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Better FSX Preformance (Read 1973 times)
Dec 29
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(Not sure if posted in right place, but had to get this out if nobody else noticed.) I got a +7 FPS increase in my FSX setup just by setting the priority of fsx.exe in task manager to high. From my understanding, this gives it more RAM usage. (You need to click "Show processes from all users" in Vista and Win7, which requires admin privileges.) Then just right-click fsx.exe, mouseover "Set priority", and click high. There! You're set! LOL, 18 FPS with ultra high settings at KJFK with my worst AC, any of the POSKY 777s.
P.S. the setting does not save. You have to do it all over again every time you start FS. But it is a really small price to pay for the boost.
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Dec 30
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It says it might cause system instability? I'd just like another opinion to make sure it's ok.
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Dec 30
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What about Win XP? Can XP pull the same trick?
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Dec 30
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Rich H wrote
on Dec 30
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, 2009 at 9:27am:
It says it might cause system instability? I'd just like another opinion to make sure it's ok.
It never caused instability even when I had 512 mb of RAM, so I don't think it matters.
EDIT: It might if you do it to a whole bunch of processes, but I don't think just FSX will matter too much.
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Dec 30
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RacingLad wrote
on Dec 30
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, 2009 at 11:02am:
What about Win XP? Can XP pull the same trick?
Yep.
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Dec 30
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Rich H wrote
on Dec 30
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, 2009 at 9:27am:
It says it might cause system instability? I'd just like another opinion to make sure it's ok.
I have windows XP with 2 gigs of RAM...I'll give it a try and let you all know.
jason
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Dec 30
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the ac is a twin otter taken at Honolulu International in Hawaii with everything turned up except airport ground traffic...I took a shot with it on normal then put it onto high...i went to put it to realtime and my system was wanting to crash. the pictures also show not a real difference between normal and high prioity setting.
Before with normal setting
after-with high prioity setting
I personally did not see a difference worth the possible trouble that it could cause....Maybe NickN could give us simmers some insite on this.
Jason
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Dec 30
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I personally did not see a difference worth the possible trouble that it could cause....Maybe NickN could give us simmers some insite on this.
Jason
That's really interesting... Maybe it's just me. Thanks for sharing.
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Dec 30
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High priority with A340 at JFK:
Normal priority:
(Sorry about bad quality and small size. I can never compress well with Paint.NET, can someone help me?)
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Dec 30
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How do you do this in Win XP?
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Dec 30
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stevehookem wrote
on Dec 30
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, 2009 at 5:58pm:
How do you do this in Win XP?
Open the Task Manager, right click on FSX, select Priority.
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Rich H wrote
on Dec 30
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, 2009 at 9:27am:
It says it might cause system instability? I'd just like another opinion to make sure it's ok.
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Like Tomcat5 said;
P.S. the setting does not save. You have to do it all over again every time you start FS. But it is a really small price to pay for the boost
The worst that can happen is that FSX won't run, and all you have to do is reboot your system.
I Have a basic pc set up (2.2proccesser,1000ram,256 videocard) and when I set the priority on high I run 18fps very smoothly and I got my sliders pretty much all the way(except cloud distance and traffic).
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I run FSX with 25 fps with normal priority
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Dec 31
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Probably more effective to KILL som processes and programs at start-up me think...
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I have 8 gigs of RAM, so I don't think I'd be causing any problems.
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