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DVA12617
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1,280 legs, 2,967.8 hours
391 legs, 810.3 hours online
1,261 legs, 2,925.6 hours ACARS
25 legs, 78.6 hours event
39 legs dispatched, 174.2 hours

Posted onPost created on November 05 2015 18:29 ET by Joe Burner

Hey all,

I need some advice real quick. I've been running into a bit of a dilemma with my new desktop. So I installed fsx se on my desktop, runs a miserable 8-10 fps,(not what I'm used to) I even have sliders down and it still is sluggish.
I have fsx se on my laptop which runs a really smooth 18-28 fps (I'm used to this)

Anyways my specs for my desktop are as follows,
Emachine Windows 7 64 bit
Nvidia GEForce 7050 graphics card
Intel pentium processor e5400
4ddr2 memory

My laptop specs are,
Asus laptop with Windows 8.1
Intel processor duo
Graphics card? Not too sure actually

It runs real smooth on my laptop. Aerosoft bus even run great.
I'd like to get the desktop working just as smooth if I can. Any advice is appreciated

Thanks

Joe Burner (DVA12617)

DVA12698
Captain, MD-88
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Joined on July 30 2015
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435 legs, 1,226.7 hours
11 legs, 17.9 hours online
429 legs, 1,204.3 hours ACARS
5 legs, 7.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 06 2015 15:17 ET by Jason Ballard

I am not an expert, but since nobody else has responded, I will take a crack.

your Emachine CPU seems underpowered: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

I am running FSX-SE with an Intel i5-3350p, Nvidia GeFroce GT620and I have good (30+ FPS) at moderately high graphic settings.

Your video card also seems a bit weak: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/low_end_gpus.html

Jason Ballard

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DVA12097
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903 legs, 3,072.0 hours
572 legs, 1,203.9 hours online
897 legs, 3,046.7 hours ACARS
44 legs, 156.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 06 2015 16:06 ET by Alex Rogawski

Yep, your CPU's and the graphics on your desktop are outdated. Your laptop probably has integrated graphics. The Pentium processor's are generally the base level. Since FSX is CPU based, and I'm guessing it's an i3 on your laptop, I would work towards an upgrade on your desktop's CPU and an upgrade on RAM would help as well. Look for DDR3 in the future. The GPU doesn't really change FSX much but it's also a pretty old card so an upgrade would help eventually.

Alex Rogawski (DVA12097)

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1,283 legs, 1,792.7 hours
837 legs, 1,044.3 hours online
1,265 legs, 1,770.7 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on November 06 2015 16:10 ET by Andrew Vane

Joe,

I've been slowly upgrading each year with a few hundred here and there. not counting my sim hardware (yoke, etc.)

For about $120 I got a refurb Dell Core 2 Duo with 2GB of ram.
I added a $120 2GB Radeon 6670 video card. I had to get a SFF card because the power supply is not upgradeable and limited to 230KW.
I eventually found the fastest Core2Duo CPU that thing could take and got it off ebay and maxed it out.
I could run FS9 with reduced settings. I could barely run FSX but the frames were horrible.
I then later added a 1 TB drive for more storage because the 80GB HDD wasn't doing it.

6 months later I got a refurb HP 6200 Compaq Pro (core i5 2600 with 2 GB of RAM) of ebay for about $180
Moved my video card over and gave the old computer to my children. Same issue with needing a SFF video card.
Now I took the FSX plunge. I installed from the FSX DVD and got as good frames as I did with my other system and FS9.
I wasn't satisfied.

I added an SSD as my primary drive and more ram sticks to bring me to 8GB of RAM (4 x 2GB sticks).
I then took the plunge for FSX SE when it was on sale for $5.
I used the venetubo link to tweak my FSX.cfg.
I Finally have what will run FSX SE in almost all its glory. The payware airports and some payware aircraft together slow things a bit but its looking really good.

Its taken me about 2 years to get here but I didn't have $1000 all at once to spend on a full new system. you can upgrade incrementally.

If I had to do it over again, I probably would have bought higher end parts instead of a refurb business box and built from scratch at a higher level. My original goal was to get FS9 as fast as I could with an i5 and stick with it but when I realized FSX would run pretty smoothly, I jumped over and haven't looked back.

Keep in mind also when I went to the i5 box, I upgraded from Win 7 32bit to win 7 64bit and the change really helped FSX in my opinion.

I'm considering maxing out my machine with a Core i7 2600 CPU for $180 next year which should increase CPU power by 50%.

Here are the cpu benchmarks that I saw that guided me towards what I have now:
Core 2 Duo E6700 - 1696
Core i3 - 2120
Xenon W3550 - 4647
Core i5 2400 - 5818
Core i7 2600 - 8266

The extra $25 in business machines to go from an i3 to an i5 was a no brainer to me when you look at the chart and what it gives you.

Hope this helps. Sorry for the lengthy post.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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