Frame rate online

[EHM-1199 Philip]

Am I the exception or is my experience common place. When online my frame rate improves dramatically even when in quite heavy cloud? I think this is possibly because offline I have stacks of PAI traffic in place which makes for frustratingly busy airports but also for extra processor time calculating where all those aircraft are. Online I have a dozen or so online colleaguesand consequently even in quite 'pretty' cloud the whole thing seems to chug along quite happily at the set '20 fps'.

[EHM-1343 Jonathan]

I average 25/30 FPS online but at the event, i only managed 15FPS, which still isn't bad(then i got ignored by ATC and left hehe)

[EHM-1365 Benjamin]

Originally posted by Razza
...then i got ignored by ATC and left hehe

Hmmm, sounds o so familiar....how was your flight on Tuesday;)? (I didn't leave though:s)

[EHM-0502 Desmond]

A lot of AI traffic definitely slows framerates a lot.  Unless your cloud settings are at maximum it seems to have less of an effect on framerate.
I have ALL the PAI airlines installed, but have removed th FS9 traffic except for the GA flightplans, and get about 20-25fps with maximum cloud effects.