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Benchmarking my move to the Dark Side

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I've been a Radeon guy since the 286 days, but this clunky old flight sim we all love to hate has lured me to replace my perfectly good Radeon 5870/1 gig with a Nvidia 680/4gig. This represents a jump of about 4 tiers in graphics technology advancement, and a change to the [supposedly] optimal architecture. I expect an improvement; [to what extent?] is the unanswered question. I decided to contrive a benchmark, so as to get a measurement of the value received from my considerable investment.

I bought Fraps, something which I had always intended to do anyway, and used it to record a flight from Vancouver International to Pitt Meadows airport by way of the Lions Gate, Downtown, Metrotown, and the Fraser River, taking a screen shot every 30 seconds, with the Fraps FPS counter on. I used the Vancouver + scenery from Silver Cloud, and set the time for the middle of summer. All the screenshots, including those of my settings, are here on Photobucket. You need to go down to the bottom and click through backwards because I haven't figured out how to reverse them yet. :) If nothing else, it's a nice tour of Greater Vancouver by way of Jon Patch's and Holger SandMann's artistry.
 
Well, it arrived, and it's installed. Ho Hum. Not enough improvement in FSX to justify finishing the documentation. Perhaps 3 or 4 FPS (at times)and it still stutters down to single digits. Out in the country in the ORBX scenery it's great; mostly up against the 30FPS pin, but then I was getting that mostly from my Radeon 5870. I guess I blew the $575. Could have bought Austrailia, New Zealand, England and Wales for that.
 
Have you tried all the FSX Tweeks .. http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/forumdisplay.php?51-FSX-Tweaks everyone's PC/Rigs/System are all different and require a kick the the guts , surprising how little it takes , people here may find you better links .
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I've been considering upgrading from a GeForce GTX 480 Superclocked card, to a Geforce GTX 660Ti Superclocked card. Up until now, the only thing holding me back has been thoughts of FSX being CPU dependent and not GPU dependent, and if I would get any benefit out of the upgrade. Hmmm. Your experience here is giving me even more pause.
 
I've read about how FSX is more CPU than GPU dependent. My computer had two (2) Nvidia 9800GTX+ 512MB Dual DVI (PCI-E) Video Cards. FSX performance was “ok”, which means it was disappointing. When one of those two cards blew up a couple years ago, I replaced them both with one (1) Nvidia GeForce GTX 470. The performance increase was astonishing. Add this to the “for what it's worth” department.

- Paul

EDIT: The rest of the system=

MB: Asus P6T Deluxe (LGA1366)
CPU: Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (LGA1366)
RAM: 8 GB DDR3/1333MHz Non-ECC Non-Registered Memory Module
OS: Microsoft Win7 64-bit
 
PRB said:
I've read about how FSX is more CPU than GPU dependent. My computer had two (2) Nvidia 9800GTX+ 512MB Dual DVI (PCI-E) Video Cards. FSX performance was “ok”, which means it was disappointing. When one of those two cards blew up a couple years ago, I replaced them both with one (1) Nvidia GeForce GTX 470. The performance increase was astonishing. Add this to the “for what it's worth” department.

- Paul
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Hmmm, again. I guess if I did get the newer card, I could put the old GTX480 in my other gaming rig, which has a GTX8800 in it. Thanks for your input, it certainly helps.
 
WWPierre said:
I've been a Radeon guy since the 286 days, but this clunky old flight sim we all love to hate has lured me to replace my perfectly good Radeon 5870/1 gig with a Nvidia 680/4gig...
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Holy smoke, those are bad frame rates. I too have an i7 920 (oc to 3,2 GHz) and a smaller GTX 670, but haven't seen such bad frame rates yet. I don't have Jon Patch's Vancouver+ yet but I cannot believe it's such a frame eater. I guess you badly need to tweek your FSX configurations. The link Ian gave you is a good starting place. Also, since we have quite similar rigs, the "DX10 Preview" mode gives me 10 - 20 fps more than DX9.
 
vora said:
I don't have Jon Patch's Vancouver+ yet but I cannot believe it's such a frame eater....
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Vancouver+ does put up a challenge to the frame rates, least on my system, which is similar as well.
It's a pretty stout scenery package, comparable to say like Aerosoft's ManhattanX.
If you go with sliders to the right, like I do. ;)
It's definitely worth the dip in FPS for how wonderful a scenery product it is.:wavey:
 
Dain Arns said:
Vancouver+ does put up a challenge to the frame rates, (snip)
It's definitely worth the dip in FPS for how wonderful a scenery product it is.:wavey:
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Hear hear!
My biggest beef is that the CBC building isn't there across from Safti's Public Library. Oh ya, and there is a new Port Mann bridge now. (hint hint)
 
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