I was looking at my fsx box today and saw the system req and it made me laugh! Why they even put these on the box I dont know when we can barly get good fps today.

So here they are and what it really is

1ghz processer- more like 5ghz

512MB ram- more like 4GB

and 32mb video card- more like 1gb or better yet 2gb

What the system req portion of the box shoulda said

Wait 6 years then play.... lol

My mobile can run FSX! :lol:

Ha! What is funny about this is that I had been struggling to get decent FPS on a small laptop with FS2004, and was an extremely casual flight simmer...never had purchased any payware...it was just one of many games. But when FSX came out, I got excited about it, and decided it was time to get a proper and powerful desktop. At the time, that was a Pentium Dual Core. I was absolutely appalled! FSX was nothing but a big slide show. Deciding to cut my losses, I reluctantly "went back" to FS9, but this time, since it appeared that I was stuck with it for the forseable future, finally got around to getting some decent payware, including the PMDG 747. I was so ignorant about payware that I seriously thought that I was just getting something that would be only a little more detailed than the defaults. Boy was I in for a surprise. That is when Flight Simulation begin to take on a life of its own. Eventually I went back to FSX obviously, but it wasn't until the I7 series processors came out, and in order to keep pace with all the resource chomping addons, I'm already on my second generation of that processor too.

The stated requirements were more of a cruel joke than anything else. FSX was certainly a slide show with a computer that only met the minimums.

FSX ran at acceptable rates with sliders turned sufficiently down. I'm not sure how it would run on the recommended system though.

 

My first thought when I first started running FSX was that this was likely going to be the last version, for a long time, maybe forever. They built it with the intention that your experience would improve as hardware advanced, and it looked like it would take several years for hardware to catch up. Each new computer would be almost like getting a new version of MSFS.

 

Imagine my surprise when I bought a state of the art gaming computer a year ago and it still needed slider tweaking in FSX to run acceptably. Part of the problem was, although the hardware continued to advance, it didn't advance in the direction Microsoft thought it would. Some of the problems we're experiencing now are because Microsoft didn't have hardware to test on... it didn't exist.

 

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