Tailgunner Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I had tried every tweak in the book, without any real success. Couldn't afford the Big Tweak of i7 and all the associated expenses. So I deleted/rebuilt the FSX cfg. and replaced my faithful old E6850 with a quad Q9650. Overclocking is beyond me, but the stock quad has produced a huge overall gain. No more stutters; vastly improved framerate; really superb graphics; much faster loading of sim and textures; even a reinvigorated PC. Magic! With everythig working so well, henceforth I stick to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" principle. But out of curiosity, is there these days any real merit in the Affinity Mask tweak for quads? It's still widely touted on the web, yet as far back as 2007 Phil Taylor was blogging: "only for when there are problems." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Isn't it nice when a plan comes together? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Glad that worked out for you there TG. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenBlade Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Definitely go for affinity mask 14 or 12, 12 works better for me, and I'm using the same quad. Bjorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tailgunner Posted August 26, 2010 Author Share Posted August 26, 2010 Thanks, Bjorn. But given that I'm happy now, what extra benefit would I gain from using that tweak? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenBlade Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 I found my sim running better. The AM 14 will let FSX run on CORE1, CORE2 and CORE3 and fibers will still run on CORE0 The AM 12 still lets fibers run on CORE0 and reduces FSX to CORE2 and 3 as far as I recall. I seem to get less thread collisions. There´s a lenghty explaination here http://forum.avsim.net/tutorials/article/64-the-bp0-conclusions/ Just on a side note, Bojote a.k.a. Jesus Altuve uses AM=12, that´s why I tried it. Bjorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tailgunner Posted August 26, 2010 Author Share Posted August 26, 2010 Thanks for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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