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Spec me a graphics card for FS X please

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Hi all,

I'm 28 now and used to play on the Microsoft 98 Flight Sim as a kid, (good old days !!) ... I dabbled with FS 2000 for a bit and not long after that lost interest.

However, my interest has now been reignited and I want to give Flight Sim X a go.

Question to you guys is what graphics card should I need ?

(I may need to upgrade my PSU as well - could you advise me on this one as well) but here are my current specs:


i7 930 CPU
GA-X58A-UD3R
6GB corsair XMS 1600 RAM
Corsair M4 SSD 128 GB
Samsung Spinpoint 1 TB
Radeon HD 5400 series
Corsair HX 520W Modular PSU

Little side story: I did buy a 5850 ( i think it was that card ) about a year ago and it died within 2 weeks... I always thought it was that the PSU killed it by not feeding it enough power hence me asking if I will need a new PSU)

I don't want to break the bank but I do want something which will attain a nice FPS count with decent graphics

my Monitor is a 28 " Hanspree TFT with a native res of 1900x1200.

Many thanks for any of your guidance!

Of course, the great thing about getting a new graphics card is that it might reignite my interest in PC gaming the whole way - I've been focusing a lot on music production the past few years but want to take it easy for a bit on that front and have some gaming fun again.
 
Just realised MS have released a free version of their sim franchise entitled 'Flight' :cool:

They've part answered my question with stating:

Recommended HW
GPU: 1024 MB ATI Radeon HD 5670 or 1024 MB NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800 GT or equivalent.

Can you guys narrow it down to helping me choose one please?
 
I played FSX very happily with good settings on a 560TI card. FSX requires a good CPU (which you have).

What kind of budget was you looking at and what other games have you thought about playing?
 
FSX and latest Microsoft flight are two different animals.
FSX is a resource hog, but there are many guides and addon optimisation programs that help it run better, flight being newer and better optimized for latest hardware will run fine with what ever you get, as long as it falls into its recommended spec.

If you want simming experience FSX with some high quality addons is the way to go, for casual flight experience Flight will do.

I am running FSX with 5870 just fine, but Nvidia cards are better for FSX alone, and as mentioned, good cpu and loads of ram is the way to go
 
I have been running vanilla FSX on my sig computer, it performs 30fps in cities with all the sliders to max (except the meshes and... something else to do with physical spatial resolution, in metres), no AA, but ultra everything else. I dont know about 30,000ft as I just mess around on it (i.e crash into things).

Don't get MS Flight. One plane and just Hawaii? You can buy more planes etc but for the same price you can get FSX; mine was £9.99 (2 for £15) in a certain troubled highstreet retailer.
 
I have ordered the MSI Radeon 7850 Power Edition Frozr IV.

My first game will be FSX and I have missed playing it for the last 16 months.

It ran fairly well on my i3-530, 4GB RAM with a Radeon 6850 (before it fried itself on Crysis!)

All this on a the good quality OCZ StealthXStream 400W PSU!

I shall receive the 7850 next Tuesday and I'll give FSX a whizz. I haven't seen many reports of how a 7850 runs FSX but it is more CPU dependent anyhow. I may buy the next generation of Intel processors in about 1 years time. The i3 does a surprisingly good job of it though!
 
brucey034 said:
Have they binned it already ?
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Glad they have, from what it was looking like, every new plane/landmass was going to cost money I mean £10 for one plane? no thanks can just go play FSX and get free planes. £20 for hawaii? No thanks Il pay the one time fee for FSX and get the entire world.
 
nocturnal1974 said:
I have ordered the MSI Radeon 7850 Power Edition Frozr IV.

My first game will be FSX and I have missed playing it for the last 16 months.

It ran fairly well on my i3-530, 4GB RAM with a Radeon 6850 (before it fried itself on Crysis!)

All this on a the good quality OCZ StealthXStream 400W PSU!

I shall receive the 7850 next Tuesday and I'll give FSX a whizz. I haven't seen many reports of how a 7850 runs FSX but it is more CPU dependent anyhow. I may buy the next generation of Intel processors in about 1 years time. The i3 does a surprisingly good job of it though!
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You will probably want to google shader model 3 fix for FSX if you are using an ATI card.
 
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