RJ Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 To conserve loading times, memory, etc., I only activate scenery areas in SCENERY.CFG in which I'll be flying. For that I use SceneryConfigEditor. So, for example, when I fly OrbX EU England only the region (not Wales, NIR or Scotland) and some airports belonging to this area will be activated. For the same reason, would I gain performance if I deactivated DLL entries in DLL.xml? If so, is there a program like SceneryConfigEditor to do that? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetstream1 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I've always wondered this myself but have never managed to find definitive proof. Hopefully someone will give an honest answer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmiG Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Any DLL loaded will take a certain amount of CPU cycles and memory (VAS). I experimented with removing DLL's I don't need but the gain was too small to bother. If you have a particularly "heavy" DLL, removing it might help you free up some VAS. I know AccuFeel needs a lot of VAS for the sounds and simulations, but I use it on every flight so no point in disabling it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Hamilton Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Best performance gain would come from deactivating all of the unnecessary services running within windows, like automatic updating and themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I use this freeware program : https://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winpies Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I use Gamebooster also. I think it makes a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cthiggin2 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 GameBooster here also - and it DOES help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkH Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Any DLL loaded will take a certain amount of CPU cycles and memory (VAS). DLLs are just libraries of executable code that don't run unless they're invoked by something else. Even if FSX pre-loads them they will be swapped out again when something else needs the memory. Hence I would expect no impact at all, except maybe a slightly faster startup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Goff Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 If you disable an ObjectFlow module for an airport outside of the area you are flying it is doubtful you'd see a performance gain. The scenery objects controlled by the module will only be loaded if you are flying near them, so if you disable ObjectFlow modules for airports in North America while flying in England, the objects would not have been loaded anyway. If you disable modules for airports in England you will be missing objects from those airports so there will be a performance benefit, but in the same way that your car will go faster if you take out all the seats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 If you disable an ObjectFlow module for an airport outside of the area you are flying it is doubtful you'd see a performance gain. The scenery objects controlled by the module will only be loaded if you are flying near them, so if you disable ObjectFlow modules for airports in North America while flying in England, the objects would not have been loaded anyway. If you disable modules for airports in England you will be missing objects from those airports so there will be a performance benefit, but in the same way that your car will go faster if you take out all the seats Case closed! Thank you all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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