Hello guys, i just curious about the FPS in FS9, if someone have  a similar system....

AMD AthlonXP 3000+
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Asus ATi Radeon 9800 XT
512mb Kingston 400Mhz
and all the other things, XP PRO SP1....

When i install FS9, the default settings are HIGH with
" dense " scenery... u know.

with original " high " settings, and clouds in High(default) and Aircraft in Very Hard, and Hardware with 1024x768x32 Windowed, FPS locked at 40, 6 ligths and Bilineal. and 4AA and 4AF.

With all these settings and Default 100% traffic and Afcads, my reference Airport is Kennedy and i get when i land there i get about 19-24, and them 40(max) in some places.

Good, but i can see Screenies in PAI forums and other sites, people with PAI or UT, with their afcads(thousands of gates) and traffic set to 100%.

Good, i tried it, ALL PAI airlines, all the afcads, and traffic in 100%, i get 13-16 FPS when i landing in kennedy, and with UT is impossible, 12-15 FPS.
People play with these FPS? This FPS is normal for my system and these traffic and detail settings?
And someone can get good FPS with Ultra High settings and all UT traffic in 100%???

If possible, someone with similar system can post here opinions, because i dont know if is normal or i have something wrong.( never had problems with any other game).

Well, thanks guys!!

Maybe try lowering your Locked FPS to 30max, human eye cant tell the difference above 30 anyhow.  The theory is this saves on a bit of CPU power. 

As said AI is a bit of an FPS killer so are clouds and water effects.  Try turning off the water effects first as I would rather have AI and pretty clouds than nice water.  Its just finding that happy medium.

On the specs side of things well you only have 512 ram, 1gig would probably help out a bit specially as XP munches up 200meg of your ram before you even start FS9.  The FSB of that XP3000+ cpu is only 333MHz and you have 400MHz ram (PC3200) Is it good quality ram like Corsair, Geil, OCz??  If its good stuff and you know how you may be able to tighten your ram timings.  This would give an improvement too as your ram works better. 

I did this, you can buy PC2700 Latency ram but the Corsair stuff is basically PC3200chips with pre-programmed timings.  I picked up 3200 stuff a lot cheaper than the Low Latency stuff an set the timings myself in BIOS.   You Could also probably notch up your FSB a bit to make it 350-360 this too would give you a small performance increase. 

As for me getting good FPS with high settings No-Way, my PC Spec is extremely similar to yours (see sig) but I only have a GF4 Ti4600 which is holdin me back.  Now where is my dam FX 6800Ultra its been on pre-order far to long now and I want it 

I would say you may have lowered a few to many things there    I am sure you could run max autogen, but I agree with turnin down the clouds slightly.

As for your ram in your BIOS there will be some timing settings one after the other i.e.

8
3
3
2.5

These are what you alter to get it to work more efficiently.

5 . 2 . 2 . 2 .  Is really harsh settings. Aim for this and if it crashes you will have to slacken the timings a bit.

The lower the numbers the better.  It purely is a matter of trying it out and seeing what you can get.  If its Kingston HyperX stuff you should get nice tight timings if its normal you might not get quite as tight.

Ok, i changed the timings in Bios, no crashes.
5
2
2
2T

Is this correct?
Is this overclocking? can someone explain what i did?

My landings in KJFK now is at 26-30 pretty good.. same settings..but nah, 1 FPS extra