Advice needed on upgrading monitor

[KelB 0]

Hi

 

When I went to the Flight Sim show at Cosford at the weekend I was really impressed seeing FSX on large High res screens and multi-screen setups. I currently have a 22 inch 1680 x 1050 monitor and am tempted to get something bigger and therefore higer res. I am however worried that the FPS might drop alarmingly and/or the Graphics card might not be able to cope.

 

I  have a I7 2600 (not K) processor running Windows 7 64 bit, 6 GB of RAM and a 2GB Nvidia 660 graphics card.

 

Currently I get around 40 to 50 FPS with REX, default scenery and aircraft dropping to around 30 FPS with complex aircraft on OrbX England and down to around 15 – 20 FPS around complex UK2000 or OrbX airfields. I am using Steve’s DX10 fixer and have followed all the recommended settings.

 

With 4 bits per pixel AA my graphics card is about 25% loaded and is using 50% of the video RAM. At 8 bits per pixel AA the loading increases to about 50% with a little more video RAM used. I use a second monitor to run PlanG.

 

I would ideally like to upgrade to a 27 inch 2560 x 1440 monitor but may have to settle for a 24 inch 1920 x 1200 one if the former would cripple my system. I prefer the 16:10 ratio over 16:9 for my other uses of the computer.

 

Has anyone any experience of how much additional resource these resolutions would demand and what drop in FPS I might expect. I would hate to spend a fortune on a large monitor only to find out I needed to spend loads more money upgrading the graphics card or computer.

 

Thanks

 

Kelvin

[simmerhead 885]

I used a 27" for a while with 2560x1440 resolution. Didn't make much of a difference in terms of performance as far as I could tell. However to me 27" was too small so I now use a 40" LCD TV.

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

I went from a 22" 1650x1050 LG screen to a 27" 1920x1080 Samsung monitor.

 

Could not be happier!

 

And my video card is a GTX460, so your 660 should be fine..

[KelB 0]

Thanks Gents.

 

Looks like an upgrade then.

 

kelvin

[AVSIM Admin 4]

This is an automatic message.

 

This topic has been moved from "MS FSX Forum" to "Monitors, Video Cards and Drivers". This move has been done for a number of possible reasons.

• The most likely reason is that the post was off topic.
• The topic could also have contained images or a video that were not appropriate to the original forum it was posted in.
• The images might not have been "illustrative" or "explanatory" in nature.
• The topic could have been moved because we deemed it to be more appropriately placed elsewhere.

Please ensure that your posts are "on topic" and contain illustrative images or videos as appropriate. Do not post videos or images just for entertainment purposes anywhere but in the screen shot or video forums. See our image posting rules here.

 

Members who continue to post off topic posts can be denied entry to specific forums in order to reduce and remove the practice. Your cooperation is appreciated.

[Faisal altheyab 11]

STOP , dont buy that monitor . it seems that none of you read my topic i posted 2 days ago . please read it cause it'll save time instead of me writing what it is .   http://forum.avsim.net/topic/424024-nvidias-new-g-sync/

Regards

[KelB 0]

Can't see how this would help if you can't produce the FPS. If you only get 5 to 10 FPS you will still get a stuttering image and TrackIR response would be poor. with 1/2 refresh rate Vsync I get no tearing at the moment so as long as I can get similar performance to what I get now I don't need Gsync I just need to be sure that a going to a higer res monitor will not kill my frame rate!!!

[agood 12]

Wait for a NVIDIA G-Sync enabled one, or get one that is likely to be retrofitted to work with it.

 

That feature sounds like it's going to be a game changer, so you don't want to buy another monitor in a year to run it ;-)

 

Edit: Uh sorry just saw that this has already been stated.