Hi everybody, well I sold my last dell computer and built my own but it doesn't seem to be a big improvement on anything. the old cpu on the dell was an i5 with 3.3ghz paired with the stock gpu that came with it (gt635)  and I could play fsx with add ons and the only areas that gave me trouble were northern California and kmry by orbx, none o thir other regions gave me trouble. I thought this would change if I upgraded to an i7 4790k and gtx 660, but it didn't. in my new computer no matter how much I increase or decrease the autogen sliders the fps are still the same which causes me to think that the cpu is not the problem. i zeroed ai traffic and lowered water and yes the fps do increase but that's ridiculous, i should be able to play with at least dense settings and 50 ai traffic with 25+fps all the time.I heard nick say that a low-to midrange card could bottleneck an i7 but then in other forums i heard the opposite which is that a gpu never bottlenecks the cpu. Also when i go to best buy and check their desktops out their windows is so smooth! like you click on folders or internet and they opened up so fluidly with no stutters and they got a little Winnie i5 running them! that ###### me off. my windows is not even smooth like that and i got an ssd and a devils canyon!! i installed windows off an iso that i burned, i burned it at the lowest speed. idk if its a bad idea to install from isos?

 

if anybody would read this and have some suggestions i would be very grateful!

 

 

the new built spec:

 

i7 4790k stock for now

psu CX750M

Asus z97-a motherboard

gtx 660 SC

ddr3 1600mhz

 

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Orbx NCA and MRY really kills my performance.  There's especially an issue in the SFO/OAK harbor areas... all the cranes and marinas tank your fps.  There's an unofficial fix over at their forums  (basically you remove them hehe).

 

But yeah that rig would do you a lot better.

yeah the point is that its not doing me a lot better. and in big cities like LA or mexico with vector installed I get 15- fps with active sky

Oh I didn't see all that other stuff at first for some reason.

 

If Windows isn't running well on the new setup, flightsim won't for sure.

 

Is there anything odd running in the background? It almost sounds like a virus. CTRL Alt Del looking at the task manager monitor is the CPU usage really high? Have you set AHCI in bios?

 

As to installing off an ISO - shouldn't be an issue - I've done that before.

Hi thanks for replying. I mean idk what is up with windows 7 ive tried both windows 7 and windows 8 and to be honest i feel like fsx runs better in win8. Everybody paints a picture of win7 as if it were perfect and smooth but for me win8 is smooth win7 seems to have alot of issues. Little things like in win7 in fsx when im choosing aircraft and i try to scroll through the aircraft list the mouse scroll doesnt work, and in win8 it does. Idk if its the motherboard the graphics card or the installation disk or hard drive.