Simviation Forum - Running FSX on ultimate settings

Oct 17^th, 2007 at 10:49am

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Hello all, just wanting to know a little info. Is there anyone who can play FSX with all the graphics turned all the way up to ultimate? If you do play on ultimate with out any problems, please let me know what the recommended PC specs I need to play on ultimate

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Reply #1 - Oct 17^th, 2007 at 11:05am

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No actual hardware can run FSX to the max for the moment.

Got bloom ?
Got mountains ?
Got damage ?

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Reply #2 - Oct 17^th, 2007 at 2:58pm

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Not for the next 5 years at least. Wink

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Reply #3 - Oct 17^th, 2007 at 9:44pm

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It's not just raising the sliders to their max Wink

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Reply #4 - Oct 18^th, 2007 at 3:11pm

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Daube wrote on Oct 17^th, 2007 at 11:05am:

No actual hardware can run FSX to the max for the moment.

Bill Gates' PC.

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Reply #5 - Oct 18^th, 2007 at 4:08pm

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Here's how you get a computer that can run FSX on MAXED out settings:
Step 1:
Build a time machine and go ahead X years
Step 2:
Go buy a computer (don't forget your money) (don't forget to pick up FSX Acceleration or FS11
Step 3:
Bring it back and find out that it needs a new electrical socket that doesn't come out for another 5 years Grin

Or you could do this:
Live without the maxed settings, or keep playing FS9 on maxed settings. Smiley

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Reply #6 - Oct 18^th, 2007 at 5:01pm

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With cash, by the end of next year

Without cash, by the end of the following year

5 years is pushing it a bit too far. FS11, yes, FSX no.

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Reply #7 - Oct 18^th, 2007 at 8:58pm

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I have run it with all the sliders up, and gotten "decent" FPS.

Of course, that was in the moutains, not a city. In the cities, it takes about a minute per frame.

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Reply #8 - Oct 18^th, 2007 at 11:22pm

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I could do it with the sliders maxed out, but no one will be able to fully max it til next year probably, or 2009 with the octo core intel cpu. But next year we get the quad core penryns and nvidia's next gen card which will be awesome. So there's a chance...

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Reply #9 - Oct 19^th, 2007 at 7:25am

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If I've understood NickN's explanations, FSX "learns" about the hardware it's running on... and that's even more so since SP1... So even with the sliders cranked up, FSX will throttle itself back (somehow) if you ask it to do more than the hardware is capable of.

I have noticed that after a fresh install... FSX runs poorly, and then performance increases as the installation "matures"...

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Reply #10 - Oct 19^th, 2007 at 11:23am

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Brett_Henderson wrote on Oct 19^th, 2007 at 7:25am:

If I've understood NickN's explanations, FSX "learns" about the hardware it's running on... and that's even more so since SP1... So even with the sliders cranked up, FSX will throttle itself back (somehow) if you ask it to do more than the hardware is capable of.

I have noticed that after a fresh install... FSX runs poorly, and then performance increases as the installation "matures"...

My gawd, I`m not alone there then. I wanted to lose my second partition and use just one drive, things were cool before, pretty darned good. I did an Fdisk/Format, installed FSX, added log book and awards, added SP1, defragged a few times. Not working half as good as before on a dual boot. Now, it seems to be coming into its own once again. Yes, I`ve done a few things to it but not an awful lot. Most of it is what was done before on the dual boot anyway.

The numbers are not as good though improving, but its generally calm and easy to use, micro stutters virtually non existant and running a fair bit of payware very well indeed apart from Cap Sim 757. Lets just say I`ll never waste money on that company again and leave it at that.... Wink

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Reply #11 - Oct 19^th, 2007 at 1:55pm

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No, you are not seeing things. Although I would not call it something as intelligent as ‘learning’ (ha-ha), the software will compensate for system shortcomings as the title is run.

Part of the innovation in FSX is its ability to do a bit of analysis as it is run and over time dynamically compensate for system ability. FS9 did the same thing to a certain extent however FSX attempts to port 75-100 times the amount of code FS9 ran. If it did not have that upgraded feature over FS9 it would bring just about any system to it knees. It already does a good job of that but as long as FSX is set up correctly and the user is not trying to push the software too far past system ability, the FSX config file is left alone, and, the hardware at least meets certain spec criteria, FSX will run better as you place more flight time into it.

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Reply #12 - Oct 20^th, 2007 at 10:16pm

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I can't use FSX at all, I have to put the sliders so far down, that when I'm at a major international airport, the terminal building isn't even there, only a few aircraft, besides my own, and a big tarmac, taxiways and runways. thats all....GRRRRRRRRRRR.

Here's my machine: Asus P4 Motherboard
Intel Pentium GHZ CPU
1 Gig PC Memory
2 x Seagate 120 GB 7200 8MB Cache in Raid 1 Config.
BFG OC Geforce 6800 256 MB AGP Card
Onboard 32 Bit Sound card
Gig onboard LAN
CD & DVD drive R. W.
ATX Case w/400W Power Supply
Windows XP Home Edition
21" DELL Monitor

I'm still enjoying my FS2004, and even that I can not push the sliders all the way to the right.

I really wonder what kind of machine it will take to be able to enjoy FSX, and when it will be available, and also how much it might cost. Cry

John

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Reply #13 - Oct 20^th, 2007 at 11:40pm

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Can those super computers (a.k.a. meteorology processors) install and play games?

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