Well, you can find out what your current fps rate is by hitting "SHIFT+Z" twice while in the sim.

Now, as far as which is better locked or unlimited, it depends on your hardware, your settings, and who you ask. I personally run mine at unlimited, and my machine does pretty well with it. However, the logic behind locking in a certain framerate is that rather than making your machine render every frame it can, you can cut it back so it renders only what you need to have smooth gameplay. This frees up those extra compute cycles to allow your system to do other things, like start loading the next set of scenery tiles, for example.

I suppose in the end it might just come down to personal preference.

Well I was checking out my FPS, and, I couldn't believe this, it hovered around 2 to 6 FPS. Wow! It even dropped to .6 FPS at one time. No that period in front of the 6 was not an accident. point6 FPS! I couldn't even fly in that. Lately FPS has been low. Could it be because of FSWC? It started getting bad after I installed that.

What was your fps in that area before FSWC?

rikm12345 wrote on Aug 6^th, 2008 at 8:08pm:


I'm not sure exactly what my FPS was before, but I did fly for a few days with better FPS and FSWC, so I guess I can rule that out. I'll try setting defaults, but it may just be my computer. It isn't the best as it is a family computer (laptop). Plus it is just about filled to capacity on the hard drives and memory. I'm looking into my own computer to run FSX.