Jake Bettencourt

The Gamer Supreme Desktop seems to be the better choice as far as FSX goes. I have read that ATI/AMD announced that they will not be making active efforts to support the older coding systems, which FSX still runs.  Besides that I have always seen Nvidia as the "go-to" as far as FSX goes. So the first system seems to be at an advantage in that area. Both systems have SSD which I hope they load the OS onto since I would imagine it comes pre-installed, definatly throw FSX on the SSD when you get it. Both have "K" series i7's which is good for overclocking and performance. The only thing I don't like about these computers is the fact that they just tell you DDR3 16GB memory with no reference as to what the speed of the memory is or anything. RAM speed is important in FSX with constant loading and moving of texutres in the sim. And with the newest Generation Haswell it can take advantage of these higher speeds such as 2400 or 2133. However they also don't specify MB which is an important part in the RAM decision too, so not much you can do about that. I think the best choice would be the first computer really only for the Nvida GTX770, and then later down the road depending on what RAM is  provided you could possibly upgrade since RAM is about the easiest thing to swap. The only disadvantage I see in this system is it doesn't say liquid cooling so cannot be sure about what cooling they use if stock or not which may be a problem if you desire to overclock past say 4.1-4.2 Ghz.

Best of luck!

Recently I have been looking at upgrading my system for FSX as well, after reading this whole article about FSX and it's unique characteristics. Specifically with RAM the higher the speede the better. I would encourage you to read through this before building your system.

http://www.simforums.com/forums/the-fsx-computer-system-the-bible-by-nickn_topic46211.html

RAM that I found that looks very good, and since you are getting a very high end processor / MB it would a disadvantage to you to get lower speed memory.

G. SKill Trident X Series DDR3 2400 (F3-2400C9D-8GTXD).

Just my two cents, best of luck on your build!!

Edit: well I didn't even bother to look at your mother board... just did and that RAM won't really be useful for that... oh well, sorry haha, the link is still good to read though!

I tried same place, aircraft in same state at at the same time and my 747 still gets about 4-5 frames better, I know I've heard in the past that the 737 is supposed to get better frames, so I'm just curious as to why this is, because if I could get it to be better then the 747 frame wise, I would be very happy

I've noticed recently that I get significantly better frames in the 747 than my 737, anyone know why? And how do your performances match up?

Go go go!!!

Here's to hoping I'm flying the T7 for Christmas.

+1

Geez guys just be thankful we know something is coming! Atleast I'm happy to hear such things!

Ya I would say PMDG's will look a bit better then that one...

The 777 will not be less of a product than the NGX is - if anything it will be better and contain everything the NGX has and more.

I like that phrase "and more" ;)

please see my system specification in my sig.

 

FSX colors are not smooth at night, sky, runway and so on, they are displayed like steps (UGLY), instead of smooth colors.

 

see attached for example (taken from MD11 cockpit looking into the sky at early dawn) I hope it's clear (I think you need to zoom in) very annoying in my 5760X1080 display:

Usually something like this where there isn't smoothing between layers is a problem with anti-aliasing or anistrophic filtering, check your settings. I see you have a nvidia based card so you can use nvidia inspector to adjust settings, try that and see where you can get, in the main area of the general for there is a nvidia inspector setting guide pinned at the top jsyk :)

Ever since I reinstalled FSX I have been having a problem with the livery manager, mostly on the 737-800 because I can install one livery and then when I try to install another one it completes and then I click on the plane (in the manager) and then there are no liverys there. Please help kind of annoying to only be able to have one livery, on the 700 and 600 however I can have more than one livery so I don't know why its only on the 800

Make sure HIGHMEMFIX=1 is in your fsx.cfg Graphics section and make sure that you have the replacement uiautomationcore.dll in your FSX folder. If neither of those fix it you're simply going past the address space limit in the sim over the course of the flight - there's nothing that can be done there unless you lower sliders, lower the quality of your weather/water textures etc.

So I will usually do a long haul flight about once a week and every time I do when I get to my destination my terrain such as the runway marking lines, air terminals, and some other things are just gone, I have all of my settings on high and you can see my specs in my signature so could someone help me out with this? I'm thinking a setting can probably be tweaked in the cfg where I have also modified some things, help is appreciated -Thanks, JakeAlso this happens in my PMDG 747-400 but never in a five hour or so flight with the NG

QUOTE: "Planes, locations, and more complex scenarios will be part of the game's microtransaction model."No mention of MULTIPLAYER, or ATC --- Understandable, as potentially everyone will be flying in DIFFERENT WORLDS, based on how much money they want to put into "Microtransactions".The Good News: Looks like FSX and the PMDG737NGX will be around and in use for many years !!

Thanks guys for the responses! I have heard of navigraph but i don't want to pay for an updated version right now as it is not completely out of date, but maybe down the road.

Is there anyway to update it to current dates? I know it was active during august-september and it really doesn't make a difference, but i'm just wondering:)

Is anyone else having problems with their DU's Freezing? I am flying the Alaska Airlines Livery right now flying from Anchorage to San Francisco

oh alright thanks

Well twice I have tried to load my NGX in a multiplayer session and it did not work, I have had three successful flight and no crashes with in in free flight though

Sorry if this was addressed but is anyone else having problems with 737NGX and multiplayer?

Ya its directing me to the wrong page too

LOL it went off line

:D ITS OUT!!!!!!!!!!

Don't expect it to be any good running FSX on higher settings. It's a lower end i7 mobile which you're not going to be able to overclock, with a low/midrange GPU which will struggle at 1600x900 in intensive applications like FS. It's also running a slow hard drive and slow memory. Certainly it's pretty decent for a laptop, but nowhere near powerful enough to run FSX with a load of addons at high settings. If though you can't build a desktop and have to go with a lappy, then it's not a bad choice for the price.

Well, looking at the specs of that laptop, it looks pretty good, for a laptop. Your not going to be able to run everything the same as a desktop would, with FSX being the CPU intensive program that it is, it makes it hard on laptops because the mobile processors are run at lower voltages and lower clocks. I think that both the graphics processor and CPU are topline relative to the laptop market. Laptops are not meant to run FSX because technology just isn't there yet. I think if you are dead set on buying a laptop rather than a desktop then this would be a good solution without going crazy and getting an alienware or something...