I have heard that Nvidia was the best kind of GPU for FSX. However, I have to purchase a new PC and there is currently no Nvidia card from where I am buying but there is the AMD R7. Will this run FSX ok? Just want to hear from persons running FSX with AMD cards.

The Great Debate over the best GPU for FSX isn't over yet but it's becoming less important. FSX doesn't use much GPU capability so many of the newer GPU's all work just fine.

 

Heck, I'm still using a four year-old AMD 5870 and FSX can't even utilize it to the maximum. The card only has 1GB of GDDR5 and FSX seldom uses more than 670MB. Even with a 850MHz clock FSX never runs it past 45% even with all the FSX sliders maxxed to the right. And that's with 16X filtering and AA 8x (both of which are all the card will do).

 

So......yes, the upper-end R7's will work just fine if you get the right one. I think it's important to go with the R7 265, though, as it has 75% more memory bandwidth than the next-best in the line. GPU and memory clock speeds are fine.

 

Let us know what you decide as I think other folks may be curious as well.

 

Doug

 

Edited because I can't spel

Depends if you want to play on dx9 or dx10 because for dx10 you want and need a very good Gpu with a very good memory bandwidth for SGSSAA purposes.

I had a 5870 then a 6970, now I have an evga gtx780 classified, amd cards gave me a sharper image, 780 gives me better frames per second especially in cloudy situations, worth the £430 I paid for it I'd say for fsx it's a no.

I wouldn't buy it if it didn't have an NVidia capability.  PERIOD.

 

Stan

What's SGSSAA??? Anyway I don't have the money to buy a high end card so I'm glad that FSX isn't very GPU dependent. It ran fine on my old 8800GTS but then that suddenly died and then my HDD died and so I'm just trying to see if I can get a whole new build. Sigh.

Sparse Grid Super Sample Anti Aliasing. Because how weird dx10 works in FSX you would need it to have AA. On the other hand with dx10 fixer it is far better experience than on dx9 at least to me.

I have an HD7850 2 gig, got it used off ebay, it replaced a HD5870 which I ran for 3 years.  The 7850 gives better frame rates than the 5870.

 

I use SweetFX 1.5.1. with SMAA and no anti-aliasing in-game or through the 'CCC' ATI driver software. I don't get crashes or OOMs, even with 32bit OS and 4 Gb of ram.  SweekFX gives me lots of control over colour and light and I run it with Shade too. I use DX10 with Steve's DX10 fixer.  I don't tweak FSX.cfg anymore, I use FSXBooster 2013 with its 'VFR' pre-set and LOD + 25%.   I get super-smooth rendering, specially noticeable in glider thermalling, 360 degree turns, no micro-pauses.  Call FSX Booster 'snake-oil' if you like, but I wouldn't be without it. 

 

I love my set-up and the 7850, but I would move to nVidia, simply because I can't get vSync to work with my 7850.  RadeonPro software didn't work for me.

 

So get nVidia, if you can, and enjoy vSync.

 

Try DX10 too, if you haven't already.

 

Phil

I wouldn't buy it if it didn't have an NVidia capability.  PERIOD.

 

Stan

 

Inquiring minds want to know. Why.....? (Remember, this is FSX we're talking about).

 

Doug