I’ve been working with Rob P. at VRS, trying to figure out why my frame rates are so low when flying the new VRS FA-18E Super Bug in FS9. We haven’t got to the source of the problem there, but one thing he suggested has had a HUGE impact on frame rates in FSX.
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Deleting the page file.
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** WARNING ** Only do this if you have enough RAM such that you don’t need a page file.
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This makes logical sense, but it never occurred to me that I could simply delete the page file. I have 4 GB of RAM (Windows XP x64), and evidently this is enough that I don’t need a page file. So, as suggested by Rob, I deleted it. It had no effect on FS9’s performance, but DAY-UM, frame rates went through the roof in FSX!
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This corroborates something else I read (here) about FSX, compared to FS9. Some smart person here said that FSX is much more CPU and RAM intensive than FS9, which has more of the work being done by the graphics card. I remembered this because when I first bought FSX it was a slide show, so I bought a new graphics card, and FSX was still a slide show. Then I bought some RAM. Went from 2 BG to 4 GB and the difference was astonishing. FSX went from a slide show to fun.
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But even after increasing the RAM to 4 GB, I could not fly around big cities of huge complex airports, because it was back to a slide show. However, after deleting the page file, I can now fly around cities!! I still see a drop in frame rates, but I can still fly and land!
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I guess if you have a page file, Windows will use it, but if you delete it, Windows will be “forced” to use RAM, where it would otherwise use the page file. And if you have enough RAM, this results in much faster processing!
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Happy times! Thanks Rob P. from VRS!
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></o>This makes logical sense, but it never occurred to me that I could simply delete the page file. I have 4 GB of RAM (Windows XP x64), and evidently this is enough that I don’t need a page file. So, as suggested by Rob, I deleted it. It had no effect on FS9’s performance, but DAY-UM, frame rates went through the roof in FSX!
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></o>This corroborates something else I read (here) about FSX, compared to FS9. Some smart person here said that FSX is much more CPU and RAM intensive than FS9, which has more of the work being done by the graphics card. I remembered this because when I first bought FSX it was a slide show, so I bought a new graphics card, and FSX was still a slide show. Then I bought some RAM. Went from 2 BG to 4 GB and the difference was astonishing. FSX went from a slide show to fun.
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></o>But even after increasing the RAM to 4 GB, I could not fly around big cities of huge complex airports, because it was back to a slide show. However, after deleting the page file, I can now fly around cities!! I still see a drop in frame rates, but I can still fly and land!
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></o>I guess if you have a page file, Windows will use it, but if you delete it, Windows will be “forced” to use RAM, where it would otherwise use the page file. And if you have enough RAM, this results in much faster processing!
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></o>Happy times! Thanks Rob P. from VRS!
