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I have a stutter.

andersel

andersel

Charter Member 2014
I am looking for some guidance on a hardware question and thought that you guys might be able to help me. I am currently flying on a DELL XPS 630i, 3.6gb intel dual core, 6gb DDR2 RAM nvidia 9800gt graphics card. FS9 is on my 1.5tb F: drive. Everything seems to be running great . Until just recently.
After I installed the new Aero soft PANC scenery package and Roger Wensley’s Merrill Field. Everything started to stutter quite badly when anywhere near either airport.

So the question is: What are my options for lessening or eliminating this. I am open to any and all opinions and/or guidance. I’m not rich. Not even close. But I am willing to spend some $$$ to make my FS straighten up and fly right.
Thought?

LA
 
If you haven't locked your frame rates to 25FPS, give that a try. It may seem counter productive to lock your frame rates at a low FPS setting as it would seem that higher frame rates would give you smoother operation. Not always true. With frame rates locked at 25FPS, this allows more of your system resources to be used for scenery and terrain drawing and less to be used for gauges and aircraft animations and such. When I had an older system, locking my frame rates at 25FPS actually gave me a smoother running sim overall.

And realistically, the human eye can not detect the difference between 25FPS and 200FPS....so way tax your system at some high frame rate when you won't be able to see it anyhow.

OBIO
 
Go into settings/display/hardware and move the slider.

If you've never done this it's probably already at the default iirc 22.

Sometimes the settings in the fs9 cfg need to be adjusted but a book could be written on that and there are a hundred different opinions.
 
After I installed the new Aero soft PANC scenery package and Roger Wensley’s Merrill Field. Everything started to stutter quite badly when anywhere near either airport.
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Pure logic here ... (as all was running good BEFORE ..Until just recently.)
Can you remove properly the Aero soft PANC scenery package and test for stutters ?
So you will know for sure at last if it's this new installed scenery the culprit ..
 
If deactivating your new scenery addon fixes the problem there are other steps you can try to find the particular culprit. Within that new scenery, and within its subfolder 'scenery', you will see numerous .bgl files. Each one tells the game to find and load precise texture files and some are known eaters of frame rates, particularly flood lights. You can cut and paste into a storage folder any number of these bgl's and reload the game and see if one or more are causing the problem. With any luck the author parceled things out enough so that if you find the problem you can just leave that bgl out and enjoy 95% of the scenery package until the problem is fixed.
 
A couple of things you might want to try. Turn off the AI if you have it on, and 2, set clear weather, get rid of the clouds.

I do not have either of those sceneries, but if possible, check the scenery folders for eack of those, and see if the scenery objects are in individual bgl files. You could remove some of them and lessen the load.
 
Good thought Robert, clouds, particularly cumulus can really drag things down.
The texture issue Tom mentions could also easily be the culprit.

Freshly imported gauges could be another.

FPS!
The best expert advice I ever read (and fortunately heeded) on FPS performance, was to put the slider all the way to the RIGHT (unlimited frames).

I used to follow the old 25 FPS 'rule'. It didn't help anything. In fact, for some reason, that I'm most certainly not qualified to explain, your computer actually works harder, limiting the frames.
The 'unlimited' advice is now also standard practice in FSX too.

If you think about it, it makes sense.
Try it and see. For my system (very run-of-the-mill) it made the world of difference.
 
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