Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit

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Posted onPost created on August 24 2014 05:41 ET by Peter Klijnstra

Hi guys,

I want to upgrade to a Windows 7, 64-bit system. I now use Vista Home Premium 32-bit.
My specs are as follows:

Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bits
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz
4.00 BB RAM, 2.93 availible with Vista 32-bit
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (1 GB)
1 TB Harddrive (2 x 500 GB)

My question is: is this possible with my current system and can I run FSX with a reasonable FPS after that.
At the moment I can run FSX with FPS around 10 - 20 average so I don't use FSX at the moment.

BTW my future system should look like this:

Processor: INTEL Core i7-4770K (4x 3500 MHz)
Processor Cooling: CORSAIR Hydro Series H60
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-DeLuxe Socket 1150
Memory: CORSAIR 16 GB DDR3-1600 Kit
Videocard: ASUS GeForce GTX780 Ti 3096MB DDR5
Solid State Drive: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB (For Windows 7)
Solid State Drive: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB (For FSX )
Harddisk: WD Black Edition 2TB 64Kb (For extra Photo & Mesh Scenery)
CD/DVD burner: ASUS DRW-24B3ST 24/8/12 speed
Power supply: COOLMASTER Silent Pro Gold 700W 85%
Casing: LIAN-LI PC-7FN Midi Tower

At the moment I have no money for this so I try to update slowely.

Peter Klijnstra

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Posted onPost created on August 24 2014 07:06 ET by Ruedi Lüscher

Hi Peter

hm... you have a very old system and only 4 mb ram... but with configure the fsx.cfg and the system you will have better frame rates with w7 64bits. But don't hope to a wonder

maybe the FSX Booster 2013 will help

greatings from swiss
Ruedi

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Posted onPost created on August 24 2014 08:36 ET by Serge Nanovsky

My previous PC had similar specs as yours and it was more than fine with FSX and win7 64bit.
You might want to add some RAM to that system, but all in all it's pretty manageable and win7 will not make it worse for sure.

Posted onPost created on August 24 2014 08:58 ET by Peter Klijnstra

Thanks guys, I think I will make the switch.

Ruedi Lüscher wrote:

Hi Peter

hm... you have a very old system and only 4 mb ram... but with configure the fsx.cfg and the system you will have better frame rates with w7 64bits. But don't hope to a wonder

maybe the FSX Booster 2013 will help

greatings from swiss
Ruedi

Ruedi, It's not 4 Mb but 4 GB and only 2.93 GB will been seen by Vista 32 bit. I allready used FSX booster and that went well for some months but after that for some reason FPS dropped dramatically.

I will install Windows 7 64 bit and slowely update my other hardware.

Peter Klijnstra

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