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I see plenty of people on here running 2 or even 3 screens? VR runs 1080 x 1200 x 2 so not that crazy really.I suspect 1080 or 1080ti will cope with that.

What is the general feedback on which is best in sim? The reports I read say the rift has a larger area where the image is in focus and very clear - which is what you want in a sim. Vive is much smaller which can result in viewing issues in big jets etc. Anyone got any feedback on that?

Any update on this? I have a rift due in the next few weeks but I am unsure about it now and I am considering cancel that order and going with vive... anyone had some air time with both?

Just an update, I went with the PMDG 737. Really good so far, only had an hour or so to play about but detail is way way above that of the FSX model. Only thing I need to get sorted is how to use the flight computer as I used to use GPS for nav on FSX, lazy I know.

Thanks. Was not sure but sounds like I am doing it along the right lines! Interested to see what the new stuff from Thrustmaster is - read about it last night. Should be announced in the next couple of weeks I think.

Thanks was thinking of going with PMDG 737 so will take a much closer look at that now. Also, a quetsion regarding REX. Am I doing this right... I open the REX software and load a profile I like the look of. Then next time I fly I can just go straight into P3D directly and it will still have the last set of clouds etc that I used via their own launcher.

Its been a very long time but I am finally getting back into flight sims. I have spent 15+ years flying MSFS but had a gap for the last few years as I did not have a PC capable of running the newer stuff (laptop only!). So I have got myself an i7 6700k @ 4.6ghz and a GTX970. I intend to get one of the new Pascal cards early next year. Downloaded Rex Texture Direct w/ Soft Clouds and ORBX Global. I presume that's the most common set up people are running? I am getting a fairly solid 60fps so quite happy with that. Now looking to get some aircraft, always enjoyed the 737-800 on FSX so would be interested to know which supplier has the best model? Anything else I should be doing? Lastly, I don't currently have any kind of control device other than KB and mouse - so looking for a stick - any good ones out there?

For me the 970/980 are both 780/780ti replacements. They offer very similar performance, but with one advantage and that's lower TDP. I think any 780/780ti users should stick with their current cards for now. The only major advantage will come when there is more RAM on the 9xx cards - which AFAIK is coming in the next couple of months. P3D will like the extra RAM. Even then it may be worth waiting for the die shrink next year.

Even modern games are not yet taking advantage of PCI 3.0 fully, and newer chips have more PCI lanes etc. FSX needs clock speeds - and I cant see clock speeds going beyond 5Ghz for the next few years. DDR4, PCI4.0 etc are all starting to come into play but FSX wont benefit. That all said I would be waiting to see how much VRAM the new cards come with as the current cards don't have enough, IMHO. Given how close the 980 is - its probably worth waiting for that. Skylake might not be all its cut out to be in FSX terms, and its 2 years away.