October 28, 200817 yr SamI have the Q6600 and a 8800 Nvidia and I am happy with it. the q6600 was easy to overclock and is stable. That should run the FS2004 good since it runs FSX for me smooth enough to live by.
October 28, 200817 yr V-4 Grape,Thanks for the reply. You don't have any screenshots do you? I've been looking for some in FS with a similar card.Thanks,Sam
October 29, 200817 yr If you can get these parts: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWi...tNumber=7159746It will run FSX like this: "Just as a 'for instance,' here's a setup to make comparisons:This is [email protected]/4G-Ram@800Mhz/9800GTX+/42" monitor at 19x10 - in windowed mode - . Two other 19" monitors are running with other FSX windows (CDU's, etc) and email clients, flightaware web pages, etc.nHancer 8xS AA, 16AF, etc. (I think it's the AA 8xS, but something here is helping clean-up the Vcockpit).FSX setting tabs setup:Graphics: Frame target unlimited, Res, 19x10x32. Trilinear/AA off. Global Tex 100%. Lens Flare/Adv Anim on.Aircraft: Vcockpit. Hi-res on. Exterior Settings, all on.Weather: 60mi clouds. Scenery: Left side (These are all Vcard related except water). All sliders 100% except water at 2xLow and ground shadows off. Right side (These are all CPU related. Play with these for FPS dial-in). Scenery Complex 100%, AG 25%, GS off, SE 100%.Traffic (These are all CPU related. Play with these for FPS dial-in): All Off.Installed scenery: UTX/GEX/FSG scenerys.From the Vcockpit.Running an LAX approach starting at ~ 5000ft, through rollout. fully coupled approach/autoland with both PMDG's 744 and the new MD11.744: 15 - 20FPS. Flyable, but a little choppy.MD11: 15 - 20FPS. Flyable, but completely smooth, AND Autogen can be increased to 100% And It Stays Smooth!It will run all FS default airplanes with AG at 75-100% and 20/20/10 . . . traffic."the other
November 1, 200817 yr Sam,Thanks for that - I think i'd still prefer to run FS2004 at the moment but i'll keep that in mind.I heard that FS2004 doesn't run quad cores very well, and only uses one core. Is this true?Regards,Sam
November 2, 200817 yr I'd say pretty much ANY low-end current market model will run FS9 at maximum settings all around. I was running it on a Intel 1.2G with a BFG 7900GT 256 at maximum settings with awesome performance of 45+ fps. On my machine now thats about 2 years old- it it awesome and runs seamlessly at over 60 fps. Keep in mind this is running on XP, we wont even tarnish this thread with the Vista hijinx.
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