Is a video card required to run FX9 smoothly?

 

 

CPU: My CPU is a 64bit Intel Sandy Bridge  i7 2600K Quad Core Hyperthreaded unit running at 3.4 GHz with a built-in turbo frequency of 3.8GHz, an 8MB cache; and perhaps most importantly, it has integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000, which is the equivilent of having an after market video card.

 

RAM: 16GB

 

Monitors: Dual IPE Panel, 1920x1200

 

 

I have been advised in the FX9 forum that FS9 will run well on less than state of the art computers.

I had almost same card, but you might want to lower resolution and you probably wont be able to max out settings with addons

Tom

 

it has integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000, which is the equivilent of having an after market video card.

 

Unfortunately, that is not correct even Haswell which has a major onboard graphics update will not come close to a powerful discrete video card.  Even with FS9 if you have large (1920 x 1200) or svereal monitors you still need a good vifeo card to display the sim at its best.  I have a similar rig and use a GX660TI to great effect. 

 

Regards

pH

I wound up getting FSX and it worked fine with the integrated graphics.