Autogen tweak that might help

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pem227 — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:42:43 GMT

Oooh thanks. Going to play with these settings right away. The new blog theme looks nice too. Much easier on the eyes.

Phil.

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P-12C — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:47:23 GMT

Even I was having a hard time reading my own blog when I would try to post late at night...

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robruce — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:07:27 GMT

Excellent Paul!! :) Just what the doctor ordered.

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CyberOps — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:54:05 GMT

I tried it but the following things started to happen shortly after i added it.

1. After shutting the engine off and wanted to turn it back on using engine autostart the game crashed with the message that it could not write to memory, the crash was in FSX.exe

2. The same crash with the same message happened when i was slewing and going back to the normal mode.

However despite the crashes framerate did go up, but i rather play without the crashes.

I hope there is a way to tweak FX without getting crashes.

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P-12C — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:02:52 GMT

Strange about the crashes, I've used those lines at various points in the development cycle with no problems. It will be interesting to see if any other users have similar results.

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bobbymacnair — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:30:33 GMT

It appears this was left out of the original release mate...

[MAIN]

FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.33

It really does increase frames.

Also one of our resident Mods at FS2004.com has managed to apply these changes and is getting fantastic frames throughout!...

http://www.fs2004.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=92413

This is all fantastic news.

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CyberOps — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:34:07 GMT

well what i did was put the buildings at 1 and the trees at 0, there where still some trees and all was running fine until i did the following.

1. After shutting the engine off and wanted to turn it back on using engine autostart the game crashed with the message that it could not write to memory, the crash was in FSX.exe

2. The same crash with the same message happened when i was slewing and going back to the normal mode.

Should i not go lower on a certain setting ? I was just trying stuff out offcourse so no harm done but im just wondering if there is a limit to how low you can go.

Just a strange thing about it not being able to write to memory, after i took those 2 lines out all was running without crashes again.

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CyberOps — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:17:22 GMT

Òk now i have the following and no crash yet but still the question remains is there a minimum limit which if you cross that make the game crash ?

[Main]

FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.33

[TERRAIN]

TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_TREES_PER_CELL=800

TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_BUILDINGS_PER_CELL=1000

[Display]

TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=400

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KPryor — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:11:19 GMT

Thanks for this info Paul. It really did the trick for me.

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gotoguy — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:42:20 GMT

What is the purpose of the TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=400. My .cfg is set at TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=40

Should I change mine to 400?

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bobbymacnair — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:17:15 GMT

you could always give it a go, if it doesnt work for you.. then change it back.

I think the purpose of this is to more memory to texure loading. if you have quite a bit of RAM it might show an improvement.

Maybe someone can shed more light on this.

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Davidd — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:18:11 GMT

I did the following modifications to get 3-10 FPS increase in a system set very high, but not the highest settings.

[Main]

FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.33

[TERRAIN]

TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_TREES_PER_CELL=2000

TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_BUILDINGS_PER_CELL=3000

Water 2.x low, global=very high, traffic(all types) 30%, 1280x1024x32, using X1900GT/2GB RAM/AMD64 3700+

Detailed(Seattle) 9-15 FPS on the ground (cockpit/spot)

At 19K altitude 20-30 FPS in 737-800

Thanks for the tip

Dave D.

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P-12C — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:46:50 GMT

I just spoke with the developer and he looked into the code, found the bug, and the solution is to set the values higher than zero. I'm sorry, he thought it should have worked with zero as well until further investigation indicated otherwise. Maybe a safe minimum would be 10?

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CyberOps — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:40:38 GMT

Thanks for the comeback on that P-12C

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FelixFFDS — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:18:08 GMT

For some time I've believed that Flight Simulator is really a canvas and toybox for flightsim enthusiasts and developers. I am now convinced of that.

I confess that finding out features of FS-X is getting to be more fun that actually flying in it.

Thanks to Bill Laeming, I got the tip to create a new "Aircraft" folder so I can install my FS9 models. I can even create new "hangars" for different airplanes - why mix old time props with new tin sausages? Props can stay in Airplanes.1 or Airplanes.props, as long as FSX.cfg knows where to look for them.

The aforementioned tips to improve fps have worked on my system - and it's just another splash of paint on my FS canvas to play with now!

Now to wait for the SDK updates (gmax FS-X scripts) so that I don't have to convince my wife to let me buy 3DSMax....

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P-12C — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:22:50 GMT

We (okay not me :) are working on the Gmax stuff right now. It's going to be a bit before we have an exporter that works, but dev is working hard on it!

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CyberOps — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:30:47 GMT

I would like to import some planes to but how do i go about doing that, is there some sort of tutorial that explains how i can het my planes from fs9 into fsx ?

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namal245 — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:11:39 GMT

i got issue that in the daytime the buildings are white and bridges are white the texture are justnot showing up even the taxiway signs are white works fine in the night i don't know why i got GEforce FX 5200 card

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FelixFFDS — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:00:35 GMT

Cyber OPs... I created a new "Aircraft" folder off the main FSX folder (the same structure that FS9 has) and added the new line to the [MAIN] section of the fsx.cfg file.

[MAIN]

.....

SimObjectPaths.6=Aircraft

THen, I simply copied over the desired aircraft folder into it. (Of course, you can still copy the folder into the Simobjects\Airplanes) The advantage is that if you are going to use an autoinstaller, you can point it to the FSX main folder, and it will seek the Aircraft folder in there.

Your main convern in moving the models over is that you also move any associated gauges and sounds into the proper FSX folder (or check the panel.cfg and sound.cfg to alias the corresponding FSX gauges and sounds.

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CyberOps — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:14:55 GMT

i tried putting my planes in but i got all kinds of messages saying this was designed for fs98 or this was made for fs2004 and that it can't use it or something like that very annoying and there where no sounds also the panel didn;t show correctly, are there any other things i need to change ?

The thing is im a big cessna fan and i love the older c150, c152 models etc. And since there are no new planes for FSX like those yet i wanted to use the ones i had.

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CyberOps — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:06:51 GMT

Ok i managed to get my fs9 carenado planes in im definatly happy now because they work completely without any problems at all.

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DarrenKarp — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:20:55 GMT

Might by me but I have the retail deluxe version installed and cannot find an fsx.cfg file on my system. Does this need to be created manually?

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CyberOps — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:46 GMT

look in c:\documents and settings\your name\application data\microsoft\fsx

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bobbymacnair — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:17:59 GMT

you need to set the "show hidden files and folders" in the folder options menu. the problem is Application Data is hidden by default in windows.

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vinnyo — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:28:37 GMT

Could someone go into detail how to do this tweak. I am new to this. I can not figure wher i put all the lines . NEED HELP

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vinnyo — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:13:55 GMT

Does any one monitor questions? I am new to this. I would appreciate any help