Fsbuild-2 Flight Planner

I did some experiments out of curiosity.

I tried it with the CLS DC-10, as it has a similar space for a permanenent FMS display like CaptainSims 707
(I do not have the CS 707).

It turned off most of my scenery settings to get over 100 fps on my machine.

Frames (CLS DC-10 (FS9 / Vista)

2D cockpit 105 fps
VC cockpit (w CLS FMS) 45 fps
VC cockpit (w ISG GNSXLS) 44 fps

2nd test,

Turned off all the code in the FMS, so all it did was display the background bitmap, it had no noticeable
effect on the frame rates.

VC cockpit (w ISG FMS) 45 fps

An interesting thing I saw is when I moved the mouse pointer outside of the FS window, the VC frame rate changed
dramatically on my machine.

Frames:

VC cockpit (w ISG FMS) 44 fps (with mouse hover over FS window)
VC cockpit (w ISG FMS) 105 fps (with mouse hover outside of FS window)

This was done in Vista, in FS windowed mode.

CLS DC-10 (FS9 / Vista) with non working ISG GNSXLS (with mouse cursor hovering over FS VC window). 46 FPS


CLS DC-10 (FS9 / Vista) with non working ISG GNSXLS (with mouse cursor hovering outside of FS window). 107 FPS.


The difference is dramatic, and its the first time I've ever noticed this behavior in FS. Probably because I tend to normally use full screen mode.

But I wonder if this is in anyway related to your problem.

In full screen mode, on my Vista machine anyway, I wasn't able to get it to go past about 30 fps even with all the sliders set to the mins (Normally My fps is usually locked at 20).

I tried the same experiment on my In WinXP machine.

Same test, no appreciable change in frames when the mouse cursor was hovered over the FS window, and outside the FS window. No appreciable change also when I displayed the VC mode in the CLS DC10 with and without the ISG GNSXLS.

This of course then begs a few questions. Like are you using Vista ? And if you are using Vista is it in windowed or full screen mode ? If its windowed mode try the mouse hover experiment and see if the frames change.

Though flying around with the different frame rate displays I can't say I noticed any real difference in display quality. That big a difference should have been noticeable. So maybe it is some sort of false FPS reading ?

Regards.
Ernie.

Ok, I found out when I select something on the fsmenu, lets say options, browse around in it and then go back into the sim, the framerates are back to normal. They stay normal until I change my view, wether I go to the outside view or VC view, then it drops down again. I open the fsmenu again, browse around and go back to the sim I get normal frames again....Very strange...

I'm running the sim fullscreen and all sliders to max settings. My machine has no problem with that.

Running it on a Core2 Duo x6800 2.9Ghz 2Gb RAM GE8800GTX and win xp sp2.

Just strange it changes framerates after the ISG got installed. Even other airplanes where there's no FMC installed have a drop in fps. The only gauge I have been using is the GNS/XLS.....


Hope this helps a bit.


Cheers,

Martin