Good evening everyone, i have not posted on this forum for a considerable number of years and i used to frequent the screenshots forum! I have still been flying in FS for a long time however i am finally making the step to FSX. My current system i have had for several years but having just upgraded the graphics card, does this look like an acceptable system or will i run into problems? I have gone through all the tweaks and i am getting stable rates at FSDT LAX, Aerosoft EDDF and my UK2000 sceneries i have tested so far and comfortably running with the PMDG NGX at a cap of 30 fps. These results are all before i added any form of autogen and the textures are pretty similar to FS9 level along with no AI but the experience feels a lot better than FS9 so far. I'm a bit worried though that my computer isn't really future proofed for the likes of the 777 from PMDG. Is there anything i can do to get even further out of this system and are there any tweaks anyone with a similar system can recommend?

 

Thank you so much.

 

Intel Quad Core 2 Q6600 @ 2.6GHZ

NVidia Gainward Geforce 460GTX GLH

ASUS P5N-E SLI

Corsair Modular 700W PSU

4GB Corsair XMS DHX PC6400

Everything depends on where you place your sliders in the FSX.cfg and/or the display driver settings. If you can fly the PMDG 737 comfortably, then I don't think you'll have any problems with the PMDG 777. Personally I would check out Word Not Allowed's guide - http://#####.wordpress.com/fsx-software-and-hardware-guide/ for tweaks and hardware configurations.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Everything depends on where you place your sliders in the FSX.cfg and/or the display driver settings. If you can fly the PMDG 737 comfortably, then I don't think you'll have any problems with the PMDG 777. Personally I would check out Word Not Allowed's guide - http://#####...hardware-guide/ for tweaks and hardware configurations.

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

Thanks for the link, i have been following a little of the guide but still need to implement some tweaks, hopefully it'll be running very smooth soon! Some of the airports in FSX also seem to strangely outperform the same ones in FS9!

If you're getting satisfactory performance at big airports like the ones you mentioned, sounds like your fine. But if you add autogen and AI traffic later on, you'll probably want to make some upgrades.

Some of the airports in FSX also seem to strangely outperform the same ones in FS9!

 

If you want some more excitement, try out DX10 fixes. Check out the DX10 forum here. It provides a bit more immersion into flight simming if set up properly. For instance, you can get shadows inside your cockpit.

 

Best regards,

Jim