Flight Simulator X

Rich43 · 5 Nov 2008 at 17:48

Is Flight Simulator X cpu limited?

I have a radeon 4850 at 740Mhz and a Core 2 duo E6320 at 3.01Ghz and it struggles to get to 20fps, increases if i look towards the sky.

It seems to use both cores and one is at 100%.

What kind of monster hardware you need to run this game?

P.S. I run lowish-res, 1280x1024

Meloco · 5 Nov 2008 at 18:26

Yes it is VERY CPU intensive (some people say due to poor coding). Have you got the SP1/2 update?

Rich43 · 5 Nov 2008 at 19:20

Yep, i installed SP2

BFG_9000 · 5 Nov 2008 at 19:22

Upgrade your memory to 4GB....

The Funktopus · 5 Nov 2008 at 20:30

Abandon all hope should feature somewhere in that list as well

iKettles · 5 Nov 2008 at 20:32

The CPU really is the bottleneck. FSX is very CPU intensive, the only systems that I've seen that can max out FSX with playable frames have quads at 4ghz+. Unfortunately the E6320 at 3ghz just won't cut it for FSX.

Rich43 · 5 Nov 2008 at 21:57

Perhaps the latest core i7's will handle it when they are out?