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I recently purchased FSX. I aslo have FS9. I am currently getting between 15 - 23fps sitting at Rotterdam airport at the C1 parking area, with the Nederlands NL2000 scenery. In the sky I get between 15 - 45fps. Sometimes it can go a slow as 5fps over heavy area's. Airports seem to be the area which really slow's down my Fps.I have also tested planes with the Bluesky photo scenery and I get between 30 - 60 FPS. I also see my default scenery runs at 25 to 65 FPS.I am looking to Buy ORBX's Aussie scenery and Brisbane Airport. They say ORBX's scsnery runs like the default so i should get above 25 Fps?Someone suggested to get another 2gb of 1333 ram making a total of 4gb of 1…

My current specs:Core to DUO 2.93Nvidia 9500 1GB8GB RAMWin 7 64I run FS9 with all sliders to the right, 100% AI and nhancer profile: AA multi 32x with good results however if I change the AA to combined 8s I get low fps with overcast.Should I upgrade my CPU to Quad core? or is it the maximum I can get form FS9? Because I heard that FS9 doesn't utilize multiple CPUs.And how about FSX? Will the CPU upgrade make a difference?

Hi,I understand that FSX doesn't really rely on the graphics card and CPU speed is much more important. However to what extent can an old graphics card hold you back? Would you recommend replacing mine which I have had for a good few years now?My FSX performance is generally good but I have found (like most people I guess) it goes slowly in busy airports and areas. Improvement is not essential (I am more than able to enjoy FSX) but would be nice!My system infoWindows XP 32 (in the process of upgrading to Windows 7 64Bit)Intel I7 920 OC @ 3.16 GHz3GB RAM (should I upgrade to 6 GB once I have the 64bit system or would this make no difference?)Matrox Triple Head2Go (3 19i…

Hi thereI recently installed windows xp pro sp2 onto a laptop that was previously running windows vista.I was aware I would need drivers but I now cannot locate any hardware or important network card drivers.I do have another computer setup with internet so I can download drivers and transfer them to the laptop.Any help on where to find these drivers would be very much appreciated.The laptop in question is a HP Presario CQ50 -100EMThanks a lot for any helpRichy

Hi,I'm about to buy a new system for FSX.What do you think about the following specs:CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090TMainboard: Asus M4A89GTD Pro (AMD 890GX Chipset)RAM: 4GB G-Skill Eco PC3-12800U CL7-8-7-24Cooler: Noctua NH-D14At the moment I use a ATI 4870 GPU, which I want to keep.Do you think, that this system will run FSX with frames in the twenties (at quite dense airports).Another question is, if the around 100

Is there a way to see if FSX is taking advantage of all the cores that it can, maybe in the FSX Config file. Thanks........

OK.. About 2.5 years ago, I built myself a Dual Core OC to 3.3Ghz PC. The performance has been totally inadequate and hence I have not used my Sim for almost a year and a half.,..hoping a fast processor would come along and make my experience better.Has the time arrived?Could someone suggest a good value for money system? Lets say, $2000-$3000 range. Something that can be OCed as well. I plan to have Win 7 64bit and prefer 4 monitors. 3 for front view and 1 Touchscreen.A CPUMother BoardMemoryVideo cardStuff like HD and soundcard and Keyboard etc, I can salvage from my old PC. I have almost 5TB of HD on my current system loaded with Photoscenery and other addons.Anyone?Ma…

Hey guys. I've never overclocked a CPU before...I built a new computer a few months ago but held off on getting an aftermarket heatsink, as I wasn't sure if I wanted to OC yet.What I want to know before I buy a CPU cooler and delve into the world of OC'ing is: how much of a performance increase are we talking here? Is it worth the effort/$$?I currently have a I7930 at stock 2.8ghz. I was thinking of going to 3.8ghz or 4.0ghz.other specs: ATI 5870, 6gb ram(ddr3 1600), P6X58D premium moboThanksL. Schwarz

READY TO PULL MY HAIR OUT!!!ARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!Ok, so I'm trying to setup a program which runs on my smaller PC (runs XP Pro x86) which can connect to my main gaming rig (runs Vista x64), from now on I'm calling the small one "small" and my main rig "main."I've gone through all the usual steps on both systems:1) Firewall off2) uac off on main3) admin accounts on both system4) simple sharing disabled on small5) Both are connected to wired router, both IP's are 192.168.1.x (ie x=5 for small and 3 for main)6)both are under WORKGROUPAnd the really fricken annoying this is: some folders and files share no problems!!! ARGGH! My printer is connected to main and it shares with sma…

