Simviation Forum - More about scenery

Oct 17^th, 2009 at 7:45pm

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For some reason my scenery, in particular, the Mt Rainier highres layered over the Megascenery is barely downloading ahead of the plane - about five miles. As far as I can tell, I have all the tweaks on FS9.cfg but what do I know

. After starting FS9, I do the dual core affinity thing on taskmaster - can that be made permanent? Reduced airspeed to 120, changed altitudes but always the same. Intelduo2.8/8800GTS/650W/XP - you'd think that'd handle it - HELP Cheesy

. Forgot to mention, I'm even getting stops or pauses while it loads up scenery - something is amiss.

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Reply #1 - Oct 18^th, 2009 at 1:39am

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Maybe there is so much intelligence there, one video card can't keep up. I sometimes have the same problem. I get it in FSX when I am low to the ground and movin' fast. I don't get it so much in FS9 because FS9 is about half the size of FSX. Still, I have boatloads of add-on mesh installed. I see lagging when I cycle through the FS9 views really fast. The panel in the VC is sometimes slow to fully "paint in..."

Is your chip faster, slower or on-par with mine? Mine has four cores at 2.2 GHz. Not fast by today's standards, but pretty good for FS9. I have no idea how much on-chip cache it has. Is the on-chip cache where stuff is crunched that is needed quickly by the chip? Is on-chip cache sort of a "pre-use" holding station for ones and zeroes? What the hell do I know about this? It took me a few weeks to learn how to open Windows in two screens...

I have no tweaks running. I'm not even sure I have the 9.1 update going...

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Reply #2 - Oct 18^th, 2009 at 11:45am

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hhomebrewer wrote on Oct 18^th, 2009 at 1:39am:

Maybe there is so much intelligence there

Well it sure ain't coming from me

. My card (8800gts) has 512mb memory and the CPU Intel E6300 dual core 2.8Ghz (Since FS9 supposedly uses only one, figured two was plenty

. I do spread the load by doing the Taskmaster affinity change each time I'm running. The one scenery (Mt Rainier) is very hi-res and gives the most agony and the other not so much. Most of my FS9 tweaks are from what I read on the forums and some are supposed to actually help. I've read that if you 'pause' the scenery will catch up - haven't noticed that. Being right on the ragged edge of knowing what you're doing is really frustrating

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Reply #3 - Oct 18^th, 2009 at 6:04pm

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Quote:

the Taskmaster affinity change

What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis? What is affinity taskmaster change? Do I need to do it? How do I do it? How do you mend a broken heart? Do you know where you're going to? Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?

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Reply #4 - Oct 18^th, 2009 at 7:57pm

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Well I read - maybe that's my problem - if you had more than a single core CPU, it was good to spread the load. Looking at the little graph thingy, it seems to work. Whether or not it does any good is a whole new area for discussion. My main problem(s) are the scenery doesn't load fast enough and FS9 stops, to let it catch up I suppose, about once a minute - kinda like it did before I had this humungous card and got too close to a major airport. But in spite of all this negative s**t, I'm showing a nice 75 FPS. It's five o'clock, right here, time for a refreshing beverage Cheesy

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