The flying guy

I figured you would say intel as I see a majority of people using that instead of team red. I have nothing bad to say about either brand, they all serve their purpose and seems intel is on top for single core applications. I will do all the setup using his airbus and will leave at that untill he invests in stronger rig. Thanks again, this sure is a nice forum to be a part of. On a side note I can't wait till amd launches their new ZEN line of cpu's, it should be a game changer for team red. I'm going to be ordering one when their available (maybe 4th quarter of 2016) and doing some testing. Really excited about this new chip.

Ok thank you for the prompt response. In my testing I didn't get any OOM issues on his system. I will try and set a decent compromise between scenery and fps. I kinda figured this would be as good as it will get unless like you said invest in a better cpu. I will talk to him in a couple of days to see what his expectations are and decide the route to follow. I'm guessing the amd 9000 series chips wouldn't yield any better performance so I'm sure he will need an intel rig. Thanks again for the confirmation on this issue. Greatly appreciated.

Hello, I'm new to this or any forum. I'm a pc builder and fsx enthusiast. I have been working on a customers pc for the last few weeks trying to solve his low frame rate issue. He has p3d and by the looks of it an airbus of some kind installed. When flying in an area such as klax or ksfo with his airbus the frames drop down to 8-12. This only seems to happen with his addon planes, stock aircrafts all get 40-55 fps in the same locations. As for settings, only thing that impacts frames is the scenery complexity slider. Moving that 1 notch to the right gives him 15-18 but it looks horrible, moving it 2 notches to the right and the sim becomes a slides how lol. My diagnosis is as follows, it seems the addon aircrafts utilize the same core on the cpu as the scenery slider and she just gets overloaded. I built him the exact same pc I got which is as follows. -gigabyte 990fx uad3 MB -FX 8350 overclocked to 4.8 on a custom water cooler loop (temp stays at 42 C) -asus R9 290X also overclocked -16gb of ram running at 1833mhz -windows 7 -everything's on a 1tb samsung 850 pro ssd This system runs my fsx really well so I assumed it would do fine for him since from what I read p3d has better coding and is an updates fsx. I loaded up my fsx on his machine to try it out and it performs just as well as on my rig so the hardware is all good. Must be something to do with his addon aircrafts. Are these aircrafts really that cpu demanding? Also tried a Cessna c182 and that has low fps like the airbus, but I'm not sure if that's an addon aircraft. thanks in advance