Hello, I have my FSX installed on my laptop it runs quite smooth but I thought well its a bit weird when I like move around the aircraft in Locked Spot. Then I found out that I only get 4fps and a max of 7 fps.. Is this correct for a laptop which was manufactured in 2009 and I got in December 2009. It has built in win 7 premium , I am using trend micro internet secuirty antivirus software , gamebooster. Its cpu is a pentinum Dual Core @ 2.1ghz. 3gb ddr2 Ram and a Intergrated video card which is also intel, I think the graphics card is the problem but I cannot replace it. I can run aero so it isn't an awfully awful GPU. Can anyone tell me what is wrong?(I heard someone getting 10+ on a pentinum 4 machine.) I think something is wrong here. As it is a dual core..

Hello, I have my FSX installed on my laptop it runs quite smooth but I thought well its a bit weird when I like move around the aircraft in Locked Spot. Then I found out that I only get 4fps and a max of 7 fps.. Is this correct for a laptop which was manufactured in 2009 and I got in December 2009. It has built in win 7 premium , I am using trend micro internet secuirty antivirus software , gamebooster. Its cpu is a pentinum Dual Core @ 2.1ghz. 3gb ddr2 Ram and a Intergrated video card which is also intel, I think the graphics card is the problem but I cannot replace it. I can run aero so it isn't an awfully awful GPU. Can anyone tell me what is wrong?(I heard someone getting 10+ on a pentinum 4 machine.) I think something is wrong here. As it is a dual core..

This will depend on your FSX settings.. If you want better fps, start by disabling all traffic, shadows, and weather.Then turn down the autogen and scenery sliders until you get a setting that you can live with.To run FSX with more features enabled you are going to need a more powerful system.

Hello, I have my FSX installed on my laptop it runs quite smooth but I thought well its a bit weird when I like move around the aircraft in Locked Spot. Then I found out that I only get 4fps and a max of 7 fps.. Is this correct for a laptop which was manufactured in 2009 and I got in December 2009. It has built in win 7 premium , I am using trend micro internet secuirty antivirus software , gamebooster. Its cpu is a pentinum Dual Core @ 2.1ghz. 3gb ddr2 Ram and a Intergrated video card which is also intel, I think the graphics card is the problem but I cannot replace it. I can run aero so it isn't an awfully awful GPU. Can anyone tell me what is wrong?(I heard someone getting 10+ on a pentinum 4 machine.) I think something is wrong here. As it is a dual core..

If you can provide the name of your laptop that would be helpful but here's a rundown of what you've got going on:CPU: If that's your base speed then you probably have a Pentium D T4300 which is about a year and a half old but it isn't a particularly powerful laptop processor, a better choice would be one of the mobile i5's or i7'sRAM: 3gb is about enough for FSX 4 is better but you should be fine it your computer is tweaked to NickN's guide.GPU: Well you don't have one to put it simply. Basically your processor is doubling up on the effort of rendering FSX when that job should really be offloaded onto a dedicated graphics card. I used to play FS9 with an E7500 which is more powerful than the Pentium D T4300 by a good bit and no graphics card and frames never went over 20. You'll need a graphics card if you want to get into the teens.

Hi, can someone alos help me out here. This is my budget rig, AMD Athlon 64 X2 @2.1Ghz 3 Gig of DDR2 RAM ATI Radeon HD3650 (512mb)Windows Vista Home Premium 32bitI get around 30 (locked) FPS on medium to high settings, but i make fsx videos on youtube, so FRAPS kills my FPS, i get around 16-18 it rarely goes over 20, to achive this i have to lower settings again, this is annoying because the video doesnt look as good. Im only 16 and my parents wont upgrade my pc so an Intel i700 980 Xtreme Hex core is out of the question :Cry:. I've found a bargain Its an AMD Athlon 640 x4 @3.1Ghz with a motherboard and 2 gig of DDR3 1333 Ram for only £144. Im also going to buy an extra 4 gig to go with it. This (fingers crossed) should be my new rig in JanuaryAMD Athlon 640 X4 @3.1Ghz 6Gig of DDR3 1333 RAMATI Radeon HD3650 (512mb)Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit)Wil i see much of a FPS Increase? Since i've doubled the RAM and more than tripled my CPU, and i understand FSX is CPU intensive. Obviously Intel i700's would be faster, but that bargain bundle is a must.Thanks, if you want to see what my fps is like now, go on youtube and check out my channel www.youtube.com/speedbird103 tha way you'll get an idea of what i mean and hopefully you can help me.

Hey , my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1545 with a Intel T4300 CPU (Research: T4300 intel.) then you will find an intel website with the threads etc. So do you think I should turn down my settings way lower? Im on medium high right now on most of them following a youtube tutorial.

AMD Athlon 640 X4 @3.1Ghz 6Gig of DDR3 1333 RAMATI Radeon HD3650 (512mb)Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit)Wil i see much of a FPS Increase? Since i've doubled the RAM and more than tripled my CPU, and i understand FSX is CPU intensive. Obviously Intel i700's would be faster, but that bargain bundle is a must.

Your GPU is a bottleneck here. Read the recent thread on how hardware impacts FSX, although FSX is intensive on your CPU your graphics card is one of the next largest factors. It's been stated around here that it should be able to handle at least 50gb/s to avoid blurries and stutters, yours handles 25.6gb/s. My card can do 57.6gb/s and it still gets blurries all the time. The CPU will help out but you'll need to replace the graphics card to get the true power out of it.

Hey , my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1545 with a Intel T4300 CPU (Research: T4300 intel.) then you will find an intel website with the threads etc. So do you think I should turn down my settings way lower? Im on medium high right now on most of them following a youtube tutorial.

I looked up your CPU for the last post so I'm glad I got that right. I think your settings should probably be way down, first tune your laptop to NickN's Guide and the first setting you should pull back is probably any AI traffic. Beyond that you'll probably have to pull back to all low settings unless you can put a GPU in your laptop which may not be possible.