DVA8308
Captain, B747-400
Joined on February 12 2010
Century Club
50 State Club
Eastern Canada
180 legs, 481.5 hours
18 legs,
44.0 hours online 172 legs,
440.6 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
August 08 2010 20:57 ET by Kevin Chauvin
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DVA8308
Captain, B747-400
Joined on February 12 2010
Century Club
50 State Club
Eastern Canada
180 legs, 481.5 hours
18 legs,
44.0 hours online 172 legs,
440.6 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
August 08 2010 20:59 ET by Kevin Chauvin
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DVA8158
Captain, B767-300
OLP
Joined on December 31 2009
Century Club
Online Century Club
50 State Club
"Eight hours bottle to throttle." Newnan, GA USA
197 legs, 437.5 hours
161 legs,
329.8 hours online 196 legs,
435.9 hours ACARS 5 legs,
17.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
August 08 2010 21:39 ET by Peter Bagrationoff
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Kevin,
Considering the screen resolution you are running along with the fact that 4850 is running two monitors, you probably would benefit from a video card upgrade. This may however not be needed depending upon what your FSX settings are. Maybe you can look at some tweaks here : http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=29041
What kind of add-on's are you running? (Aircraft, Scenery, etc)
I had a lesser video card than you (8800 GTS 640MB) and an E6600 @ 3.1 GHz with 4 GB DDR2 in Windows XP and I was getting 25 FPS on average with sliders at 50% in the Level D 767 with default scenery. Now with an i7 860, 4GB DDR3 1600, and an ATI 5850 1GB I get an average of 40FPS with most of my sliders at 75%.
Whatever you do keep Windows 7 - it is much better at memory management than XP. You may need to uninstall everything and reinstall with patches as described in the link above, but there is no reason why your system shouldn't be able to run FSX at 25 to 30 FPS if you aren't running any add on scenery. Maybe knock 5 to 8 FPS off that for some intense photoreal scenery.
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic" Marietta, GA
2,241 legs, 8,967.3 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online 1,899 legs,
7,760.4 hours ACARS 75 legs,
196.3 hours event 2,277 legs, 9,102.2 hours total 91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
August 08 2010 21:42 ET by Luke Kolin
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DVA8308
Captain, B747-400
Joined on February 12 2010
Century Club
50 State Club
Eastern Canada
180 legs, 481.5 hours
18 legs,
44.0 hours online 172 legs,
440.6 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
August 08 2010 22:41 ET by Kevin Chauvin
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