Simviation Forum - Anyone want a Fried Computer?

Dec 25^th, 2006 at 11:37am

Pilot_Alex Offline
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My Compter simply CANNOT i repeat CANNOT handle FSX Duluxe ... 1st flight at an airstrip ... Around 1-6 fps , Tried heathrow...
OH MY GOSH ... it would not move .. i'd say AROUND 0.00001 fps i had to restart mycomputer . it messed it up.
Any ideas people...
P.S - I Have a X300 Radeon .... :l

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Reply #1 - Dec 25^th, 2006 at 11:41am

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Pilot_Alex wrote on Dec 25^th, 2006 at 11:37am:

P.S - I Have a X300 Radeon .... :l

there is one of the reasons why it wont perform great.
On current technology, even the nVidia 8800, you cannot expect to have full sliders on everything. Give the sim a chance in a year or 2, when the proper technology is out to enjoy the flying, and the eye candy.
Fortunately it works good with my X600 AND my X850 XT downstairs, only on mid-settings but still looks nice and gives above 15fps in LAX.
A tip for you mate, have 0% traffic, like airliners, GA and road. I have around 50% ships and leisure boats and i go fine.
Might be a good idea to save up for a better card.
Cheers,

Mark

Air Training Corps Cadet since 2003. Sergeant since Sept 2006, Staff Cadet since July '06.

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Reply #2 - Dec 25^th, 2006 at 6:36pm

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You sound like me Alex.
When Oblivion came out, I got it fully expecting a trip to newegg's site soon after install. I was wonderfully surprised that I was able to run it maxed out and even install 3rd party gfx updates for it.

When I went to get FSX, I was hoping for the same results. No luck, although I was able to get single fps. I took a chance and got 2gb of ram to replace the 512mb I had. It made a grand difference. I can now run the sim with mid level gfx, real time weather and a few AI while staying in the mid to upper teens. Yes I need a new system and FSX was finally the game that proved it beyond a doubt. I am really happy with the game, I can't blame the low performance on anything other than my nearly 4 year old system.

So sometime after Vista is out and there is plenty of DX10 hardware to choose from I am going to try to put together a machine that will run it well. Until then I hope it is foggy and rainy (so I can't see the ground below me), hehe. That was just a joke really, it isn't that bad at all.

Hang in there, more power is on the way. In the meantime, just play with the sliders until you find a good compramise. After seeing the difference the ram made in my case, I highly recommend 2gb or more.

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Reply #3 - Dec 26^th, 2006 at 12:44am

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Formula_1 wrote on Dec 25^th, 2006 at 6:36pm:

So sometime after Vista is out and there is plenty of DX10 hardware to choose from I am going to try to put together a machine that will run it well. Until then I hope it is foggy and rainy (so I can't see the ground below me), hehe. That was just a joke really, it isn't that bad at all.

And about six months before FSXI is released. Grin

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Reply #4 - Dec 26^th, 2006 at 6:51am

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Formula_1 wrote on Dec 25^th, 2006 at 6:36pm:

You sound like me Alex.
When Oblivion came out, I got it fully expecting a trip to newegg's site soon after install. I was wonderfully surprised that I was able to run it maxed out and even install 3rd party gfx updates for it.

When I went to get FSX, I was hoping for the same results. No luck, although I was able to get single fps. I took a chance and got 2gb of ram to replace the 512mb I had. It made a grand difference. I can now run the sim with mid level gfx, real time weather and a few AI while staying in the mid to upper teens. Yes I need a new system and FSX was finally the game that proved it beyond a doubt. I am really happy with the game, I can't blame the low performance on anything other than my nearly 4 year old system.

So sometime after Vista is out and there is plenty of DX10 hardware to choose from I am going to try to put together a machine that will run it well. Until then I hope it is foggy and rainy (so I can't see the ground below me), hehe. That was just a joke really, it isn't that bad at all.

Hang in there, more power is on the way. In the meantime, just play with the sliders until you find a good compramise. After seeing the difference the ram made in my case, I highly recommend 2gb or more.

My God he's right! Everyone just blamed Microsoft from the start but they never thought of the fact that their systems were old. That new 1 gig of RAM (or should that be ram so people don't think of Radar Absorbent Material? Stealth computer! Grin

) Made all the difference for me. Click "Fly Now" and it has loaded 15% already. With 512 it hadn't even loaded 1%. Literally. Shocked

And I can't blame Microsoft for the crap graffics I get even with sliders maxed. Its an Nvidia 6800 GPU FGS!

~James

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