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I think I've come across something that will significantly improve FSX Performance! Atleast it does on my system!! Look here!!http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...48868&mode=full

Not sure what's going on with others' core2 machines, but i just built my new core2 machine a few days ago and my frame rate effectively doubled. I get 22fps on the seattle runway now with sliders 1/2-3/4 of the way up and water at 1 high. I'm also running at 3840x1024 with 4x AA and 16X AF. This is also the default settings on the cpu as I have not started my o/c yet. I will be o/c'ng to 3.4ghz this weekend and expect another 3 or 4 fps from that. City flying is now very smooth for me. New York at max settings was only 12fps in spots but overall even it was over 15fps. Most suburb and bush flying is between 40 and 50 fps now which is where i do most of my flying anyway. …

FYI, in case you were contemplating this, I can attest it works great.I decided to quit effing around and install a Sharp thru-the-wall A/C unit right next to my PC case's location. It is their smallest, whisper quiet unit, I think about 9,000 BTU or something. It has a nice remote. I have the case cover off of my Lian Li case, and I have taken a piece of 4" flex hose (dryer vent hose I think is what is was) and route the bulk of the A/C unit's fan flow dead at the CPU HSF (stock retail intel). The rest of the air ends up blowing directly onto the mainboard, video & DIMMS, with a goodly flow down into the HDD area where the 3 Seagate 15K.3 SCSIs sit.Depending on t…

I am thinking of putting in an extra PCI card (XFX GeForce FX5200 256MB DDR, PCI, TV-Out/DVI) for 3 monitor support on my AMD Athlon X2 6400 pc, with already a 7900GS installed. Has anyone experience with a comparable setup? Would a Matrox Triplehead solution produce better fps? I have only 1 PCI-E slot available...

I read about this here: http://www.fs2004.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=100341 "Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66 GHz/4MB L2/1066MHz FSB) and E6600 (2.4 GHz/4MB L2/1066MHz FSB) is planned to cut from $530 and $316 to $316 and $224 respectively, a 40.3% and a 29.1% off." It looks like this is going to happen in January. I'd been planning to get the E6600. At the new price, would the E6700 be a better deal?

Hi Everyone & Merry Xmas.I have been getting the occasional crash to my O.S. where it reboots up after a Crash.I am just trying to tweak different parameters to see if I can avoid these crashes.I am running duo core with a GF 7950 Video Card.The monitor I have is a 19" described by one simmer as a sherman Tank LOL:)I have the resolution set AT 1024x 768.Can someone suggest a higher resolution which I should set my monitor at.Tks. for any comments or suggestions.Kenny G.

This has been posted on a german IT news site. They are usually well-informed and are considered the #1 source for it professionals in german speaking countries.The information is not official and not confirmed by Intel officially, but it seems that we'll have to wait at least half a year from now until the clock speeds for the core 2 processors will rise significantly. The new (still speculative) Core 2 Duos will run at FSB1366, resulting in up to 3 GHz internal clock speed.According to the article, the E6600 and 6700 will remain the fastest Intel dualcore CPUs until then. Only the (much more expensive) Core 2 extreme *may* appear in a faster version earlier.The quadcore…

Would a "Force Feedback" joystick allow me to feel the pressure of the air as it pass over the conrol surfaces? i.e. to help in trimming the plane?Which FF Joystick might you recommend?

What will improve FPS in FSX? If you had to change on only which one would improve frame rate the most.A. CPU core speedB. MemoryC. Video memoryD. Memory speedE. Video card brandMy system is running: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ My core speed 1808.0 MHz with a multiplier of 9.0 Bus speed of 200.9 MHz ASUSTEK (Salmon) Motherboard 1 GIG Memory (PC3200) Radeon X700Right now with all set at medium high I get a frame rate of 7-12 FPS.In the back ground I have FsRealtime and ASv6.6 running.

can anyone recommend a good high spec laptop available in the US?Budget of about $1800USDOnly musts are: at least 1GbRAM or upgradable. High quality/durable build (will be travelling constantly). Widescreen.Have Intel's latest processors made it into the mobile market yet?

Here is a good review of the new Nvidia GeForce 8 Series (XFX 8800 GTS/GTX) video cards. One of the tests was on FSX, so you can see how well these latest video cards perform right now in FSX (DirectX 9.0c and Windows XP Pro SP2) with:Intel Core 2 Extreme QX67002 x 1 Gb OCZ PC2-8800 @ DDR2-800http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/8800nv...x120/flight.phpJOE

Hello all, I am looking to get a new motherboard. It needs to be SLI compatible, and support Core 2 Duo. I prefer Nvidia chipset, but if the reviews are good, I will take a Intel. Can anyone please help me?? Thanks

HiI built a new PC for FS X:Intel 67004 GB memoryMotherboard ASUS P5N32-SLI SE DeluxeWindows XP-HomeGraphic adapters:Nvidia 8800 GS (Driver 97.44) (in the future for Windows Vista)and Nvidia 7600 GT (Driver 93.71).Both of this two graphic adapters work perfect seperatly in my system, but when I put both in the PC I get a blue screen and Windows reboot and reboot and reboot!!Can I run this two cards together in my system or NOT?Thanks for feedback!Peter / LSZH Switzerland

Just received the parts for my new PC:Intel QX6700 Quad CoreASUS Striker Extreme Mobo4GB 6400 (800Mhz) Corsair Memory 4-4-4-12XFX GeForce 8800GTX 768MBCoolMaster Stacker 830 CaseArctic Freezer Pro 7 FanTagan 900W PSUWestern Digital 74GB 10,000RPM RaptorWestern Digital 250GB SATA300I will post FSX results (fps) next weekend once I get time to build it... :)Any particular FSX results anybody would like to know so that I know what to concentrate on?

