DVA1530
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on February 17 2004
Midwestern United States
49 legs, 142.8 hours
25 legs,
87.2 hours online 22 legs,
49.7 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 17 2005 22:34 ET by Shane Freese
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So I'm trying to figure out why fs9 is running poorly on my machine. Overall it does alright but today on approach to ABQ with everyone else, my graphics started skipping and all ATC communction was gone. Then a couple seconds later everything was fine again. My framerate during this time was 25-30fps.
I was flying the LVD 767, default scenery for ABQ. Activesky 5 running via widefs.
My system specs I believe should be good enough to run with no problem.
Athlon XP 3200+
1gig Mem
ATI X800 256MB
Nforce 2 Ultra based board
All drivers are current, in fact I just reloaded my whole system to try and get better performance in fs9. All other games run fine.
I've tried looking for guides to tweak performance a bit, and have found some but the incident today scares me a bit and would like to hear any suggestions.
Here is a print of my fs9.cfg with regards to display settings and multiplayer.
[GRAPHICS]
FULL_SCREEN=0
PERFORMANCE_MODE=0
DEF_PERF_MODE=6
TEXT_SCROLL=1
AUTO_LOD=0
DETAIL_TEXTURE=1
WATER_EFFECTS=0
TERRAIN_USE_VECTOR_MAP=1
TERRAIN_USE_VECTOR_OBJECTS=1
EFFECTS_QUALITY=2
GROUND_SHADOWS=0
SMOOTH_VIEW=1
IMAGE_SMOOTHING=1
TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=1024
COCKPIT_HIGH_LOD=1
AIRCRAFT_SHADOWS=1
LANDING_LIGHTS=1
IMAGE_QUALITY=0
TEXTURE_BLDG=1
TEXTURE_GND=1
TEXTURE_WATER=1
AIRCRAFT_TEXTURE=1
SEE_SELF=1
TEXTURE_QUALITY=3
LOD_TARGET_FPS=21
NUM_LIGHTS=3
[DISPLAY.Device.RADEON X800 Series (Omega 2.6.75a) .0]
Mode=1280x1024x32
RenderToTexture=0
TextureAGP=0
PanelAsTexture=1
TriLinear=1
[DISPLAY]
UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=31
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=300
[TERRAIN]
TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=60.000000
TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=100.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=19
TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8
TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=1
TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=0
TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=4.500000
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=4.500000
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=1
[SCENERY]
IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=5
DYNAMIC_SCENERY=0
DYN_SCN_DENSITY=0
DAWN_DUSK_SMOOTHING=1
SUNGLARE=1
LENSFLARE=1
[MULTIPLAYER]
ALWAYS_SHOW_INITIAL_DIALOG=1
SESSION_NAME=SquawkBox (xp-box)
PLAYER_NAME=DAL1530
GUARANTEED_MESSAGES=0
MAX_PLAYERS=8
MAX_OBSERVERS=0
TICKS_PER_SYNC=90
PACKETS_PER_SEC=4
COLLISION_SECS=2
FOLLOWING_MULTIPLIER=5
ALLOW_PLANE_MODEL_SEND=0
ALLOW_PLANE_MODEL_RECEIVE=0
ALLOW_TEXTURE_SEND=0
ALLOW_TEXTURE_RECEIVE=0
MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE=100
MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_SEC=1
CONNECTION_TYPE=0
PROTOCOL_SELECTION=0
ALLOW_DESCRIPTIVE_SEND=1
ALLOW_DESCRIPTIVE_RECEIVE=1
AUTOPILOT_LOCK=0
DISTANCE_DISPLAY=0
ADF_TRACK=0
ALLOW_NAME_TAG_DISPLAY=1
CLIENT_CONNECT_USE_CUSTOM_PORT=0
CLIENT_CONNECT_PORT=23456
CLIENT_HOST_USE_CUSTOM_PORT=0
CLIENT_HOST_PORT=23456
HOST_CONNECT_USE_CUSTOM_PORT=0
HOST_CONNECT_PORT=23456
Shane FreeseCaptain, B757-200
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DVA1530
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on February 17 2004
Midwestern United States
49 legs, 142.8 hours
25 legs,
87.2 hours online 22 legs,
49.7 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2005 00:43 ET by Shane Freese
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DVA1530
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on February 17 2004
Midwestern United States
49 legs, 142.8 hours
25 legs,
87.2 hours online 22 legs,
49.7 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2005 02:11 ET by Shane Freese
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