FSX and P3. D v. Software and Hardware Guide.Hello everyone. This guide has two sections the Software Guide and the Hardware Guide.Please scroll down for the Hardware Guide.It has been on purpose left in one piece.With the launch of the Xbox One X only a few months away Microsoft needs an interim win to keep people interested in the console that is currently in a very distant.Hello everyone. This guide has two sections the Software Guide and the Hardware Guide.Please scroll down for the Hardware Guide.It has been on purpose left in one.A2ntezE5CTs/0.jpg' alt='Microsoft Flight Simulator X Quick Reference Card Examples' title='Microsoft Flight Simulator X Quick Reference Card Examples' />FSX SOFTWARE TWEAKING GUIDEVersion updated 2.March 2. 01. 4. P3.D has not been extensively tested, but has been confirmed that some tweaks work, and most of the document can be applied over P3.D ONLY APPLICABLE to version 1.NOT v. 2. x. after each tweak explain what it doesdoesnt do for P3.D. Ive been a member at many forums in past 1.FSX setups and the questions that pop up are usually often very similar.This guide was created to answer those questions and in general to help users set up FSX.It also serves as a reminder and the one stop place for all those tweaks you wanted to know about.Many wonder why I have no problems with performance, so I also wanted to share my settings and also explained a bit why I set it like I set it.And before you ask no, I am not getting 3.I also fly heavies, and I have sometimes FPS below 3.I then do have stutters occasionally.IMPORTANT If you feel like going through this guide and set up my tweaks, I strongly suggest you start doing that on the clean FSX, meaning clean fsx.Shader. Mod 3, no other tweaks, especially not tweaked FSX.Venetubo tool not saying Venetubo is bad, only that this is a different approach.The numbers you are seeing in each of the tweaks are my own settings.FPS measurement references in this guide are done with FRAPS, not with an internal ShiftZ counter.Let me also point out that these tweaks are most probably going to work best on the Sandy BridgeIvy Bridge system, coupled with an Nvidia GPU.I have no idea how well they will do on the lower systems or ATI cards, but you are welcome to try and report ABBREVIATIONS USEDFFTF Fiber Frame Time Fraction.SGSS Sparse Grid Super.Sampling. AA Antialiasing.AF Anisotropic Filtering.IQ Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering, IQ is basically everything that falls under this category, whatever is making the picture look better smoother edges, jaggies and shimmering elimination etc.HT Hyper Threading.VISUAL FLIGHT RULES Rules that govern the procedures for conducting flight under visual conditions.The term VFR is also used in the United States to.Programs AZ. Find program websites, online videos and more for your favorite PBS shows.TBM Texture Bandwidth Multiplier.TML Texture Max Load.BP Bufferpools. SB Sandy Bridge.AM Affinity Mask.OOM Out of Memory.WATER SETTING REFERENCE1.Low 1. x the basic shader Mid 1.High 1. x adds some specular effects.Low 2. x only the sky including sun, moon and stars and aircraft are reflected Mid 2.High 2. x sky, aircraft, clouds and terrain are reflected Max 2.Lets get going TweaksMods.If following entries dont exist in your FSX.BUFFERPOOLSPoolsize0 Usepools0 use either or, both do the same thing referenced as BP0.This tweak bypasses the internal FSX bufferpool, and sends the data directly from the CPU to the GPU.Benefit higher frames, Downside possible artifacts.A very good balance with locked FPS is required Water Effects must be High 2.Often seen in combination with other tweaks, especially with Reject.Threshold In the Bufferpools section, if BP0 is used, nothing else is required or should be in there.If you get flashing and artifacts with BP0 tweak, it would be a good idea to check what the GPU is doing running a GPU at 1.BSODs. As the CPU sends the data directly to the GPU, and GPU is not able to handle the incoming data, you will get flashing and artifacts, as already mentioned.The only way is to lower the settings, cloud resolutions, or anything basically that is going to give the GPU more headroom, including buying a faster GPU.P3. D I am using it.The benefits are very similar to those in FSX.Also since High 2.P3. D, the setting should be set accordingly to FSX.See the water reference section above.JOBSCHEDULERAffinity.Mask1. 