I have this PC on its way. Please give me your opinion of the performance I can expect to see in FSX. Intel Core i7-875k (OC'ed to at least 3.8 GHz) 8 GB DDR3 Corsair Dominator RAM (2GBx4) 1333MHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX470 1.2 GB EVGA Superclocked EVGA P55V Mainboard 1 TB SATA-II 7200RPM HDD 24X DVDRW Asetek 570LX Liquid Cooling system w/ 240MM Radiator and Dual Fans Windows 7 64-bit Azza Solano 1000 full-tower case with dual 230MM fan and 3 additional fans I think my performance should be relatively solid. Cooling is more than sufficient and I may even tweak my video card for increased performance on that. Thank you in advance for your opinion.

Good evening!Ive been ummm and arrr'ing about a new hi spec I7 930 O/C'd & GTX 480 gaming rig over the last few months.. But have decided to put it on hold for 6 or so months til the I7 980's drop down in price or the release a 2. something ghz chip that will allow us to O/C and a 6core chip.Having said all that and my new job position requires me now to have a laptop on site and since I "need" one ive chosen to get this particular model and hope it will FSX pretty well,Here's a link to the machinehttp://www.austin.net.au/ProductList/Produ...SX/Default.aspxIf the link doesn't work here's some specs;Intel Core i7 720QM (1.6GHz, 2.8 Turbo)6GB DDR3500GB HDD 7200rpmnVidia…

HiNew to the forumI currently have a very outdated pc with fsx and i am lucky to get 10fps with low settings.i am now planning to upgrade to these specs and wondering if i will be able to get not perfect but half decent frames and visuals:AthlonII 64 Quad CoreX4 AM3 635 2.9ghzX4 = 11.6GhzASRock N68C-S Motherboard4gb ddr3 1333Mhz memoryATI Radeon 3650HD 512mbThanks In Advance

Good day FSX experts.As there is a $100.00 difference between these two CPU's, I was wondering does FSX ever use 6 Cores (let alone 4)??My line of thinking is to get the Crosshair lV Formula and a Phenom 965(@4.0 Ghz) and use it with my GTX 285. Does that sound resonable ??I think an i7 system is far to expensive for me.Thanks in advance.Golli

HiI have the realtech HD audio with 2 genius speakers. but...the 3d audio is enabled, giving sound orientation, but the speaker that should be on that should be on the right of me is on my left because the cable is to short, and the one t5hat should be on the left...is on the right.How do i swap them around with the audio interface? or just disable 3D audio.... ive been trying for ages and no luck, its starting to annoy me hearing my right engine start...but the sound come the left hand side of meLiam

Here are my specs.*Windows 7 (Upgrade from Vista)*emachines *Intel Celeron D 3.33 GHz Processor* 2.00 GB - RAM* 32 Bit* C: Drive ------ USED: 36.4 ----- FREE: 66.8 GP* 65% Free Space on C drive/ 35 % used space on C* 512 MB DDR2 (Idk what that means)* Graphics Card Accelerator 950I would like to know, what would be the CHEAPEST thing to buy that could improve my FPS. I currently have 5-10 FPS. Im trying some software that shrinks texture file size. I will update what FPS i get there. Thanks. - Evan

Hello,As I'm building my new system specs, the salesman suggested the CoolerMaster Sniper for my Intel i7 980X. Do you think thhat will do? will it support an overclocking?The RAM, since I couldn't find the corsair , will be a Kingston DDR3 1600mhz 12GB and the MOBO an ASUS P6T. Grphics: GTX 480. What do you guys think?Any suggestions?Thanks again,Lucas.

