Old Archie Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Well, It is nearly done. Had to buy a new Mobo (a bog standard P35) to run my new Q9450 processor happily with my 4Gig of Corsair RAM, had to reinstall Vista so it means now reinstalling FSX, SP2, FEX, FTX and of course all my payware aircraft..... what a pain, but I am hoping on a clean fresh install of Vista and fresh installs of all my add ons, FSX will now shine, I know the Quad core will not necessarily make for much better FPS but I am sure it will eliminate the stutters and blurries I had to some extent with my E6600 cpu. Anyways, wish me luck, I will probably spend most of tonight reinstalling stuff. Any tips on what order to install stuff? I am thinking FSX, the Service Pack, Acceleration, then FEX and the SHD Upgrade, then FTX Blue, Blue SP1, FTX Gold then the OzX freeware then my payware addon aircraft, sound about right?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Webb Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Good stuff. I'm not sure about the install order as far as FTX is concerned. You might get an FPS increase if you set FSX to run 3 cores with the main being on the 2nd. This gives the FSX main process exclusive access to a whole core instead of sharing it with OS processes. Cheers, Matt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Archie Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 Good stuff. I'm not sure about the install order as far as FTX is concerned. You might get an FPS increase if you set FSX to run 3 cores with the main being on the 2nd. This gives the FSX main process exclusive access to a whole core instead of sharing it with OS processes. Cheers, Matt. Is that the so called 'affinity' fix Matt? How exactly do I do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumman Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Any tips on what order to install stuff? I am thinking FSX, the Service Pack, Acceleration, then FEX .... I was under the impression that Acceleration included both SP1 and SP2. Is that correct? Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Good stuff. I'm not sure about the install order as far as FTX is concerned. You might get an FPS increase if you set FSX to run 3 cores with the main being on the 2nd. This gives the FSX main process exclusive access to a whole core instead of sharing it with OS processes. Cheers, Matt. Is that the so called 'affinity' fix Matt? How exactly do I do that? Add this to your fsX.cfg Dale [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=14 //1 = 1 core 0001 // cores read from back to front ~ last is first //3 = 2 cores 0011 //7 = 3 cores 0111 //14= 3 cores 1110 //15= 4 cores 1111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Archie Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 Good stuff. I'm not sure about the install order as far as FTX is concerned. You might get an FPS increase if you set FSX to run 3 cores with the main being on the 2nd. This gives the FSX main process exclusive access to a whole core instead of sharing it with OS processes. Cheers, Matt. Is that the so called 'affinity' fix Matt? How exactly do I do that? Add this to your fsX.cfg Dale [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=14 //1 = 1 core 0001 // cores read from back to front ~ last is first //3 = 2 cores 0011 //7 = 3 cores 0111 //14= 3 cores 1110 //15= 4 cores 1111 Thanks Wolter, will do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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