hi there, i only run FS9 , never actually installed FSX , i like to give it a shot , do you think my system as it is would run FSX ? or what should i improve or add to get it to work decently? cheershenryntel core duo cpu E8600@3033 GhzASUS P5Q-E4GB DIMM DDR3ATI RADEON HD 4870 1GB640 GB SATA HARD DRIVEVISTA HOME PREMIUM 6461 CM MONITOR SAMSUNG WIDE SCREEN

Hi,FSX will run on medium settings!

thx jim

Yeah, that'd run FSX okay. To really get it to fly you'd probably be looking at sticking a quad core (or greater) processor in there, and you might have to get another motherboard to do that, and then you'd probably have to increase the amount of RAM to take advantage of the increased speeds. But as is, it'll certainly run FSX.Al

hi there, i only run FS9 , never actually installed FSX , i like to give it a shot , do you think my system as it is would run FSX ? or what should i improve or add to get it to work decently? cheershenryntel core duo cpu E8600@3033 GhzASUS P5Q-E4GB DIMM DDR3ATI RADEON HD 4870 1GB640 GB SATA HARD DRIVEVISTA HOME PREMIUM 6461 CM MONITOR SAMSUNG WIDE SCREEN

Hi Henry.You have a slightly better CPU than I do as well as more memory and I run FSX great and I am not talking about low and slow GA sutff in the middle of know where, but flying airliners such as the PMDG 747 and LDS 767 into hubs such as FSDT's KJFK, KDFW, EDDF, and many other busy hubs, with a substancial amount of AI as well.Here's the key though in my experience with FSX in the last two years.First when you install FSX do it by the book using NickN's free guide here: http://www.simforums.com/forums/setting-up-fsx-and-how-to-tune-it_topic29041.html and once that is done you can also try Bojote's FSX.cfg automated tweeking tool. Personally I went the route of using a payware service that specializes in setting up flight sims as well as optimizing your operating system, drivers, FSX, and everything else that works in conjunction with your computer and FSX.Secondly, after your FSX install is complete and you have a good working sim, you may want to consider doing an overclock to get your CPU speed up a bit. I started my E8400 at the stock speed of 3.0 ghz and after a few days of stepping up the speed and testing stability and temps I got it to 3.85 ghz. I can say from experience that it was quite a noticable difference in performance in the sim, especially when flying complex aircraft into dense scenery areas.I can't vouch for your video card since I am not too familiar with ATI's products, however from reading the forums over the past few years, it seems that generally nVidia video cards are the prefered equipment to use for FSX. Not to say that you can't get by with what you have, but from what I read that maybe the one thing to hold you down.Third, you can gain some better performance by using a product like REX or FEX that offer DXT cloud replacement textures. This is probably one of the best ways to not only pick up some better performance, but also enhance the look of the sim as far as clouds, sky and water go.Lastly, I wouldn't be too worried about not having an i-series chip and 6GB or more to run FSX. There's a lot of folks out there, some of which have spent over two thousand bucks and still have problems getting the most out of the sim and it could be for a number of reasons. I'm not saying that a newer CPU like an i7 and 6Gb of fast RAM wouldnt be better, because common sense will tell you that it is once you compare the specs, however, you can get a lot out of what you have now. The reason I mention this is because I built the rig in my sig about 2.5 years ago right before the i-series CPUs hit the market and since then have got FSX running so good that at the moment, or at least until Flight comes out, I can see no point in doing an upgrade until we see what Flight requires and how it runs on todays equipment. Not to toot my own horn, but this is comming from a guy that can afford to buy pretty much any rig he wants, but at the same time realize that the performance I get now will probably only be marginally better by doing a rebuild at this point.If your interested to see what you can get with your rig, take a look over here at this thread http://www.flytampa.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4470 and scroll about half way down. I was jokingly accused by Martin at FlyTampa of probably getting really blurry textures in FSX since I only have 2GB of RAM and a dual core CPU. In which case I quickly proved him wrong by snapping a few quick pics at some random locations, one of which was at his new airport that I just installed to show him that even on an "antique" system you can still fly really well provided your set up is sound and tweaked properly.Anyways, good luck what ever you do.Regards

