What improves frame rates more, a faster processor or more RAM?

a cpu

in that case, more ram and a non intergrated graphics card, the P4 should be just fine, of course dont know if its 800FSB or 533FSB but either way it should be good enough

Cool thanks 

Just saw your system specs bm_727.

Your RAM is starving, but as the other guys have said, you need  a video upgrade as well, onboard graphics aren't up to FS2004 or similar graphics intensive software.

I love that 727 pic, and I'm gonna try Infranview for myself.   

My frame rate is about 15 and descents to 6 when there is bad weather. Is it my GeForce 4 ti 4200 that causes this terrible rates. Any suggestions???

PIV 2.66Ghz @533Mhz FSB---768Mb PC2700 RAM---Seagate 120GB--- GeForce 4 Ti4200 8XAGP--- All other hardware isn't important for this problem.

Hope you can answer this question

Hi Thanks. I will try your settings imediatly. I was running on 1280*1024 32bit 3linear filter . Thanks for response

Actually, those are my screenshot settings.

For normal flying, I use either 1024x768x32 with Antialiasing ON, or 1152x864x32 with Antialiasing OFF, this usually gets me around 25 FPS in dense scenery.

If the weather is thick with cloud, I have to get rid of the Antialiasing or FPS goes down the drain. That's when I switch to 1152x964.

If the weather is fine with a few clouds, 1024x768 with antialiasing on gives me 25 FPS, looks fine to me, and is good enough for screenshots really.

I mainly use the above mentioned mode (in my reply above- 1152x864x32 Antialiasing On) when I want a really nice screenshot.

It's a bit of a pain having to switch resolutions depending on the scenario, but good graphics card here in Australia is over $800, so I'll put up with it 'til prices drop.  

I've tried a lot of promising tweaks, but for one reason or another, I haven't had a lot of success without losing graphic quality in fs9.

I did replace my water textures, I cant remember where I got them. They are a re-edit of Bill Lyons and friends excellent water replacement textures. Re-edited by spitroast and Lemoncat.

I tried the FPS fix for clouds, ie. new cloud textures, it worked great, but..... the quality went down too far for my liking, many wouldn't notice though.

I tried the AUTOGEN fix, where you basically delete the contents of the autogen folder, thus removing all the restaurants and signs for the shops etc. This didn't have any measurable impact at any level that I could see on my rig.

Game settings do have a major impact:

Draw distances, Autogen density, cloud density/detail, screen resolution and effects seem to have FPS impacts I can control and balance, while maintaining Maximum terrain detail, texturing and aircraft rendering.

hope that helped

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You don't say if your using '98 or XP, if your running '98 reducing your RAM to 512 will give more performance! - '98 was'nt designed to handle more than 512MB, hence problems if you have over 512MB. Hope this helps.

Paul.