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Why do I get much better performance in VC? (Read 321 times)

Oct 31^st, 2004 at 9:19am

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I mostly fly planes in VC mode and only with tough clouds or at large airport do my FPS drop from 30 locked. Whereas in 2d cockpit I struggle to maintain 25 at any time.

Is something wrong! I would expect VC to be tougher on the PC then 2d cockpit. Anyone got an answer as to why??

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Reply #1 - Nov 5^th, 2004 at 11:37am

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Maybe in the planes you fly, the virtual cockpit guages are not as comprehensive as the fully gauged 2d panel, so you have less guage overhead. Reducing the gauge update time May help in 2d mode..... it's just a shot in the dark, but I noticed the same thing in some planes, and attributed it to that.

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Reply #2 - Nov 8^th, 2004 at 5:23am

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By accident yesterday I installed a P40 Warhawk and forgot the guages, in panel view with no gauges I was only getting 24fps whilst in VC mode I was getting 30fps locked ???

Its very strange Roll Eyes

It just doesn't seem to like the panel bitmaps Tongue

I have tried all of the planes I have and all are locked at 30fps in VC mode!

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Reducing the gauge update time May help in 2d mode

How do I do that?

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Reply #3 - Nov 8^th, 2004 at 6:05am

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Thats real weird isn't it? I tend to find I get worse FPS in VC mode than 2d cockpit lol. Loads more detail in VC view usually

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Reply #4 - Nov 8^th, 2004 at 8:41am

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Yeah that happens on my machine too. I thought I was alone! Wink

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Reply #5 - Nov 14^th, 2004 at 9:57am

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Have you checked what gauge quality you're running at? Just a thought.

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Reply #6 - Nov 15^th, 2004 at 9:13am

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Nope. VC Guage quality at 100%. As with all texture related sliders & most other things,

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Reply #7 - Dec 12^th, 2004 at 7:14am

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Ah ha - 'fraid it wasn't my computers fault Grin

A little "tweaking" of the cfg file I did a while ago dropped panel performance by half! I'm back to 29.9FPS per second now Wink

I got this program called .cfg tweaker or something from avsim - keeps you fiddleing for ages Roll Eyes

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« Last Edit: Dec 12^th, 2004 at 3:43pm by bm »

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Reply #8 - Dec 15^th, 2004 at 4:24pm

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But isnt it still odd that you would have the same fps for 2d and virtual cockpits?

i thought VC's ate up more fps than 2d ???

p.s.- whatare your comp specs?

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