I started playing Flight and noticed that after a couple of minutes my fans in my cpu and video card were working overtime. I checked NVidia Inspector and the video card temperature was 72 degrees C.On Flight everything is set to High.My machine is brand new; windows 7 i7 2600. NVidia GTX 560 Ti.I run FSX with all sliders maxed out and the temperature stays about 50 Degrees C even after an hour of flying.

Edited February 29, 201214 yr by Lbell

I am going to suspect (with no evidence except anecdotal) that flight is dumping far more of the load on the GPU then previous iterations of the franchise. I see this as a smart move, in that one can easily update graphics cards, but a new/more powerful Cpu/computer is a much more expensive proposition.This would also be in keeping with the strengths of an XboX, where I suspect a lot of focus for this effort will lie, especially if the PC market is unresponsive.

Good point; except that a GTX 560Ti isn't exactly an obsolete card.

FSX was hopelessly CPU-bound and on top of that, most use an FPS limiter of some sort to cap the frame rate at 30 FPS. I've read that Flight runs at well over 100 FPS for many, which puts a lot more stress on the video card, regardless of its age and level of performance.Use an external FPS limiter, or enable VSync as this will effectively limit the frame rate to 60 FPS. Don't worry though, as 72C isn't very high for a GPU. You will probably find that with most modern games, this temperature and fan speed is normal.

Edited February 29, 201214 yr by JimmiG

As long as the temperature stays in the 70s, you are OK..

Thanks, I was starting to worry.

During beta it was one of the first thing I noticed. I had to increase VC fan speed when I was using flight.