Bill, it's worth downloading MSI Afterburner to monitor your CPU and GPU to see how much they're being used - https://gaming.msi.com/features/afterburner. Although described as a graphics card overclocking utility, it's also a great monitoring app which can give you lots of information about your system and should work with any NVIDIA card. If there's a bottleneck somewhere, it should be easy to trace.

 

FSX and P3D are very CPU-intensive and overclocking your processor will give you a free performance boost and may even resolve your problems. You should be able to get to 3.6-3.8 GHz out of an i7-920 with just an air cooler. As far as a new GPU is concerned, my experience is that upgrading your graphics card will allow better antialiasing and higher screen resolution but doesn't improve performance significantly in FSX.

 

Try overclocking, it costs nothing and, as long as you monitor the CPU temperature, it's safe.

 

 

So if I increased the computer memory to say 12GB and a new video card to 8GB why wouldn't that address the video?

 

As Bert says, adding more memory isn't going to make things any faster. Overclocking the CPU makes sense if you can do it (it's free, why not?) but if you're still not satisfied the a new CPU, motherboard and RAM are next on your list.

 

Cheers!

I am getting an Http error from the IPad MSI app. I changed the ip address in the ios app to the fs computers.

 

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Thanks.

 

Bill