Something very interesting.

Here's one for you. I have all sliders set to 1 and was getting 15 to 20 fps when flying up high on external view seeing nothing but blue sky. In a furball near the ground 4, 5, 6 sometimes 10 when lucky.
My specs
AMD 3500
nVidia 6800GT OC
2 Gig Corsair Ram
Asus AGP deluxe motherboard
1200x1600 resolutoin
XP Home sp3
No AA
No v sync etc.

So -- I bought a new ATI Sapphire AGP 3850 video card. Figured it would at least help. Nope -- same fps all around.

I figure we're missing something here. A video card at least twice as powerful should have done SOMETHING!

I guess it might be the CPU but I've heard the same thing with a much more powerful CPU's than mine!
 
Crockett said:
Here's one for you. I have all sliders set to 1 and was getting 15 to 20 fps when flying up high on external view seeing nothing but blue sky. In a furball near the ground 4, 5, 6 sometimes 10 when lucky.
My specs
AMD 3500
nVidia 6800GT OC
2 Gig Corsair Ram
Asus AGP deluxe motherboard
1200x1600 resolutoin
XP Home sp3
No AA
No v sync etc.

So -- I bought a new ATI Sapphire AGP 3850 video card. Figured it would at least help. Nope -- same fps all around.

I figure we're missing something here. A video card at least twice as powerful should have done SOMETHING!

I guess it might be the CPU but I've heard the same thing with a much more powerful CPU's than mine!
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Hi Crockett,
how do you set your sliders for graphic performance in the CFSconfig? Do you read the FAQ for ATI users?

Cheers
 
Siggi said:
Wow! Is Windows 7 responsible for that?
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Yes Sir!....i am testing FSX (with REX and FTX) : +10-20fps , Off P3 : taking off 30fps , flying (vsync on) 60fps . I use a separat Harddisk for Windows7 and F8 key for changing the bootdevice. So its isolated from my VistaSys. btw: i use C1E (Asus P5K3)
 
Crockett said:
So -- I bought a new ATI Sapphire AGP 3850 video card. Figured it would at least help. Nope -- same fps all around.
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I had the same experience upgrading from an nVidia 6600 to an 8600. No improvement at all on my old Pentium-4 3.0 GHz machine.

Basically I concluded that a better vid-card will often do squat because the the CPU is the 'bottleneck'.
 
Yep....that AMD 3500+ won't be up to the task.....not with any degree of efficiency anway. Unfortunate, but probably that's what's hurtin' you.

Cheers,

Parky
 
Crockett said:
Here's one for you. I have all sliders set to 1 and was getting 15 to 20 fps when flying up high on external view seeing nothing but blue sky. In a furball near the ground 4, 5, 6 sometimes 10 when lucky.
My specs
AMD 3500
nVidia 6800GT OC
2 Gig Corsair Ram
Asus AGP deluxe motherboard
1200x1600 resolutoin
XP Home sp3
No AA
No v sync etc.

So -- I bought a new ATI Sapphire AGP 3850 video card. Figured it would at least help. Nope -- same fps all around.

I figure we're missing something here. A video card at least twice as powerful should have done SOMETHING!

I guess it might be the CPU but I've heard the same thing with a much more powerful CPU's than mine!
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Is your mobo a socket 939 type? You could get a faster chip for not much dough. I would guess the CPU is the bottleneck.
 
From what has been posted the 3850 isn't all that great for OFF. 4xxx seem much more like it. But as they guys say you need a reasonable CPU to supply it.

Rather than use C1E, get a decent fan and turn it off.
 
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