I currently have a Nvidia GT 530,(with an i7 2600k CPU) my frames are roughly 30 fps in the pmdg 737NGX cockpit. Is it worth me getting an Evga NVIDIA GeForce GTX550Ti? Will this increase my frames? Also, will upgrading my ram from 4gb, to 8gb or 12gb help the frames? Thanks for any replies.

I currently have a Nvidia GT 530,(with an i7 2600k CPU) my frames are roughly 30 fps in the pmdg 737NGX cockpit. Is it worth me getting an Evga NVIDIA GeForce GTX550Ti? Will this increase my frames? Also, will upgrading my ram from 4gb, to 8gb or 12gb help the frames? Thanks for any replies.

Upgrading your GPU won't do much for frames. Upgrading your RAM will prevent OOMs if you have a 64-bit Operating system. FSX is CPU hungry.Aaron G.

Thanks for the quick reply, what are OOMs may ask?

Thanks for the quick reply, what are OOMs may ask?

OOM = Out Of MemoryAaron G.

OOM = Out Of MemoryAaron G.

Thanks!

Upgrading your RAM will prevent OOMs if you have a 64-bit Operating system.

Not really Aaron. OOM's are not related to physical memory, but to virtual memory. You can run out of RAM, start having lots of paging / thrashing and still have the application not crash, and you can also have 1000GB of RAM + 64b OS, and run out of virtual memory in a 32 bit application like FSX and have an OOM

Not really Aaron. OOM's are not related to physical memory, but to virtual memory. You can run out of RAM, start having lots of paging / thrashing and still have the application not crash, and you can also have 1000GB of RAM + 64b OS, and run out of virtual memory in a 32 bit application like FSX and have an OOM

It was because he not had 4GB and if he upgraded his RAM FSX would be able to address more of its 3.5GB, but thank you for correcting me.Aaron G.