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FSX Priority Setting Question

Naismith

Naismith

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I do not recall any discussion on the pros and cons of upping FSX's priority. Accessed by the Task Manager/ Right click on FSX.exe and selecting "Above Normal", "High" and "Real Time".

The reason I ask is, tonight FSX showed "Not Responding" as it often does when it is loading the huge amount of files I have accrued. Usually if left to its own devices, it sorts itself out and starts. This time it seemed to be taking extra time, so I fired up the Task Manager, selected processes and changed the FSX.exe from Normal to High. This within seconds caused FSX to load to the menu screen. Now that may have been coincidental of course, and hand on heart I could not swear to improved performance of the sim, but back to my point. I have not ever seen discussion on the merits of these settings.
Who knows or who has experimented with this and what does the Real Time setting mean, is that just a super duper HIGH setting.
A quick review of other programs in the processes list reveals they all seem to be on NORMAL, which leads to another point, if they are all NORMAL, then why bother having the other settings at all.
TIA
 
I find that when using complex aircraft and avionics addons, changing it to high or above often causes major issues, if not CTD's. It ALWAYS happens when I use reality XP GNS units.
 
Thnx Kiwi, I wonder if anyone knows the whys and wherefores it makes things unstable, for if that is the case then why even include the settings?
 
I have tried this before and did not make much differnce, FSX likes a lot of CPU horsepower and IIRC when you change the priority you take power away from other things like your GPU and what ever else FSX needs to run. The only thing that made my system run smoother was to pull back the sliders until the studders and graphic glitches stopped.
Set up the graphs card for perfomance in stead of quality. From what I have read you need a well tuned and powerful CPU and GPU to run FSX full up with all the photoreal scenery and complex add ons. IMO
 
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