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Acer ASE380-UD421A Desktop. AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor 4200+, 1GB DDR2 SDRAM; Windows Vista Home Premium, double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW drive, 320GB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 6100 graphics and media reader.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject:

if it doesnt my jaw will fall off and if that doesnt happen on its own i will make it Very Happy

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject:

1: Wrong forum (not any more: groundsquirrel)
2: I would get at least 2 GB of ram
3: FSX is not build for dual core
4: Dono about the GFX card, but would recomment at least 512 mb.

The computer can't run FSX at full settings, but it can run it. Mine can (slower than yours) so yours should also be able..But don't expect frames over 30 if you want good settings..

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject: specs

Hi jeff,

I run a 6600GT (128mb PCI-Ex) with 1GB RAM at about 24FPS at non-busy airports (1024x768x32 reasonably high detail). I see the Hard drive light flashes quite often during gameplay which points to insufficient RAM, so I would recommend about 2GB for smoother performance.

My other concern is that I don't think your graphics card is powerful enough for the game. My graphics card runs almost ANY game on reasonably high detail, but it gets CRUSHED by a busy FSX airport.

Your processor seems more than adequate, but i'm sure Windows Vista will use a lot of memory for itself and will REALLY slow down your PC.

Good luck, I would try to avoid that graphics card at all costs.
Bromster.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:56 am Post subject:

I 100% agree with Bromster. I too have a 6600GT, 1Gb RAM (2x512 PC2700), Asus A7N8X-X Mobo, AMD Athlon 3000+. I can run ANY game Ive thrown at it (FS2004, UT2004, TOCA 2-3, Colin MCrae 05...etc) on FULL setting at 1280x1024x32 with frame rates about 30 or even 50. I have tried a copy of FSX and my computer DIED. FPS was down to almost single figures...and the autogen took so long to load I never actually saw any.

Definately get 2Gb RAM, I would recommend an Intel Core 2 Duo over AMD.......personally i would wait for a DX-10 card...but there not cheap and they are not common.
Check out ....

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/graphics/charts.html

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/cpu/charts.html

http://www.simhq.com/_technology2/technology_093a.html

All great links

PJ

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject:

Guys I gave an AMD 5200+ dual core with 4 gigs of corsair extreme ram, and nvidia 7950 Gx2 1GB cards and cannot run FSX at full settings. FS9 however is a dream. So don't get to discouraged, FSX is abeast to run.

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject:

I agree, look on youtube. There are videos of people on there running 8800GTX in SLi on 680i motherboards and not getting higher than 25 fps. A single 8800GTX gives about 10fps..........OMG Shocked

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject:

I cant see that to be true, as i run on ultra high, with these specs:
Intel C2D E6600 2.9 GHz
Asus P5B Deluxe
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz DDR2
HIS ATI X1950PRO ICEQ 3 TURBO X2 = Crossfire
Acer 19" TFT 5ms
Creative Sound Blaster Gamer X-Fi Fatal1ty
Hiper HPU-4B580 Type R 580W Modular
Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech G7 Gaming Mouse