Best peformance graphics setting for FS2004 ?

Question

Alastair1978

Guest

Asked Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:08 pm

I had FS2004 running at full settings at 1920 x 1200 with constant 60 frames per second, but I changed a few things to try and tweak X-plane now I cant remember what I had as far as graphics options in the Nvidia windows advance graphics settings. Now when I run FS2004, i am getting frate rate drops down to 30 frames which I didnt have before even flying in the same city. Very annoying.

Can anyone check these to see if some are set incorrectly. I do want to keep a few settings, I have marked these with "KEEP" (I had these before I know for sure)

I have the following settings:

- Antialiasing Settings : 8xS "KEEP"
- Anostropic filtering : 16x "KEEP"
- Image settings : Quality "KEEP"
- Color profile : not available
- Vertical sync : On "KEEP"
- Force Mipmaps : trilinier "KEEP"
- Conformant texture clamp : off
- Extention Limit : off
- Hardware acceleration : Single display mode
- Triliner Optimisation : on
- Anisotropic mip filter optimisation : on
- Anisotropic sample optimisation : on
- Gamma correct antialiasing : off
- Transparency antialiasing : off
- Triple buffering : on "KEEP"
- Negative LOD bias: Clamp
- Threaded Optimisation : auto
- Open GL error reporting : on

Thanks in advance
Al

Answer 1 · Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:14 pm

CrashGordon

Chief Captain

Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 3821

Answered Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:14 pm

30 fps is faster than humans can detect, so what could possibly be very annoying?

Answer 2 · Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:14 pm

RadarMan

Chief Captain

Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17928 Location: U.S.A

Answered Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:14 pm

The higher the screen resolution the more resources it going to use.
I have the same max resolution but fly at 1600X1200X32.
Make sure you don't have AA checked in the settings section of the sim.

I would give my eye teeth for 30fps. 😀

Radar

Answer 3 · Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:24 pm

Alastair1978

Guest

Answered Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:24 pm

Yeah I realise 30 frames is "Supposed" to be un-noticable but it drops from 60 to 30 and it stutters badly when this happens (very noticable)
My point is, it was running flawlessly at 60 frames before... now its running crap 😞

BTW I am running :

- Dual core Athlon X2 4200 + CPU
- 2 gig DDR2 ram
- Geforce 7900 GTX with latest drivers
- 320 gig 7200 rpm hard drive

Answer 4 · Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:30 pm

Greg1138

Trainee

Joined: Apr 01, 2006 Posts: 64 Location: Gloucester, UK

Answered Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:30 pm

Alastair1978 wrote:

Yeah I realise 30 frames is "Supposed" to be un-noticable but it drops from 60 to 30 and it stutters badly when this happens (very noticable)
My point is, it was running flawlessly at 60 frames before... now its running crap 😞

BTW I am running :

- Dual core Athlon X2 4200 + CPU
- 2 gig DDR2 ram
- Geforce 7900 GTX with latest drivers
- 320 gig 7200 rpm hard drive

Altogether now?!?? MORE RAM!!!

No - kidding - I don't know - just wanted to be facetious for a mo......

Answer 5 · Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:30 pm

RadarMan

Chief Captain

Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17928 Location: U.S.A

Answered Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:30 pm

Cap it at 35-40 so you don't have a huge drop, that will stop the big change that causes the "slide show".

Radar

Answer 6 · Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:45 pm

Guest

Answered Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:45 pm

But I have been running it with frate rate at Unlimited and its been running fine. It must be one little setting that I messed up. Its driving me nuts

Answer 7 · Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:52 pm

Jamie4590

Guest

Answered Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:52 pm

Though time consuming I would put all your settings to low and then tweak them one by one checking performance each time.

Answer 8 · Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:10 pm

Alastair1978

Guest

Answered Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:10 pm

Though time consuming I would put all your settings to low and then tweak them one by one checking performance each time.

Yeah but what if its 2 things? then Im stuffed 😉

Answer 9 · Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:55 am

Tailhook

Chief Captain

Joined: Oct 12, 2005 Posts: 7013 Location: El Dorado

Answered Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:55 am

Anonymous wrote:

But I have been running it with frate rate at Unlimited and its been running fine. It must be one little setting that I messed up. Its driving me nuts

A single tiny little add-on can be the cause of this. Even a single .dll module can be the culprit.
Retrace your steps.

Answer 10 · Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:19 pm

Cager

Trainee

Joined: Sep 08, 2006 Posts: 1

Answered Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:19 pm

Particularly scenery add-ons where they are not mip-mapped properly! I notice you have Force Mipmaps as a "Keep" - why do you need this? FS9 will use mipmaps if they are available.

If you don't have a CRT the other thing you can lose on your "Keep" list is Vertical Sync - it isn't needed on LCD's.

Finally, try running FS in a window rather than full-screen. Full-screen it is tied to the monitor's refresh rate - what is your monitor's refresh rate, by the way?

Answer 11 · Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:37 pm

Al1978

Guest

Answered Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:37 pm

I have a dell 24 LCD which I think has a refresh rate of 60 hz?

When I turn Vertical sync off, it looks horrible and gets screen tearing.

Answer 12 · Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:36 pm

Mohit (Mc_GaNgStA)

First Officer

Joined: Nov 05, 2004 Posts: 314

Answered Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:36 pm

My average fps has dropped to 10 from 25 after i formatted. It's meant to be the other way round no?....

Answer 13 · Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:06 pm

Modern

Guest

Answered Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:06 pm

10, 25, and 30 fps? Really? 2020, we have 120, 90, and 60 fps.

Best peformance graphics setting for FS2004 ?

13 Answers

Still does not answer your question? Ask a new question!

13 Answers

Still does not answer your question? Ask a new question!

Related Questions

Dell XPS420 Vista ATI Radeon HD 3450 Graphics suggestions

New HDD, Fs2004 is now running slowly

HELP FS2004 GRAPHICS

Missing basic graphics

Does Active Sky X and X Graphics work with FS2004?