Hi all

I got the deluxe version of FSX about a month ago. I was unable to play it unless I had most settings on or near low. Even then I was getting pauses and low fps .
I just got some new memory going from 512MB to 2GB and I was so pleased at the results in FSX. I now have mostly medium-high setting with aircraft set to ultra high. Weather and AI are rather low right now. The sim is running beautifully. I set the fps to 17 and it holds it just fine, though I haven't tried it over big cities or major airports yet. But where I was getting choppiness it is now very smooth and fluid, plus it looks much better .
Before I got the memory I had tried higher settings, just to see what I was missing and it was unplayable (frame rates in the singles). Now it runs well and looks quite nice. I may even be able to turn up some more sliders now .

I really didn't think I was going to be able to play it on this dated pc, but adding the extra ram made a huge difference!

My system is a nForce2, amd athlon 2100+ running at 200x11, 6800GT agp and the 2gb of Corsair TwinX cas2 memory.

So if anyone has a older system and are like me waiting for Vista and DX10 before your next build, try more ram in your current machine, you will probably be very happy.

Formula_1 wrote on Dec 16^th, 2006 at 1:05pm:


its already out



and i know exactly what you mean. i went from 512m to 1.5g and the difference was amazing.

It helps... I was running roughly 500-650MB of ram and I stuck another gig in and I am at 1.5 gigs.... (500 megs sent to my ram eating GPU)

I did this in the demo.... just for kicks as I had ram laying around from my last computer  and it worked! 

Gunny