Simviation Forum - An attack of the dreaded blurries

Mar 31^st, 2011 at 4:09pm

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I have photosceney installed on FSX Gold + Acceleration which has never (yet) loaded fast enough to be pin sharp, but at least it was just about acceptable and I am working on adjusting the settings until I get the right one for my system.
The main problem I was having was the further into a flight I went the worse the blurring got, so I am assuming it is a processing problem and I am working on a fix.

All of a sudden though, all I get is dreadfully blurred textures as soon as I move off. I have restated the original FSX.CFG, reduced all the settings, but nothing makes the slightest bit of difference. I have checked and stopped any processes running in the background, but that made no difference either. I'm flumoxed, anyone any ideas?

Flying over default FSX scenery is not as bad, it is not as blurred as the photoscenery, but even so it is not very good, certainly it's unacceptable.

I have frame rates set at 25 now, but prior to that I had them set unlimited and was getting 30- 55 fps over low autogen areas, but dropped to 6-10 over heavily autogened areas.

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Reply #1 - Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 10:03am

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1. What OS are you using?

2. RAM and video card info?

3. what scenery are you using (link would be nice)

Sounds to me 1 of the 3 above problems. Need a new CPU, Vid card settings are a bit off, need more RAM, or the actual "Photo" used in the scenery is blurred, then when moving off of the "picture", things get worse.

can you take a screenshot and show us what you are working with in the sim?

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Reply #2 - Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 11:31am

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Capt.Propwash wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 10:03am:

1. What OS are you using?

2. RAM and video card info?

3. what scenery are you using (link would be nice)

Sounds to me 1 of the 3 above problems. Need a new CPU, Vid card settings are a bit off, need more RAM, or the actual "Photo" used in the scenery is blurred, then when moving off of the "picture", things get worse.

can you take a screenshot and show us what you are working with in the sim?

I know my PC is not the best, but it is adequate and ran FS9 with similar scenery maxed out at frame rates of around 35-60 fps. I don't have the sliders maxed out in FSX (I have only had FSX for a few weeks, so I am still learning about it)

1. Windows 7 64bit Home Premium

2. 4 gb ram. Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT 1gb. 3x AMD Athlon II 440 processors =3000 Mhz

3 Just Flight Real scenery England and Wales

Since posting this thread, I have significantly improved things, although I am no satisfied with it yet. I discovered that there were several processes running which I though I had closed down. My fault.

I have experimented with some of the 'cures' suggested on numerous FS sites, some help a little but most are next to useless. Tweaking the FS9 cfg made massive differences to the performance of that version of sim, but MS seem to have done a reasonable job of the FSX cfg and modifying the cfg is unnecessary and has little or no effect.

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Reply #3 - Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 8:54pm

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i dont know if this will help, but I too have WIN 7 (i think most everyone does now-a-days) but anyways, i had posted a while back about optimizing Windows around FSX; and while Nick's thoughts did help, I still have some 25 processes that need to be killed for my machine to really be optimized (at least in my eye)..

but here is the link to my post with GroundBound responding with the links....

http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1299456295

while some of it did seem more confusing than the XP TWEAK, i guess there is just more CRAP that Micro$oft put into 7 to make it usable. (go figure)

{gripe = cant build a windows platform that will only run 20 processes, but look and function better than VISTA. sheesh....}

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Reply #4 - Apr 4^th, 2011 at 3:10pm

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I have tried a game booster (Game Booster v 2.2) which closes down programs while the sim is running. It also has a game defrag tool and I have to say it does work for me.

I have tried this sort of tool before and they were either next to useless, or not user friendly, but this one seems OK and you can drag and drop the FSX exe into a box and when you start FSX, Game Booster closes down all unnecessary programs automatically.

I seem to be getting nearly double the frame rates and FSX starts up a lot quicker.

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