Stupid Flight Sim

[c_hegge]

Note the frame rates (Near the top left corner) in the following screenshots. My PC is a C2D E8400 OC'd to 3.6GHz with a GTX295 graphics card and 4GB RAM.

[duckula]

frame/second =1.1? that's a filmstrip rather than a game.

[shovenose]

1.1?!?!?! you're kidding right?

[c_hegge]

Nope, it was really 1.1 FPS approaching the airport. At least I can use an autopilot approach so the plane flies itself to the runway. The Antonov 225 is difficult to fly at 50FPS and near impossible at 1FPS.

[shovenose]

what the fuck? what do you have such a high end PC for at 1.1fps?

[c_hegge]

IDK. Considering that my PC is both high end and much newer than FSX, you'd think it would run smoothly.

[shovenose]

I know seriously! Is the CPU or GPU the bottleneck?

[c_hegge]

Probably the CPU. When I can afford it I might go quad core Sandy (or Ivy) Bridge. I've seen a few people play it quite happily on a 9600GT but with a quad core CPU.

[duckula]

my guess would be cpu since GTX295 is basically GTX275*2 and it was the most powerful single card in the world.

[shovenose]

You can just find out by seeing if it's at 100% in Task Manager.
If it is, overclock it a little bit! 500Mhz should help a little bit I'm sure!