Simviation Forum - Hardware to run FSX.

Oct 18^th, 2006 at 5:18am

xinmayu Offline
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If you are running FSX on your PC and you are happy with the performance, please submit your hardware configuration here.

This is to help all others to understand what they need to do to enjoy FSX, specially those will buy a PC soon, like me.

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Reply #1 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 6:22am

Fozzer Offline
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Hereford. England. EGBS.

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Cray super-computer. Mk XVIII. Water cooled.
56 GB Ram.
10.2 GB Hard drive.
nVidia SuperSonic GTS. O/C 5,000 Mhz. 25 GB MetaMax memory.
Diesel AC-DC Generator. 10 Kw.
Warner Bros super-hi-res LCD display.

Nothing less, and FSX Runs a treat...no problemo... Grin

...!

Paul... Wink

...!

Dell Dimension 5000 BTX Tower. Win7 Home Edition, 32 Bit. Intel Pentium 4, dual 2.8 GHz. 2.5GB RAM, nVidia GF 9500GT 1GB. SATA 500GB + 80GB. Philips 17" LCD Monitor. Micronet ADSL Modem only. Saitek Cyborg Evo Force. FS 2004 + FSX. Briggs and Stratton Petrol Lawn Mower...Motor Bikes. Gas Cooker... and lots of musical instruments!.... ...!
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Reply #2 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 6:24am

Bindoe Ex Member

P4 651
2gb RAM
X850XT PE @ 620/650

Runs a treat.

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Reply #3 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 7:16am

flymo Ex Member

AMD athlon 4600+ x2 (DUAL CORE) 2 x 512k cache
1gig XMS corsair RAM
512mb MSI 7900GTO overclcoked to GTX speeds

and with some tweeking im getting around 35fps average on high settings Cheesy

john...its all in the tweeking

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Reply #4 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 8:03am

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Flying the Baron take off and landing and cruise 5000' between KDMW and KBWI and around Baltimore City with real weather 15 min

I get between 12 and 20 FPS with all this expensive crap, Below............Not to bad , it's smooth but I expected more from this set up.

The only cfg tweaks I've used so far are these,
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=400
WideViewAspect=True
[BufferPools]
PoolSize=5000000

UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=20

1680x1050x32
No lens flare
No light bloom
High resolution 3-d cockpit
Water effects high
Scenery complexity, very dense
Autogen density, very dense
groun scenery cast shadows , check
Special effects, high
Weather, 60 mi draw
Detailed Cloud cover density, high
Weather change, medium
Airline and general traffic, 80%
Airport vehicle, medium
Road,ships, leisure boats, 50%

LIAN LI PC-60BPLUSII Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS P5W64 WS Professional Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 975X ATX Server Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M sharing L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
Thermaltake Big Typhoon CL-P0114 120mm Cooling Fan with Heatsink, Artic Silver 5 Thermal Paste
eVGA 512-P2-N570-AX Geforce 7900GTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610 EPS12V EPS12V 610W Continuous @ 40°C Power Supply 90 - 264 V UL/ULC/CE/CB/TUV
2 X's Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Sony DRU-830A 18x Internal Double/Dual Layer & Dual Format DVD Burner with DVD-RAM Support
Acer AL2216Wbd Black 22" 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 700:1

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Reply #5 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 9:00am

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The dispaly settings are a work in progress.. and I think I'll actually save a couple for specific scenarios...

I'm running:
Athlon64 3700+ @2.6ghz
eVga 7800GT256 @ 500/1200
1GB Corsair3200 @ 2.5-3-3-8 1T

After experimenting with ALL the tweeks.. I've found FSX can be run enjoyably...

Of course, I'll never be happy until I can land the default 747 at O'hare with maxed out EVERYTHING..and get 30fps But I don't think there's a computer out there that can do that (yet).

Try all the tweeks you're comfy experimenting with.. and I've found that autogen and AI (planes , cars airport vehicles, etc.) have the biggest effect on FPS...

