Well PCI is slow as a snail, AGP is old but Okay I guess if you can't buy a whole new System, I could try to find a PCI-E Motherboard or a PCI-E card that has been converted to AGP 


Best option, buy whole new system

peter-reebok wrote on Oct 16^th, 2009 at 9:46pm:


Windows 7 has no bugs (I am running a RC copy perfectly)

I would go for a i5 system, I do not know that much, but

Intel i5
Decent Motherboard
Nice 6-8Gb or RAM DDR3
GPU: ATi 58XX

Should be around : $1500

Sorry not much info but that ^ is basically a good setup to get

LOL just gave in!.

Went to buy a Q9400 system - haggled with the shop, and ended up with a I7 860, P55 Mobo, 6gb DDR3 ram, GTX260, 1tb SataII drive and second 500gb 3gb/s hdd, 850w power supply, dvd 2L RW.

All my intentions went out the window when the I7 ended up $180 dearer than the Q9400 in total.

Thanks for the advice - I went soft and ended up with a better system anyway.
Kicker was when I pulled the original purchase info from existing PC, and found I bought it in early 2005.
nearly 5 years of use from it anyway!.

At least I should get a few years from this one as well!.
Here in Oz, W7 retail is still about 2 weeks away, so will buy XP, and wait for a while.

got the new system running on weekend.
Micro$oft doesnt sell XP any more since windows 7 came out, so installed 64bit windows 7.  At a price though!.
everything except my printer works, and will spend some time on that and hope for a good outcome soon.
With FSX, FTX Blue, mesh at 1m, water x2, high graphics settings on all (havent tried the highest settings) getting 35fps framerates, no stuttering, and I am very pleased with the result.  Very smooth, almost a completely different simulation from before.

Thanx fellas - only have to pay for it now!.

peter-reebok wrote on Oct 25^th, 2009 at 10:04pm:


Nice to hear yet another satisfied W7 simmer!

Tell it to Sir Nick when you see him, cause he's apparently still stuck in the last century... Maybe he's getting too old for this game!

W7 rocks with FSX, yeahaah!

U just go ahead pal, this forum is apparently only for those who  want to pucker up, and btw it would be a good idea to call it "The Forum for Arrogant Flighsim Geeks"!

Bye...

laurits wrote on Oct 27^th, 2009 at 10:28am:




hmmmm.. well, being a FLIGHT SIM website it would be a logical assumption that most are here for flight sim use which includes understanding OS's hardware and the simulation itself.   





What...   



laurits wrote on Oct 27^th, 2009 at 10:32am:




I dont have crashes, I dont have stutters I can not tune out and I dont have blue screens...    but I also use XPx64 too and regardless have tested FSX on all the OS's on multiple machines and harware variations with the exact same results. W7 provides the same exact FPS rate as does Vista and XP in FSX, assuming the user knows what they are doing from the get-go.


Quite frankly I find both your attitude and your approach quite ridiculous..   very typical of a internet know-it-all BS'er who has nothing better to do than run around forums and try and stir up controversy and trouble simply because they are pissed at themselves for not having the ability to shut-up, listen, follow directions correctly...  and learn.