Video Card: Is One Needed to Run FX9?

[TomBrooklyn 1]

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.

[81717 0]

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

[Illegitimi non carborundum 4]

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

[TomBrooklyn 1]

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