The two display setting where I won't compromise are; Scenery Density and Global Texture quality... Everything else is a matter of what you can, or cannot live with..

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Reply #6 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 10:26am

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Cray super-computer. Mk XVIII. Water cooled.
56 GB Ram.
10.2 GB Hard drive.
nVidia SuperSonic GTS. O/C 5,000 Mhz. 25 GB MetaMax memory.
Diesel AC-DC Generator. 10 Kw.
Warner Bros super-hi-res LCD display.

Nothing less, and FSX Runs a treat...no problemo... Grin

...!

Paul... Wink

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Oh with a rig like that, I doubt you'll have problems with FSXIV

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Reply #7 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 2:01pm

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Except that FSX won't even install on a '10.2 GB Hard drive' Wink

I sure Fozzer meant a 10TB drive tho Grin

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Reply #8 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 2:05pm

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Except that FSX won't even install on a '10.2 GB Hard drive' Wink

I sure Fozzer meant a 10TB drive tho Grin

...10 terra-byte seems good, 'cos I'm a bit of a terror myself... Wink

...!

LOL...!

Paul... Grin

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Dell Dimension 5000 BTX Tower. Win7 Home Edition, 32 Bit. Intel Pentium 4, dual 2.8 GHz. 2.5GB RAM, nVidia GF 9500GT 1GB. SATA 500GB + 80GB. Philips 17" LCD Monitor. Micronet ADSL Modem only. Saitek Cyborg Evo Force. FS 2004 + FSX. Briggs and Stratton Petrol Lawn Mower...Motor Bikes. Gas Cooker... and lots of musical instruments!.... ...!
Yamaha MO6,MM6,DX7,DX11,DX21,DX100,MK100,EMT10,PSR400,PSS780,Roland GW-8L v2,TR505,Casio MT-205,Korg CX3v2 dual manual,+ Leslie 760,M-Audio Prokeys88,KeyRig,Cubase,Keyfax4,Guitars,Orchestral,Baroque,Renaissance,Medieval Instruments.

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Reply #9 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 3:39pm

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??? ??? ???

I was going to wait until the end of the year but FRYS Electronic have the standard edition FSX on sale for $35.00, which is fifteen dollars less than what I've seen advertised on the web. So bugs or no bugs I'll take advantage of this. However, can any tell me if my rig is capable of handling the FSX? Specs as follows:

ASUStek A7N8X-E Rev 2.xx, 400 MHz FSB
AMD Athlon XP, 3200+, 2.2 GHz.
1.5 Gig PC3200 memory
197 Gig Usable Hard Drive Capacity
NVIDIA GeForce 6800XT
Creative SB Audigy
WinXP Home Edition SP2

Bubblehead

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Reply #10 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 3:55pm

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Cray super-computer. Mk XVIII. Water cooled.
56 GB Ram.
10.2 GB Hard drive.
nVidia SuperSonic GTS. O/C 5,000 Mhz. 25 GB MetaMax memory.
Diesel AC-DC Generator. 10 Kw.
Warner Bros super-hi-res LCD display.

Nothing less, and FSX Runs a treat...no problemo... Grin

...!

Paul... Wink

...!

Whoa! a Diesel Generator Cheesy

An nvidia supersonic Cheesy

Damn you have a good rig. Your hard drive is a little small though Wink

Cheers,
RB

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Reply #11 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 4:03pm

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Cray super-computer. Mk XVIII. Water cooled.
56 GB Ram.
10.2 GB Hard drive.
nVidia SuperSonic GTS. O/C 5,000 Mhz. 25 GB MetaMax memory.
Diesel AC-DC Generator. 10 Kw.
Warner Bros super-hi-res LCD display.

..and all keyboard , no joystick or pedals or else.. Lol

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Reply #12 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 4:15pm

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E6400 @ 3.2GHz
Sapphire X1900XT 512MB
2GB Corsair XMS
ASUS P5B Deluxe

I've been playing around with some tweaks, but I can't for the life of me find where "BufferPools" are in the cfg file.

