RESOLVED Slow texture loading EU England

[FL630]

Hi,

 

I'm new to orbx software and still quite new to FSX and it's many expansions.

 

I really like the England scenery, however I'm finding the textures load really slowly.

 

It's fine if I'm just flying around at say, 100-200kts, but sometimes it's fun to grab a fast jet and fly around on the deck, where it the fantastic scenery turns into nothing but blurrs of green.

 

Anything I can do to improve it? I've not got an amazing computer but it runs at 20fps or so which is fine for me.

 

Thanks

FL630

[Wolter van der Spoel]

Did you get all updates and patches for your installed FTX Titles from the support page => http://fullterrain.com/support.html

also please make sure to get the latest library files also available there and install those as last after the updates

[FL630]

Yes all patches have been installed and library files are up to date. Still having the issue

[Wolter van der Spoel]

Sorry to hear that would you care and share your system specs with us maybe we can adjust something there to maybe improve performance

[FL630]

Thanks for the reply Wolter, my PC isn't amazing, but it runs a lot of other games and photo editing suites well:

 

Intel i7-2630QM @ 2GHz

6GB RAM

Nvidia GeForce GT555M 

500GB 6400rpm drive dedicated to FSX

Running at 1920x1080

 

Trying to find a good balance between realism, loading and FPS is difficult.

 

Thanks

Ian

[jd_jay]

Thanks for the reply Wolter, my PC isn't amazing, but it runs a lot of other games and photo editing suites well:

 

Intel i7-2630QM @ 2GHz

6GB RAM

Nvidia GeForce GT555M 

500GB 6400rpm drive dedicated to FSX

Running at 1920x1080

 

Trying to find a good balance between realism, loading and FPS is difficult.

 

Thanks

Ian

 

Do you mean flying a fast jet low and dirty at say 500 kts, it maybe just a case that FSX cant keep up with loading at that sort of speed, ive noticed that before and my specs are almost double yours

[FL630]

Correct, above 300-400kts the scenery starts to lag a lot. It's a shame as fast jet runs through valleys is great fun.

 

Is it a FSX software problem then? FSX seems to have quite bizzare hardware requirements, being so heavily CPU biased 

[Holy Cheese]

From your specs, I'm guessing you're running a laptop, and I'd say a couple of items at least are playing a part in the slow loading.

 

Firstly, a cpu at only 2 GHz is surely going to be limping a bit in FSX. I'd say you need to be running at a min of about 3.5 GHz to be getting satisfactory results.

 

Secondly, the speed of your hard drive will surely also play a part - 6400rpm is not so fast.

 

Cheers

Jack

[FL630]

From your specs, I'm guessing you're running a laptop, and I'd say a couple of items at least are playing a part in the slow loading.

 

Firstly, a cpu at only 2 GHz is surely going to be limping a bit in FSX. I'd say you need to be running at a min of about 3.5 GHz to be getting satisfactory results.

 

Secondly, the speed of your hard drive will surely also play a part - 6400rpm is not so fast.

 

Cheers

Jack

 

My bad, 6400rpm was a guess, I took the back off my computer (Dell XPS17-L702x) and they are 7200rpm. This is the drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136856

 

I'm going to look into overclocking my CPU, but I've got a feeling temperatures will struggle to stay down, but it's worth a shot to see if I can get a few more fps out of it.

 

Ian

[Wolter van der Spoel]

you can't make a F1 car out of a T-Ford, just be carefull not to burn the thing in the process

[StormVR6]

HDD won't make any significant difference once the flight has loaded. SSD are simply quicker at loading stuff, not running it. I've run FSX using both a super quick SSD and an old WD Raptor, no difference in flight, at all.

 

FL630, you are trying to run an extremely intense bit of software on a low end bit of hardware. I would think you'd have to run everything at low just to get anywhere near a consistently smooth frame rate. I've seen your processor overclocked to 2.8GHz and beyond, it'll help, but not much. Outright speed is not the only factor when it comes to a CPU being good for FSX.    

[FL630]

StormVR6, I understand. I downloaded some tools to watch my temps and clock speeds, it looks like my processor automatically throttles up to 2.7GHz when running, a small improvement. Sadly I think the Dell BIOS doesn't allow me to get in the options to OC, and as it already runs at about 85*C I'm not sure I want to push it further (even though I believe laptop processors are rated normally up to around 100).

 

I think I'll have to accept high speed low flight isn't going to happen. I'm not a serious simmer, I just bought the Eaglesoft DA-42 to practice IFR before starting the real thing in January, but I got carried away and bought a load of scenery and extra addons!