simnut99

I know of a gal who has FSX and ORBX global and got tired of FSX bugs said she installed Global in fresh install of FSX (just FSX with default scenery). Then Installed fresh copy of FS9 used a texture tool or maybe 2 found all files that had same names and converted them like 4000 files and reduced texture size for fs9. It took a long time and she said she had to remove a few things but got it right. The screenshots are awesome and person states that so far no issues. She also contacted ORBX and was told as long as she only uses them on her pc its not an issue since she owns a legal copy of FTX global. Oh yes then ultimate terrain and such can be added afterwards. My thought is why doesn't ORBX do some converting and offer Global for for FS9 ? FS9 is very stable no constant tweaking needed or CTD problems. The best thing is you don't need a million dollar computer to run FS9. I like FSX but am tired of all the bugs in it.

If you plan on running add ons like PMDG, ORBX , etc And If you Have the financial means to do so.... I would recommend building a Haswell system If you are like many and on a budget then your setup should be fine. My PC is 4 years old and runs FSX ok just gotta be willing to back off the sliders. Remember FSX is more CPU intensive than GPU .

Just in case I win the lottery I priced a custom build based on Nicks FSX Bible for the best FSX performance CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4930K Six-Core VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3GB GDDR5 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card EVGA Superclocked MEMORY: 32GB (8GBx4) DDR3/2133MHz Quad Channel Memory Corsair Vengeance HDD: 1TB Samsung 840 EVO Series SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 540MB/s Read & 520MB/s Write HDD2: 500GB Gaming Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000RPM SATA-III LG 16X Internal Blu-ray Burner, BD-RE, DVD+RW Combo Driv MEMORY: 32GB (8GBx4) DDR3/2133MHz Quad Channel Memory Corsair Vengeance MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Sabertooth X79 ATX w/ TUF Armor, SSD Caching, Intel GbLAN, 3 Gen3 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 1 PCI SOUND: Creative Sound Blaster ZX 5.1 Channels 24-bit Vigor iSURF II Hard Disk Drive Cooling System RAIDMAX Scorpio V Mid-Tower Gaming Case POWERSUPPLY: 1,200 Watts - Corsair AXi AX1200i 1200W Digital 80 PLUS Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply Aerocool V12XT Dual Bay Touch Screen Fan Control the total cost is $3970.00 US

I find it disturbing that with FSX being on the market for nearly 8 years the newest most powerful PCs still struggle with it.

Just remember The HD 7990 has dual gpu onboard and will actually perform slower in FSX than a single GPU card. So make sure you get the best radeon with a single gpu not dual