Yeah just for giggles I installed it on my XPS 9575 and it actually ran fairly well.  I made the mistake of trying to use my XBox controller on it but maybe this week I will hook up my Logitech Stick and see how it does more thoroughly.  I was suprised at all decent it ran.  It defaulted to the Medium-Low settings but with an on-board card around the performance of a 1050 I was not surprised.

6 hours ago, Honnli said:

And that GTX 750 only have 1GB of VRAM?

It's the 2GB version actually, but the VRAM is still getting hammered all the time. I find that its usage will only go below 2GB when setting the resolution scaler to 30%, and then it looks rather awful. From what I've seen in YouTube videos the simulator will comfortably use 3-4GB VRAM at 1080p with the lowest settings, which means that if you have 8GB RAM you will be left with just 6-7GB, and then the pagefile could need up to 11GB of hard drive space in larger cities which will cause those massive stutters if it's placed on an HDD.

8 hours ago, pjs37 said:

Yeah just for giggles I installed it on my XPS 9575 and it actually ran fairly well.  I made the mistake of trying to use my XBox controller on it but maybe this week I will hook up my Logitech Stick and see how it does more thoroughly.  I was suprised at all decent it ran.  It defaulted to the Medium-Low settings but with an on-board card around the performance of a 1050 I was not surprised.

Now that's pretty impressive! If it's around the performance of a 1050, then it should still be able to do some rather pleasant GA flying I think 🤣

 

5 hours ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

It's the 2GB version actually, but the VRAM is still getting hammered all the time. I find that its usage will only go below 2GB when setting the resolution scaler to 30%, and then it looks rather awful. From what I've seen in YouTube videos the simulator will comfortably use 3-4GB VRAM at 1080p with the lowest settings, which means that if you have 8GB RAM you will be left with just 6-7GB, and then the pagefile could need up to 11GB of hard drive space in larger cities which will cause those massive stutters if it's placed on an HDD.

Ah that's right, there's the 2GB variant of that card available. 1GB VRAM would be quite the unpleasant experience! But yes my VRAM is the same, absolutely used up at all times. But luckily the medium texture setting isn't too bad with my 12GB RAM so I will keep it at that. Just have to avoid visiting larger cities in complex jets, those HDD disk thrashings are an absolute no go. The 30% internal resolution is way too blurry to be enjoyable!

Might see if it runs on my laptop just for a laugh. I'm inclined to think it might.

It runs in my laptop... 🙂 

The hard part with a laptop is figuring out how to travel with a joystick....lol

On 8/30/2020 at 9:14 AM, Honnli said:

So uh, with some of the negativity around here lately and especially in the official flight simulator forums, I thought I'd post something a bit more positive and potentially helpful to others who also have an older rig and are on the fence about this sim's performance.

Nice pics!

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Just as an update on my laptop XPS 9575 I ran it at the Medium settings and got about 25fps avg more or less consistently.  Biggest bottleneck naturally was the GPU as it was pegged consistent at 99%-100%.  Didn't take any screenshots have to figure out the screenshot tools available to me but this was flying out of PHL north towards the city center which seems like a solid test of a laptop; lots of autogen.  Wouldn't say that Medium is the most ideal you can see the terrible autogen models easily from a distance though they improve when you get close  The ground terrain was easy to identify and navigate.  All resolutions were at 1080p wasn't brave enough yet to try 4k though it defaulted to that.

Edited August 31, 20205 yr by pjs37
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On 8/31/2020 at 11:13 PM, Chock said:

Might see if it runs on my laptop just for a laugh. I'm inclined to think it might.

Why not. Go for it I say! 😆

 

On 8/31/2020 at 11:26 PM, PeterPiper said:

Nice pics!

Thanks! It's so hard to stop myself from taking pics every time I go flying! The pics might end up filling up my HDD lol

 

On 9/1/2020 at 2:02 AM, pjs37 said:

Just as an update on my laptop XPS 9575 I ran it at the Medium settings and got about 25fps avg more or less consistently.  Biggest bottleneck naturally was the GPU as it was pegged consistent at 99%-100%.  Didn't take any screenshots have to figure out the screenshot tools available to me but this was flying out of PHL north towards the city center which seems like a solid test of a laptop; lots of autogen.  Wouldn't say that Medium is the most ideal you can see the terrible autogen models easily from a distance though they improve when you get close  The ground terrain was easy to identify and navigate.  All resolutions were at 1080p wasn't brave enough yet to try 4k though it defaulted to that.

Woah, it really is quite surprising how it can run on these weaker hardware! And hey, Medium looks much better than low and still looks reasonably good, so it's not all bad. From the sounds of it, your laptop seems to be as fast as my desktop! Now the bigger problem is how to travel with the joystick indeed 😂