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Jan 29^th, 2012 at 8:40pm

FuturePilot Offline
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Hey guys, I have my new pc all set up and running FSX... and to be honest I was a little disappointed with its performance... my specs are in my sig, except for one maybe important detail, the GPU is only DDR3 and its a kinda old card, its 1GB but I guess speed might be better than size in that area... so my question, is the GPU making a big difference in my bad performance or what? One other thing, I haven't really set up for FSX yet because I was so disappointed to start with that I just never got motivated to do all that work! lol

But dont start slamming me for some of the specs like 16GB of RAM.... I KNOW that FSX only uses like 4-8GB but I built this pc for video editing too so thats what some of it is about. BTW its AWESOME as a video editor! Tongue

Anyway, I would appreciate any advice/ideas! Thanks!

ASUS M4A89GTD, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, 160GB 10,000 RPM HDD + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, AMD Phenom II x4 965BE 3.4 GHz OC @ 3.8 GHz, 1GB EVGA GeForce GDDR5 GPU

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Reply #1 - Jan 30^th, 2012 at 1:47pm

michaelb15 Offline
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From what I understand FSX is not very GPU hungry. It just gorges on CPU though. Have you applied all the Fsx.cfg tweaks? With modern multicore CPU's it is very important to apply the multi-threading cfg tweaks. Because if you don't, fsx will only utilize 1 core to its maximum potential, insted of all 2, or 4. if you can tell me how many cores your CPU has, I will direct you to the right CFG tweak.

I hope I can help... Roll Eyes

I am somwhere I don't know where I am!!!&&

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Reply #2 - Jan 31^st, 2012 at 12:56pm

FuturePilot Offline
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thanks michael, its a quad core but I have used the tweak to use all for cores...

I can't think what the issue could be if its not the GPU because I have 16GB of DDR3 RAM @1333Mhz and the 3.8Ghz quad core processor! Plus FSX is on a 10000 RPM HDD... thanks though

ASUS M4A89GTD, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, 160GB 10,000 RPM HDD + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, AMD Phenom II x4 965BE 3.4 GHz OC @ 3.8 GHz, 1GB EVGA GeForce GDDR5 GPU

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Reply #3 - Jun 28^th, 2012 at 9:24am

FuturePilot Offline
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Just an update in case anyone finds this...

I got the NVidia GeForce 450 GTS and FSX is killin' now... huge huge performance boost. Cool

Went from medium-low settings at 1024x768 at about 18-20 fps to high settings at 1900x1200 with about 40-55 fps!!!!

Havin' a blast now!!! Cool

ASUS M4A89GTD, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, 160GB 10,000 RPM HDD + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, AMD Phenom II x4 965BE 3.4 GHz OC @ 3.8 GHz, 1GB EVGA GeForce GDDR5 GPU

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Reply #4 - Jul 2^nd, 2012 at 5:51pm

jetprop Offline
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Geesh!
I have high(not all high,alot of them are on high tough) and I have 10-20 FPS with ENB!withouth I get 15-20 tough.

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Reply #5 - Jul 3^rd, 2012 at 9:42am

Bass Offline
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Again fps.
I'm running sli on 2 460 black hawks!
I get 20-40 in busy airports (unlimited), but the scenery surely is there, and that is the main subject when flying!
Or is it not? Wink

"Just try to be YOU".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw23LQkvg_k

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