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DVA6709
Captain, MD-88
Joined on December 01 2008
Northeastern United States
62 legs, 86.7 hours
57 legs,
79.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 17:53 ET by Andrew Harwin
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I am having trouble running fsx on my machine. Machine is configured as follows: 2.79ghz, xp sp3, 144gb hard drive, 3gb ram, nvidoa 8500gt.
I should have more than enough juice to run fsx but with minimal settings the frame rate is like 12.
I am currently running fs9 with all sliders to max and I still get 23fpm with great graphics.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Andrew HarwinCaptain, MD-88
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DVA3680
First Officer, B767-300
OLP
Joined on November 01 2006
Stock Car Racing Club
Century Club
Berthoud, CO
114 legs, 232.4 hours
97 legs,
212.8 hours online 106 legs,
215.1 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 18:43 ET by Kevin Williams
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What CPU do you have? P4, Pentium D, Core2? Single core? Do you have SP1 & 2 updates?
Kevin WilliamsFirst Officer, B767-300
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DVA6709
Captain, MD-88
Joined on December 01 2008
Northeastern United States
62 legs, 86.7 hours
57 legs,
79.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 19:13 ET by Andrew Harwin
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Pentium D with sp3 update
Andrew HarwinCaptain, MD-88
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DVA3680
First Officer, B767-300
OLP
Joined on November 01 2006
Stock Car Racing Club
Century Club
Berthoud, CO
114 legs, 232.4 hours
97 legs,
212.8 hours online 106 legs,
215.1 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 19:19 ET by Kevin Williams
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sorry, I meant do you have FSX SP1 & 2? They enable multi-core support. Do you have the 920 CPU?
Kevin WilliamsFirst Officer, B767-300
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DVA6709
Captain, MD-88
Joined on December 01 2008
Northeastern United States
62 legs, 86.7 hours
57 legs,
79.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 19:30 ET by Andrew Harwin
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I see the fsx sp2 installer in my apps folder so i must have ran it after i installed fsx.
I have since uninstalled fsx.
Is fsx that much of an improvement over fs9? Will I notice anything?
Should I even bother?
Andrew HarwinCaptain, MD-88
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DVA6709
Captain, MD-88
Joined on December 01 2008
Northeastern United States
62 legs, 86.7 hours
57 legs,
79.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 19:32 ET by Andrew Harwin
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I don't know what the 920 cpu is?
Andrew HarwinCaptain, MD-88
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DVA3680
First Officer, B767-300
OLP
Joined on November 01 2006
Stock Car Racing Club
Century Club
Berthoud, CO
114 legs, 232.4 hours
97 legs,
212.8 hours online 106 legs,
215.1 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 19:48 ET by Kevin Williams
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They give CPUs model numbers, so that's what the 920 would be. Like the one I have is the E8400.
I would believe that yours is the Pentium D 920 model. Although it says it's at 2.80 GHz, the architecture of the CPU plays a big role, which is why lower GHz Core2 Duos are so much better than the Pentium Ds, and why these new i7 CPUs work so good with fsx. Go ahead and give it another try, but do this to make sure you install it right. Install FSX, do a quick flight for as long or as little as you like (ok, at least like 15 seconds). Exit. Install SP1 for fsx, then do another quick flight. Exit. Install SP2 and do another quick flight and then mess with your settings.
FYI, limiting factors in fsx is your CPU, graphics card, then your RAM. Give it a try and see if it's livable. There are some other tweaks that you can do to make it a bit better, but play around with what you have. Just a guess, but try med/low on everything except traffic, set that to minimal. Your big hit will be in big cities, so try a country flight and a big city flight.
Kevin WilliamsFirst Officer, B767-300
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DVA6709
Captain, MD-88
Joined on December 01 2008
Northeastern United States
62 legs, 86.7 hours
57 legs,
79.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 19:57 ET by Andrew Harwin
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Thanks Kevin. I will give it another shot. Is fsx that much of an improvment graphically than fs9 given my hardware configuration?
Can I leave fs9 installed on the machine so as not to lose all my settings?
