X-plane is over 10 years old , old flight sim, FS 2020 built for tomorrow. Even the best of systems atm have a very hard time on Ultra / Max settings
the 787 is the heaviest airliner. Do you get 16-26 in the cockpit or outside ? for the cockpit there is a fix to reduce refresh rate of the internal instruments which improve fps dramatically.
it is a bit better now.
inside 18 now and outside cam 26
cool. did you do the fix for the instruments refresh rate ?
Try a cessna and a not so big airport. Airliners are a heavy load for your system with only 8Gb Ram.
Set Multiplayer to off
Im Gonna keep it as it is for the moment!!! Its so much better than before!! Until I can upgrade I’ll just use what I have!! Thanks for your time and help!!!
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Hi Operator, which fix are your refering to? Just to give it a try, thanks!
It’s somewhere around the forum. I actually did my own version which I believe works a bit better. It’s a modification of a java script instrument base class , in particular the update method so that it doesn’t refresh the instruments every frame. You gain up to 15fps in the airliners depending on how often you set it to update
CanUpdate() {
var quality = this.getQuality();
switch(quality){
case Quality.high:
if ((this.frameCount % 4) != 0) {
return false;
}
break;
case Quality.medium:
if ((this.frameCount % 32) != 0) {
return false;
}
break;
case Quality.low:
if ((this.frameCount % 32) != 0) {
return false;
}
break;
case Quality.hidden:
if ((this.frameCount % 128) != 0) {
return false;
}
break;
case Quality.disabled:
if ((this.frameCount % 128) != 0) {
return false;
}
break;
}
return true;}
Thanks! Wow thats hardcore stuff 
yes, it is, but it helps with my ancient CPU 4790k and I play with Ultra settings so every little helps )
I have a G5 5587 and my graphics card is a Geforce 1050 Ti.
I find that one of the biggest performance hog is the Terrain Level of Detail.
Each airport or location is different though so I always have developer mode on so I can tweak the performance in different locations.
I generally have Terrain Level of Detail and Object Level of Detail down all the way to minimum and only turn them up if I have some extra bandwidth specific to a particular location.
I have also disabled all AI traffic.
I am running in Clean Boot all the time now.
I am using Steam, so I disabled the Steam Overlay.
And wait for it…
Also I am running the game in 1024 x 768 on a big screen TV. That is the XGA resolution that IBM invented in the 1990’s. its basically IK. Its still pretty good these days. Don’t go any lower than that though.
Well I had to move my couch closer to the TV because it’s a little blurry.
Also make sure that your system is not auto-throttling due to heat. I think my laptop is prone to this, but don’t know if the same would apply to a desktop rig. So I have a big stand fan pointed to my laptop exhaust ports and that seems to help.
In the winter, I am thinking I would put my laptop out on the open window for some extreme cooling to see how that works while I fly over the sunny beaches of Florida. I would have to put on a winter coat as the window would be open. But the photo realism should be excellent. I should be able to “look out” of the virtual cockpit window ( Open track and Iphone head tracker app) and say something like: “I can’t believe how realistic this is flying over Florida. Look, there’s people on that beach”, whilst my teeth are chattering due to the bitter cold.
hey there…sorry to bother you…just wanted to give you an update, since you took the time to help me out the other day.. i added some ram (took a 8gb card from one of my old laptops) and installed it.. now have 12 instead of 8… the sim is so much better now…will replace the other 4gb card with a new 8gb to have 16 in total…should be even better then I hope.. cheers