lalex פורסם נובמבר 15, 2006 דיווח פורסם נובמבר 15, 2006 Hi, I have prepared a set of "tools" that hopefully will allow all of us measure and compare FSX performance under a common denominator. You can download the set here: http://www.excitingsimulations.com/FSX/ ... ark-01.zip . It's a 1.5MB download. Please make sure you read the READ-ME content thoroughly before jumping in the benchmarking process. This might save you some time and frustration later on, and also help you understand what I'm trying to achieve here. I am in the process in performing the benchmark myself and hope to be able to publish the results of my system later today. I kindly suggest that if you decide to join this common benchmarking initiative, you post the results in this thread. I understand and almost expect to be flamed and/or generally disagreed with by some members of the community. I am fine with that, but in any case, I would appreciate if you would do that in a separate thread - keep this thread "clean" please. Thank you.
danb2000 פורסם נובמבר 15, 2006 דיווח פורסם נובמבר 15, 2006 Alex. Once again I salute you for your initiative. It looks like a well thought well executed tool to benefit us all. I only have one question / suggestion: Looking at the attached paperwork it is my understanding that one must have to install a full version of FSX in order to run the benchmark. Is it practicable for you to make a version of the same (or similar in nature) benchmark that will run on the FSX demo? This way more people will be able to run the benchmark and in addition it will be a great assessing tool for people who consider buying FSX but would like to have an idea of what they should expect to get out of it on any given system spec. Once again thank you.
lalex פורסם נובמבר 15, 2006 מחבר דיווח פורסם נובמבר 15, 2006 Hi Dan, I am happy that you like it. It is of course possible to do a benchmark for the Demo but I don't see why. First, the demo does not have the wild variation in scenery that we have with teh full version so what exactly will you compare? Second, people start moaning about FSX being too slow once they get to fly around NYC etc. which we don't have in teh Demo. IMHO nobody will use that. I actually don't believe that many will use the current Benchmarks. It is much easier to say "FSX/MS SUX" than actually work, learn and understand what goes on behind FSX. Anyway, enjoy Incidentally I've just finished doing the benchmarks on my system. You can d/l it here and examine teh results. Some of them are VERY interesting. www.excitingsimulations.com/FSX/FSX-Ben ... -lalex.pdf
lalex פורסם נובמבר 15, 2006 מחבר דיווח פורסם נובמבר 15, 2006 There is an updated Benchmark version at: http://www.excitingsimulations.com/FSX/ ... 01-v11.zip The changes: 1. I found a "bug" in the Mountain Flying 01 save. It does not influence the benchmark, but I corrected it nevertheless. 2. I added the "Automatic" column allowing for benchmarking for the FSX automatic "optimized/default" settings - the ones which are estimated as being the "best" based on your system's specs. You will be surprised when you check those against the other settings. 3. I added the benchmark results of my system, as an example on how the Benchmark results form should be filled in. Have fun.
ha5mvo פורסם נובמבר 16, 2006 דיווח פורסם נובמבר 16, 2006 Alex, this is a great idea - finaly an objective method to test FSX. May I also suggest adding one or two custom configuration options. For example "large airport" style of flight might get a higher scenery complexity setting with autogen at minimum (or even off) a "bush flying" config may have it the other way around Perhaps (along with the 100/50/0 settings) it can give people a better idea of what performance they can expect from their rig.
lalex פורסם נובמבר 16, 2006 מחבר דיווח פורסם נובמבר 16, 2006 Hi Michael, Thanks for the compliments! I have also thought of adding more situations but then I remembered tat the whole point is to allow people to COMPARE results and not gauge their own PC performance. I have added the "Automatic" column to test the values that FSX decided upon at install time. )you can reach them by pressing reset" in each Settings Tab. I have also tested my "optimal settings" which I've reached after meddling with the sliders for about one week. I was surprised how uniform the fps can get if you are patient and know what you're doing. After that step, each and every "dirty" tweak can only improve the situation. Anyway enjoy and if you did take the benchmark, post the results. I am surely very interested to see how other HW performs with FSX.
