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The Miracle Tweak!!! (not fps limiter)

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SolarEagle

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I just stumbled on a tweak that I'm calling a miracle. It may not work the same on all systems, but on my i7 rig it has transformed everything. It's very simple, and with it I'm able to run EXTREMELY DENSE autogen at default levels, meaning DEFAULT max per cell values, with NO STUTTERS of any kind, totally glass smooth, and no blurries.

Depending on the area I am able to do this at a full 25-45fps, never going below 25. I've tested this with and without the new fps limiter utility, and I am getting best results WITHOUT it.

The tweak is to use UMLIMTED frame rate, and set a BUFFER POOL value of 200MB-300MB. The Buffer Pool is what makes or breaks stutters on my system. You will need lots of video RAM for this, though on my 900MB GTX260 I am able to run 300MB, and also use 2048 non DXT5 clouds, 8xS supersampling, and 16xAF at 1600x1200 with no impact on performance.

The shots below show Extremely Dense autogen with no max per cell tweak in use, and the flight was glass smooth, unbelievably smooth. The urban shots are running at 25-27fps, and the rural shots are running 30-40fps. If I drop Buffer Pools back down to 100MB for example, the game becomes and stuttering mess and absolutely unplayable with this kind of autogen.


Give a 200-300MB Buffer Pool a try and let me know how it goes. It works well in combination with the fps limiter utility since that too uses unlimited framerate, but I was getting faster frames when starting without the modified bat.

I simply can't believe I'm geting 25-40fps in these scenes with no a single stutter.


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I have tried Bufferpools on my rig and they did not help....I have plenty of Vid mem too with the 4870X2....

I thought that tweak was for low level stuttering while panning? who knows why some thing work good on one rig and not another.....

Yours is looking great though....:jump:
 
Previously people were using low values for Buffer Pools, such as 10-20MB, and more recently I have been using 80-100MB, but I've never heard of anyone using 200MB or more. Only when going beyond 200MB do I see the stutters vanish. That's a value of 200000000 to 300000000.
 
SolarEagle


Are you using the Texture_Bandwidth_multiplier with that Bufferpoole?
 
What Config? Can you be more specific Harleyman? Example C program files, microsoft games, fsx...yaddie yaddie yaddie :)

Regards, Diego
 
If you have never added Buffer Pools it will not be in the cfg file, so it will need to be added. Just add it to the bottom of the cfg files.

Sofor a 300MB Buffer Pool you would add this:

[BUFFERPOOLS]
PoolSize=300000000

The cfg file is here in Vista, but I can't remember where in XP, though in a similar spot.
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX

I was able to run extremely dense with 200MB and only very minor stutters, but 300MB was perfect.

I have always been an unlimited flyer due to the extra performance over locking, but since switching to i7 I have not been able to get rid of stutters with unlimited. Finally the fps limiter tool helped me to achieve that, but even so going real high on autogen still produced a stuttering mess. With 300MB I cannot induce stuttering if I try.

The other cftg tweaks I'm using are below. Using a texture bandwidth mult of 80-120 helps to keep things moving well. 80 was good on my Core 2 quad, but with i7 I use 120.

[DISPLAY]
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=120

[JOBSCHEDULER]
AffinityMask=15

Using other high video memory setting may prevent you from using this tweak, or limit you to 200MB. High levels of antialiasing, high screen resolution, high definition clouds, and texture intensive sceneries like YMML are items to consider when tuning as these are what will drive video memory usage up.
 
Well I put it in mine to see...It broke every plane and Rotor I have....:faint:
 
lol wut?

That was weird. My FPS were more consistent and slightly higher. Without the tweak I was getting 11-17 FPS and with the tweak it was staying around 16. Used 120 for texture bandwidth mult and 300 million for bufferpools, as posted. I was looking toward the ground, max scenery.

Computer specs:

AMD Phenom 9850 Quad Core 2.5 GHz
ASUS M3N-HD/HDMI
4GB DDR2
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640
Windows Vista 64 bit Service Pack 1

Maybe I should try using the affinity mask tweak...
 
harleyman said:
Well I put it in mine to see...It broke every plane and Rotor I have....:faint:
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I've tried this tweak as well; I've got an E6600 Core Duo (oc'd to 3.2 GHz) and an 8800 GTX with 768 MB video ram. The ultrahigh bufferpools setting does smooth things considerably, but after the initial flight (which loads fine), I get the same video errors that Harleyman is seeing when I try to load another flight without restarting FSX. Only by exiting and then restarting FSX can I fly.
 
tried this and the same thing happened to me as harley. I didnt get past the create flight window and saw the wheels of the ultralight were placed about 30 feet in front. What the?
 
I'll have to try this SolarEagle, I have the same system as you but with the 285 1GB card but the farthest I've attempted to overclock the i7 920 is to 3.8 Ghz, it's still very cool, don't know if I should attempt any higher, don't think I will. Curious to see if this works. Thanks. And I agree with above, 4.2 is the miracle tweak! :ernae:
 
I'd like to try this but I'm running so good at this time I hate to tamper at this point for fear I won't be able to get back to where I am now. But the next time my setup pukes all over itself I'll give it a go. Maybe it's also only effective, or useable with i7's?
 
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