I have recently changed computer and presumed W8.1 (previously no issue with W7) is the cause of the occasional very low frame rates I am finding in certain sceneries.
SBC 2014 Day 3 HW_SW Germany take off airfield Hahnweide produced a FPS of 5 and a poorer ping rate causing other aircraft behind me in the launch queue to fly through me and my tug
on tow, basically unflyable.I presumed it was the whole scenery but as an experiment found that flying from Muhouse on the same scenery produced a FPS of 100 + (with all the same Condor setting, with except for the tree density, set on maximum).
Further investigation showed that Rossfield and Grabbenstette (not far from Hahnweide) produced a similar poor FPS of 5 - Taking off from Farrenberg (FPS 100+) and flying towards Rossfield I found that about 14km from Farrenberg the scenery hesitated and dropped immediatley from a smooth 100+ FPS to a very jerky 5 FPS and less. It was possible to fly from one side of this invisible line to the other and return from the slow to the fast FPS and vica versa. I imagined that this anomaly must have been contained in an area (shape unknown) around the Hahnweide area of the scenery.
Looking in that landscape's folder within the Airports folder I discovered a file 'Hahnweide0.cx' which at 6,112KB is 12 times larger than the next largest in that folder of which there are quite a few at 487KB.
Removing this file allowed the frame rates flying from Hahnwiede to be 100+ as per the other fields. I have lost all the hangar's etc and suspect that the shadow of the airfield is no longer in the same place and that landing in an area from which a restart could be carried out would be very tricky. I was also able to join on-line a server for that scenery without having any compatability issues.
If this a windows version issue is there anything that can be done or might it be a graphics issue? The W8.1 machine uses AMD the W7 used NVIDIA might there be something in the settings which would help if changed?
Season's Greeting to all.
A very confused - Steve
