Hi all

 

2010 I bought a new pc. I got as much as I could out of my budget to get good looking fsx with nice performance. It worked out not as good as I hoped but. When you spend more time tweaking than flying, there's something wrong. 

Especially in the orbx regions I had the problem, that ground textures were not loading fast enough. They where blurry and it needed some time till it loaded the texture with max res.

 

I currently am thinking about upgrading or buying a new one. I will post the components that I bought 2010 and hope you can tell me if it makes sense to upgrade certain parts of the pc or if I should get a new one. 

My goal is to get a fluid fsx in orbx regions (will get the new orbx global too) with a quiet high autogen (traffic and weather is not that important). Planes are the standard ones, maybe some small addon aircraft in the future. 

 

Here is the parts list I bought in 2010:

4GB-Kit Corsair DDR3 PC1600 C9 Dominator  

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Box, Sockel AM3, 125W  

HGST DESKSTAR 7K1000.C 500GB, 16MB, S  

JCP Midi Tower ATX "Light Crystal", weiß, 500W Netzteil  

MSI 770-C45, AM3  

Samsung SH-223C bare beige SATA  

Sapphire HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express

 

I'm thankful about any suggestions

Have a nice Sunday

Jonathan

In general you're best off investing in a Haswell system. A quad core Intel performs better than any AMD system due to its superior IPC.

 

In the meanwhile, make sure you have FPS locked INSIDE FSX and don't use any external limited. Also, if you have tweaked down your FFTF value, increase it either back to stock of 0.33 or even higher. (see 0.67 as absolute highest). Yes, all this will cost FPS, something your current system will struggle with anyway, so you'll most likely have to reduce some sliders. It will however improve your ground texture loading. If you want to fly with higher settings, invest in a Haswell system.