drive (6GB Free)

Below is a screen shot of all my settings in the display windows. Upgrading is not an option right now and I am looking for a blend between preformance and functionality (I.E.: I want the taxiway signs, terminal buildings and some major landmarks to fly VFR by). If anyone could please help me it would be a great help.

Cheers,
Josh

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...ae696b770d.jpg

[kc10]

Your settings look about right. I would move the mipmapping to 5.
My last pc was similar to yours: P3 1.0 / GF2 mx 400, and aircraft shadows killed my fps,and so did transform/lighting. And I had to keep AI under 70%.
Have you experimented with 16 bit instead of 32? Lots of people say they see no difference in quality.

[orion25]

HI!

Try with uncheck de Anti-aliasing...


orion25
MMMX

[gary2]

Josh: With RAM pretty inexpensive today I'd go for at least 512 but more is better as they say. I ran a 900Mhz rig with 512RAM but had a Nvidia 4200 graphics card so was still somewhat restricted in what I could move the sliders to. For example I note you have MIP mapping at 8 I used 4. Also I unchecked aircraft cast shadows. Clouds really eat up the frame rates and I'm sure you can live with 25 % there... it all helps. It takes time but I found that if I carefully moved the sliders one at a time and checked back to see the effect the adjustment had on the FPS I eventually arrived at a point that I was able to maintain 10-15 in heavy detail scenery. Oh and I had water effect at 0 but most of the other sliders were quite a bit higher than you show. Unfortunately no two computers unless they are identical in all respects will come up with a perfect solution for you. Unfortunately I've just upgraded so now cannot show you my exact settings.
good luck
Gary

[RyanbATC]

Hi Josh,

My older PC, was similar to yours, and here's what I would recommend as far as settings goes...
**SCENERY***
Terrain mesh : anywhere from 0-50, wont hurt
Terrain texture size: medium is fine for VFR flight
special effects detail: low
autogen density: none (has nothing to do with VFR objects)
uncheck sun lens flare (just another thing to render)

**AIRCRAFT**
virtual cockpit: lowest quality
uncheck relflections and shadows, you dont need those unless you spend extended amounts of time looking at your aircraft...lol


**WEATHER**
global wx quality, ultra low, or whatever, you need 2D clouds with that PC...sorry, thats what my 1 Ghz runs

**HARDWARE**
FPS slider to unlimited
uncheck anti-aliasing
resolution, 1024x768x16 should be fine
mip mapping @ 4 or 5

That should help you gain some FPS....however, realize that you probably wont get 10 FPS on approach into KJFK, especially if you have AI traffic turned on...I'm on a P3 1.2 Ghz laptop, and it runs bad. Good Luck!!