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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | FS9 v FSX

DVA8296
Captain, B767-300

Joined on February 09 2010
50 State Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Quatercentenary Club
Toulouse Century Club

Toronto, ON Canada

487 legs, 1,217.0 hours
391 legs, 920.0 hours online
484 legs, 1,212.7 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 25 2012 21:01 ET by Sam Saunders

Evening everyone,

A quick question born from a curiosity I've had for some time. I currently fly using FS2004, however, all the latest addon software and programs run through FSX mainly. I know therer are performance issues in comparison between the two, but will FSX really slow down my computer. I'm thinking of upgrading but worried I'll have wasted the money and will quickly skip back to FS9.

In short, the question is, is FSX worth the upgrade?

My HP computer is the following spec (I'm not very tech-savvy):

AMD Athlon II x2
215 Processor 2.70GHz
3GB of RAM on a 64bit op system

Cheers

Sam Saunders (DVA8296)

DVA10754
First Officer, MD-11
OLP

Joined on May 20 2012

Western United States

72 legs, 173.3 hours
50 legs, 113.1 hours online
68 legs, 158.7 hours ACARS
15 legs, 34.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 25 2012 22:07 ET by Jason Chardot

It won't run well on your system, maybe if all your specs are on low. You will probably have nicer visual quality and frames by sticking with FS9. Switch to FSX when you get a new computer.

Jason Chardot

First Officer, MD-11

DVA1038
Captain, B737-800
E-MAIL

Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club

"Celer, Silens, Mortalis"
Summerville, SC USA

169 legs, 1,008.2 hours
56 legs, 288.5 hours online
25 legs, 221.2 hours ACARS
1 legs, 5.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 25 2012 22:30 ET by Kevin Cornish

Yea, I wouldn't upgrade till you upgrade your machine. You're going to be seeing single didget frame rates trying to run FSX on that. Stick with FS9 for now.

Kevin Cornish

Captain, B737-800

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
E-MAIL

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
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Millennium Club
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Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,286 legs, 1,796.2 hours
840 legs, 1,047.8 hours online
1,268 legs, 1,774.2 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on June 25 2012 23:44 ET by Andrew Vane

I agree with the gents above. I have FS9 running smoothly so I'm hesitant to upgrade to FSX. My laptop has the ram/cpu horsepower but the video card is lacking so I'll stick with what works.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on June 26 2012 06:11 ET by Sam Saunders

Sounds like good advice, thanks a lot guys!

Sam Saunders (DVA8296)

DVA10754
First Officer, MD-11
OLP

Joined on May 20 2012

Western United States

72 legs, 173.3 hours
50 legs, 113.1 hours online
68 legs, 158.7 hours ACARS
15 legs, 34.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 26 2012 15:57 ET by Jason Chardot

There's still a lot of really great software for Fs9 including a bunch of planes and scenery that arent available for FSX. most developers are still doing both, don't think you'll be missing out on too much.

Jason Chardot

First Officer, MD-11

AFV651
Captain, B707-320
OLP

Joined on August 04 2011
Historic Two Fifty Club
Diplomatic Mission
50 State Club
Millenium Club
Globetrotter Extraordinaire
Online Triple Century Club

"Concorde: anything else is just SLOW"
Milan, Lombardy Italy

1,087 legs, 2,148.6 hours
304 legs, 494.6 hours online
1,087 legs, 2,148.6 hours ACARS
10 legs, 15.4 hours event
1,410 legs, 2,961.0 hours total

Posted onPost created on June 26 2012 18:09 ET by Luca Di Biase

all the feedbacks are really true, u are gonna spend more than 1.000 bucks to get fsx work properly

Luca Di Biase (AFV651)

DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM

Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"De oppresso liber"
Surry, ME

1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs, 767.8 hours online
1,107 legs, 1,674.5 hours ACARS
55 legs, 114.8 hours event
195 legs dispatched, 134.4 hours

Posted onPost created on June 27 2012 07:45 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

Hate to disagree with you Luca, for what it's worth, I just purchased an HP Pavillion g7 at Best Buy for $399 and upgraded it to 8 GB RAM for $45 bucks.

AMD A6-3420M APU with Radeon HD 1.5GHz
64 Bit Windows 7 Professional

It's running FSX just fine.

I used to have a Macbook Pro with FS on it on my Windows side, and it ran well on that as well - but have since given that computer to my son for college.

Andrew Kaufmann (DVA3931)

Posted onPost created on June 27 2012 11:22 ET by Luca Di Biase

Andrew Kaufmann wrote:

Hate to disagree with you Luca, for what it's worth, I just purchased an HP Pavillion g7 at Best Buy for $399 and upgraded it to 8 GB RAM for $45 bucks.

AMD A6-3420M APU with Radeon HD 1.5GHz
64 Bit Windows 7 Professional

It's running FSX just fine.

I used to have a Macbook Pro with FS on it on my Windows side, and it ran well on that as well - but have since given that computer to my son for college.

glad to hear Andrew, maybe i've spent that sum with a little more powerful processor (3.40 ghz), and more than 100 bucks for the cooler. Another expensive stuff was the 2 giga video card.
Have a nice day!

Luca Di Biase (AFV651)

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