Lordluud2 wrote on Jun 25^th, 2010 at 2:23pm:






Those people are the ones who have tweaked, overclocked, and perfectly fined tuned every aspect of their system,
to insure that it runs its best.
The choice of various performance enhancing environment, and scenery addons also helps.

And I'm willing to bet, that none of those systems are pushing much over 20-30fps. 

The reason that FPS mean nothing in MSFS, is because the fps counter is flawed, and very inaccurate.
you can check this with Fraps, or any other utility that keeps track of FPS.

With MSFS, it's all about smooth appearance.
I've had my system locked at 20fps for years, and never notice anything unusual,
because it performs smooth, no stutters. 

That's the big secret of those systems you speak of -
You need to find the lowest fps setting that you can lock it at,
and still maintain smooth appearing flight,
and then you have effectively freed up a ton of CPU power to render all the eye candy. 

It's a big balancing act, that is 100% unique to every system. 
Even two identical setups, will need different settings to achieve the same goal.