November 12, 201213 yr I have an ok system, Intel® TM i7 CPU 930 @2.8GHZ and a Nvidea 480 graphics card. I have been really bad at noticeing that I have been using a miserable amout of memory in the system properties. Only 6GB is installed. So I have ordered more memory with good advice from the makers of my PC, as they know the machine well. I was wondering what will improve in FSX when I do this? I fly the PMDGNGX, have active Sky 2012, and the addon scenery. As you can imagine it is a lot to load up. I use UK scenery and I am hoping this will flash less often. Or maybe there is a way of loading into memory more. It is very slow to load up at the moment. I don't expect the frames will render quicker as this is more of a processing task? I'm looking forward to seeing what happens, J u l ia n D i a m a n d i s
November 12, 201213 yr Hi Julian, Im afraid nothing to not much at all is all you can expect. What you will be able to do is run programs in the background a little better. Id of spent the money on a good motheboard for overclocking. Simon Simon Roberts
November 12, 201213 yr 8Gb is more than enough for most purposes, I have 16Gb and never see more than 6Gb used when using FSX even with a similar set of addons running as you suggest above. I'm using a home cockpit too so its not like its a basic setup either. Cheers, Andy.
November 13, 201213 yr FSX can only use 4GB max, so you will have 20GB sat idle almost while FSX is running. The only reason I bought 16GB is so that the HD Vids I edit can load quicker and not stutter constantly whilst being edited/playback... Was nothing to do with FSX.. The best upgrade I did was a pukka systemboard and CPU, which I now have running at 4.6gHz as of yesturday (Out of the box zero config for me) Richard... Amateur Pilot and UK Web Hosting Guru 🙂
November 15, 201213 yr Author I have the memory in now and have done a few test flights. The results are more stability, rather than fireworks. I do often record with FRAPS my flights. The memory will have it's uses, as I do motion graphics in AfterEffects and 3D in Maxon C4D anyway. So it's not a complete waist. If somebody one day makes a program like FSX but 64bit, which could uses all of the resources of a modern PC, including memory , that would just be wonderful. We pay good money for these things, yet we only use half of them for FSX. J u l ia n D i a m a n d i s
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