Hello. I'm setting up a multi monitor setup and this is my first time using more then 1 monitor for gaming. I have 1 Radeon X1900 GT to work with in this computer. Both screens are plugged in each port of the video card. For now it's more for testing purpose since well hook more up later. So for now I would like to set the front view on 1 monitor and maybe the frontright view on another. Is this possible? I tried the method of going in window mode and dragging the screens but that wasn't the outcome I wanted. Thanks for any help and sorry if this has been discussed in the past.

Does anybody know of a dealer for these two items that will ship to an APO? Even if you're not shure about the shipping let me know where you got your's I'll go check it out. I found a good deal on both of them at gogamer.com only to find out they don't ship to an APO. Would prefer to order from the same vendor but at this point I don't really care.TIA,Blaze

How much worse is the amd athlon 64 x2 architecture than the new intels? Im running my 3800 x2 am2 at 2.81 and would have thought my fps would be better, right now the fluctuate from 25-36 dropping to 19 sometimes for about 10 seconds when high detail scenery loads. I would have thought I would see much better, has amd really fallen that much behind? This scenario was with the pmdg 738 flying from widup's kslc to simflyers klas. After I landed the fps rose back up to 22-25, but nothing spectacular.

My system is a Dell 9150/XP professional/SP2/P4 3.4GHz/2GB Ram/Nvidia GeForce 6800/300GB HD. I'm fairly new to FS9. Frame rates drop when I used the SkyDecks panel & the PMDG747-00, also when using Heathrow & similar airports. Most sliders are set to the right except for weather. I wonder if the 6800 graphics card is up to the job, & if a better one would help? If so, what? Thanks,TerryW.

I noticed there are some newer drivers avaliable to support the 8800 cards...The 97.28's...I was using the 97.02 and wasn't very impressed...Hopefully these will be a little better...http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1524Have Fun...

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I remember seeing a post on this several months ago, but I failed to locate it. I apoligize for any duplication. I see that MS has another DirectX update available (dated 12/13/06). My question is how important is it to add these DirectX End-User Runtime updates when they come? Do they make a noticable performance difference in running FS9? I'm always a little hesitant to install updates when my system is purring along like a new born kitten. Unless,of course, they are critical to my performance or security.Thanks in advance for any repliesJohn M

I'm wondering if anyone has an opinion on Vista ReadyDrive (or maybe ReadyBoost) / hybrid drives and possible FSX performance enhancement?scott s..

Hi,Situation:FS9 clean installation, Cessna 182, out of the box, anywhere in the world, sitting on the ground. Framerate limited to 25 fps.Looking forward out of the cockpit in the VC mode, I get 24.9 fpsLooking forward out of the cockpit with the 2D panel, I get only 14-15 fpsGraphic card: Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2Dell XPS700Intel Pentium D 3.72 GHz, 2 Giga Memory, etc.etc.Can somebody tell me what is to tweak in order to reach at least the same fps in 2D-Mode.PS: On my old ATI Card it was the opposite, fps was slower in VC than in 2D-ModeRegardsJean-Claude

I'm planning on using the insides of an old USB 3 axis joystick as toebrakes and rudder. X axis will become L toe brakeY axis will become R toe brakeZ(throttle) axis will become rudder.I'm confused about how the calibration will go as Windows calibration screen identifies X and Y as going from, say -127 to +127 and Z as going from 0 to 255. But for the application I need X and Y to go from 0 to 255 and Z to go from -127 to +127. And what happens about centring? Can Windows sort this out on its own? I don't want to get a registered version of FSUIPC at present as I'll be switching to FSX sometime early next year and don't want to have to buy 2 versions of FSUIPC.Thanks f…

Hi,Has anyone encountered this error which appears after successful completion of the benchmarking run and just before the program should display the results:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/163275.jpgAny thoughts?I have just reinstalled AquaMark 3, having downloaded it from another site (Guru3D). I encountered the error a few months ago with a previous installation and ended up removing AquaMark3.MikeEdit: It ran okay on my old system P4 2.4GHz on a Gigabyte GA-8IRXP motherboard with 1 GB of Crucial PC2100 RAM and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB.Current System:ASRock 939Dual-SATA2, AMD Athlon 64X2 3800+ (2000MHz)(K8 Manchester), 2GB Crucial PC3200 DDR400 Ram 2.5-3-3-8 (1T) (…