July 2, 201312 yr So my ancient 6600Gt 128mb fried the other day, so i upgraded to a 6670 with 1gb DDR5 RAM (i think thats what its called) made by Asus.The old card could handle FS2004 on mid settings anywhere between 30-60fps which was ok but not brilliant.Current specs (i'm a little rusty with computers on the whole, so forgive my poor terminology)Dell Dimension 5000 Intel® Pentium® 4 with Hyper-Threading technology, 3.2ghz if i remember rightIntel 915G Express chipset1.5gb RAM configured in that twin format, forgot what its called but supposed to make it perform better.. 2x256mb, 2x512mbWindows XP (just formatted)I guess thats all you need to know.Will the new card handle FSX or should i just stick with 2004 and raise the settings?Thanks
July 2, 201312 yr Stay with FS9...unless you want to lose your hair over FSX... what if he's already bald? :lol:
July 2, 201312 yr Id stay with 2004 unless you want to build a new PC ATP MEL,CFI,CFII,MEI. Type Ratings B-737, ERJ-190,ERJ-170
July 2, 201312 yr Id stay with 2004 unless you want to build a new PC Yep. | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
July 2, 201312 yr Commercial Member To be honest, if someone came to me for tech support with those specs in FS9 I would tell then to upgrade. Rob Prest
July 2, 201312 yr To be honest, if someone came to me for tech support with those specs in FS9 I would tell then to upgrade.The processer isn't the issue my old P4 of the same specs would give me decent fsx performance with low settings and I could max out the sliders on fs2004 the only issue I see is the amount of ram I'm sure he's using a 32bit OS so he's suck at 4gb but I think an upgrade is in order because 1.5gb ram just isn't enough. ATP MEL,CFI,CFII,MEI. Type Ratings B-737, ERJ-190,ERJ-170
July 2, 201312 yr Commercial Member It is all relative at the end of the day, I definitely wouldnt say that particular P4 would give good performance. Even with FS9 I would say an old wolfdale running at 3.2ghz is bare minimum, maxed out a core2duo with with an average GPU will give you 'fairly good perfomance' been tweaking FS9 rigs for years, just my opinion. Rob Prest
July 2, 201312 yr Stick with FS9. At max settings with some of the old add-ons, it will look and run better than FSX ever will on that system. -
July 2, 201312 yr Author The processer isn't the issue my old P4 of the same specs would give me decent fsx performance with low settings and I could max out the sliders on fs2004 the only issue I see is the amount of ram I'm sure he's using a 32bit OS so he's suck at 4gb but I think an upgrade is in order because 1.5gb ram just isn't enough. Never had an issue with the ammount of RAm even with the 6600gt installed. Its windows xp with basically no other programs installed, and the RAM is that dual configured one which runs much faster. Like i said it ran well with the old card, after some config tweaks and good freeware programs. Ill stick with fs2004 though
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