SurClaro Flight Simulator Resources

Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:54 pm Post subject:

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
1833 megahertz AMD Pentium III
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

512 Megabytes Installed Memory

Board: K7VM4 1.00
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. P1.70 08/09/2003

WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0 (120.03 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1
WDC WD400BB-00DEA0 (40.02 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 256mb [Display adapter]

I run everything maxed out and with ultimate traffic adding thousands of flights, ai and airport afcad and fsglobals 12+ gig of terrain mesh I can't complain about 20 fps. The major factor that seems to slow down my frames is airport traffic density depending on scheduled flights at the time of day I am flying. I use active sky 2004.5 weather engine and it took care of the lag there for the most part.

I still consider getting a new video card just to see the frame rates climb but I have been putting this system together since it was a pentium II 266 with a Geforce 2. Nice to just enjoy what I have for now. Have fun and don't sweat the small stuff.

In two years the chip architecture will have changed and terahertz processor speeds will lay this discussion a moot point.