FSX screenshots

[happytraveller]

A few more shots from FSX, early morning flight out of Wellington. I am still trying to get the fps up on FSX, gradually trying to adjust all the settings but it is a struggle. A few nice screenshots though with some interesting lighting. The water effects setting was at 1X, and resulted in some disappointing water textures here, hoping to improve that by either increasing the setting or else getting some new textures altogether.







Smooth landings.

[Ian Warren]

Looking good HT ..FSX Wellington update just released http://www.windowlight.co.nz/ .... gawd blimey It looks Brilliant !

[Q300]

Lookin good there HT!
How are you finding the Wellington scenery in FSX on the FPS? does it take a hit?

Q300

[happytraveller]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Feb 14 2008, 02:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looking good HT ..FSX Wellington update just released http://www.windowlight.co.nz/ .... gawd blimey It looks Brilliant !

Thanks for the link, I missed that, but am busy now ordering the update!!

Thanks again!!

Smooth landings

[ardypilot]

Nothing beats that REAL NZ scenery at dawn, even in fs2004 it is impressive. Great shots!

[happytraveller]

re frame rate hits.....

The closer to the airport, the lower the fps go, but I still manage 12-15 most of the time, which in FSX seems just about ok. Following some hints given in the FSX tweaks guide, I have removed the FSX autogen file (.xml) as it reportedly gives an increase in frame rates. I am still not happy with the frame rates overall, and before I install a lot of new add-ons, I will try to get them over 15 fps at least to get some smoothness.

I only have SP1 installed, so wonder if SP2 would also result in an improved performance? I have the FSX running on a dual core (2.2GHz), Nvidia 8600GT system.

smooth landings.

[Q300]

Ok,
Yea apperently installing SP2 does help up the frames...

[NZ255]

WOW! Just been looking at some of these SS for the REALNZ Wellington X, even though I shouldn't be (over Internet limit ) and they look awesome! The buildings photo-real and photo-real in general look amazing!
To bad my comp cant handle X

Oh well

Nick

[Alex]

Great shots Happytraveller, especially like the first one with the scenery shadows.

Alex

[VHJLC]

where'd u get the 737 from dude??

[happytraveller]

The 737 is just the default FSX 737 800, with the repaint downloaded from Avsim. Cannot wait for the PMDG 737 when it comes out!!!

smooth landings.

[kiwibarguy]

SP2 is a must. I run on a dual core 2.4 ghz with nvidia 7600. Before i installed it i was having some problems with frame rates and textures. Now i cant catch her out! We have to treasure these happy moments in mfs.

[happytraveller]

QUOTE (kiwibarguy @ Feb 17 2008, 01:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

SP2 is a must. I run on a dual core 2.4 ghz with nvidia 7600. Before i installed it i was having some problems with frame rates and textures. Now i cant catch her out! We have to treasure these happy moments in mfs.

thanks for the comments. The general view seems to be that SP2 is worth installing. Only reason that I am hesitating is that I do not want to lose all the add-ons and repaints that I have already put in. Guess taht a lot of backups will be needed!!

Smooth landings.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (kiwibarguy @ Feb 12 2008, 02:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

SP2 is a must. I run on a dual core 2.4 ghz with nvidia 7600. Before i installed it i was having some problems with frame rates and textures. Now i cant catch her out! We have to treasure these happy moments in mfs.

I think I have a similar system to you? What sort of FPS do you get with something like Robin's Wellington and a 737? I want FSX again

QUOTE (happytraveller @ Feb 12 2008, 03:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

thanks for the comments. The general view seems to be that SP2 is worth installing. Only reason that I am hesitating is that I do not want to lose all the add-ons and repaints that I have already put in. Guess taht a lot of backups will be needed!!

Smooth landings.

Awesome shots, not a jaggie in sight! I'm sure that the increased FPS will be worth losing some repaints and addons? I find that deleting all my aircraft etc is a good thing, because you don't go and install addons you never use, which make FS faster as well.

[Mattnz]

Fantastic shots there, Happytraveller

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (NZ255 @ Feb 9 2008, 03:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

WOW! Just been looking at some of these SS for the REALNZ Wellington X, even though I shouldn't be (over Internet limit ) and they look awesome! The buildings photo-real and photo-real in general look amazing!
To bad my comp cant handle X

Oh well

Nick

Screen Shots were taken here on my system , now be a generally mid range PC .

[Daniel]

Hey Happytraveller,

Great shots there and great lighting
The Default 737 800 is looks pretty good
Hope to see more great shots

Cheers
Daniel

[Anthony]

Nice shots happytraveller!

The lack of rubbish aliasing (jaggies) in the images is really good. You've got an excellent smooth image - the default 737 is pretty good, and therepaint looks good too.

The lighting is also quite nice, but I rarely see water that looks particularly realistic or even very good in FS.

Also at 15 FPS, do you get the jaggies in movement (i.e. in flight, if you use the outside the aircraft view)? In your opinion, does 15 fps give you decent enough movement, smoothness, lack of lag, etc.?

RE. SP2, I would say definitely get SP2 for FSX. On the OS front (Vista) from what I know Vista SP2 makes some improvements to WDDM and other graphics related tech. SP3 for XP doesn't bring anything new to the table (at least anything that would effect FSing), but it's a worthwhile upgrade too.

As a general rule, I wait for other people to test for any major issues, and if everything seems okay then I upgrade ASAP.

Cheers
Anthony

[happytraveller]

I agree with others about frame rates. Rates that were unacceptable in FS9 are fine in FSX, so even something like 15fps is ok. I have a Nvidia 8600GT graphics card and 4GB of DDR2 RAM, together with a dual core 2.2 GHZ processor, and have followed the advice to turn off anti-aliasing in FSX and make the graphics card do it instead.

The good thing with adjusting FSX is that most of what we have learnt with FS9 can be applied to FSX so it is not completely new. Things like changing configuration files, adjusting the sliders and adding repaints are already familiar, which makes it a lot easier.

I am still using screenhunter for the screenshots. FSX comes with a snipping tool, although I do not find this as good as the old screenhunter programme which I have carried across from Windows XP. Pity that the FSX video capture program only takes at a maximum of 1/4 second intervals, is there any way to adjust this?

Next task will be to install SP2, hopefully better screenshots on the way.

Smooth landings!!!

[Anthony]

QUOTE (happytraveller @ Feb 13 2008, 04:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I agree with others about frame rates. Rates that were unacceptable in FS9 are fine in FSX, so even something like 15fps is ok. <snip>

Oh yes absolutely. FSXs graphics are vastly improved to FS8 (FS 2002, what I'm stuck using for the time being) and FS9 as well. There are less jaggies, textures are much nicer (water, for example, no longer looks like crumpled up blue paper).

In fact, I had a better system (well, I do, but it's a laptop) and I felt like throwing some money at MS, then I would upgrade to FSX. But I imagine integrated graphics from three to four years ago wouldn't make for a particularly nice FSX experience (or indeed, anything that's not at least two or three years old).

Cheers
Anthony Harris