For the FPS buff's i'll put my settings in - most of these are suggested during the scenery setup and applies to while you are flying in the NY area ONLY. If you continue outside you might want to jack them back up. Here goes...
In Display:
Terrain Mesh - 20
Terrain Tex - High
Detail - Land only
No Dawn texture
No extended textures
Scenery Complexity - Extreme
Autogen - set to sparse (No need for buildings to muck up the works
Dynamic - none
No ground shadows - could change
Weather
Sight distance - 60
Cloud draw - 30
3D cloud - 100
Detailed - Max
Hardware
Transform and lighting - on
Rest is off - no extended or AA
Mip Map quality - 7
Hardware lights 6
Global tex size 6
Target frame rate - 87
Additional stuff - delete the autogen file in the autogen directory.
Replacement textures: resautog.zip, ffpv2.zip
All replacement textures are 50 % smaller and it makes a SIGNIFICANT speed difference if you are outside of the NY area. Inside it only helps as they are for clouds, etc - you can get these as
http://www.flightsim.com or I can email them to you.
Example of frame rates:
East Long Island by East Hampton and Montauk, Gardners Island, 80 FPS +
Flushing Queens: 60 FPS +
Newark Liberity sector: 40-50 FPS +
Bridgeport N90 sector: 60 FPS +
Manhatten and the Bronx: 40-50 FPS +
System specs: AMD XP 2400, 1 GIG, RADEON 9600
