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[BobP]

Hi Pete,

I am seeing a small FPS hit via FSwide and FSUIPC FSX. It appears to be around 3-5 fps. That should be trivial, but with FSX every FPS counts!:)

I do have severe stutters (frames drop to 5 or 6) when AS6.5 is updating weather stations. The same thing happens with Weather Maker RX Demo when it is updating. :)

I removed Windows defender from both my main PC and Client. Additionally I check all the shares and have mapped drives with read/write permissions. Is this part of the MS simconnect issues? I am running Windows Live One care AV and FW and placed FSX and ASV on the allow lists. Thanks.

Dell XPS HT 3.6 P4 (HT off)

2 gig memory

Windows XP Pro (client) - Windows XP home main - Both SP2

Radeon XT850 Pro 256mb

Catalyst 6.9 with control Panel

Bob...

[Pete Dowson]

I am seeing a small FPS hit via FSwide and FSUIPC FSX. It appears to be around 3-5 fps. That should be trivial, but with FSX every FPS counts!:)

Well, I would expect WideFS to make a small dent due to its parallel use of the Network -- usually that would be hidden by limiting the frame rate to suit the client PCs, to get a nice even update rate all round. Until FSX can match the sort of rates you are likely to want to limit it to (20 fps or more, minimum) then I'm afraid that's going to be a fact of life.

But I am very disappointed in the performance of the user release of FSX compared to the Betas, on which I could barely measure any impact of FSUIPC4. I am in conversation about this with the guys in MS working on SimConnect.

Incidentally, I was pleasantly surprised that, in fact, I got much more of a boost from updating my nVidia video drivers to 91.47 (October release) that the hit from FSUIPC4.

Also, there are many tweaks which all told can substantially increase your frame rate and make it very flyable. Check places like http://www.fox-fam.com/wordpress/?page_id=41 and http://www.fsstation.com/articles/flighweaks.html.

I do have severe stutters (frames drop to 5 or 6) when AS6.5 is updating weather stations. The same thing happens with Weather Maker RX Demo when it is updating. :)

Yes, that's a bug in the weather setting facilities, and was bugged before release but the MS team wasn't able to fix it in time. It isn't noticeable if you can get the frame rates high enough. Don't you also get the sky flashing as weather is updated? That happens here even using MS's downloaded weather with auto-updates, and it happens quite frequently then as the previous settings supposedly smoothly "morph" into the new ones.

Don't you also get bad stutters when autogen pops up? For smoothest flying you need the autogen turned well down (though some of the tweaks above do save having to turn it off completely).

Dell XPS HT 3.6 P4 (HT off)

I'm not sure, but with WideFS running you may be better re-enabling HT. Also, FSX does make a bit of use of dual processing -- it is multithreaded -- just not enough in most folks opinion. Try it and see.

Radeon XT850 Pro 256mb

Catalyst 6.9 with control Panel

Ahmy slowest FSX macine is running an ATI XT800. I've changed the ones I really fly on to nVidia 7900 or 7950 cards. Even a 7800 card would be faster, unless you stay with ATI but move to their current generation (1900? Not sure of ATI numbers I'm afraid). And the 256mb you have on that card is about the minimum which FSX seems to need. It is looking like video memory is one of the main bottlenecks now. Looks for 512mb.

Anyway, on the software front, we are all hoping that there will be an update from MS, but we have no confirmation of this and there's nothing known about timescales. I just hope it won't take a year like the FS9.1 bug fix took!

Regards

Pete