georgetyrrell

Bingo, perfect , same price as the 1070 mostly.Nice one.

Actually, one more quick one, is the 1050 total rubbish? Its cheap as chips , much cheaper than a 980 currently , but it never gets a mention really, is it pants? George

Probably the way to go , Nick is also correct but as far as getting the latest, things are changing too rapidly atm I think I'll wait and see whats stable and trusted in a years time. And go with a 1080 for now or similar. Cheers

Hello, Been out of the game for too many years , and to cut the story short I'm upgrading my PC to 2015, because I'm not doing a modern instal until well into next year (new house etc), so I've been given permission to do a bit of spending. I've gotten my hands on an i7 4770k which I'll overclock a bit, but I've trawled the web for GPU recommendations. I've been on bottleneck websites but I don't really know their validity or if they're just a marketing tool. The consensus is that getting something like a 1060/1080 or better is a waste of time, and that I'm better with a lower end card with suggestions anywhere from a 780GTX -980GTX. Any ideas of what is THE card for this CPU, all I have planned is a bit of Fs9 and some light FSX/Prepar3d. My plan originally was to buy the ginormous card, and just use it with the 4770k and then have it already when I go big, but I think its maybe futile for the enjoyment of things for the next 9-12 months. Any help appreciated George

Thats epic. Cool I didn't know re the C:\ trick thanks for that.

Perfect I shall upgrade so. 8 installs!! I'd actually often thought of doing this, have three or four going with varying texture , weather scenery variations. Is that why you do it?

Back after a long hiatus , will keep it brief, I'm living in XP world still so Win 8-10 is all new, are people using FS9 on 8.1 or 10? Search function comes up with a miriad of contradictions. Is it Add on dependant? (as in, will some not run on 10 etc) Regards George

In answer to the actual original post? Because it may actually be the most magical edition of the franchise ever. The leap from 2000 was astronomical at the time. And I still haven't lost that wonder. I've had some of my most breathtaking moments on a PC using FS9. Some of my most favourite aircraft in the world have become a virtual reality, the first aircraft that I ever flew on, a Hawker Siddley 748 was flyable!! The world literally opened up the day I discovered that there were such things as add on aircraft and scenery, and that was all on good old FS9. In fact , I've never used FSX. I know! I havent been near a flight sim in 5 years and now I have popped back, I'm about to port over to a 10 year old sim like its brand new, but I know that I'll load up FS9 on a separate partition just to have all the magical addons. but its personal with FS9. The journey that people have gone through. The tweaking....constantly, the magic bullets, the loading and reloading into the early hours of the morning. At the time , the technological advances in GPU, CPU etc. The ludicrously complex way you'd set your PC up just because it was the most temperamental sim of all time. The rabbit hole you'd dissappear into of DLLs , scenery files, textures. Ridiculous! If I had put as much concentration and intensity into my actual job..... Not even to mention the strides in aircraft complexity. Give me the Level D 767 for the rest of my life and tell me its the only aircraft that I can use and I'll be quite content. I think some people in the simming world lose their magic, the expectation of perfection. The next new thing. And like in life, a classic is a classic for many reasons.

Have bought 8 now so choices are those two. Although I know you're entitled to downgrade your OS legally from Microsoft, it's s pain in the hoop to do it I think.

And there's good enough gains still using modern processors, graphics cards, drives on XP 64 bit? It will allow me to use all of the 6gb of ram I've had for ages and never been able to take advantage of because I've still XP 32bit on my PC! I could never move on from it! Brilliant to hear that. Thanks A32xx

Hello, Building up my rig etc at the moment having been away, I'm going to upgrade to a latest ish processor and board, ram and keep my 660ti , I'll run both FSX in time but stick with fs9 as pretty much my main sim. So I bought a CD version of windows 8 this week, and my plan is to upgrade to 10 and run FSX. I didn't fsncy the idea of an OEM version of win7 so I just bit the bullet on it. I'll be purchasing two sandisk decently sized Ssd drives and it'll be a fairly decent setup. So, I've a chance to come upon a copy of XP pro 64 bit, and having discovered recently that you can run two operating systems on the same PC, would I better running fs9 on the XP pro 64 bit , and having Win10 for everything else ? What's the ideal OS for fs9? Would the later Operating system run the modern hardware better than the XP pro would run the sim if you get me? Regards George

That TNT is a work of art

Wow Robin, regressed??? Have you photos? So is the texturemaxload=x entry no longer needed as an addition? George

And yes, it seems I no longer know how to use these forums!!

Hello, Have just turned on my PC for the first time in about five years. Had all intentions on jumping into FSX but from browsing again there's no way I'm going to now for a while having seen the new lease of life fs9 has. I used to know every tweak in the book for XP and for fs9 and now it's all had to be researched again. Can anyone have a quick look at what I've done and see if I've missed any major update or improvement that's glaring or that I havent caught up with? I'm upgrading everything in the new year but from now till Christmas I'm sticking with my old (which was once proudly state of the art !!) Rig of an i7 920 stock everything, 660ti and 6 gigs of 1600 ram on XP pro. So, here's what I've done 1. Cleaned out any unnecessary programs on my PC. 2. Created a gaming profile and turned off every service I don't need from memory on that profile. 3. Defragged intensively and placed my pagefile on a separate partition to my fs9 install. 4. Installed the 3gb switch 5. Installed clean nvidia drivers as per Nick N 6. Installed clean fs9, fs9.1 and no crack patch, and used ntcore to make fs9 large address aware. 7. Used Nick N guide to nvidia inspector and fs9 internal and cfg settings (I presume he's still the most definitive?) I'll be using alacrity PC to turn off any non essential services etc. Have I omitted anything vital? Going to install my usual base of fsgenesis world mesh, followed by UT world and GE pro all continents. Another question would be , I used to use Active Sky for weather programming but subbed out Real Env textures , is that still most peoples go to setup? Is the Real Env weather engine still inferior to ASE? Is this HDE that I've read about now superior to this? I'm fine for airports and aircraft, I'm trying to keep it simple and restrain myself from pulling everything I owned and installing it! I feel as excited about fs9 right now as the day 10 years ago when a buddy said to me 'you know you can download and buy aircraft for that flight thing don't you?'! I can't see myself getting involved in sweet fx or enb series. I'm too eager to fly. Thanks for looking George