Why pay for a superfetch clone then/ it's already a feature of Windows 7.

My personal opinion. Skip it. You can buy an SSD for not much more and get FAR better results. Also, there is no such thing as too much RAM.

We're a desperate bunch trying to get the most out of an old CPU dependent sim. Let's not forget that the secret to better FSX performance (with add-ons) is hardware upgrades.

 

My last few upgrades have all yielded better performance:

 

1) i7 975 to i7 2600K.

2) GTX 480 to GTX 660ti 3gig

3) Velociraptor to SSD

 

I just upgraded from 1600 cas9 ram to 2133 cas9 ram. My next upgrade will be a gtx 970. If software were the answer to better performance in FSX, no one here would have a 4790K.

 

We also have the option to settle for default FSX Acceleration. Anyone?

 

By now info on harware upgrades should be pinned at the top of the FSX forum.

 

Jose

I agree with posts #17 and #18 which is why I am hoping/planning on a computer upgrade this fall, my six year "old" i7 920 and GTX260 just can't cut it anymore. Interestingly, this computer will do any other task I demand, movie rendering and slide show creating (heavy on resources), word processing, other data management...if it wasn't for flightsim and other games I would not really need another computer.

I agree with posts #17 and #18 which is why I am hoping/planning on a computer upgrade this fall, my six year "old" i7 920 and GTX260 just can't cut it anymore. Interestingly, this computer will do any other task I demand, movie rendering and slide show creating (heavy on resources), word processing, other data management...if it wasn't for flightsim and other games I would not really need another computer.

 

Bryan, I have an i7-920 and FSX ran well with my old GTX 275 before I recently upgraded to a GTX 970. Have you overclocked your processor? I have mine running comfortably at 4.0GHz with a Corsair AIO liquid cooler (runs at about 54 deg C under load). There's life in the old processor yet!

Bryan, I have an i7-920 and FSX ran well with my old GTX 275 before I recently upgraded to a GTX 970. Have you overclocked your processor? I have mine running comfortably at 4.0GHz with a Corsair AIO liquid cooler (runs at about 54 deg C under load). There's life in the old processor yet!

 

I actually tried to but found out that my Gateway computer motherboard is locked so that it can't be done.  I looked into this extensively and there was just no way around it.  Can't remember all the details now.  So I figured that I would eventually move to P3D v2.5 and onward and needed a good new video card anyway so this lead me to think about moth balling this older machine.

We're a desperate bunch trying to get the most out of an old CPU dependent sim. Let's not forget that the secret to better FSX performance (with add-ons) is hardware upgrades.

 

Base FSX runs fine. When you start piling add-ons onto it, then performance suffers. 

 

Running PrimoCache did speed up texture loading in some cases for me. 

Base FSX runs fine. When you start piling add-ons onto it, then performance suffers. 

 

Running PrimoCache did speed up texture loading in some cases for me. 

 

 

No doubt the base FSX runs fine but unfortunately most of us have grown a long way beyond the base with more realistic and accurate ground textures, much sharper mesh, very accurage vector data, and of course lively, robust interactive airstrips and airports and high end realistic flight dynamic airplanes all in the the 32bit world of FSX.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, and can't find any way to do a search for previous posts, so here goes. Feel free to move this to another location or put up a link to any previous posts that covers this.

Looking for help to setup the new Premocache v2 program. The instructions are a little light for us novice computer guys. Looking for specific setups for P3Dv2.5. I have a 2 TB external hard drive to use with the program. For example, do I want to set it up for Write only, or for Write and Read? Block size, etc.?

Thanks

Howard

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