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I'm still in the FS2004 world with my DELL XPS Gen 4 and a 7900 GTO card (512MB). Despite 2GB of RAM and a 3.80 Intel P4 processor, the performance of the sim very specifically in the VC of complex add-ons such as PMDG with a Triplehead2Go set-up varies from generally pretty good to not so great. I mostly find that the combo of light to medium clouds, dense airports and cities, and modest AI traffic (Ultimate Traffic) in the arrival area reduces my frames greatly, often not exceeding 10 to 12 on approach which is in the Land of Stuttering. Visual fluidity is usually superb in SPOT and FLY-BY views with these add-ons, with frames averaging 30 and often hitting 50 or 60 …

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This morning I thought I might benchmark the difference between no affinity mask and affinity mask=15 (all four cores) on my quad using a 150sec autopiloted, locked spot external view flight.My PC specs are in my sig but main fsx settings are as follows:Res: 1680x1050x32Target Frames: UnlimitedGlobal Texture Res: Very HighLevel of Detail Radius: MediumMesh Complexity: 56Mesh Res: 38mTexture res: 1mWater effects: Low 2.xScenery: NormalAutogen: SparseClouds at 60miles and High Density CoverageAirline Traffic: 15%General Aviation Traffic: 15%No Land and Sea TrafficI am also running FS Genesis Mesh and the Cloud9 XClass landclass for Australia. No Active Sky for these benc…

HiI hope this may be of some use to someone but I have recently been working hard at getting the stutters off of my fsx system. I run a quad core Intel PC with sli GTX graphics cards and 2 gb ram. In my case the critical step in getting rid of the stutters was to reduce the number of cores running to 3 using the affinityMask= switch. The program ran smoother with *less cores running but with more b lurries and on my system this gave the best cimpromise. I now get frame rates of 30 or so with most settings except ai traffic and autogen maxxed out and little stutter. Before this switch was stuttery as anything.Hope this is of useMark

howdy all,for some reason in nhancer when i select enhance in game aa setting under the anti-aliasing section it won't keep the setting. I can tick the box, exit out, go straight back in and it is no longer ticked, any ideas why this is happening?I am running vista 64 with a nvidia 7600gt, e6600

hi what shall i get the SATA or IDE HDD? I plan to build the system myself will i have all the necessary connections for these drives when i buy the partsthanks.

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Upgrading from an AthalonXP 2600 (2ghz) to:ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA LGA 775 motherboardCPU will be Core2Duo 4300 or 4400. Taking cheapest upgrade path..$$..With this board I can keep my AGP ATI9800SE video card, the power supply, the PC3200 DDR memory and wait for DX10 PCIe and the opportunity to scrap everything and move on up. I plan to overclock the CPU to 2.4ghz (4300) or 2.8 ghz(4400).So, my question is - does anyone have any experience with something near this system? Any pitfalls? The possible pitfalls are the ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA LGA 775 motherboard and the value of an overclocked Core2Duo (lo-end) in FSX??Regards,Dick BoleyA PC, an LCD, speakers, CH yoke

can someone help, hardware8800 GTX video card with 768 meg memory2 gig of ram (OCZ Technology)interl core 2 duo, e6600 processorstriker extreme motherboardI had this machine custom made purely for fsx, and with high settings i get a frame rate of 2.9 - 3.5 wich is unplayable at all.even on top of water, low fps, i dont understand. no scenery on water.when I decrease setting autogen, traffic etc, still low fps, maybe 4.5 on chicago ohare it is 1.9FPS, still does not make senseI replace the motherboard, memory, video card twice already and no suck luck, microsoft support were not able to help me.anyone experience similar issues, I have sp1 installed too with my deluxe versi…

I just got a new Vista E6700 computer and installed FSX with Sp1 and I'm now getting choppy distorted sounds when running FSX...the sound is fine in all other applications and music. Thinking it might be caused by the integrated sound I purchased a SB sound card and downloaded the latest drivers but still had the same crappy sound. I then decided it must be the Direct X drivers so I went to the MS site to download the June DirectX end-user runtime installer but when I run the setup I keep getting the message "Setup could not download the file...Please retry later" I've been getting this message for two days even though the internet is connected and the firewall disabled…

I really have to admit that using Vista with the new NVidia 158.24 drivers and ADDING a 2 GIG thumbdrive to one of my USB ports.....and activating "ReadyBoost", I have totally experienced the best flying with FSX since SP1.I use UT, FS Genesis, and Cloud 9 for the U.S. and Europe. I have Autogen at Normal and Scenery at Extremely Dense. I'm set to Unlimited Frames, and let FS control the AA and AF.Seattle is at least 5-8 frames higher (17-25) and my home airport, KABE is totally smooth and without the slightest stutter. My load times with UT even seem to be 20 secs or so faster. I flew during the daytime, dusk, and nighttime.ReadyBoost didn't seem to make much of a diffe…

