I just purchased FSX Gold today.I installed everything along with the updates and service packs and for the heck of it, put all of the sliders except for traffic all the way to the right. To my surprise, the sim was extremely smooth with FPS in the low thirties. The FPS dropped to about 15-20 in high scenery areas like KJFK. Anywho, after all i have heard about how this sim is resource and CPU hungry and about the hrs of tweaking one must do to run it well, im thinking that the performance im seeing is temorary. Or am i just lucky? here are my specs....hopefully im just lucky. Also, I am running with DX10 preview enabled and is it true that with this option checked, one has to have the AA box checked as well, and that AA is limited to a really low setting?Core i7 2.939Gb of RAMGTX260has anyone ever had this great of performance....its kind of fishy if you ask me..............im also running the sim on an older moniter whose native res is 1280x1024.....i think that is the reason why it is so smooth. It may not need to work as hard as if it were running in an HD res. am i right?

I just purchased FSX Gold today.I installed everything along with the updates and service packs and for the heck of it, put all of the sliders except for traffic all the way to the right. To my surprise, the sim was extremely smooth with FPS in the low thirties. The FPS dropped to about 15-20 in high scenery areas like KJFK. Anywho, after all i have heard about how this sim is resource and CPU hungry and about the hrs of tweaking one must do to run it well, im thinking that the performance im seeing is temorary. Or am i just lucky? here are my specs....hopefully im just lucky. Also, I am running with DX10 preview enabled and is it true that with this option checked, one has to have the AA box checked as well, and that AA is limited to a really low setting?Core i7 2.939Gb of RAMGTX260has anyone ever had this great of performance....its kind of fishy if you ask me..............im also running the sim on an older moniter whose native res is 1280x1024.....i think that is the reason why it is so smooth. It may not need to work as hard as if it were running in an HD res. am i right?

I have the i7 920 OC to 3.5 and I get the same performance you are talking of....and I have a crap VC...9600GT. I use FPS Limiter App and have FSX set up using NickN's guide. I took my first flight today since March...I fish in spring and summer and don't do much flying. It was the same as when I had my last flight. Very smooth and fluid. I am using Win XP so can't speak of DX 10. I do feel if and when I go to Win 7 64 bit I should see an even better running of the sim. Regards

I have the i7 920 OC to 3.5 and I get the same performance you are talking of....and I have a crap VC...9600GT. I use FPS Limiter App and have FSX set up using NickN's guide. I took my first flight today since March...I fish in spring and summer and don't do much flying. It was the same as when I had my last flight. Very smooth and fluid. I am using Win XP so can't speak of DX 10. I do feel if and when I go to Win 7 64 bit I should see an even better running of the sim. Regards

That's not that bad of a GPU, actually.

I have the i7 920 OC to 3.5 and I get the same performance you are talking of....and I have a crap VC...9600GT. I use FPS Limiter App and have FSX set up using NickN's guide. I took my first flight today since March...I fish in spring and summer and don't do much flying. It was the same as when I had my last flight. Very smooth and fluid. I am using Win XP so can't speak of DX 10. I do feel if and when I go to Win 7 64 bit I should see an even better running of the sim. Regards

what kin dof heatsink or cooling do you have?....i am using vista 64-bit and im happy with the OS itself. Do you run any addon scenery or aircraft? if so, can i expect the same performance as i am getting with the default aircraft and scenery.

Core i7 2.939Gb of RAMGTX260

What kind of performance did you expect with a Skynet PC? :(

What kind of performance did you expect with a Skynet PC? :(

not as good as the performance i am getting. I thught i would have tweak the sim for a couple weeks. the thing runs quite amazing. I just have alwasy heard that no matter what kind of rig you have, FSX will only run with medium settings. Or one has to do serious tweaking. I have not had to do any of those. idk what it is but it sure beats FS9.

On a brand new install, everything is neatly sat on your hard drive in a completely unfragmented fashion, making access times rapid, so that will be part of things. Similarly, with few add-ons to weigh it down when just installed, it will be running very smoothly. Large amounts of RAM also prevent the thing from having to write bits of virtual memory all over the place, so that will be helping too.Throw REX, UTX, some airport sceneries and a few PMDGs at it to get a better idea of how things are likely to remain, although I suspect it will still be pretty good.Al

On a brand new install, everything is neatly sat on your hard drive in a completely unfragmented fashion, making access times rapid, so that will be part of things. Similarly, with few add-ons to weigh it down when just installed, it will be running very smoothly. Large amounts of RAM also prevent the thing from having to write bits of virtual memory all over the place, so that will be helping too.Throw REX, UTX, some airport sceneries and a few PMDGs at it to get a better idea of how things are likely to remain, although I suspect it will still be pretty good.Al

ahhhh i see i see...so defragging my HD regularly will keep everything nice and neat? thanks for the help everyone..or should i say, thanks for the insight.

Yup, a regular defrag will almost always help things run smoother and certainly load quicker, and even if you weren't running FSX is not a bad idea once in a while. The good thing about doing it regularly is that it doesn't take long; let things get severely fragmented for months on end and you'll be looking at leaving the thing to do it overnight!Al

As mentioned, your performance sounds like it is with defaults. I even got similar performance with a far worse system. But once you start adding the add-ons, that's what you should really measure. Best of luck.