Congrats to the PMDG guys. Thanks for working on the activation issue. I was just trying to make my first flight today but I noticed that FSX does not run smooth at all. When I was in the setup of the FMC and such it was fine but when I started to fly it was not smooth at all. I'm trying to run on two monitors off of my video card. XFX GTX 260. 896mb or ram. Two dvi slots. To get my FSX to two monitors I had to go to windowed mode and drag the window across both monitors. System SpecsMicrosoft Windows XP Pro SP3Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Ghz2gb of ram The monitors are Two Acer H213H. I know that I do not have much system ram and I'm not running on windows 7. I remember also hearing that if you drag the FSX window across two monitors that it slows your machine down like crazy. Is that true? Is there any way to use two monitors without buying tripplehead2go? Would like some feedback. Thanks again.

Using two screens with which 3D card? 2GB RAM is very low compared to what type of job you want FSX AND the NGX to do. On their website PMDG suggests you have a 64 bit OS and to go along with that 4+GB of RAM. Super gaming computers today easily pack a good 12-16GB of RAM!

Thanks windshear. I figured it could be ram related. I may go to best buy and see what I can pick up 4 gigs of ram for.

Yeah, sounds like disk thrashing to virtual memory from saturating the physical RAM... upgrade to 4GB and it'll improve it. I'd get a whole new PC if you can, those specs are pretty old at this point.

Thank you Tabs. Of course I am wanting to upgrade to an i7 Machine soon. The only problem is I don't have the 800 dollars to upgrade right now. I was hoping that I could upgrade the memory and at least fly until I could afford a new machine.

Chances are you will be getting RAM that will not necessarily compatible with a new system. Which means that you may be wasting money in the mid to long term. Perhaps it is best to try and put together a more up to date system from scratch now. Andrew

Thank you Tabs. Of course I am wanting to upgrade to an i7 Machine soon. The only problem is I don't have the 800 dollars to upgrade right now. I was hoping that I could upgrade the memory and at least fly until I could afford a new machine.

Don't bother with i7. You won't get much of an i7 machine for $800, you would be better off spending the money on an i5 2500k or something and getting a GTX 560 with the savings. And the i5 2500k is pretty much the best you could do for FSX. the only advaantage with the i7 is hyper-threading which seems to slow FSX down, slows the whole system actually. I have experienced it myself but every PC is different so it might not.

Can I run a 2.93Ghz processor with 16Gb at 2000 mhz, and a ATI Radeon 5970 4gb Black Edition. I get choppy rates in 3d, any help....

It seems to be a pretty nice system but what is your CPU. It could be helpful if you gave some more info on your CPU. It could be 2.93GHz single core, rubbish or 2.93GHz quad core, very good. 16GB of RAM won't help you much in FSX, the most I would recommend in an FSX machine is 8GB but I personally have 4GB.

Thanks for responding to my question, my CPU is an Intel I7 2.93 Ghz 875K, I have it overclocked to 3.34 Ghz. I mean I get really high frame rates, but there very inconsistent. Do you think my extra RAM could be slowing me down, also does the frequency of my memory have anything to do with my CPU, I tried overclocking further but my system can't handle it, and I'm pretty tech savy and I have read a good amount on how too. How are your frame reates on this plane. Thank you.

i currently don't have this plane but I am really looking forward to it. I don't know if RAM would slow you down. Do you know what the Latency of it is? sometime if you have done tweaking it can make it more stuttery and less consistent. try using an external limiter and limit to what aver you can get fairly consistently.

If you just go through with the weaker at venetubo.com i think it is it will have an FPS limiter up the top.

Nerves ???? lol.

I know that it would basically just be throwing money to dump another 200 dollars into this machine. If I was able to get 4gigs of memory and windows 7 home premium 64 bit would that allow me to fly smoothly?

To answer the original question about dual monitors, if you are wanting to span the monitors (i.e. one big display, not just have FMC etc. on the second monitor), then what you want is the freeware softth http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/ You will need to use the new alpha version, as the old 1.09 really only supports exactly 3 monitors (whereas the new one can do any number- in your case, 2). It can be a bit of a pain to set up, but the price is right! I'm only seeing a reduction of about 5 FPS going from one monitor to 3 monitors (in built up areas)

I have an i7 870 @ 2.93 GHZ with 4GB DDR3-1333Mhz and a GTX 275 and Windows 7 and I also have the problem that, when I get off the ground and into the sky, I hit 2-5 FPS.

Thanks PMDG for this magic model. Just downloaded NGX to run on this: Windows XP (Home) with SP3 (32bit).CPU - intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz (2 CPU's).HD - Seagate 300GB with 120GB free space.Ram - 4GB.PSU - 620W Modular Power Supply.GPU (2) - EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 Memory 1024MB res 1280X1024 (32bit)(60Hz). EVGA Nvidia Geforce GT260 1GB DDR3 Frames are 18-25 during flight and steady 20 on the ground with VSX (old VOZ) scenery for YPPH. The olny point is when I select the aircraft from drop down page then the aircraft model textures take a few minutes to load. Infact the model commences as basic airframe and panels are added step by step until the full picture (all textures) appear. Apart from that the new NGX handles perfectly. I do not use VC only 2D panels as gauges are transferred to my 737 cockpit MIP screens, I am running three monitors behind the MIP plus a projector for forward external's. Must admit I have not tested the new aircraft with ORBX, that will be interesting as I cannot fly the PMDG B747-400 fps drop to 5 in ORBX on my system, THE SYSTEM IS TOO OLD. So a new one is in the pipeline.