What do all those performance sliders with the addon manager do?

[Boeing787]

Hey y'all,

I am just wondering what all those sliders for performance do on the addon manager. Funny, but I cannot find an explanation on what each one does anywhere    I would like to tweak some stuff with it, because I'm averaging around 15 fps with my Honolulu scenery, and although its livable I would like to see it go up to 25...so I'm thinking that if I use those sliders to tweak some stuff I can at least improve the performance a bit. Does any one know what each one does, or maybe virtuali or one of the developers could explain them to me so that I will know which ones I would like to tweak. Also, with those sliders are the higher settings to the right or left?

Joel

[virtuali]

All those sliders are not special FSDT tweaks. In fact, if you check the Addon Manager dialog, they are grouped in a box that says they are applied globally to every scenery in FSX. Only the few in the lower part of the dialog are meaningful to FSDT sceneries only, and labeled as such.

So, basically, you can consider that part of the Addon Manager, as being as free FSX.CFG tweaker included in our products, since it will always works, regardless if you use our sceneries or not.

The meaning of the tweaks are fairly well known, some were disclosed as soon as FSX (and SP1/SP2) was released, on Phil Taylor's (former ACES PM) blog, here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/archive/2007/06/01/fsx-tweak-of-the-week-or-2.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/archive/2007/05/15/new-tweaks-in-sp1.aspx

Others have been recently discovered, see for example this thread on Avsim:

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/283061-bojotes-fsxcfg-file/