MemStatus

[lifejogger]

In my never ending quest to improve the performance of FSX on my PC, I came upon a post at a forum about using a utility called MemStatus to monitor how much PC memory and graphic card memory you are using.
forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.php?t=56661&highlight=burkhard+renktogether\

www.nuclearplayground.com/NuclearPlayground/MemStatus/

Using the tool you can tell as you move the display sliders to right when your PC memory and graphic card memory are bogging down. And then adjust accordingly until your memory is not overworked.
I did this and found out my memory is not being overworked.
With all my sliders to the left I was using 50% PC memory and about 48% graphic memory. With the slides in the middle I had 59% PC and 57% graphic and at full right I had 68% pc and 70% graphics ( I have 2g memory and 256m graphic card memory).
I think this indicates that my cpu is the bottleneck on running FSX and is what is causing my low, low frame rates. My next step is to follow Matt Fox’s procedures and resize my textures and see if that will improve my performance.
www.fox-fam.com/wordpress/?page_id=41

[Admin]

My experience with MemStatus is similar and my CPU usage is pegged at 100% BUT it's pegged at 100% with everything turned down too. Anyway, testing and discarding a bunch of tweaks I have performance tuned to 20 fps city and 30 in the country. The 2 Gigs of memory gives me smooth and fluid motion. I can live with that performance. In fact I may lock it at 24 and never look at it again.
I'm going to hold off on another computer until a few things shake out.