Will My PC Run FSX?

JG3Bulldog · Trainee Joined: Aug 29, 2006 Posts: 37

Here is what the test on my memory said. Any isea's

Maximum Memory Capacity: 8192 MB
Currently Installed Memory: 2048 MB
Available Memory Slots: N.A.
Number of Banks: 2
Dual Channel Support: N.A.
CPU Manufacturer: AuthenticAMD
CPU Family: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-44 Model 4, Stepping 2
CPU Speed: 2412 MHz

Said they had nothing compatible?????

Alienware 9700
SLI Nvidia4
AMD 64

Guest · Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject:

Hi could anyone tell if windows vista ultimate is better for FSX than Vista home premium or are they the same when it comes to gaming. Thanks

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:43 am Post subject:

I believe it makes no difference, I say go for home premium and save yourself the money Wink

Professor-B.R.I. · Guest

Sorry about my earlier post "gh" - silly mistake.

I can run FSX on the full everything with every single thing on high and I get very good Frame Rates and it's very smooth. My PC specs are as follows:

DELL XPS GENERATION
XPS CASE & MOTHERBOARD
INTEL P4 HT SUPER FAST SINGLE CORE 4GHz 4MB L2 CACHE
4GB GEL COOLED RAM 633MHz DDR2
500GB SATA 2 16000 RPM
512MB 7900GFX
24x DVD, DVD±R, DVD±RW + CD equivalents
8x Blue Ray Drive
Windows XP Professional

Total Cost = £650 (Ebay UK, I know, good deal I got eh? lolz)

As you can see it's not actually super spec but it is a very good spec Dell! I am a professor in Computer Science and I will say that a single core 4GHz P4 HT processor is much faster than a Dual core 4GHz (2 x 2GHz) as in a dual core only the 2nd processor is used if the first one exceeds 100% work rate. In other words, your 2nd processor just sits there doing nothing until its neighbor needs some extra help. In fact if you have, say, a 5GHz dual core then your PC will only actually technically be running at 2.5GHz until it needs more power and in most cases everything will run (apart from high demanding games) under 2.5GHz so as you can see Dual Cores are not as good as you think. And with Quad Core's, lol, I'm not even going to get started on these but they are just a joke as only 1 out of three processors actually get used and 95% of the time (yes 95%) the third and forth processors never ever get used.

So, to summarize it up, if you're going for a gaming PC then I would certainly go for a Dell XPS (just brilliant) and only spend below £800.

Regards to all,

Prof. B.R.I.
Glasgow University

Guest · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject:

INTEL® Core 2 Duo E6700 (2 X 2.66GHz) 1066MHz FSB/4MB L2 Cache
2048 MB CORSAIR DDR2 667MHz
768MB GEFORCE 8800GTX

what will my settings need to be for about 25fps

RadarMan · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:55 pm Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:01 am Post subject:

INTEL® Core 2 Duo E6700 (2 X 2.66GHz) 1066MHz FSB/4MB L2 Cache
2048 MB CORSAIR DDR2 800MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB)

Motherboard ASUS® P5N-E SLI: Quad-core CPU Ready, NVIDIA® Dual X8 SLI

WINDOWS® VISTA Home Premium (inc Genuine CD & License) (£70)

400GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7200rpm)

Graphics Card

256MB GEFORCE 7600GT PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

2nd Graphics Card

256MB GEFORCE 7600GT PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

will this be able to run it at on medium to get 20fps on service pack 1

RadarMan · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
2048MB DDR2 ram
2x (crossfire) ATI Radeon X1950 XTX

on high settings bar a few things like traffic what fps would i be getting

RadarMan · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

Hello all
My specs are:

Pentium 4 1.7 GHz CPU/processor
ATI Radeon 9200/9250 PRO
512 MB of RAM
7 yr old comp
I'm just 13 so i don't know what else to say

some of you might say 'this stinks!'; however, with most settings on high and a decent target frame rate, along w/SP1, I get a steady 15-25 FPS in the air and a steady 10-15 fps on the ground. I completed the monsoon mission at 15 fps. only bad part is if i pause the sim and leave it running too long or run the missions '747 test flight' or 'limited options' i get a blue screen of death Sad

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject:

JLangevin · Captain Joined: Sep 24, 2004 Posts: 506

Your computer is ready to take a jump off a tall building...

At the absolute very least, you need more memory, and a larger hard drive... but that PC is not worth upgrading or putting any money into. Would make a lovely door stop though...

When you can buy an Enpower PC Club pc (www.pcclub.com) with twice or thrice the computing power for $600ish, its a smart choice)
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Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:

Well we are going to upgrade but it might take a year or so.
Also, is there a 4 GHz or more processor? Those would run FSX like FS2002!

offroadjosh · Guest

Mainboard : Unspecified D32274
Chipset : Intel P965
Processor : Intel Pentium D 940 @ 3200 MHz
Physical Memory : 1024 MB
Video Card : ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X300 Series
Hard Disk : WDC (160 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A
Monitor Type : Philips Philips 170B4 - 17 inches
Network Card : Intel Corporation 82562V 10/100 Network Connection
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
DirectX : Version 9.0c (March 2006)

2GB of RAM

i run FSX on low/medium. i get about 10FPS.
how is this for a PC?????

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