February 12, 200719 yr Hi everyone, Hope everyones having happy flying. Ive got one question about RAM. My current specs are Intel pentium 4 3Ghz 512mb RAM ATI RADEON 9800 pro Ive been thinking of upgrading something and some people have been saying to get more RAM. Would anyone be able to tell me wat a 2gb RAM rather than a 512mb ram would do for me. (bearing in mind i run lots of addons, ie GEPRO, active sky, ultimate traffic, flight environment etc Regards
February 12, 200719 yr Commercial Member WinXP alone likes 512m of RAM.2gig will provide a major boost of performance by reducing swap file usage above all else. Ed Wilson Mindstar AviationMy Playland - I69
February 12, 200719 yr Hi,Flight sim would definately run much smoother (i.e. less stutters), since you have much less disk access with 2GB.I don't think it will improve your framerates but still it is worth the investment. Location: Vleuten, The Netherlands, 17.3dme SPL 108.40 | Simulator: FS2024 System: AMD 7800X3D - Gigabyte X670 - RTX 4090 - 64GB DDR5 - 2 x 2TB SSD - 32" 1440p Display - Windows 11 Pro
February 12, 200719 yr thanks very much for the advice. ive been testing my fps, and with lots of program shut down its within 20-30. so im happy and could use faster texture loading times, so i think ill go ahead an buy it then.regards
February 13, 200719 yr Much smoother. I went from 1 gig to 2 and believe me it gives the kind of smoothness you've been longing for.
February 14, 200719 yr Could not agree more - I went from 1gb to 2gb and experienced an amazing improvement in overall smoothness. Certainly a must have item for simming, along with: BIG monitor, yoke, pedals, bass shaker, GoFlight, tolerant spouse, child proof room, winning lottery ticket...RegardsJeff
February 14, 200719 yr For WinXP can anyone suggest the maximum amount of RAM likely to benefit FS9, or in principal should we just put (the maximum 4GB)in?What about a seperate hard drive for the swap file compared to more RAM?
February 14, 200719 yr 2gb is probably the most FS9 in XP will benefit from. I have 2 sticks in now and still plenty of physical memory avail while running fs9 maxed out Core i7 920 @ 4.2Ghz on Water, eVGA Classified x58, 12 GB Corsair Dominator GT @ 2000mhz, Radeon HD 5870 1GB, (4) 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD's in RAID 0, X-Fi Titanium Sound, Galaxy DXX 1kW PSU, Windows Vista x64, Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speakers
February 18, 200719 yr 4gigs over 2gigs won't make any difference to FS9 (or at least negligable difference)plus XP doesn't fully utilise 4GB of RAM for some reason (I read y but now I can't remember so stick with 2GB)as for another hard drive for the swap file, that would not be a wise decision for multiple reasons...not least to mention the response time (speed) of a hard drive compared with RAM and the additional pressure (wear and tear) you are exposing your hard drive to by making it spin constantly (when using a swap file) instead of increasing your RAMalan
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