Flight simulator X - how does it run?

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Upped my 2180 to 3.1Ghz and I need to replace the graphics card (a 8500GT!) at some point. I also have 2GB Ram on XP. If anyone has the sim can you tell me your set up and what sort of standards you get. I want to know what to expect depending on what graphics card I get next. Probably going to go for a 8800, but I'm still interested.
 
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I'm running SP1 on the spec in my sig and it runs fine. It's the only game I've ever seen that takes my quad core up to 100% CPU.
FPS drops a bit when there's lots of water about but other than that it's great.
 
E2180 @ 3.1
2 gb Geil ULL
8600gt:(

Runs fine at lower res, with medium settings but looks pretty bad, and runs terrible once you crank the sliders up!
 
FSX SP1 On my system:

E6600 @ 3,4 ghz
Asus P5k Del
4GB PC9200 DDR2 @575 mhz
Raptors in RAID 0
ati 4870x2
24" 1920x1200

I can run it everything maxxed out with 16x AF smoothly :-)
 
Runs very well on my Q6600 and GTX280. Think it got bad press on release because the technology was well ahead of what most people had available to them. I've only got an unpatch demo but its pretty slick. Not yet tried to import any other airctaft yet. Wonder if thats possible in the demo???
 
runs very nicely on mine (check sig), have settings on pretty much High, looks great. love all the new missions.

would be playing it more but my new joystick keeps dc'ing
 
I have an E2180 @ 3GHz, 2 gig of PC2-6400 and a 9600GT. I've only tried the demo and it doesn't run terribly well on my machine. That's at 1280x1024.

It is playable but to get a good framerate you need to knock some details down.

I don't know but I imagine it is more CPU dependent than GPU dependent. The graphics aren't anything special and I doubt they would tax my 9600GT much.
 
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Been playing it since release...really big FS fan.

You MUST install both pacthes but turn down autogen and that will improve things a great deal.

Also i found turning air, road, boat traffic to 10% (from say 95%) improved things a great deal.


Set the 'frame rate limit' to something sensible...i have mine on 40fps. When set to unlimited the game will constantly refresh trying to improve fps, which kills the game with stuttering...used to go from 110fps then 50, then 80, then 20 in the space of 10 seconds and didnt seem right.


With London, Midlands, West Midlands, HD weather system add-ons its about 40GB worth but when you can fly a UAV predator up the M1 it seems almost real.

Good game but a lot of people 'dont see the point' of FS games.
 
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Big fan of FS2004. Think its time to upgrade to FSX :D

Demo doesn't run too bad on my 8800GTS 320mb, 4Gb ram and C2D 2.8Ghz.
 
well i used to have a really old ww2 fs game on my old win 98
and i decided to go and ask my parents for fsx and a sensible joystick
i cant wait :D
 
Sorry if this is heresy to Flight Simulator fans but the graphics in these games have always been rather poor compared to other games at the time, IMO - and you've always needed a mighty system to run them well. Look at the graphics in Ace Combat 6 on the Xbox 360 - why can't we have graphics like that in a PC flight sim? In fact are the graphics in Flight Simulator even as good as the PS2 Ace Combats yet? Arguably not.
 
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Sorry if this is heresy to Flight Simulator fans but the graphics in these games have always been rather poor compared to other games at the time, IMO - and you've always needed a mighty system to run them well. Look at the graphics in Ace Combat 6 on the Xbox 360 - why can't we have graphics like that in a PC flight sim? In fact are the graphics in Flight Simulator even as good as the PS2 Ace Combats yet? Arguably not.
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Its not really about the graphics as such since its not really a game.

The graphics in FSX look really really good fully maxed out if your system can handle out. No idea really why it runs so bad, poorly optimized or just cause it needs to stream so much data. Not sure really.
 
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