I like the 777 and all (especially after I tweaked the cfg for proper load stations and to get the jetway to mid cabin door for my own use - not for anyone else  sorry   copyrights and all) but update 1.4 has made it so frame rate heavy my little DuoCore just can't run it any more.

Pretty sad.   Even with a brand new GTX 750 Ti graphics card best I am getting is 5-9 fps.   Oh yeah if I turn scenery down to nothing and all traffic off and forget the weather it will work.   But what's the point?  I have a pretty decent simulator set up and other programs work just fine.   We fly in the real world with winds and clouds and other planes so the SIMULATOR should be able to bring all that to life as well as the plane.

Previous version before 1.4 was much more frame rate friendly and I didn't see all that many new features fixes that warranted losing the playability of the software.   Wish I could go back to the other one but each update erases the previous version.      Sigh.  

So my improvement suggestion is to bring back the frame rates please.  Sometimes "less is more".    

Tim - Las Vegas
2009 630i  DuoCore @ 3.1  GeForce GTX 750Ti  4 Gigs RAM

Doing more research at the moment - I thought it was my graphics cards going bad and I was very bummed that it performed the same with the new one (GTX 750 Ti has made everything else perform better).   Will keep you posted on results.  I ran Hardware Monitor and am seeing both CPU cores are pegged against the stops at 100% so something is making them work way too hard (thus producing low frame rates).

I delete old versions to prevent any conflicts from occurring.   FSX is a fickle little Diva and my dedicated FSX machine is kept clean of unused files.  Delete, reboot, install, reboot .....  keeps files nice and tidy and processor purring along happily.    But you make a valid point I should be moving them to an external drive to save before deleting.   No bonus points for that oversight on my part.    

Just occurred to me it might a bad download.  I have satellite internet which is pretty slow, so I'll get a new download and wipe things clean, reboot and load the new one, leave the extra liveries off and try JUST the default liveries first before putting Delta texture back into FSX.

Moderator:  sorry this is getting off topic and into trouble shooting, won't drag it further away from suggestion box it is supposed to be.

I would absolutely love this to have a pause at TOD feature. For me, that is all that is missing. Kudos on the nice work.

Hi,
Especially when panning around in the VC or outside the aircraft, the remaining 5 cores of my CPU come to live and hit 100% for quite some time (especially after FTX Vector and Open Landclass EU, they will be at 100% even with no panning). I have cars and ships reduced to nothing, and very low traffic.
So, I would say that a dual core CPU and a gtx750 is not really enough with modern addons like the CS777 in FSX.

BR
Anders

Really?
FSX is able to use 256 cores.

When scenery is loading I see all 8 cores pegged and at 5GHz.

As I understand it cores 1-7 handle scenery loading while core0 handles the games physics so it takes most of the heavy lifting.

On my 3770k system if I enable Hyperthreading it actually slows down whereas the AMD 9590 will use everything FSX throws at it.

I think it was the FSX sp1 patch that introduced multicore, it's not as good as it could be as Aces were closed down soon after.

Mark - then you're looking at the right thing. You're seeing both things (number of processor cores and percentage (although represented in graph form)).

I think in the post above, Cappy meant to say 256 threads, not cores.

Could maybe also be related to the cfg settings? I have Fiber_Frame_Time_Fraction=0.4, allowing more CPU power to load stuff, and also increased Load_Radius to 5.5, minimizing blurries. Could force FSX to use more cores?

Br
Anders