Andrew HarwinCaptain, MD-88
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DVA3680
First Officer, B767-300
OLP
Joined on November 01 2006
Stock Car Racing Club
Century Club
Berthoud, CO
114 legs, 232.4 hours
97 legs,
212.8 hours online 106 legs,
215.1 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 19:59 ET by Kevin Williams
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yes you can run both on your computer and they won't bother each other.
Kevin WilliamsFirst Officer, B767-300
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DVA6709
Captain, MD-88
Joined on December 01 2008
Northeastern United States
62 legs, 86.7 hours
57 legs,
79.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 20:07 ET by Andrew Harwin
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Thanks for the help. Happy Holidays!!!
Andrew HarwinCaptain, MD-88
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DVA6709
Captain, MD-88
Joined on December 01 2008
Northeastern United States
62 legs, 86.7 hours
57 legs,
79.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 19 2008 16:30 ET by Andrew Harwin
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So I re-installed fsx using your suggestion; install, short flight, install sp1, short flight, install sp2.
ran ok at default settings but the graphics are pretty crappy. I tried upping the graphics setting and
frame rate to 23. Performance was pretty bad. Jumping around from 23fpm to 9fpm.
This is pretty upsetting given that I can run fs9 at 25fpm continiously with all sliders turned up
to max levels. Andy
Andrew HarwinCaptain, MD-88
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DVA3680
First Officer, B767-300
OLP
Joined on November 01 2006
Stock Car Racing Club
Century Club
Berthoud, CO
114 legs, 232.4 hours
97 legs,
212.8 hours online 106 legs,
215.1 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 19 2008 19:03 ET by Kevin Williams
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Unfortunately that's fsx for ya. There's no way you will get as high fps as fs9 maxed out, but couple of things, did you use trilinear optimization with AA on? To help with the jumping around you can try to limit your frame rates to maybe 18 or lower. That'll help with the jumpyness a little bit.
Kevin WilliamsFirst Officer, B767-300
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DVA6709
Captain, MD-88
Joined on December 01 2008
Northeastern United States
62 legs, 86.7 hours
57 legs,
79.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 19 2008 20:56 ET by Andrew Harwin
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fs9 runs so nice at 25fpm. What added benefits am I going to get from fsx that i'm not getting from from fs9?
From what I hear, fsx just runs better all around if you are running vista ultimate rather than xp.
Andrew HarwinCaptain, MD-88
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DVA3680
First Officer, B767-300
OLP
Joined on November 01 2006
Stock Car Racing Club
Century Club
Berthoud, CO
114 legs, 232.4 hours
97 legs,
212.8 hours online 106 legs,
215.1 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 19 2008 21:35 ET by Kevin Williams
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Here's what you get: http://forum.mountain-air.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=538
FSX just has better visuals. Better looking planes, cockpit, and scenery. The flight dynamics may be better but I'm no expert in that field. OS has nothing to do with it. With vista you can use DX10 preview (which I don't use), but benches for xp are just a tad bit faster.
Kevin WilliamsFirst Officer, B767-300
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DVA6709
Captain, MD-88
Joined on December 01 2008
Northeastern United States
62 legs, 86.7 hours
57 legs,
79.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 19 2008 22:03 ET by Andrew Harwin
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The consensus in that link seemed to be stick with fs9 and get add-ons. Maybe i'll wait untill I get a real juiced up machine and then try fsx again.
Thanks for the input - Andy
Andrew HarwinCaptain, MD-88
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DVA5685
Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on March 13 2008
50 State Club
Online Century Club
Double Century Club
Everett Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Northeastern United States
261 legs, 486.8 hours
153 legs,
285.6 hours online 245 legs,
464.7 hours ACARS 19 legs,
47.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2008 12:10 ET by Brad Barton
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Andrew, if you want, I have a "tweak" guide that I could e-mail you. It helped me a little, but it may be worth a try. Tell me if you want it and i'll e-mail it to you.
Brad BartonCaptain, B777-200
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DVA6709
Captain, MD-88
Joined on December 01 2008
Northeastern United States
62 legs, 86.7 hours
57 legs,
79.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 21 2008 12:36 ET by Andrew Harwin
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Sure. I'll take a look. Thanks Brad. zarc27@aol.com
Andrew HarwinCaptain, MD-88
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