4This tweak, on a quad core, moves the FSX onto the Core.It is good because Windows is usually having its processes on the Core.Core. 1 is giving FSX more breathing space.It is also sacrificing one texture thread, since all that comes after Main Thread are Texture Threads.This means FSX is running with Core.Fibers, Core. 1 Main Thread, Core.Texture Threads. Thats OK like that.For a quad core running HT off, this should be 1.For a quad core running HT on, this should be 8.How to calculate AM A modern day SB CPU has Cores.Depending if you HT is on or off, you are going to have 4 or 8 cores or even 6 or 1.CPU. Now, a quadcore has Core.Core. 1, Core. 2 and Core.Cores always begin with 0.AM is being calculated easily in the windows calculator.Open and then choose programmer view.The binary code is shown below, and it corresponds to cores on the CPU.But you have to calculate backwards.This means, lower row, far to the right, the numbers represent cores.See this pic An example For a quad core running HT off, this should be 1.Type in 1. 4 into the calc.Observe the numbers in the binary change.Now remember they are backwards.So it displays. Same for 8.HT on. Core 1,2,3, and no HT cores are used, also Core.If you wish, you can test whatever you like here, just change the 0 to 1 or vice versa with the mouse to assign active core to FSX.P3. D the same way as in FSXGRAPHICSHIGHMEMFIX1.A must have tweak.Dont ask much Thank you Jesushis tweak is not needed in P3.DDISPLAYTEXTUREBANDWIDTHMULT4.I havent seen any benefit of going any higher.There are some posts saying you should set it to 8.I keep it at 4. 0, which is also a default.Another possibility here is to calculate this number according to some posts.These formulas have been assembled by FSX users and in no way confirmed by Microsoft, so use at your own risk.As it is with all tweaks, its worth a try.FSX Tweaks Demystified.Basically MAXTEXTUREDATA GPU Memory Bandwidth 2.Target Frame Rate Maximum Bytes per Frame.GDDR5. TEXTUREBANDWIDTHMULT Maximum Bytes per Frame Global Texture Resolution 1.Texture Bandwidth Multiplier.The important thing here is to think about the Global Texture Resolution do you have 1.CFG, so what are you going to put as a dividerTaking 4.Also do you set 4.NGX has 4. 09. 6 textures etc.I went with 4. 0, and personally saw no real benefit from calculating this.As always, YMMV. his tweak is not needed in P3.DGRAPHICSTEXTUREMAXLOAD4.This is a tweak telling FSX what is the max resolution texture it can load.Remember can. If you are running absolutely no 4.It is no performance killer if you are not using 4.Examples are Level.D Mc. Phat HD textures, 4.Beware that using 4.Anti Aliasing like SGSS is going to kill the GPUs, especially 5.Ti. Even my overclocked GTX 5.IQ. I am currently using 2.Depending on the GPU, you might be better off by 1.If DXT5 or not, I dont know.Saw really no performance difference and no difference in VRAM usage.I opted out for no DXT5 and got into no troubles.This value is likely to get reset if you enter and confirm FSX settings in game.D supports 4. 09.DISPLAYUPPERFRAMERATELIMIT3.Many are using external limiters, many are using internal.I found out and got it recently confirmed that external limiters cause blurries and more stutters.The fact is that internal limiter is as smooth as FSX can get, if FSX achieves the limited FPS without a problem.If you combine this with the BP0 tweak, you are going to get even better smoothness.Doesnt mean its going to work for everyone though.If you have older hardware, you might be forced to go lower, 2.Its all about what your machine can handle, considering both hardware and settings.The best though would be to aim for 3.VSYNC tweak. Setting higher FPS is a bad idea and should not be done, much same like running unlimited.P3. DVSYNC TWEAK FULL SCREENA thing worth mentioning here is a new discovery on the Hardware Video Forums about new Nvidia VSync.This tweak brings unparalleled smoothness with the locked frame rate at 3.In short 1 identify your monitor refresh, and if its 6.FSX FPS and see that you get it Nvidia Inspector like mine when it comes to VSync refresh rate.This tweak only works in full screen.It does not work in windowed.Force. Full. Screen.VSync1 in FSX. cfg is not used in my configuration. Vista Extreme Edition R2 X64 Or X86 . Source for more details Linkame as in P3.
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