Originally Posted by
bussgarfield
Hi zinok2001,
I can vouch for FSX Booster as it improved my frame rates by up to 50%.
That said however, there are certain things you can do yourself to tweak your system. FSX Booster is a very good programme but FSX should run smoothly straight out of the box and I can't understand why your getting framerates as low as 5 FPS. You say you have all your sliders in the middle position - this does not necessarily optimise FSX. There are many tweaks you can make to FSX to make it run more smoothly and to be honest too many to try and list and explain in any depth here.
I am no expert in the matter but I have been able to get my own system to perform better than it used to by some simple tweaks.
Every ones computer system is different so what works for one may not necessarily work for another but the first thing that I did was to reset the frame rate slider to 'unlimited'.
By having it set to say - 35 FPS, your system is trying to acheive 35 FPS irregardless and may be sapping the juice from elsewhere in order to acheive this. By setting it to 'unlimited' it will merely give you the best it can give.
Remember though, if you are going to tweak your system, just do one tweak at a time and then run FSX again to see if you have improvements. A labourious thing to do but if you don't do this, you wont know which tweak has actually improved or even made your system worse.
I have only read up a little on this subject and I am sure there are others here that can offer more than I can but try the 'unlimited' frame rates first to see how you get on.
Once you have got your system running more smoothly then try the demo of FSX Booster to fine tune everything and what sort of difference it can make.
Gary