Framerate Blues!!!

Are you suffering from the framerate blues??

If so, grab this file and install it in your "autogen" folder. It may pay to rename the original file first in case you don't like it. It has increased my framerates by up to 50% without any visible decrease in texture quality!!

Capt Paul

<a href="tasmanairways.com/utilities/FPS_Patch_FS9.zip">Download file here .... added by admin

What file?

* I am planning to upgrade to FS2004, what frame rates am I likely to get with my system?

On a normal setup, A Century of Flight will run OK on a 750 Mhz Pentium, but is happier on 1.0 Ghz + systems. It is comfortable on a 1.5 Mhz Pentium, though you will need to have many of the sliders pulled back, and it really begins to work well on a 2.0 Ghz machine. Even on a 3.0 Ghz system, you will experience some slow downs using very complex planes at detailed airports. I am told that FS2004 runs OK on Athlons rated at more than 1.0 Ghz.

If you know what you are doing, substantially faster frame rates can be achieved by stripping out your system, so that the OS boots as 'clean' as possible. This means killing all the apps that load with the OS, unloading your virus scanner and so on. Under these circumstances, FS2004 can be run OK on a 400 Mhz system.

The more system RAM you have fitted, the better - depending on OS, I would advise at least 256 Mbs, ideally 512 Mb and a gigabyte if you are running XP and can afford it.

Video cards hardly affect frame rates, though I would advise at least a reasonably up to date 128 Mb 3D card, as otherwise you will miss out on many special effects. The crucial message here is that upgrading your video card will not increase your frame rates or resolve stuttering if the CPU is not up to it - if you suffer from these problems, the solution is either to start pulling sliders to the left or to buy a faster CPU.

* How do I toggle the target frame rate?

With FS2004 running and a plane loaded, go to the top menu in windowed mode. Select options\settings\display then click the 'hardware' tab. The target framerate slider is top right. You can either left click the slider, hold the mouse button and pull it, or you can left click either end of the slider to move it frame at a time.

* How can I tell what frame rate I am getting in FS2004?

Hit shift-z twice. This will bring up the figure top left. Hit shift-z twice again to get rid of it.

* FS2004 stutters and runs very jerkily, especially in spot plane view. How can I fix that?

Try setting the target frame rate to 20 fps. This will improve frame rates in cockpit or spot view at the price of suppressing AutoGen and scenery detail. If this doesn't work, try pulling all the sliders (apart from target frame rate) under the options\settings\display tabs and unchecking all the tick boxes. Then load the default 737 and starting with the aircraft tab, start pulling the sliders back to the right and checking boxes - but each time you alter one, go back and fly for half an hour and keep an eye on what the frame rates are doing. As soon as they start failing to make 20 most of the time, you have reached the limit of what your PC can do.

* www.Flightsim.com
<br /><br /><!-- editby --><br /><br /><em>edited by: Robert_Thompson, Jul 13, 2006 - 05:27 AM</em><!-- end editby -->

Thanks Paul.
I tried it and i get the same FPS as before, but with all the slidrs at max now, and things look better that way. The world looks more "full of it".

Thanks Paul for the file. This will be very helpful for all of us, in terms of frame rates in FS9.

If anybody is curious about this file, it disables some autogen objects such as chicken billboard, barns, gas stations, malls, roadsigns, telephone poles depending on the area. They won't show up in your screen thus boosts your frame rates in FS9.

This is actually a very clever idea.

Highly recommended. A++ I will add this file to our download section as well. By the way, any user can add files (links actually) in our Download section.

If you find any useful tools, or great add-on, please feel free to add them to our Download section.

Thanks and appreciate your help.

Naresh