Hi

 

I am not sure if I am posting this in the right place or not, admins feel free to move it if needed. I have been an avid flight simmer for years, own all the ms titles as well as others, and now downloading prepar3d academic. Can't wait to try this out.

My pc seems to have a hard time with FSX and X-plane 10 with graphics high. It runs fine, but I get "framing" as if I am in an old picture show (showing my age). Here are my quick specs:

 

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

EVGA X-58 SLI motherboard (132-BL-E758-A1)

6 Gigs of Corsair Dominator memory running at 1600 8-8-8-24 I believe

Core I-7 965 Extreme at 3.6Ghz, HT enabled

EVGA GeForce GTX-295 not overclocked

24" Gateway monitor running at 1920x1200

 

 

 

Since you guys have been in this and know what works best, what is the best upgrade I can do?

I want something that I can almost max out graphics wise but still maintain 40+ fps.....

 

Bump up the memory? Get a better video card? Trash the whole box and buy something else?

 

Thanks for the input and help

Tony

Tony, I know people using an i5 3470 CPU with a GTX250S card and 4G of RAM getting very good results and framerates. Suggest you get it running and optimise first, you may not need to change much.

 

If you did, a better graphics card would certainly help

Thank you Will, I appreciate your help. I will get the sim up and running then do optimization as you suggest. I was thinking probably a video card would help the best, followed by possibly a little more ram, maybe bump it up to 12gb instead of 6gb. I guess my video card is the biggest bottleneck of my system right now. I will let you know how the tweaks/optimize go, and thanks again for helping.

Tony

Hi Word Not Allowed

First off, thank you for your software/hardware guide for FSX. Quite a bit of information to absorb and I am still reading through it. I built this rig about 4 years ago maybe, and I guess it may be time to start fresh. I just wish I could spend maybe 300 or so and do something with what I have...perhaps a dx11 video card with 2gb with my resolution may help some. You are exactly right, that GTX295 absolutely sucks in FSX as well as XPlane 10. No matter what I try it just will not handle what I am trying to throw at it. Not saying the 295 is a bad card, it still is a pretty decent card for a lot of my games. Simulators on the other hand is where that card seems to choke. I was considering another 295 and run it in SLI, but I don't think I would see a lot of difference there either.

Income tax time is drawing near, guess I know what I'm doing in a few months :-).

Thanks again for the help and your guide, that is awesome!

Tony

Will do, looking at the 670/680's now and going to get a grocery list of stuff together soon. Appreciate the help once again.

Tony

I'd second that: recommending an ASUS 670, it's very powerful: fantastic framerates even in Stereo3D and practically inaudible.

 

I never want to go back to P3D on HDD, all the way SSD, that's how it should have been all along.

 

Florian