Hey fsx fans

 

I have a question, I bought a new PC about 9 months ago, when it was new and only ran fsx with not to many addons I had pmdg aircraft running at a good enough fps, since then I have filled my 500GB HDD with alot of other stuff, games,programs etc, to where there is now about 90GB free, I have had to stop using PMDG aircraft and even scenery like aerosoft Heathrow etc, as the fps are just to lagy to even land (around 5 to 12fps).

 

I have now had enough and am thinking of buying a 120GB SSD drive just for fsx to run off. Will this help? I Know it improves load times, but will it help to bring the fps back up as its not clawing its was through the HDD with all the added stuff ive now got? My spect are fair enough with Win7 64Bit,Z77 M-power motherboard, Oc system to 4.2, 8Gb gaming ram, 500GB HDD, Nvidia GTX660ti Graphics, added fans and cooling. so its confuesed me as to why I cant run things like PMDG at medium settings, and my only idea is that it could be that my HDD is just to overloaded.

 

Thanks for anyadvice or help.

You will likely see no difference when it comes to performance, but an SSD will decrease your loading times massively.

ah dam I was hoping it would go back to what is was when I had nothing but fsx on my pc. Do you have any idea why it could be slower than it used to be? I thought it would be due to HDD just being to loaded with other stuff.

Being discussed here:http://forum.avsim.net/topic/451127-low-frame-rates-and-stuttering/

I have a 256GB Samsung 840 PRO and it's enough for FSX,but for Prepar3D and FSX,you will need a 512 GB drive.

I only run FSX, have not thought of the move to Prepar3D yet. Not sure its worth it? my fsx is about 90-100GB at the moment, not planing on much more, so hope a 120GB SSD would be enough.

 

I just hope that it will also help with getting the fps back to what they used to be. otherwise I am going the LONG way around and do a fresh windows install and go from there and see.

I have a 250gb 840 EVO SSD and I use P3D. I have installed The sim, Global base, openLC EU, Vector, FS Global 2010 Mesh, and other major addons and I still have room. It works great. Coming from a general SATA drive I see a night and day difference with load times and overall smoothness. People who say you don't see a performance increase are wrong. I definitely see a smoother experience. 

thanks yorgosGK

 

I think I will defenatly get an SSD then.

 

I have to take my PC into the shop I bought if from 9 months ago to get it sorted, there things showing up in device manerger under processors I got a big yellow triangle next to the one and I cant seem to fix it, Win search engine is also no longer working no matter what I try! aswell as I cannot get fsx to install anywhere els exept x86 folder in Win7 , Its not uninstalling all fsx related stuff so, I may just passout and get them to reinstall windows for me( and sneak in an SSD while they at it).

I don't think it will help fps,this is all how your fsx is set up.

Try a new fsx.cfg file - back up your old one first, delete or rename the existing file,and start FSX.

FSX on startup will create a new fsx.cfg file.

Is there a difference?
 

Ok so I did not get my pc sorted like I planned, Ive cleared out about 250 GB off my HDD, got fsx and everything related to it off and did a fresh install, and was strict on myself on what to add( dont use it atleast once a week, gone!). Fsx is performing like it should be on my system. got my settings med to high, UK2000-heathrow, PO 747 and about 20-23fps (not the 4-7 fps before!) so it is definatly due to PC being over full and fsx haveing to much junk loaded into it!

It's amazing how fast it gets filled up. I've just installed Win 7 again on my "old" SSD of 250GB and a new one of 512GB should arrive this week - hopefully I'll have the same fps on heathrow as you - I had 12-15 fps before ;(

Its crazy, ive filled about 40 GB back up so far! But I must admit, im now getting about 16-23fps in a pmdg 737, as long as I keep my Ai sliders down to about 15%, ( enough not to be alone). Im much happier with fsx, and once I get my SSD ill be very happy.

Well FSX is about 12GB out of the box,and as for MegaScenery EGLL, another 4 GB on top!

Will be fitting my 500GB SSD tonight (if the wife lets me!)

SSD won't ever help with FPS. If you had high FPS before and it has dropped now it's because you have something else stealing CPU cycles now that you didn't before. Where SSD makes a difference is loadtimes, stutters and photoscenery texture load.