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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: Problems w/fsx

I more than met the minimum requirements for fsx but found that what they say on the box is simply not true. The PC I have is one I built 4 years ago and hope it would be my last. I am 74 years old and don't anticipate builiding another.
I have and Intel pentium 4- 2.4ghz
I just added a gigabyte of memory for a total of 2gigabytes and since I am stuck with agp bus I upgraded to an ATI X1950 with 512 mem.
Even with these additions fsx runs like it pulling the weight of the world the only way I can get to run smoothly is to put all sliders in the lowest position. Does anyone know if the addition of sp2 will help this in anyway.
If not then I guess it is back to fs9.
Edward Confused

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject:

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject:

You need 15.3 Gigabytes of memory to install FSX, are you sure you only have 2 GB?

I do have sp1 installed. Do You mean that I have to have 15.3gig of ram.?
albyone

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:44 am Post subject:

Thats why RD deleted that post. You don't need 15.3 gigs of ram, I don't think there are any motherboards out there that could handle that yet. 2 gigs of RAM is good for FSX, your not gonna max anything out, but its ok. As for the rest I would take RD's advice and see what works for you.

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:13 am Post subject:

This seems like a very powerful computer. My computer's performance can't match with that of your machine. And yet, I get good performance with the sliders around the middle. Something's definitely wrong.

What kind of background processes do you have running (disk defragmenter, antivirus, etc.)

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

Dear RD,

When I go to my FSX folder and right click it and hit properties, it says; Size: 15.4 GB (16,558,145,136 bytes). Is that true? Confused

Or is my computer somehow messed up? Confused

Thank you in advance,

SU37Berkut

P.S. It also says I have 595.92GB total memory.
I am running Vista Home Edition on a HP Media Center PC m8120n.
I have an Intel VIIV Processor, and a NVidia Pure Video Graphics Card.

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject:

Sounds about right, but it depends on your addons, mine is 14.6gb

Mel.

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject:

My FS9 is folder is 160 GB and the FSX is fast approaching 100 GB Wink

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject:

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject:

Thanks RD,

I guess you learn something new every day. Laughing

Sorry about the wrong information Albyone. Embarassed

Thank you all again, and sorry for any inconvinience.

Cheers,
SU37Berkut

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:42 am Post subject:

No problem.

Everybody has or had to learn one way or another. I still get corrected every now and then.

RD

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 7:16 am Post subject: Re: Problems w/fsx

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:08 am Post subject:

Acceleration/SP2 is supposed to provide frame rate increases up to 20%. However, that will obviously vary from machine to machine and is quite dependent upon the area that you fly in - not to mention the position of sliders.

That being said, I believe that your machine should run FSX with Acceleration/SP2 at a smooth rate with sliders somewhat off the left peg. For instance, I only run ground traffic and ship traffic at 8-12% as this doesn't matter much to me and they have a significant hit on FPS/smoothness. Something that is definitely "FPS/smoothness greedy" is AI traffic in the air and that is definitely an individual machine adjustment. It is more important to me that ground traffic --- and fights with me for primacy over VFR/ground scnery details. It's a balancing act.

I have installed and run FSX on two different machines and for some reason, the higher spec'd one doesn't see as big an improvement with Accel/SP2 as the lower spec'd machine.

The usual advice concerning defragging, disabling virus scan and unneeded processes are "goes without saying" things that I know you're aware of.

I hope you get it figured out. I think FSX is a definite visual improvement over FS9 as I had it and I am sure you'll enjoy it if you do get it running smoothly.

Best of luck.

AMD 64 x 2, 4400+ 2.3 GHZ
4Gig Ram
Vista 32 bit
8800 GTS 320MB