heya people,

just upgraded my ram today from 1 gig to 2 gigs, and was hoping for a slight increase in ferformance and while the frame rates and texture loading times improved a bit (i think   ) i am left with a situation where my ram usage is at 40% and my processer (as ever) at 100%. are there anyways i can 'transfer' some of the processor stuff and load it into ram seen as i have over a gig sitting round doin not much? if not, are there any specific settings within the FSX graphics system that are more processor dominated then RAM or visa versa??

my specs are AMD 64 3700
nVidia 6800GT
Asus K8v motherboard
2 gig Kingston ram
XP 32 bit.

At the moment I am running at 19fps -locked- in a non busy airport, or 12 or less in a city airport which is where i tend to fly from.

My FSX settings are:

1024x768x32
global textures = medium
no DX10 or Bloom
AA = on
filtereing = Anisotropic

Aircraft settings all on full...

Scenery:

level of detail radius - small
mesh complex - 46
mesh resolution - 19
texture reolution - 1m
scenery compl. - dense
autogen - normal
special effects - medium

traffic:

GA - 50%
Airliners - 75% (woai pretty space at the moment)

Any help would be greatly appreciated, ive looked through the guides and stuff here at simV but maybe i missed something!! any help or pointersd would be most appreciated!

Cheers in advance....

Deano  

cheers for the reply Nick, appreciate it. but im using Xp not vista, and this tower is all i have   it gives me ok frame rates for the amount of pleasure i get from it but just curious to know what is more memory intensive as apose to CPU intensive...

was just curious about the various slider settings within the FSX graphhics page too, and which ones have the most 'bite for buck' - if you like!

have checked out your FSX sticky and found it useful in lots of ways and i thank you for that.

Deano