Simviation Forum - What's your frame rate?

Oct 14^th, 2006 at 11:18pm

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Featured article in fsinsider.com

What's your frame rate?

This is an interesting article describing how Flight Simulator checks your hardware and determines what "performance bucket" it falls in......

VERY interesting reading!

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Reply #1 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 3:26am

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Well im pretty happy Grin

The space free isnt exact, i have a 350GB hardrive split into a D (250GB) and a C (105ish GB) I found in the demo i just need to keep traffic down and the do the autogen fix, and i can pull 25 frames easy. Grin

Edit: just noticed the gauge on the side, My system : WWOW lol

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Reply #2 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 3:58am

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Are you sure this thing is correct.....cos it says that my rig is better than yours and I cant get 25fps with all the settings on lowest

??? Roll Eyes

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Reply #3 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 3:59am

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My system is in the last green tile and the gauge gives PURRRR as performance Grin

i saw the Deluxe version yesterday but still not sure about buying it Roll Eyes

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Reply #4 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 4:02am

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OMG, how did my system top out? im still runing with a radeon 9200 ???

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Reply #5 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 4:15am

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Well, purring may be alright for cats, but it ain't so good for computers, it would seem.

My system 'PURRS', too, but I get frame rates in single figures in FSX Pro unless I turn most things right down.

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Reply #6 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 4:32am

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Mine was WWOW!!! Grin

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Reply #7 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 4:38am

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For some reason i don't think this analyser is accurate.....looking at some peoples specs and what they get on the bar thing.

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Reply #8 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 5:30am

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me neither, my computers old as dirt Tongue

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Reply #9 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 10:13am

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I hate to be cynical here.... but whom is to benefit if someone runs this "test" and gets told that their computer is a "Wow" when it comes to buying a demanding piece of software?

Please keep in mind the "minimum machine specifications" stipulated for fs2004 and FSX.

Also please note the "technicality" in this evaluation system for that little bar graph. It is not an absolute scale....it is a sliding scale. It ranks you machjine by those machines it has TESTED.... not by some fixed standard. So if a lot of people with slow machines test their results (which you'd EXPECT.... those with the fast stuff KNOW they have fast stuff) then if you have a mid-level machine in the absolute heiarchy of machine technology....... you'll show up on the high end of the scale.

The most important and instructive information in that article is what Microsoft ACES consider a "medium high" level machine. I quote:

For example, the “Medium High” bucket requires the following values:

CPU Speed: 3.0Ghz
RAM: 1GB
Video Memory: 128MB

If your PC has a 3 GHz processor and 1GB of RAM, but just 64MB on the video card, it is demoted from the “Medium High” bucket to the “Medium” bucket.

Sorry...... but I'd take this graphical system evaluator tool with a HUGE grain of salt. And if you have a machine les than what they mention above....... don't expect using a lot of the new features from FSX.

My $0.02.

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..................john

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Reply #10 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 11:55am

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yea, this thing does not seem accurate enough, now that ive seen other results, 512 mb ram and you got the same rate as me, and i have 2 gigs... Im thinking FSX will not like that you only have 2 gigs. this seems to give an extremely rough guess based on a few things like your processor and video card. oh well... Grin

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Reply #11 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 12:35pm

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so what specs would you need to run everything maxed out easily? the minimum specs are a load of rubbish in my opinion.

My specs
I7920 4ghz
Asus P6T Deluxe V2
6gb Corsair DDR3 1600
BFG GTX285OCX
Windows 7 64bit

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Reply #12 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 12:36pm

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trouble is, as far as I can tell from here, similar logic is used to determine the automatic defaults set when you first run FSX.

Well worth tinkering with the settings to optimise frame rate against visual content on your particular system. Made a huge difference to mine after trading complexity for performance.

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Reply #13 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 1:09pm

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so what specs would you need to run everything maxed out easily? the minimum specs are a load of rubbish in my opinion.

CRAY

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Reply #14 - Oct 15^th, 2006 at 1:19pm

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Here's what it said about my machine........ and I can't run FS2004 (FS9) fully maxed out at acceptable framerates.

Compare my result to THIES result above. He gets a slightly higher result (20th percentile vs 23rd percentile)....... but my CPU clock is faster, I have twice as much RAM, I have a faster Radeon video card.

Figure that out. The best explanation is that between the time that THEIS did his test and the time I did mine....... more people with faster machines ran the test....thereby sliding the scale downward. Which makes this test pretty meaningless if that is the case. (BTW.... I have multiple hard drives.... and the listing of free space was wrong.)

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....................john

best,

....................john

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