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Can you get rid of the line and triangle? Even disconnecting my mouse doesn’t get rid of it
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Cockpit mouse clicks don’t register for me
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Anybody thinking of doing a clean install W/SU5?
McGraw replied to Bigsby's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I had to reinstall. Not enough space on C even though installed on another drive that had just enough room. wanted me to have 111gb free so I just uninstalled and reinstalled. seems a bit weird -
The longer they can make people believe it will be before they release for FS2020, the more existing software they can sell, knowing many will double dip.
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How I got my system to be stutter free...
McGraw replied to RobJC's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Think your monitor is freesync, not gsync. you can enable freesync on NVidia cards but I have no idea whether the results are as good. need someone more knowledgeable to chip in -
The answer to your question is the Titan X. My advice is to wait and see what Nvisia Pascal brings though. If you can't wait, get a GTX 970, no point in dropping big bucks on a 980ti and I am still hugely CPU limited with mine coupled with a 4790k @4.5ghz. I run this system on a 450w psu which is more than enough for a single 970.
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Upgrade or Wait?
McGraw replied to Lude2Envy's topic in System Hardware: PC | MOBO | RAM | CPU | HDD | SSD | PSU etc
I might be wrong but I think you need to watercool to get the 6 and 8 core chips to a decent overclock. A full platform upgrade with expensive CPUs and DDR4 plus potential cooling expense in my opinion is not worth it, regardless of whether it gives you a few fps etc...and I haven't read one story about anyone going Haswell-E from a 4ghz+ quad core and being impressed. I believe it can help with texture loading but that's all. At this point (4790k/970/2400c11/SSD) I think I will be waiting a long time to upgrade just for FSX. -
The only part of that machine that could be considered overkill is the amount of RAM. If you're stitching big panoramas or working with heavy PSDs then great, otherwise do you need it? Personally I think it's a bit of a mismatch building a 4790k, 970 GTX and 8gb of RAM, even if you don't need 8gb now. RAM is only going up in price and this machine could last many years depending on the future of FSX/P3D. Yes the 4790k will turbo to 4.4ghz but only on one core. If all four cores are active, the max frequency is 4.2ghz. If you can keep your temps down below 75c after a decent FSX session, overclock your system to whatever you can get for less than 1.3v vcore. FSX will always benefit from extra Mhz and by the way, if you enable your XMP profile to make the RAM run at its rated speed, you're already overclocking and will be glad you're not on the stock cooler.
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I run FSX and Windows on the same SSD and anything like mesh that can be run from a mechanical drive on a USB 3.0 external drive. Once it's all up and running I only ever see the odd ping of HD activity light and I really don't feel the need to get a dedicated FSX SSD. I don't use photo scenery though, maybe it helps that?
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I have that exact card. No coil whine, overclocks well and doesn't throttle in benches, even in my tiny ITX case. Don't forget to register as the card only comes with a 2 year warranty if you don't register it in time. Noise wise it's quiet on the stock profile but I like to run it at high speed to keep my motherboard temps down.
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GTX 970 Coil Whine
McGraw replied to Fitz505's topic in Video Hardware: Monitors | Multi-Monitors | Video Cards | Drivers etc
No problems here with my early Zotac Gaming Edition. -
As Christmas Nears...
McGraw replied to vertigho's topic in System Hardware: PC | MOBO | RAM | CPU | HDD | SSD | PSU etc
Have fun, I was where you are now about 3/4 months ago (I added gpu and cooler when the 970 came out and got my cpu in August). Only now am I completely happy with my pc following a lengthy fsx tweak session and ironing out some gremlins plus plenty of time overclocking. I can just fly now without the fps counter on, it's great. As we have similar systems, give me a shout if you want any help tweakingZ