GEX HAS A SPECIAL GIFT COMING FOR ALL FSX USERS!

Originally posted by rpowers46

Originally posted by rpowers46

Thanks Nick,1 last question (maybe).What about the scenery complexity slider?I'm not sure I see any difference in scenery as I slide it from dense all the way to right.Does this have a big effect on performance?Also AI traffic.I run commercial at 20% but  don't see difference in framerates if I slide it to maybe 40%.Thanks,Ron

Scenery Complexity at 3/4 or above can strain a system due to the traffic calls... FSX triggers the jetway gate calculations 50-150nm around the aircraft at all airports when the Scenery Complexity slider is at 3/4 or above. Most can run 3/4 to 100% if they keep their traffic low so the answer is do not raise AL traffic or you will see a hard hit
At the same time it depends on the system it can run 3/4 to 100% Complexity and the scene being flown..  I cant make that assesment

Every system I tune gets the same settings 
http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=26410&PID=149607#149607

and I back down by order of importance and what I see on the screen

1. AL/GA Traffic: 20-30% for most, better systems up to 59 no more with default AI but never set it to zero or below 20
2. Cars: with UTX v1.3 USA either turn cars OFF IN THE UTX TOOL or set no higher than 5-8% slider in FSX one of the two.
-Without UTX 8-15% max. Ships and boats between 15-25% depending
3. Airport Vehicles: LOW for most, MED for better systems, no higher
4. Autogen   100%- 3/4 to 1/2 no less than 1/2
5. Scenery Complexity 100%- 3/4 1/2 no less than 1/2
6. Thermal effects (set to NONE if stuttering in a thermal)

All other settings remain the same for all systems and use Nhancer for Nvidia cards
http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=27540&PID=156769#156769

As for FSX.cfg edits.. these are the only ones I use:

TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=80 I use 70 to 80 depending on the system

WideViewAspect=True Because I use a widescreen monitor

DisablePreload=1 Which disables FSX from loading the default flight when FSX is first launched

Poolsize=70000000 Which is the bufferpool reserved video memory for scenery geometry around the aircraft. 512 cards really cant make much use of it and should never reserve more than 15MB, 640 cards 35MB and 768 cards 70-80MB. Many find leaving this edit out of the config is the best way to run

For visuals I also use the 4 RUNWAY_LIGHTS_ edits we know from FS9 to make airport light more realistic in scale with my resolution and monitor

other than that the FSX.cfg file never gets touched and I only use 1024 textures for ground, clouds, water and sky