Alastair McLeod

Oh Annecy!!!! One of the most beautiful places we ever visited in Europe. Just didn't have enough time there to enjoy. Thanks for the uhd mesh v4 tip . I'll try that when I get back home.

Further to the above. I fitted the hard drive on Friday and flew all three Fs2004, FSX and X Plane. Fs2004 blazes even with VFR England, max settings and the MAAM DC-3 - the difference is unbelievable with the new drive - thanks so much chaps. Only on two screens at the moment because some twit dropped one 😳 and the other two are in storage. Didnt get a chance to grab the frame rates but it's much smoother on FSX and X Plane. No texture mods on either and running high detail but there was occasionally a tile phasing which may be the result of the older processor. Cant wait to play with XPlane now and get some old machinery to do some test flying 😀 Also downloaded DCS which looks great also on high settings.

ok boys, I want a nice clean fight, no spitting, no biting and no punches below the belt ! 😂😂😂 well on Tuesday morning I bought a 1Tb hard drive (£159) and a second hand Triplehead2go digital (£70) I will run the front three 24" screens on my TH2go and try running flight instruments and engines on two smaller screens directly from the card. Ill stick with FSX and Fs9 for the time being even though I love the flight dynamics of XP. Thanks so much for all your input gentlemen - it's much appreciated.

ok boys, I want a nice clean fight, no spitting, no biting and no punches below the belt ! 😂😂😂 well on Tuesday morning I bought a 1Tb hard drive (£159) and a second hand Triplehead2go digital (£70) for starters. I will run the front three 24" screens on my TH2go and try running flight instruments and engines on two smaller screens directly from the card. Ill stick with FSX and Fs9 for the time being even though I love the flight dynamics of XP. Thanks so much for all your input gentlemen - it's much appreciated.

Im running two sticks of DDR3 1600Mhz 4GB RAM already so that should be enuff methinks. I will probably go along with the 500 GB SSD rather than a 3.5" 1TB as you advise mate.

Thanks for your replies chaps. Ill go for that 1Tb job and more Ram and see what it does with the GeForce card. Looks like Id best get a Triplehead2Go for the multi monitors.

Hi, just getting back into FSim after a 5 year lay-off. Loaded up FSX and remembered why I hate it (maybe I dont have enuff disc space at 120gb ?). Anyway I stripped it out and reloaded FS9 which the rig runs very competently at ultra settings. I just bought X plane 11 and want to try it. Obviously I need to add a hard-drive as my present drive is just an SSD 850 Evo 120gb ATA. If I want to try FSX again and XP 11 - do I need to buy one drive for each ? Or just the one ? what size and what speed should I get ? I have two cards which will give me the best performance Geforce GTX 970 or a Radeon Rx470 ? i5 4670 3.4Ghz, 120gb HD, 4.00 GB ram Windows 7 - 64 bit home, triple benq monitors Douglas DC-3 Pilot and Co-pilot seats, PFC throttle quad, CH Yoke and pedals