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You can easily determine how much VRAM is required to render the current scene. The frame rate will be significantly impacted, though, if a texture resolution is selected that requires more VRAM than the computerвЂ™s video card has. The more powerful a computerвЂ™s video card is, though, the higher the texture resolution can be set in X-Plane without hurting the frame rate. While this will not look very good, it will use very little video memory (VRAM), so a high frame rate will be more easily achievable. If the texture resolution is set to low, the runway and terrain will look blurry and blocky. Textures are the image-maps that are draped over the terrain and aircraft to make them look realistic. The texture resolution drop-down box determines the clarity and detail of the textures displayed in X-Plane. The broadest-reaching graphics settings are located at the top of the Rendering Options dialog box, in the section of the window labeled вЂњResolutions.вЂќ These include the texture resolution, the resolution of the window when in full-screen mode, the level of anti-aliasing, and more. Keep in mind that you will need to restart X-Plane to see the changes take effect. If your system if very new, try the вЂњhighвЂќ and вЂњextremeвЂќ settings. In general, if your system is fairly old, try the вЂњlowвЂќ option and then switch to вЂњminimum or вЂњmediumвЂќ depending on your results. If you donвЂ™t want to spend a lot of time tweaking each individual setting in the Rendering Options screen, we recommend that you start with one of these presets. Each preset was hand-built in an attempt to make good settings trade-offs. Starting in X-Plane 10.40, you can quickly tune your X-Plane rendering settings based on five preset options: minimum, low, medium, high, and extreme. 4 Setting the Rendering Options for Best Performance.

This window can be found by moving the mouse to the top of the screen, opening the Settings menu, and clicking Rendering Options. The Rendering Options dialog box is used to configure the level of detail in the simulator. The fog keeps X-Plane from having to draw the world to as great a distance, allowing the simulation to run faster. If a computer is not capable of delivering a frame rate of 20 FPS while rendering the level of detail set up in the Rendering Options page, X-Plane will automatically introduce fog to help the simulation to run more smoothly. For this reason, X-Plane has set the minimum operating speed at this level. Testing has shown that the human brain can separate individual frames at frame rates of less than about 20 FPS, causing the simulation to appear вЂњchoppy.вЂќ Coincidentally, this is also about the same place that the engineering behind the simulation begins to fall apart. The faster a computer can run X-Plane the more realistic and rewarding the simulation will be. Thus, generally speaking, the higher the rendering options are set, the lower the performance and frame rate achieved. It will be much harder for the computer to compute images when flying an airplane in 30-mile visibility with 8,000 3-dimensional buildings and cloud puffs than it would be if X-Plane were set up with only two or three miles of visibility and no clouds. There are two things that affect X-PlaneвЂ™s frame rate: the computerвЂ™s capabilities and how much it is being asked to simulate (e.g., how much visibility is set, how many buildings, clouds, and other aircraft are being drawn, etc.).

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Obviously, X-Plane has to be tremendously flexible to be able to run on a three year old computer and also take full advantage of the latest and greatest hardware available. Each time the computer runs through the program it advances the aircraft and recalculates the images that are seen (cloud formations, scenery, aircraft instruments, other aircraft, etc.).

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This is how many times per second the X-Plane physics and rendering code (currently more than 700,000 lines of code!) can be run.

The simulatorвЂ™s performance is measured in frames per second (FPS, or frame rate).

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The Rendering Options window allows you to match X-PlaneвЂ™s settings (and thus the demands the simulator puts on the computer) to you computerвЂ™s capabilities. For this reason, this is one of the most critical parts of setting up the simulator on your computer. As such, X-Plane offers the ability to change numerous settings to optimize performance on your computer. X-Plane is a very advanced simulator that has been designed for use across a broad range of computers with varying specifications.