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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:51 am Post subject: Quick question for the experts?

Hi All

I'm relatively new to the FS world but love it so far. I have a quick question that I'm curious about. I have an Ok system which runs FS04 at a decent rate but when I add the Concorde by FSFrance or the Tupolev Tu-144 the game runs mega sluggish. I've heard people say these are heavy models etc and my question is what is heavy? I understand about CPU load etc but how in 2D cockpit mode can the load be heavy as compared to games with lots of other stuff to draw (racing games etc). Also when I turn the graphics down it makes no difference at all. Hope that it's not an odd question?

Cheers

Daz

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:08 am Post subject:

Mach 2 concorde and TU-144 are one of the most demanding freeware addons I have ever seen. They are designed to the last detail and that makes it os demanding. About the second question, it is normal that FS needs so resources, because an ordinary driving game only draws a small amount of scenery, only what you see, and since you are usually surrounded by biuldings that is a rather small amount of data. But in FS you have your computer renering scenery up to 50 miles away from you (depending of the settings) with all the mountains and trees and airports. And you also never have 3D clouds in games line NFS or some shooting games.

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:08 am Post subject:

The higher in detail a model is, the more CPU power it eats up as FS needs to make greater computations. There is a lot of stuff going on in FS when you run it...more so than any other game out there. Even in thingypit mode it still has to draw and compute so many things.

Post up your system specs and we'll see if we can tweak it up for ya. Other than that...welcome and enjoy!

Exxman

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject:

Thanks to you both for your help. I did wonder if it was the actual flight model that was pulling power. But why when I switch the full cockpit off to just show dials, does things smooth out on heavy planes such as concorde. Sorry to be a pain but I am like that!!

Thanks again

Daz

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject:

There is less detail showing with just the gauges showing versus showing the whole cockpit. Less detail, less strain on your system.

Same as your original question about the Concorde model itself.

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject:

cheers, makes sense really.

Daz

Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject:

Hence my pc coughing up a hairball when I try and fly an Opensky 747, or the Millenium Falcon. (PIII-550, 'sob') Rolling Eyes