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Hi guys,

I am just wondering which fs you use and what kind of systems you use to fly fs2004/fsx?

My system:

Intel core 2 duo E6750

P5K SE

2GB memory (i know.. sigh)

Geforce 8800GTS (256MB)

1TB Samsung 7200rpm 32mb HDD

WIN 7

FS2004

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Acer Aspire Revo R1600

Intel Atom 230 (2 cores @ 1.60 Ghz)

140GB HDD

2 GB ram

Nvidia Ion LE

Win XP Home

FS2004

I know crazy to run on such a system, but it's small, it's quiet, and from a fresh boot can crank out 15-20 fps with moderate graphics settings and tons of AI. I only get the stutters in the usual locations. Next month though, it's getting some upgrades: SSD boot drive (current HDD will go eSATA)and possibly a bump up to 4 GB of ram.

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2.6 Ghz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

ATI HD Radeon 5850 1gb

4gb RAM

Partitioned 480 gb (Split into two 240 gb 'hard drives')

500gb HDD

Windows XP Professional SP3

CoolerMaster CM 690 II Advanced

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

I get around 80 frames when flying on VATSIM...

Posted

Hewlett-Packard Compaq

Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2180 @2.00 GHZ Processor

Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB

400 GB HDD

Windows 7 Home Premium (x86) 32 Bits

ZOTAC GeForce 9500 1 GB GDDR2

MS Flight Simulator X / MS Flight Simulator 2004

It gives me well over 40 fps.

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Tom! Thanks for that program!!!

Now i can know what the hell is my motherboard out of.............

God Damn, my Video card temparutre at at 50 °C. Think i need a cooling for that?

Posted

Core i7

Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB

1TB HDD

Windows 7 Ultimate and Snow Leapord

MS Flight Simulator X / MS Flight Simulator 2004/ X Plane

It gives me loads over 90 fps.

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Fellas, I am proud to say after reading all of these posts, I probably have the crapiest system out of anyone now days. 3 kids and college student loans later does not allow me to spend money on computer stuff.

My system is 2 years old. It is a Compaq which is problem number one. 1 gb ram, 3.2 Intel Celeron. Yeah.... you heard correct a Celeron. No video or sound card 8 mb on board. Was 64 with Vista but as soon as I ditched Vista and put XP Pro on it, I lost video numbers. Oh and a whole whopping 120gb hard drive that is 73% free space.

It is all ok though because I crank out 20 fps locked on the ground and sky with sliders maxed. AND I can also run FSX no problems on medium settings provided I do not install any of the service packs for FSX. As soon as I do, I get a video error and can not use it anymore.

I am more than surprised FS 2004 runs as good as it does on this old clunker. I am even more surprised that I can run FSX. All these big fancy systems out there and my FS2004 runs just as good if not better than some of them I have seen. Simply amazing huh? I need to benchmark this old pile one of these days to find out what exactly she is doing inside.

And lets not forget that when flying online with others, please lock your frames at 20 so some of the older junkier computers do not get booted. The human eye can not detect anything above 30fps I believe it is so why bother right? ;)

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Guest helen07
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Mine:

2.4GHz Q6600 Quad

nVidia 8800 GTX 768MB

5GB RAM

2x500GB HDD, RAID 0

W7 64bit

FSX

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I have upgraded my system now. New 500 Watt Power Supply and 1GB of ATI Radeon 5770 HD by HIS.

Now on the way to new i7

  • 5 months later...
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Dell Inspron 545 prosesser:Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz 2.50GHz

Installed memory (RAM):4.00GB Windows 7 g4-bit Operating System

Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 4350

Does anyone know what I need to upgrade to get more FPS in fsx?

thanks

  • 2 weeks later...
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  On 3/20/2011 at 4:52 PM, James142 said:

Dell Inspron 545 prosesser:Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz 2.50GHz

Installed memory (RAM):4.00GB Windows 7 g4-bit Operating System

Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 4350

Does anyone know what I need to upgrade to get more FPS in fsx?

thanks

I would say you would need to upgrade your graphics card nothing else. From what I remember as I do not run FSX ( I have it but FS9 is better) FSX will only ever use 2 of you 4 cores so you have enough power I would say it is just your graphics card how much onboard RAM on the card do you have?

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  On 3/31/2011 at 5:07 PM, Angel Air said:

I would say you would need to upgrade your graphics card nothing else. From what I remember as I do not run FSX ( I have it but FS9 is better) FSX will only ever use 2 of you 4 cores so you have enough power I would say it is just your graphics card how much onboard RAM on the card do you have?

I have 4.00 Gb of ram. I will have a look into upgrading the graphics card.

thanks :D

James

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  On 4/1/2011 at 3:19 PM, James142 said:

I have 4.00 Gb of ram. I will have a look into upgrading the graphics card.

thanks :D

James

you have 4 gig on the motherboard but what do you have on the graphics card 256,512,1GB that makes a big difference to how well flightsim runs also the clock speed of the card is important.

Scott

  • 1 month later...
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I've bought a new system a month or 3 ago.

I7-2600K @ 4.3GHZ (need a new cooler to upgrade to 4.5/4.6GHZ)

460 GTX SE NVIDIA Graphics card (1 GHZ)

8 GiB Memory

I get about 25 - 30 fps on large airports and 50+ on smaller airports...

great system. i love it :-)

Posted

all of these are good! but to me i found it interesting that most of u have commercial pc's or laptops.

nobody builds computers these days???

i have 3 pc's which i built.

its 3x cheaper!

and i choose what i need for ex. why would i need a cd drive ? or a nice case ? which dell or hp or whatever make money off (not only)

Posted
  On 5/10/2011 at 6:26 PM, Thomas Rozanov said:

all of these are good! but to me i found it interesting that most of u have commercial pc's or laptops.

nobody builds computers these days???

i have 3 pc's which i built.

its 3x cheaper!

and i choose what i need for ex. why would i need a cd drive ? or a nice case ? which dell or hp or whatever make money off (not only)

I wouldn't have the time to build a computer laugh.gif Besides I don't have the patience either unsure.gif

Posted
  On 5/10/2011 at 6:26 PM, Thomas Rozanov said:

all of these are good! but to me i found it interesting that most of u have commercial pc's or laptops.

nobody builds computers these days???

i have 3 pc's which i built.

its 3x cheaper!

and i choose what i need for ex. why would i need a cd drive ? or a nice case ? which dell or hp or whatever make money off (not only)

I have a self built PC, and always build my own. My rig specs are:

Asus P6T mobo

Intel Core i7 920

Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 12GB kit (6x2GB sticks)

2x 500Gb Barracuda SATA II HDD's

CM Silent Pro M 700w PSU

Asus 20x DVD-RW

ATI HD6870 GPU

Custom watercooling

Asus Xonar Essence ST Audio

Windows 7 Ultimate

I'm into custom PC building, and this is the last rig I built:

qube1.jpg

qube2.jpg

I sold the chassis, and have upgraded some of the components since I built the one shown in the photo. I'm going to be building a new chassis and rig over the summer hols, so that's something for me to look forward to. If any other modders here are interested, I wrote a bloggy style site, documenting the build here: http://hexsys.co.uk/test2/ ( I done the site as a uni project).

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@Jeff, it's easy on the juice, but not on the electric bill!!

@Mark, Thanks B)

I really miss that case, but the next one is going to be much better, as long as the missus doesn't get hold of my costings sheet!! My PC hardware is slumming it at the mo, in an Antec Skeleton chassis (I got it as a freebie, and it'll do till I build my next case).

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