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Since I purchased my Vista computer with IE7 I am constantly having to sign in every time I go to a website like AVSIM that requires a password. I have no trouble initially signing in but the information is not remembered from session to session. I have turned off all cookie controls in my CA Firewall and in IE7 have added sites like Avsim to my "always allow" privacy list. I have tried different privacy setting from low to medium high with no success.Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have a question in regard to Core2Duo's & QuadCore's. I currently have a Conroe 6600 Core2Duo on a P5B-E motherboard and was wandering if I have to turn on something in the setup in FSX or the hardware to have it take advantage of the Core2 processor or does FSX automatically sense that the processor is dual core.I have read on this forum that the Core2Duo's are supposed to perform better than the other processor's that are not duo's. Is this were the SP1 mod comes into play? Also, if I were to upgrade to a Quad-core, approximately how much more would it cost to do so and what would be the advantages over my existing 6600...jack

Hello All,Thank you in advance for your help...I purchased FSX when it first came out but was unable to use it on my current machine. I do want to buy a new desktop but really don't want to break the bank by spending 2k. I went on CompUSA and saw a few machines like this one:ZT Cisnet CI-HT04cIntel P4 3.06GHz (Hyper threading Technology)L2-1MBPC-2700 333MHzDDR-SDRAMInstalled Mem: 512 (assuming I can at least put 2MG RAM)HD 250GB/720016bit Audio on motherboardWindows MediaMini TowerCan I add an 8800 Video Card and will it run FSX fine? Not looking for perfection, this machine lists for $581 and they have others in that ballpark...is the processor fine?Thank you!Chris

I've been asked to post the following message from a friend who is currently unable to access the board on his own computer.Message follows:-------------------------------------------------------------------Hello all, I was using my system the other day when I heard a small 'pop' and then it died. SYSTEM IS:ASUS P4c800 E MBP4 3.4 cpu4gig Kingston Hyper X memory PC3200Western Digital HD 7200 rpmAntec 480 watts power supply. Plenty of cooling, never overheats.ATI 9800 PRo AFP What I tried to see the problem.another computer, both monitors work great. Another ved card, ATI X1950AGP no changeanother memory set, PC 2700 no changeanother power supply Antec 650W no change…

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Can anyone comment on experience with the new highend Gateway gaming PC's? Wonder how that route compares with Dell's highend?

I will be posting this question at FSUIPC Forums as well but I'd appreciate some 'hands on' advice from users of the full version of FSUIPC. My intention is to purchase the full version this coming week, purely, in an attempt to stabilise the inputs of my joystick (Logitech Extreme 3D Pro) to FS9 which, I understand, has many shortcomings in this area. Bottom Line: Does FSUIPC dispell the necessity of tedious recalibration of the previously mentioned joystick inputs? It almost drives me 'spare'. I absolutely concede that there are better input devices out there but this is the one I have and in other areas (viz: Combat Flight Sims) it is more than adequate. FS9, not so. Y…

I have a G25 wheel and pedal setup and am curious how I can setup my pedals as rudder along with the yoke. Is this possible? I would think it should be, although it seemed I can only assign one axis for rudder. I'd like to have the gas pedal be right rudder and the clutch left rudder. When I was using a joystick before the yoke, all the pedals and buttons were active to be used in FSX. Once I installed the yoke, the G25 at present is not active in FSX.Thanks guys!Todd

Hi allI'm thinking of upgrading from an AMD 4000 single core to an AMD Opteron Dual core with 2x2400 and 2x1024 second-level cache.I thought as a stop-gap to prolong the life of my 939 socket/AGP video card system for as long as possible, no chance of a complete system re-build at the moment. Waddya think? Would cost

So I, the most hesitant person in the world, went for it:CPU Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe E6600 2.4GHz FSB 1066, 4MB CPU Memory 2048 MB DDR II 800 Memory 240 Pin (Kingston) (1024 x 2) Mother Board ASUS P5N-E SLI Motherboard Hard Drive 1 Western Digital 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA II Optical Drive 1 LG 18X DVD RW +- Dual Layer Video nVidia BFG 7950 GT OC 512MB, DVI, HDTV, PCI E Audio Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 24 Bit SB0570VP Network Card Onboard Network Card Case (NEW) NZXT Hush Case (silver) Power Supply 600 Watt Thermaltake Pure Power Supply W0129RU I'm so nervous, I wouldn't want to regret it. Hope this works well for FS9, and that it out…

I've been away from simming for a couple of years, but am getting back into it. Recently purchased a new computer and FSX, and I know I need to upgrade the graphics card for a decent experience. I assume I'll need to upgrade the power supply as well.Current setup is a HP m7020n. Specs: Core

Hello everyone, my name is Ruby. I need your help with a problem i'm having. I got a GIGABYTE Nvidia Mobo, AMD 64 X2 5200, 2 gigs worth of Patriot ram. The EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTS video card a 600 watt power from ULTRA and a 250 gig Maxtor SATA HDD. Now heres my problem. I've looked everywhere to look for answers and no one can help. When I started my CPU I formatted the drive and started the CPU through the WINDOWS XP CD. But when the CPU restarted with the HDD the CPU restarts it self and never goes to XP. It will just keep restarting and restarting over and over again. The BIOS is picking up the HDD because I can see it at the bigging of the startup. Can …

Hello :-wave,I am probably purchasing a new computer in the next few weeks. Since I am planning to stay with FS2004, I hope following system components might give me a fluid sim experience even with lots of clouds and detailed airports, for a convenient price:Graphiccard: NVIDIA PCIe: MSI NX7900GS-EZ * 512 MB, GeForce 7900 GS, PCIe x16, 256 Bit Processor: Intel