need some suggestions!

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I re-installed my C-130 X into my
FSX and it's no better on framerates, not that it should have been I was wishful.

What can I do to achieve better than 8.0 - 9.5 fps in vc maybe 10 at
altitude w/clear skys and 12-14 in exterior view.
This is over the Arizona desert mid-day zero AI traffic etc.

I read several posts with  users with similar systems to mine and they claim to be getting 20 fps ??    

I really want to get some use out of the herc, but it is like a slow motion film

Here are some specs:

Core 2 duo 6600 , Nvidia 8800GTX OC
FSX (SP-1) with UTX/GEX/SceneryTech LC
4 gigs Ram
single use PC no Network
samsung 25" WS monitor 1900x1200
Windows XP media version (SP2)

FSX:  autogen= sparse
no AI traffiic
water at 2x1
clouds medium density
radius medium
Frames locked at 28 fps ,runs better for me than unlimited

AA set on Video card at 8
in game trilinear


not really pushing the sim...

If I need to shut off start up programs or sevices what are some that have a pronounce effect on sim performance and can be safely
turned off?

My AV is AVG 8.0 and many features are turned off

Is a quad core over 3.0 ghz the only answer?

suggestions needed

Thanks so much

Doug

Thanks for your comment Richard.

I think I have my Nvidia 88ooGTX dialed in after some trial and error
and reading everthing I could find on the net about video card performance.

It just is hard to accept frame rates of 7- 8 in the VC or 11 -13 in the Exterior view when I know my system is not the worst thing out there and others bost of 20 with similar specs.  What I hope someone will weigh in on is if there is something i can do to run the C-130 better without shuting everything else off in the sim. The 2d panel is horrible and on a WS monitor its worse.

I shur off the HUD in the VC in  my Iris F-15 and the frame rate doubled! I'm lookmfor some suggestions like that.

Someone please give my C-130 some go juice!!  lol

Thanks  Doug

Thanks JB,

I aready have the Nvida set up correctly, just like the Nhancer would tweak it.  I did see the simviation post a month or more ago by Nick Nedham. 99.99 percent of what he recommends on the link I have already done.

I do think I have duplicate or old  FSX.cfg entries for "trusted" Captain Sin C-130 gauges from when I installed it the first time then unistalled it from the sim completely. May need to clean them out.

I may just get rid of ithe C-130 altogether until I build up a more powerful computer ( processors) and switch from SP-1 to SP-2

It's think it's all those gauges and functions that are kill'n my sim FPS .

I just don't understand why such a dramatic swing in performance from mine to similar systems and in game settings, considering I done most of the correct tweaks also particulary those mentioned above.

Maybe it's my 25" WS monitor, which is set at 1900 x 1200 x 32

Thanks so much

Doug

For what it is worth, here's what I found recently. I did this because of things i read that said SP2 fixed a lot of framerate problems. You might want to try....

I'm running an XP machine, AMD 64 bit 3800 (2 GHZ) with 2 gig RAM.
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 with 256meg video memory.

I did a clean install of FSX, and loaded FSX SP-1, which is what you have. Installed the FSX C-130 and had about 8 to 10 framerate.

I then installed FSX SP-2, and the framerate number doubled. I run a pretty consistent 20 FPS, with sliders at about 60% of max range (medium high).

Not sure if SP-2 would help you, but I noticed a difference.