Flight SimX

grenned · 14 Feb 2009 at 17:01

Any flight sim x users in here, I am contemplating buying a copy as I have a £20 amazon voucher to burn.

I have got 2004, but I hope fsx makes better use of the power of the pc.

I have heard about the online gameplay, but i wonder if anyone could comment on how good it is

Cheers

SsSsSsSsSnake · 24 Nov 2009 at 08:58

just bought it.shall post my findings when ive had a good play

npjnpj · 24 Nov 2009 at 10:23

Had FSX and expansion plus a number of terrain DVDs for a long time now, and I'm not very pleased.

The performance beggars belief. Even on a good rig the amount of detail you have to reduce (land and sea traffic mainly, but also terrain, of all things!) to get a fluid framerate is dumbfounding. And even GTA IV runs satisfactoraly on the same rig.

I've been giving it a whirl irregularly, but when the landscape detail is reduced it's just no real fun anymore.

Great shame, but let's hear your impressions, I'm very interested.

PaulyD · 24 Nov 2009 at 10:27

What are your specs?

npjnpj · 24 Nov 2009 at 10:30

4 GB 2.4 quad core with gforce 9800. Was running Vista at the time, haven't re-installed it on Windows 7 yet, but I will soon as I want to see if W7 handles it better.

Edited: gforce 9800, not 8900

PaulyD · 24 Nov 2009 at 10:35

Overclock that quad, will see a massive increase in performance then! FSX is hugely CPU limited and needs a quad to unlock it, next step is core speed

russ0r · 24 Nov 2009 at 10:49

npjnpj said:
4 GB 2.4 quad core with gforce 9800. Was running Vista at the time, haven't re-installed it on Windows 7 yet, but I will soon as I want to see if W7 handles it better.

Edited: gforce 9800, not 8900

Did you install FSX SP1 and SP2?
Performance is terrible without them.

It runs beautifully on my rig, and I have a stock Q6600 with an 8800GT. Only ever had issues when flying the SR-71 at full whack and the autogen couldn't keep up

PaulyD · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:29

IIRC, SP1 added multicore support, it doubled my framerate when running it on my AMD x2 4400+

Datamonkey · 24 Nov 2009 at 13:19

PaulyD said:
IIRC, SP1 added multicore support, it doubled my framerate when running it on my AMD x2 4400+

At what resolution?

What did it double it from? 4fps to 8fps

lol

Its a resource hog and a half. although i have to admit i havent tried it with sp2 yet.

BTW nice thread res lol feb 2009