Hi Guys,

Hopefully you can help, I just recently got FSX with REX and one of the ORBX scenery packs. I am running this game on a 2500k 8GB RAM and 2GB 6970 @ 1920x1080
I gotta tell you it runs like crap, absolute stutters almost unplayable. Running ultra high settings, is this normal should I not be smashing this older sim with my specs? Surely if not what a massive waste of money!!!!!

Hope you can help

P.S Running it on W7 64bit

Cheers

Danosh

What version of FSX are you running ?

If its the standard or deluxe version you will need to patch it to SP1 then SP2
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=14380
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8986

If its Acceleration or Gold then your fully updated already.

Either way go here
http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html
to optimise your fsx.cfg

I hope this helps

Are you running it in DX10 mode? FSX seems to run smoother under DX10 on my Win7/64 box with Nvidia GPU. Other than that there do seem to be some bottlenecks in the FSX code itself as things get jammed up on the CPU side, even on my Q9650 @ 3600 mhz. Very fast RAM is the best help for it but there's no real cure. Almost forgot: bloom and ground shadows will absolutely clobber your FPS with very little visual improvement to show for it. Again, FSX is not properly coded to use the power of the GPU.

Thanks guys I will try everything you suggested. I still find it incredibly hard to believe that my rig can't run this game at high settings, what would it take?!! Is it even possible?!? I mean i5 and a 6970 and I have to tweak this thing, ridiculous! This is starting to sound like a really bad investment, live and learn I guess.

To answer your other questions, yeah I have the GOLD PACK with Accelerator. How do I run it in DX10 mode? Is that done via the settings tab? I am not sure it makes much difference, it's still a slide show.

What a debacle, don't even feel like trying out the Accusim Spitfire in FSX's current state.

Cheers,

Danosh.

Not sure where your bottleneck is, but I'm running it on an i5 and it runs great.

Hey Scylla what settings are you running it on? Do you think it's maybe REX 2.0 or ORBX scenery that is affecting my performance? I think the ORBX scenery is loaded as it appears on the scenery manager and is prioritised, nothing special though, nothing compared to what I saw on their website anyway. REX 2.0 not sure if its running as I am not seeing anything even close to what everyone is raving about (e.g. incredible clouds and tarmac textures etc). Such a cluster fark this whole thing.

If I were you I'd install the RoF demo, establish a base line for flight sim performance -- if you get that running well, you can move on to something complex like FSX. You don't have to worry about screwing RoF up with add-ons.

Hey Dan911,

I can run ROF at MAX settings with no problems at all, it runs flawlessly. This is why I can't understand why FSX is running so badly.

Cheers,

Danosh.

FYI

SPECS:

2500k @ 3.3
6970 2gb Ram
8gb Ripjaws
Caviar Black WD
W7 64bit

My compu should be owning this game. I really don't understand what the developers that made this game were thinking.

I would try it w/o the addons and see what happens.

My settings are generally about 75% of max.

My PC: