MrAmsterdam Posted August 17, 2010 Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brreclark Posted August 17, 2010 Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted August 17, 2010 Moderators Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 2.40gHZ Intel Core Duo 2 3GB Ram ATI Radeon 2400XT HD 500GB Seagate FS2004. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAT Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 how do you find out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAmsterdam Posted August 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 Uhh. you don't know what kind of system you bought? :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAT Posted August 22, 2010 Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 forgot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFVA | Mitchell Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skymx Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 2.4GHz Q6600 Quad nVidia 8800 GTX 768MB 5GB RAM 2x500GB HDD, RAID 0 W7 64bit FSX Also, for those who don't know where to find their specs, this is a handy little tool: http://www.piriform.com/speccy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted August 24, 2010 Moderators Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giorgi Posted August 25, 2010 Report Share Posted August 25, 2010 i'm wondering that non of you guys have next specs core i7 core i5 or core i3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAT Posted August 25, 2010 Report Share Posted August 25, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giorgi Posted August 25, 2010 Report Share Posted August 25, 2010 yep i know what meens i7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAT Posted August 25, 2010 Report Share Posted August 25, 2010 i7 is really good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAV1702 Posted August 26, 2010 Report Share Posted August 26, 2010 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest helen07 Posted October 6, 2010 Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 Mine: 2.4GHz Q6600 Quad nVidia 8800 GTX 768MB 5GB RAM 2x500GB HDD, RAID 0 W7 64bit FSX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nabeel Posted October 7, 2010 Administrators Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 I have a core2duo, I forget the mhz. GTX2700 or something (I forget). Haven't loaded up FSX in over a year TBH... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted October 8, 2010 Moderators Report Share Posted October 8, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James142 Posted March 20, 2011 Report Share Posted March 20, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Air Posted March 31, 2011 Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James142 Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 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 James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Air Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 I have 4.00 Gb of ram. I will have a look into upgrading the graphics card. thanks 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAmsterdam Posted May 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2011 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 :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Rozanov Posted May 10, 2011 Report Share Posted May 10, 2011 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James142 Posted May 10, 2011 Report Share Posted May 10, 2011 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 Besides I don't have the patience either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartpb Posted May 10, 2011 Report Share Posted May 10, 2011 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: 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Holy crap... How many miles to the gallon do you get out of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mark1million Posted May 11, 2011 Moderators Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Holy crap... How many miles to the gallon do you get out of it? That is excellent.... I want one. Fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartpb Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 @Jeff, it's easy on the juice, but not on the electric bill!! @Mark, Thanks 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Rozanov Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 How much did it cost? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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