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FSX - SP1 released and intial reports are good.
EHM-1703 Philip:
Tarik,
To me that set up sounds good enough for FSX, you will probably have to turn the autogen and water effects down though. If you want to test it, I think you can still download a demo from fsinsider.com but i think you will also have to download and install the SP1 patch, I'm not sure.
EHM-2101 Tarik:
Philip,
I have bought FSX already and also flied with my friend's computer. I'll install it now to my computer, download SP1 and tell then how does it work.
EHM-0588 Paul:
Has been a while since I did some flying but with my new computer and sp1 I gave FSX a new try.
With setting set to high I now have a stable framerate and realy love the view I now have with those 3d cockpits looking at the traffic on the highways. ;D
I now have a 8800GTX with dual core 2,66GHz processor running on Vista Home Premium.
(btw I was cursing at Vista because it gave me lots of problems closing system programs and blue screens but it turned out to be a bad memory bank and now everyting runs smooth :> )
EHM-2029 Sotiris:
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I now have a 8800GTX with dual core 2,66GHz processor running on Vista Home Premium.
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Hi Paul,
what kind of frame reates do you get with this set-up? It is more-or-less what I'm planning to buy.
Also, for any computer gurus out there; does using a quad-core processor help or is it solely the job of the video card to provide the goods?
EHM-1703 Philip:
Well after tweaking my system a little (overclocking the CPU mainly) I now get 25fps locked at all but the busiest of areas. (Lowest is about 16fps with a lot of traffic)
I am running:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (overclocked to 3.11ghz both cores running at about 45degC)
BFG Nvidia 680i SLI Motherboard
BFG Nvidia 8800GTX with 768mb Ram
2gb Corsair XMS2 6400 Cas4 RAM
2 x Samsung Spinpoint 250gb HDD in RAID 0 config.
Since SP1 FSX is now dual and quad core compatible but I rarely max both cores out so I don't know whether the raw CPU power of a quad core would improve performance. MS have said that FSX will utilize quad cores if they are there so there must be some performance benefit but I really think that the GFX card is now the bottleneck as the Nvidia Vista drivers are still pretty flakey. (I also hear that the new ATI 2900 series cards are no better) From what I have heard the E6600 CPU will clock up almost as well as the E6700 so I suggest save some money and go for that if you are going dual core!
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