4.5 ghz Intel i7, But low FPS in FSX....

[EI-ROB 0]

Hello Everyone.

 

Im new to Avsim but I'm a very experienced Flight Simmer.

 

This year I built a brand new 2000 euro custom rig but not achieve the results I want in terms of FPS.

 

The main components in my system are.

 

Intel i7 2700k Over clocked to 4.5 ghz.

Corsair H80 Water cooler.

Asus P8P67 Pro rev 3.1 Motherboard.

EVGA GTX 550 TI Graphics Card. ( Latest Driver)

OZC Petrol 128 Gig SSD ( OS)

1TB WD Caviar Black HDD ( FSX DRIVE)

 

I have auto overclocked the processor to 4.5 Ghz when its needed.

 

Applied the ******* cfg tweak

 

Updated my graphics card drivers to the latest.

 

Applied both FSX Service Packs.

 

Disabled Light bloom and aircraft shadows in the settings.

 

But still have FPS problems at big airports such as ( Heathrow EGLL ) and Charles de Gaulle. When using the PMDG NGX .

 

I run most of the graphics on High.

 

But The FPS in the NGX will run under 10 in the flight deck.

 

Is this normal for an over clocked i7 to do this or could I be getting better performance by applied more tweaking ?

 

If anybody knows anything or uses and i7 Please tell me what FPS you have been getting

 

Thanks

 

Robert.

[Will Dunn 0]

Graphics card could be a bottleneck at the high clock speed?

[EI-ROB 0]

Graphics card could be a bottleneck at the high clock speed?

 

FSX is 90 % dependent on the CPU.

 

Don't know how my GTX 550 could be the bottleneck, it runs Battlefield on Extreme settings no problem.

[Will Dunn 0]

FSX is 90 % dependent on the CPU.

 

Don't know how my GTX 550 could be the bottleneck, it runs Battlefield on Extreme settings no problem.

 

I'm no expert... I was just touting a suggestion...

[Boeing or not going 578]

FSX is 90 % dependent on the CPU.

 

Don't know how my GTX 550 could be the bottleneck, it runs Battlefield on Extreme settings no problem.

 

FSX is old technology. Battlefield takes advantage of all the new hardware properly, FSX does not. FSX runs through the CPU, using Directx9, BF uses DX10 or 11. Your video cards amount of memory and CPU speed is the most important.

[teofilo 11]

Use the bufferpools tweak setting to poolsize =0. That did the job for me.

[jdhowell73 0]

Use the bufferpools tweak setting to poolsize =0. That did the job for me.

 

explain this furthur please...im interested in this too

[Boeing or not going 578]

Use the bufferpools tweak setting to poolsize =0. That did the job for me.

 

But you can't run unlimited frames with bp=0 you need to lock your frames in game or else theres graphic corruption.

[teofilo 11]

Also use the external fps limiter.

[OMGBBQ32 12]

Or use this tweaking site: http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html

 

It tweaks your FSX settings without changing the graphical settings that you have set. This means that you get all 4 cores running on your CPU. That should do it. I used it and I ended up getting over 100 fps on my comp. Before it was like 15-20.

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

Or use this tweaking site: http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html

 

This means that you get all 4 cores running on your CPU. That should do it. I used it and I ended up getting over 100 fps on my comp. Before it was like 15-20.

 

This is simply incorrect. By all means try the venetubo settings, but this does NOT enable any more CPU cores.

[Kosta 122]

Let me just be short about this:

 

No Bojote tweak (delete/rename fsx.cfg - IMPORTANT)

Set to run BP=0 (please please search the forums for details)

Set water to High 2.0 (required with BP=0)

 

and then only following tweaks:

 

[bUFFERPOOLS] <- this is the BP=0 tweak

Usepools=0

 

[JOBSCHEDULER]

AffinityMask=14 <- if you have disabled HT in BIOS, meaning running 4 cores in the task manager

 

[GRAPHICS]

HIGHMEMFIX=1

TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=4096

 

[DISPLAY]

TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=40

UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=35

 

[Main]

FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.15

 

In FSX, use MODERATE settings, you can set terrain quality to highest, but use Dense AG/Scenery, no bloom, no traffic (just set to minimal, you get some boats, but no cars and no AI for now).

 

You don't need anything else. Might just test it like this.

 

And if you are using Nvidia Inspector, must NOT use very high IQ settings. Meaning set 8xS only to see how it works out. If not using NI, set Antialiasing and Anisotropic in FSX only.

 

Good luck!

 

I used it and I ended up getting over 100 fps on my comp. Before it was like 15-20.

 

LOL, then you had something really set up wrongly on your setup previously to that tweak. Something I must say to this: Bojote's tweak in no magic bullet to getting high frames. It's a chance to get bit more frames, but certainly not 5x more.

[EI-ROB 0]

Word Not Allowed above me reminds me of Bear Grylls in that picture.

 

I have just disabled the " Hypertreading " feature in the bios on my i7 combined with the Bojate CFG Tweak.

 

And I'm now achieving just under 20 FPS in the NGX Flightdeck on high settings at Heathrow EGLL.

 

Big improvement.

 

I tried to use the external FPS Limiter but it just makes FSX run into a fatal error on start up every time.

 

Happy enough with the FPS im getting now anyway.

 

Keep any suggestions coming if they haven't been mentioned.

[gandy 18]

Hi Robert,

 

I would recommend running fsxmark11 to get an idea of how your system performs when compared to others with similar set ups. Its a pain to set up but i think its well worth it :)

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/329116-fsxmark11/

[Bartbear 10]

I tried to use the external FPS Limiter but it just makes FSX run into a fatal error on start up every time.

 

Do you use the build in frame limiter in Nvidia Inspector ? I have no issues with it, runs perfectly limited at 30.