Question about GPU

[SusGofres 1]

Good night...

Today is the day I have written the most on this forum in my entire life.

Today when I was about to leave class, I saw a graphics card, it was a Radeon X550 with 128mb vram. 

My question is to know if I have enough to play fs9 with large addons, or play fsx, although from what I have seen, 256mb is recommended.

Greetings

Edited March 6 by SusGofres

[Luis Hernandez 570]

Do you seriously need an almost 20-year old GPU? While 256 MB was the recommended spec for FSX, those specs were rather optimistic. With FS9, I endured with a 2GB 940MX (mobile, but already had 2 GB). I struggled to keep 30 FPS at all times, but that was because of my CPU (an i5-7200U). The last decent experience I had with a GPU was with a Radeon HD 4350. But that was so long ago, that I don't remember how did I fare. All I remember is that I was CPU limited.

For FSX, in my experience, I recommend to use Prepar3D v3 requirements instead:

https://www.prepar3d.com/product-overview/system-requirements/#prepar3d-v3

These are closer to reality.

EDIT: I saw your other posts, and I see you intend to fly the iFly 737. I'm sure the X550 won't be enough for that. If you want some specs guidance, use the ones for the FS9 iFly 747 (the payware one). This is the heaviest plane I've ever seen for FS9, regarding FPS. You can find the specs here at the bottom of the page: https://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=ifly7442k4

Edited March 7 by Luis Hernandez

[SusGofres 1]

1 hour ago, Luis Hernandez said:

Do you seriously need an almost 20-year old GPU? While 256 MB was the recommended spec for FSX, those specs were rather optimistic. With FS9, I endured with a 2GB 940MX (mobile, but already had 2 GB). I struggled to keep 30 FPS at all times, but that was because of my CPU (an i5-7200U). The last decent experience I had with a GPU was with a Radeon HD 4350. But that was so long ago, that I don't remember how did I fare. All I remember is that I was CPU limited.

For FSX, in my experience, I recommend to use Prepar3D v3 requirements instead:

https://www.prepar3d.com/product-overview/system-requirements/#prepar3d-v3

These are closer to reality.

EDIT: I saw your other posts, and I see you intend to fly the iFly 737. I'm sure the X550 won't be enough for that. If you want some specs guidance, use the ones for the FS9 iFly 747 (the payware one). This is the heaviest plane I've ever seen for FS9, regarding FPS. You can find the specs here at the bottom of the page: https://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=ifly7442k4

I don't really need it, I have a more powerful computer than that, I just wanted to play with it, and the idea of installing Win XP on it and trying fs9 occurred to me. Even try other games like call of duty 1, etc... Although I don't think I'm going to get it since I still haven't gotten it to turn on properly. 

[Luis Hernandez 570]

Ah, hahahaha, got it. In this case, it may help, at least for the challenge 😉

[SusGofres 1]

20 hours ago, Luis Hernandez said:

Ah, hahahaha, got it. In this case, it may help, at least for the challenge 😉

Well, I think it won't be possible, the computer won't turn on anymore.