Jeffrey Wooldridge

I thought FSX required SP2 to make use of multi-core, so I would first select that one. Maybe decrease some of your cloud/water settings to gain a massive ammount of performance.

I have just ordered a 560ti. Thanks all for the advices!

Hi Jahman, Thanks for the reply. I have already ran that tweak some time ago and did not achieve any notable performance increase. Would you (or anyone) say that Nvidia by any means does a far better job in drawing those clouds in FSX, urnelated to the shader model?Regards

Thanks for the reply. Overclocking any further would drive my temps up, and I am currently really satisfied with my stability. However, I somewhat think my GPU could be a bottleneck, as it is from the GTX260 age. Besides, I have heard many bad comments on ATI cards since my purchase back in '09. Any thoughts on this?

Dear Avsim Readers,I am a keen reader of these forums, yet have never post anything yet. Here's my first.I have been a flightsim user ever since FS95, and currently enjoy FSX truly. I use a 3 year old i7 computer, purchased just after its release in 2009. I have a i7-920 (@3.1 ghz), Sapphire HD4870, 6GB of corsair RAM, DDR3-1333 on an P6T motherboard.I use the PMDG 737 NGX with FSPassenger, EZCA, FS2Crew (in the future), REX, Aerosoft/ORBX/FlyTampa scenery, you name it.Now normally my sim looks fantastic, frames are good, and I am a happy user. However, when using the latest sceneries, especially on cloudy days my sim just does not reach that perfect level of smoothness that gets me involved in flying the way I love to.Therefore, I am willing to invest a bit of money in updating, That is, I seek to improve performance as much as possible by investing around 200-300€.My question to you guys, is how ! Should I seek an improved CPU (Hexcore, although over my initial budget?), or change my GPU to a GTX570?Since I believe Avsim is the place where expertise comes together, I look forward to your replies.Regards!