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"Very Impressed with FS2K2!"
Posted by Madape on 12-12-01 at 12:12z
Hi All

I finally managed to spend 60 of my student pounds on this great sim, and its definitely worth it, I am extremely impressed with the new graphics, ATC etc.

I am a bit dissapointed with my frame rate of 25 - 30 FPS although I am running an 800Mhz, 320 RAM, gonna have to test it out on one of my neighbours faster machines!

I used to be an avid X-Plane fan, although that seems to have changed! :P

Sam

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"RE: Very Impressed with FS2K2!"
Posted by vgbaron on 12-12-01 at 16:54z
>
>I am a bit dissapointed with my frame rate of 25 - 30 FPS
>although I am running an 800Mhz, 320 RAM, gonna have to
>test it out on one of my neighbours faster machines!

Sam -

I run an Athlon 1.4 and I have it locked at 20fps. No stutters and smooth flights. I ran it at 50+ and saw no real change in flight mode but the scenery suffers as FS2K2 tries to maintain the frame rate. 18-20 is very realistic and you should see no flickers, If you try to push the fps to max, you get a big hit in the scenery with no apparent gain in flight.

There are several discussions re the locked frame rate on the other flightsim forums.


HTH,

Vic

"RE: Very Impressed with FS2K2!"
Posted by Madape on 12-12-01 at 18:28z
Hi Vic,

Thanks for your suggestions, I've found Frame Rate to be a very personal opinion, as I play alot of 3d Shoot ups such as Unreal Tournament, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I am used to quite high frame rates 40FPS +.

The thing that bugs me off is that the flight is lovely smooth, but the instruments stutter like crazy! I have to admit I like the graphics on high :), its no real problem as I fly VFR mainly.

Thanks again

Sam

"RE: Very Impressed with FS2K2!"
Posted by vgbaron on 12-12-01 at 21:43z
Hi Sam,

>The thing that bugs me off is that the flight is lovely
>smooth, but the instruments stutter like crazy! I have to
>admit I like the graphics on high :), its no real problem
>as I fly VFR mainly.

The 747 panel stutters badly but there is a fix out there. The others I've tried seem to work fine. But, as you said, framerates are a purely subjective matter.

TTYL,

Vic

"RE: Very Impressed with FS2K2!"
Posted by RandyHaskins on 12-13-01 at 03:17z
Hi Sam,

I agree about the instruments stuttering now. It's almost like MS switched things around this time. Priority on flight and external graphics. With the gauges taking the hit.

-Randy

"RE: Very Impressed with FS2K2!"
Posted by Madape on 12-13-01 at 14:51z
Hi Randy

Wonder if you could tell me what kind of spec machine you are running?

Cheers

Sam

"RE: Very Impressed with FS2K2!"
Posted by RandyHaskins on 12-14-01 at 02:27z
Hi Sam,

>Hi Randy
>
>Wonder if you could tell me what kind of spec machine you
>are running?
>
>Cheers
>
>Sam


I've got a 1 gig Athlon, 256 meg of memory and a GeForce2MX400.

I don't have a complaint about the gauges. They just don't seem quite as smooth previous versions.

Randy


"RE: Very Impressed with FS2K2!"
Posted by Madape on 12-14-01 at 09:32z
Hi Randy,

I just wanted to compare them to my system, it seems we have a very simialr system, exact same graphics card.

Cheers

Sam

"RE: Very Impressed with FS2K2!"
Posted by RickLee on 12-13-01 at 21:21z
I don't have any problem with instruments... but so far I'm only flying props.

Rick Lee www.rickleephoto.com