FSX Annoying frame rate drop

[Nosecone]

Hi all,
I have annoying frame rate issue, I can be flying around getting about 25-31 frames then they drop to 9-12( Like watching a slide show) then back up to 25-31 and so on . I have the standard default and some freeware scenery, so addon-on wise nothing too taxing.
FSX settings are set to about midway on all sliders, water texture x1, res set to 1024 x 768, weather set to basic and aircraft visuals low

My system specs:

Software: FSX Gold edition, so I have the service pack updates for FSX
P4 3.4 Dual core
3.5 gig ram
New Asus ENGTS 450 1gig pci-e card ( old card was a 7600 gs 512meg pci-e) latest nvidia drivers
operating system windows xp home 34 bit service pack 3

I have used the FSX auto tweak which has made the adjustments in a new fsx cfg file and I am using a frame rates limiter
Defrag the PC etc....


Cheers

Rhys

[Ian Warren]

Rhys , XP will only use 3Gram and course so would FSX , to utilize the full 3Gram you need 2x2Gig sticks or one 4Gig , the 1.5 extra sitting there really is doing nothing .
Course you also want the same brand , best find out the fastest 4gig verse cost .

[Nosecone]

Thanks Ian,
I heard the more ram for fsx the better which would mean upgrading to windows 7. I plan to build a PC just to run fsx for the simulator I am building. I wondered if there was
anything in particular causing the frame rate problem.

Cheers

Rhys

[AlisterC]

Don't suppose you are using some sort of program that does an autosave at set intervals?

[creator2003]

Does it happen anywhere in particular? ,or is it everywhere you fly everynow and again etc ..

[Nosecone]

Thanks guys

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Don't suppose you are using some sort of program that does an autosave at set intervals[/quote]
no, the only auto save I have is for word .

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Does it happen anywhere in particular? ,or is it everywhere you fly everynow and again etc[/quote]
Can happen anywhere ,seems about every 50 seconds or so the frames drop, lasts about 20 seconds then back to normal, and so on

Rhys

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[coltis]

hi had the same prop a while back was running xp . changed to win 7 o/p 64 bit system . fsx is now a real screamer. consistantly high 30 /50 fps. xp has had its day for this sim .

[Rotordude]

If you are using FSUIPC disable the autosave, some systems that tax's them too much if they are on the limit. Will cause big pauses.