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Reply #13 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 9:57pm

xinmayu Offline
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Anybody here use laptop to play FSX? Share your cofiguration here.

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Reply #14 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 11:11pm

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Core2 E6600 at 2.4 mhz
1 gig ram
Nvidia 7600

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Reply #15 - Oct 18^th, 2006 at 11:15pm

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My lappy is running FSX decently with mid-high settings and holding about 15 fps with all the mentioned tweaks in this forum.

Specs...

Intel Core Duo 1.83Ghz
2 GB DDR RAM
ATI Radeon Express X1400 256 MB card

...it's a Dell Inspiron E1505 if that makes any difference to ya.

Justin

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Reply #16 - Oct 19^th, 2006 at 1:22am

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I am happy to see the X1400 run FSX decently, because I am planning to buy Dell E1505(X1400), or a HP dv6000t(Go 7400).

Thanks to Justin.

Looking for more owners to share your FSX experience on your lappy.

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Reply #17 - Oct 19^th, 2006 at 2:50am

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AMD 3200 64
Gigabyte Mobo
ATI x800 256mb (dumbed down one though)
2 gb ddr 400

I have had to turn off autogen to get over 10fps. However, I can run locked at 24fps with decent settings otherwise. Aircraft on ultrahigh, water on High 1x, most everything else in the middle. Advanced animations ON.

I have found that water and most everything else is minor, but the autogen is a total killer.

Also, my frames were the same before and after a couple of the autogen tweeks, so I just turned it off.

All in all, it still looks decent considering that autogen is off. The effects in multiplayer (that actually work!) is worth just about anything being turned off. Me and a buddy chased eachothers contrails through the Florida sky today. Awesome to go ballistic and watch the contrail in tower view too.

Oh, these framerates are using the AF Hornet. In single player and multiplayer, it actually gets better fps in the VC than external. Multiplayer had about a 3-5fps drop from just being in a server, but I could still top out at 24 when away from the airport. I may try changing out the tarmac textures.......we will see.

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Reply #18 - Oct 19^th, 2006 at 6:26pm

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Hope this help, I have HP Pavilion 760n
NVIDIA GEforce 6200

System: Microsoft Windows xp
Home: Edition
Version 2002
Service pack 2
Pentium 4 CPU 1.80 GHZ
1.79 GHZ 768 MB of RAM
and I'm still having problems. with F S X

When flying the aircrafts it will stop for a few seconds then it will catch up. I've tried eveything I could think of to do, adjusting display prop. tp performance. Anyone have any ideals ??? And its still running slow...also colors on aircrafts are blury

HP pavilion 760n 1.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 512MB 120GB 32MB Widows xp Still Slow

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Reply #19 - Oct 19^th, 2006 at 10:50pm

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Go 6200 is a low end card. It is not surprised when you said FSX is slow on this card. Go 6200 is not for a gamer. Your only solution is change to at least a Go 7400 or X1400. Even X1300 and Go 7300 wont make much better.

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Reply #20 - Oct 20^th, 2006 at 11:35am

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Low end? How bout take a look at mine...

Win XP Home SP2
P4 2.0GHz
256MB DDR RAM
GF2 MX w 64MB video RAM
40 GB HDD

Well, its a 4 yr old rig and since it runs FS2004 okay, i've got complacent and not upgraded it. Unfortunately, this time FSX (Demo) crashes on it - All onboard killed.

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Reply #21 - Oct 20^th, 2006 at 9:21pm

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Yes, Go6200 is a low end modern card, while your GF2 is an out of dated card.

But don't worry, I got following same problem with you:
CPU:celeron 1.2G
Ram: 512M
GF2 MX400 64M
I bought this PC during 2002 world cup, and the game was Brasil vs. England when I was in the PC shop.

So I am still running FS 2004 on this baby, and looking for a lappy to run FSX, like dell E1505 with X1400.

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