Then we hit a day when all new computers could word process, send email, and surf the web with no trouble. It used to be that desktop computers cost $1000. This drives the price/performance ratio of the entire market - you can see it with desktop computers. Past that point, the additional performance is worthless. When you look at computer performance in a given market, additional computer performance translates into additional usefulness up to a certain point. But I think what creates the sense of вЂњI need a new computerвЂќ even more is how tempting and desirable the new technology is compared to the old. We do sometimes raise the hardware needed to use X-Plane by putting in more graphic detail (that consumes more hardware) and not providing a fallback to the old way X-Plane looked. I mention this in the context of the hardware requirements for future versions of X-Plane. It does beg the question: while I tried to set them up as similarly as possible, how man other things is X-Plane 860 doing that we just donвЂ™t notice, but that cost fps? I also noticed that there are no runway shoulders in 7.00b0. But it turns out that youвЂ™ll get the same thing out of X-Plane 860 by replacing the new bezier-curve-based runway layout with the old simple square one. Just for fun I tried running X-Plane вЂњ7.0 beta 0вЂќ, which was sort of a 7.0 preview, really more like X-Plane 6.70. (ThereвЂ™s a lot more going on in a DSF than just that.) So ENVs are a lot faster because they do a lot less. Now of course you wouldnвЂ™t want to use the ENVs if youвЂ™ve used the global DSF scenery - even on the most simple axis the DSF scenery is superior, with typically around 150,000 to 300,000 triangles per tile rather than 60,000 in an ENV. Load times are also faster too вЂ“ the KSBD tile takes about 3 seconds to load vs 0.22 for the ENV. Okay, this is a completely ludicrous statement, but вЂ¦ if I take X-Plane 860 (default settings) and turn off birds, cars and high detailed world, then view runway 6 with no panel, I get 45 fps with DSF vs.

HereвЂ™s a hack that you can do to make X-Plane a lot faster: switch back to ENV scenery.

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