Resolution & framerate?

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Arul Dass (arulu) Trainee
Joined: Apr 18, 2005 Posts: 70 Location: Malaysia
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:50 am

Friends I just recently got a new LCD monitor 19" wide screen. After changing the resolution according to the screen I see a great drop in framerate in FSX, drop about 5-7. Has this resolution has an effect on framerate? I am using Vista 32bit E6420 Duo Core, Nvidia 8500GT 512MB and 3gb ram DDR2.

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CRJCapt Chief Captain
Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 3724 Location: Ohio,USA
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:52 pm

Yes, the resolution effects frame rate. The more detailed the picture(higher resolution) requires the video card and processor to work harder thus reduced frame rate. You will also see variations in frame rate with dense scenery versus less dense scenery; fly over a very large city and your frame rate will decrease.

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Cheeks Chief Captain
Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 1434 Location: YSSY
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Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:29 am

CRJCapt wrote:

Yes, the resolution effects frame rate. The more detailed the picture(higher resolution) requires the video card and processor to work harder thus reduced frame rate. You will also see variations in frame rate with dense scenery versus less dense scenery; fly over a very large city and your frame rate will decrease.

CRJ is exactly right 😉

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Arul Dass (arulu) Trainee
Joined: Apr 18, 2005 Posts: 70 Location: Malaysia
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Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:23 am

Thanks friend, any method to rectify this.

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Tom (cthiggin) First Officer
Joined: Apr 15, 2007 Posts: 188 Location: Montgomery, AL
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Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:05 am

Hello fellow simmers,
Learned something several months ago when I went with a ViewSonic 22" WSM - In fsx.cfg, there's a line for "Wide-view aspect" - default is "false" - "CHANGE" to True.............really helped me and I am running
1680x1050 32bit with minimal fps loss - using 8800GTS 640 meg.

Maybe this will help some.

cthiggin

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D5Tweddle First Officer
Joined: Apr 27, 2006 Posts: 106
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Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:09 pm

How do I get into the fsx.cfg?

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n7xlq1 First Officer
Joined: Mar 25, 2007 Posts: 310 Location: KLUF and KGEU
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Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:23 pm

D5Tweddle wrote:

How do I get into the fsx.cfg?

Open it with notepad.

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