By the way here is an old vid. talking about FSX using 256 core, and like Phil said AI and some other stuff can be move to the core in the future and that was in 2007.....listen carefully to what he's saying.....will we see that in Flight???

Alain,Anyone who says that FSX does not take advantage of more than 4 cores has never seen that video.Unfortunately, no more updates have been issues after SP2. So we will never see FSX take advantage of 256 cores.More cores = better terrain & AG rendering. Maybe next year we will see 8 cores.

Alain,Anyone who says that FSX does not take advantage of more than 4 cores has never seen that video.Unfortunately, no more updates have been issues after SP2. So we will never see FSX take advantage of 256 cores.More cores = better terrain & AG rendering. Maybe next year we will see 8 cores.

I know, I'm just saying that if MS get their act together this time working on Flight (from the old engine) we may see more core been use in Flight and a patch (SP3) for FSX.But again if they want peoples to play online they will keep all the good stuff (enhancement) in Flight online....that's where the money is.......

@alain I am a little confused about your latest FSMark11 results (80+fps). I believe you posted around 50 fps in the pre-final FSXMark11 runs a few days ago. What has changed? Even the 50+ fps results were amazing but certainly attainable. I ran the FSXMark11 runs on a more sedate 980X (4.0GHz, mem @ 1600Mhz) today and got just about 40+ fps average.ThanksDave

Was it a vanilla FSX installation? If not, there could be other variables... Orbx scenery? UTX with road traffic? REX/ASX/FEX clouds? AI scenery packs? Also external video card settings, nhancer, inspector etc?