What FSX settings when testing for Q3 2008 ?

When looking at the graphics cards chart Q3 2008 I was surprised that my 8800 card was a top of the bill card for FSX.

I expected that the 260 and 280 cards would perform much better.
Faster core speed, much faster memory speed.

As I have a 26 inch monitor ( 1920 x 1200 ) and a high end computer , I have set almost all sliders to max.

At a flightsimulator forum there was a discussion about this.
Some people stated that probably medium settings where used in FSX and therefor the true performance of a faster card would not show.

Could someone tell me what settings where used when doing the tests.

Yeah someone else brought this up a couple weeks ago.
Theres definately something wrong about that chart, especially since a single 8800GT has more FPS than SLI 8800GT's???
Makes no sense to me.

Thanks for responding , but my question was how the FSX settings where :

- scenery complexity
- autogen complexity
- ai traffic
- clouds
etc etc


And then I would also be curious about the testing rig.

If , I don't know, it is a mid end I can understand that a faster card won't make any difference.
On the other hand with a high end system it might be the other way round.

Gerard,

I answered your question in my first post and provided a link for proof. Ultra Quality settings were used in each instance.

I've built many different FSX rigs of varying horsepower with many different CPU / GPU configurations, and test flew them till I was bleary eyed time and time again, and I'm here to tell you that Tom's charts are correct. Because FSX is so extremely CPU bound, this is why the frame rate curve is so flat in the charts from high-end nVidia cards to mid-range nVidia cards, as compared to other "games". I can pull my 8800 GTS 512 out, pop in an obsolete PCIE 7600 GT 512, and it's very difficult to notice the difference. Conversely, if I drop the overclock on my Q9650 from 4.2 Ghz down to 2.4 Ghz, the frame rate goes right down the toilet.

Shadow,

No, FSX does not support AGEA hardware or driver level physics support.

Jim_L9,

FSX loves cores first, then overclocked cores. FSX runs best on a highly overclocked Core i7 965. Too bad we can't all afford one.

It means whatever the "Ultra Quality" settings cause the sub-settings and sliders to default to, accross the board, all display tabs. Utra Quality settings do not, by default, set AI traffic to "full Maxed".

EDIT: I remember reading the "Test Setup" specifications for the rig which was used for Tom's graphics testing. I've searched and can't find it again, however, to the best of my knowlegde, the processor was a 3.0 Ghz stock clock E8400.

You're very welcome!