I run FSX on a laptop with this model Samsung SSD: MMDOE28G5MPP-0VA. I upgraded from windows Vista to 7 (not clean upgrade), but I later had a problem with my antivirus and had to do a clean install. Now, I have the default Microsoft driver for this SSD and it is not performing correctly. I did a benchmark test with CrystalDiskMark, and got results similar to the benchmarks my SSD should get, according to Samsung. Unfortunately, I recorded airplanes at my airport's aircraft viewing area, but my SSD doesn't perform correctly when playing back HD video recorded with HD camcorder (video plays find on camcorder which has a regular hard drive, but the video tends to lag someti…

Hello everybody. I was wondering if I could get some help with this. I recently built a new computer about two weeks ago. The specs are as follows.i7-980xevga x5812 gb g.skill 1600480xvelociraptor 300gbw7 ultimate 64-bit.Anyway when I put the yoke and the rest of the components onto the computer (I put the throttle and pedals on the yoke and the yoke to the pc) the yoke keeps "resetting" itself. It gives me the correct time, but then it goes to 00:00:00 on the little time screen randomly and starts counting up from that. It also randomly goes back to the normal time and such. Well this wouldn't be a problem if there was no side effect. The side effect of this is that comp…

I'm going to buy a new computer for running FSX on. I'm a bit out of touch as to what is what nowadays so your comments on the spec below would be appreciated:AMD Phenom II 1055 CPU1.5tb hard driveGgb ddr ram22x dual layer dvd writerNvidia GT220 512mb Gfx7.1 sound2nd sound card (basic) so main sound can be in 7.1 via speakers and voice coms can be via 2n card and headsetWindows & premiumThere is an option to upgrade to a Phenom II x6 1090 cpu for an extra

I'm using the i7 930 not overclocked at this time.With no overclocking would the i7 980X be an improvement over the i7 930? I may upgrade to the i7 980X if it will improve FSX preformance. If anyone has made the upgrade and feels it is worth while please let me know.One comment on the GTX480. I love that GPU. I was using ATI in the past and I had major FPS problems with clouds and trees and also the "blurries". With the GTX 480 all of the problems are now gone. I have the FPS set to 40 and it is now solid around Hawaii. It's nice to be happy after a long battle trying to get FSX to "fly" properly. The above comments also apply to FS9. I want to thank everyone for all of …

Greetings Everyone!I sure hope this post finds everyone happly simming their lives away.My main sim these days is FS2004, and I think my performance should be better than what I'm getting. I'm not a fair weather pilot, so I like a lot of clouds when I'm heading into my destination airport. I'm trying to find out why my FPS and "smoothness" would drop when I start getting into the clouds. And I'd like to know what I can do enhance the performance of my rig. Sometimes it's less than 10. But for sure that "smoothness" is always lacking when I'm shooting an ILS.One thing that's really annoying is when I spot view the plane. It can take 15 seconds for the textures to fill in. …

I'm going to buy a new computer for running FSX on. I'm a bit out of touch as to what is what nowadays so your comments on the spec below would be appreciated:AMD Phenom II 1055 CPU1.5tb hard driveGgb ddr ram22x dual layer dvd writerNvidia GT220 512mb Gfx7.1 sound2nd sound card (basic) so main sound can be in 7.1 via speakers and voice coms can be via 2n card and headsetWindows & premiumThere is an option to upgrade to a Phenom II x6 1090 cpu for an extra

Hello all!I've been out of the Fsim world for about 4 years now, and I'm looking to exchange my not so old notebook for a new desktop only to run FSX... mostly!I'm thinking about building up a system with Intel's Core i7 980X extreme ed. and the GTX480 1.5Gb, for start. Now, concerning the RAM and MOBO, I was thinking of the Corsair Dominator 6GB (3x 2408) DDR3 DIMM Triple Channel Kits Memory, PC3-14400 1866MHz, but no thoughts about the MOBO, what so ever.I mean, does it make a big difference, regarding performance, wich MOBO do I choose? Could you recommend me one (cost-benefit)? My other question is: Wich sound board should I acquire? Does it affect performance as wel…

Recently, I had a power surge in my FS computer and afterwards the system post indicated a problem in recognizing the hard drives (configured as RAID1 mirrored). In order to check the viability of the disk drives, I removed one of the drives and installed it into my old computer system. I've been modifying a large portion of this drive adding new aircraft textures and configuring Summer 2010 flight plans.Here's my question: If I take this drive that I've been working on and re-install it into my FS computer with a new motherboard (exact same model), will the drives sync data (new and old) so that both of my drives reflect the changes I made to the drive in the old syst…

I'm thinking of swapping my Core Duo E6850 for the i.5 1GB. Any opinions? And if anyone out there has experience of the i.5, I'd be very interested.