My wife asked if I was going to play the Flight game, and when I said "no", she half jokingly said "oh good, now you can stop upgrading your computer!". Unless something replaces FSX, which is probably the pinnacle of the flight sim series, then she is mostly right. I have an overclocked i7 that is running everything well, and have no need or desire to upgrade to Windows 8 (unless it is revolutionary in context to gaming) or new video cards, etc. I pretty much have all the games I will ever desire (DCS A10, Falcon 4 BMS, etc)... and with the exception of the next DCS series simulator, I don't see anything else in the pipeline for the next two-three years. Just wondering... now that we know the next Flight Sim isn't going to tax anyones systems, is anyone else going to bother upgrading in the next few years?

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by dighost

Flight will run like a screaming banshee on that rig with everything set to EXTREMELY_DENSE...My newest rig is modestly OC'd to only 4.6GHz...

"oh good, now you can stop upgrading your computer!".

Not really. An IB CPU with PCIe 3 and AMD 7xxxx or nVidia Kepler GPU will run FSX better, meaning more FPS and likely less microstutters, although not winecessarily with denser scenery due to the 32-bit 4 GBy RAM/VAS limitation.Cheers,- jahman.

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by jahman

Dighost before i installed the Flight beta i got my machine down to stock speed at 3.2 ghz (I7 960) my card its a Nvidia GTX460 and a clean install of windows and so far i like what i see as far as performance i can imagine thats only goin to get better after the update to final release ..

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by rtodepart

My wife asked if I was going to play the Flight game, and when I said "no", she half jokingly said "oh good, now you can stop upgrading your computer!". Unless something replaces FSX, which is probably the pinnacle of the flight sim series, then she is mostly right. I have an overclocked i7 that is running everything well, and have no need or desire to upgrade to Windows 8 (unless it is revolutionary in context to gaming) or new video cards, etc. I pretty much have all the games I will ever desire (DCS A10, Falcon 4 BMS, etc)... and with the exception of the next DCS series simulator, I don't see anything else in the pipeline for the next two-three years. Just wondering... now that we know the next Flight Sim isn't going to tax anyones systems, is anyone else going to bother upgrading in the next few years?

Keep in mind that the Kepler lineup features a 512 bit memory interface. FSX will love this.Also, when paired with an Ivy Bridge CPU, you will unlock the full potential of PCIe3 bandwith.(2X of PCIe2)In theory, PCIe3 should give us a very nice jump in performance when around very dense areas of autogen.

Not really. An IB CPU with PCIe 3 and AMD 7xxxx or nVidia Kepler GPU will run FSX better, meaning more FPS and likely less microstutters, although not winecessarily with denser scenery due to the 32-bit 4 GBy RAM/VAS limitation.Cheers,- jahman.

+1

In a nutshell, Flight is going to run better on my system than FSX does. (said in so many words above)

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by ZachLW

In a nutshell, Flight is going to run better on my system than FSX does. (said in so many words above)

Not so fast!-I kid you not, FLIGHT likes GPUs. Powerful GPU's.

My newest rig is modestly OC'd to only 4.6GHz...

n4gix, I noticed that your sig shows you are running a GTX550ti. How do you like? Have you done any overclocking with it?? I have a GTX 460 that is overclocked probably higher than it should be and I was checking out the 550 ti.Thanks!!

Not so fast!-I kid you not, FLIGHT likes GPUs. Powerful GPU's.

I'm willing to bet my left test#### that my GPU will more than handle Flight.

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by ZachLW

I'm ashamed to say it but I reinstalled my computer (Windows 7) because of MS Flight Beta... Now I wish I hadn't.

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by Devinci

I'm willing to bet my left test#### that my GPU will more than handle Flight.

Just wait and see... :(

the Kepler lineup features a 512 bit memory interface

And AMD is moving up to 384 bit from the previous 256 for the HD 7890 and up models.Cheers,- jahman.

Ok, but on a standard non-SB modern system is Flight 'good' or 'maxxed'?I have only heard positives about performance, but remember a negative about clouds. So I guess the question is: is there likely to be ANY benefit from upgrading to Ivy Bridge/Keppler.Edit: i typed this a few hours ago after post 2 - and i think it's mostly answered now :)

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by OzWhitey

If the past is a guide, the addons that folks are going to add to the Flight program are goingto kill the system - not the base system by itself..

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by Bert Pieke

Probably my current system will be able to run Flight easily with all max, I7 2600k, radeon 6990 and 8GB of RAM + Win 7. Maybe I will give it a try as its free to download, though FSX and X plane 10 will be my main simulators as I am really not too much into GA planes.

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by FScamp