No HDR, clouds don’t seem to matter much. Oh, and Ben, even though things are better, the FPS doesn’t change for me when paused, no matter what kind of graphics settings I’m using.

As I said above, things have improved, but I’ve noticed something else strange. As I re-start the sim each time it times me out, performance drops. That is, after a fresh boot into a minimalistic window manager, first time runing the X-Plane 10 Web Demo, 10.03b1, things are ok – usable, but not great. After the 10-minute time-out, I simply quit, hit ‘Up’ and ‘Enter’ in the xterm to restart X-Plane and my performance is slightly worse. Then worse, then worse, and so on, until it drops below 10fps again.

Interesting…

(This will be my last post here on this topic unless further requested. I’ll look to more official channels or post findings on my own site for more details in the future.)

Me too… My screen resolution is 5400×1920 (5monitors) I’m getting average 8-12fps with aforementioned rendering settings nearby KSEA with no clouds and no AI… i7 4.2GHz, 5870 Eyefinity. With such a performance it’s not usable. (with XP9 and total extreme settings super high eye candy (ok no lighting/shadows) I get 45-60fps with ease)

sure think will do, I’ll send bug reports if issues arise. Thank you Ben and team.

I’d say update. I think we’ll have a new beta probably every 2-4 days as we knock down bugs.

Edward, are you using HDR and clouds? Just curious, I’m also running at 5760×1080 but with the aforementioned options, only get 13 fps at the runway and 9-18 fps (depending on clouds) when flying with 10.03 beta 1.

I don’t know if I’ll be able to answer the paused question with any certainty. Things have strangely improved…

I “started over” as per your other thread about troubleshooting FPS issues and slowly worked things back up. To the best that I can remember I was able to return to my previous settings, but now with increased FPS – I’m able to maintain 40+fps when away from populated areas (btw – I’m running 3 screens at 5760×1080), and dropping to ~30 when near populated cities, Seattle, for example. Both of these numbers are better than I was getting on 10.02b2. I would say that my various objects (trees, roads, objects) are all set to the “middle,” ‘very-high’ distance detail, ‘very high’ textures, ‘global shadows (low)’ and ‘complete’ water reflections.

A bit puzzling, but other than that short hiccup, each release has improved for me. Thanks for your hard work!

Is there any improvement in fps when the sim is paused?

I’d be happy to provide more information, if you so desire, because at this point, it’s not worth running.

Do you have AI planes on? If so, does turning them off affect anything?