wonderful help, thx much, it is really appreciate it will help me a lot. all the best henryHi Henry.You have a slightly better CPU than I do as well as more memory and I run FSX great and I am not talking about low and slow GA sutff in the middle of know where, but flying airliners such as the PMDG 747 and LDS 767 into hubs such as FSDT's KJFK, KDFW, EDDF, and many other busy hubs, with a substancial amount of AI as well.Here's the key though in my experience with FSX in the last two years.First when you install FSX do it by the book using NickN's free guide here: http://www.simforums.com/forums/setting-up-fsx-and-how-to-tune-it_topic29041.html and once that is done you can also try Bojote's FSX.cfg automated tweeking tool. Personally I went the route of using a payware service that specializes in setting up flight sims as well as optimizing your operating system, drivers, FSX, and everything else that works in conjunction with your computer and FSX.Secondly, after your FSX install is complete and you have a good working sim, you may want to consider doing an overclock to get your CPU speed up a bit. I started my E8400 at the stock speed of 3.0 ghz and after a few days of stepping up the speed and testing stability and temps I got it to 3.85 ghz. I can say from experience that it was quite a noticable difference in performance in the sim, especially when flying complex aircraft into dense scenery areas.I can't vouch for your video card since I am not too familiar with ATI's products, however from reading the forums over the past few years, it seems that generally nVidia video cards are the prefered equipment to use for FSX. Not to say that you can't get by with what you have, but from what I read that maybe the one thing to hold you down.Third, you can gain some better performance by using a product like REX or FEX that offer DXT cloud replacement textures. This is probably one of the best ways to not only pick up some better performance, but also enhance the look of the sim as far as clouds, sky and water go.Lastly, I wouldn't be too worried about not having an i-series chip and 6GB or more to run FSX. There's a lot of folks out there, some of which have spent over two thousand bucks and still have problems getting the most out of the sim and it could be for a number of reasons. I'm not saying that a newer CPU like an i7 and 6Gb of fast RAM wouldnt be better, because common sense will tell you that it is once you compare the specs, however, you can get a lot out of what you have now. The reason I mention this is because I built the rig in my sig about 2.5 years ago right before the i-series CPUs hit the market and since then have got FSX running so good that at the moment, or at least until Flight comes out, I can see no point in doing an upgrade until we see what Flight requires and how it runs on todays equipment. Not to toot my own horn, but this is comming from a guy that can afford to buy pretty much any rig he wants, but at the same time realize that the performance I get now will probably only be marginally better by doing a rebuild at this point.If your interested to see what you can get with your rig, take a look over here at this thread http://www.flytampa.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4470 and scroll about half way down. I was jokingly accused by Martin at FlyTampa of probably getting really blurry textures in FSX since I only have 2GB of RAM and a dual core CPU. In which case I quickly proved him wrong by snapping a few quick pics at some random locations, one of which was at his new airport that I just installed to show him that even on an "antique" system you can still fly really well provided your set up is sound and tweaked properly.Anyways, good luck what ever you do.Regards

hi there, i only run FS9 , never actually installed FSX , i like to give it a shot , do you think my system as it is would run FSX ? or what should i improve or add to get it to work decently? cheershenryntel core duo cpu E8600@3033 GhzASUS P5Q-E4GB DIMM DDR3ATI RADEON HD 4870 1GB640 GB SATA HARD DRIVEVISTA HOME PREMIUM 6461 CM MONITOR SAMSUNG WIDE SCREEN

HelloThat E8600 will run easily 4ghzI have one running at that speed for the last year using a corsair H50, never gets above 50c

now i was thinking going the upgrade road, if i would upgrade to a quad processor , a black hard drive , upgrade to windows 7 and run 2 ATI video card , that would probably be quite better , what do you think? should i upgrade to 8 gigs of memory as well? thxhenryHelloThat E8600 will run easily 4ghzI have one running at that speed for the last year using a corsair H50, never gets above 50c

Hi Henry,Try putting your replies outside of the quotes so its easier to see what you writing and what is being quoted so your post would look like this. When you write inside of long quotes its hard to see what your writing as a response.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HelloThat E8600 will run easily 4ghzI have one running at that speed for the last year using a corsair H50, never gets above 50c

now i was thinking going the upgrade road, if i would upgrade to a quad processor , a black hard drive , upgrade to windows 7 and run 2 ATI video card , that would probably be quite better , what do you think? should i upgrade to 8 gigs of memory as well? thxhenry______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Anyway, as to your question, you could get by easily with an i7-920, 6 GB of RAM and a SINGLE video card like one of the newer nVidia's since they seem to be the prefered choice for FSX. Frankly, its said often that FSX wont benefit from SLI or Crossfire unless you run multi-monitors or super hi-res screens, and could actually hurt performance when use with a single screen. Also the i7-920 is not very expensive these days and I have read numerous reports of people getting them up to 3.85 - 4.00 ghz pretty easily with an after marker cooler. You could probably build or have built a great system for $2000 or less at todays prices.

Frankly, its said often that FSX wont benefit from SLI or Crossfire unless you run multi-monitors or super hi-res screens, and could actually hurt performance when use with a single screen.

Eh, did everyone already forget about this thread?

Check my signature I have a similar system to yours and it runs FSX well I run scenery on extremely dense and autogen on dense the only things I've sacrificed are water is at high 1.0 and AI traffic is pulled back to 50% along with road traffic at 4%. I don't believe my computer performs as well cmpbellsjc's but I swear he must have some sort of magic E8400 powering it lol.

Eh, did everyone already forget about this thread?

Yeah, I forgot about that. I took a quick glance at it and it seems from what they wrote that it could help in quicker texture loading and a few extra FPS, but from reading it, it didn't seem like there was really much conclusive evidence on whether there was really much gain at all according to the poster. Plus some couldn't get it to work properly, others got lockups, etc. For what you may gain with using a single monitor its probably not really worth the cost vs. improvement in performance when compared to a good single card.

I don't believe my computer performs as well cmpbellsjc's but I swear he must have some sort of magic E8400 powering it lol.

LOL, yeah I forgot about the FPS comparison we did sometime ago at KPDX. Why I was getting double the FPS in the same area is beyond me. Like you said, I sometimes feel like I have a magic CPU or setup compared to some of the things I read here regarding bad performance. Hard to know why though, maybe because of the setup, the fact that its pretty bare bones in the fact that its only for using FSX and doesn't have a lot of stuff outside of the sim installed or running in the back ground, or its one of those rare cases where I just happened to have gotten into the sweet spot rather quickly with the combo of hardware and tweaks. Whatever it is, I will make sure that I leave my current setup and FSX install intact when I do my next upgrade just in case.