willstone525

Thanks for all the responses i will try some tweeks and see how i go. I saw this guy on youtube and he uses mobile hardware and gets excellent results!

Hi there, So about 1 year ago I brought myself a shinny new iMac 27", This has a i7 3.4 quad processor, 8GB ram, 256GB SDD and 1TB HDD, and a 4GB Nvidia GTX 780M Graphics GDDR5. Now I know everyone will say "why buy a mac for FS you can get better hardware on self build pcs etc etc", that is true however I brought my mac before deciding to start back on FS. Basically I want to know if I can run FSX on my bootcamp drive (Win 8.1), and at what kind of level. So I want to get it as realistic as possible so I will list the kind of addons I plan on running and if anyone knows of any other addons that I can use that is great! I would hope to run at a FPS of around 25, with graphics on a fairly high level along with using vatsim. Aircraft PMDG 737 NGX Airbus X FS2Crew I may go into wide bodied like 777 at a later date Scenery FTX addons for various areas Airport Various Aerosoft Airport Addons Possibly FSDreamTeam GSX Weather Not too sure what addons to use as of yet. Now I again understand using a mac i do loose some power as they use mostly hardware found in laptops but as a aspiring pilot I do need to get FS running one way or another for the practise and of course the good fun! So to summarise I basically want to get FSX on my bootcamp iMac running at the best possible state using addons and settings to create the most realism! Cheers

Hi I put another forum with a similar question about FS9 but just wanted to find out also about FSX. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/439987-fs9-on-windows-81/#entry2970490%C2'> I am about to get 8.1 on my iMac (boot camp) and need to know firstly if it will be able to run FSX, i heard because of it being out of date, FSX will not run. I really hope this isnt the case as it will mean I have wasted money on expansion for the game. The second question is that a lot of people say that although the standard FSX will not run, if i go for the gold package with deluxe and acceleration included i will have no issue running FSX as they are more up to date. Hopefully some have experience of using FSX on 8.1! Cheers

HI all! I am about to do a bootcamp to my 2013 iMac and they will only allow me to put windows 8.1 on it and was wondering if i would be able to put my FS9 on it. I heard many people in forums saying this will not be possible but i really hope this isnt the case as i love this sim and have £100s of addons for it! Please let me know!!!!!!! Cheers