DVA4614
Captain, CRJ-200
Joined on February 25 2007
Stage 1 Jet Century Club
Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Madison Heights, MI USA
150 legs, 302.0 hours
3 legs,
4.2 hours online
135 legs,
276.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 05 2016 14:40 ET by Peter Tambornini
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Just got my ne system and will be starting fresh with fsx steam. Is there anything i should know or is the steam download a no brainer? I really appreciate your time and info.
System specs.
Msi motherboard,core i5 6600k@3.5,16GB ddr4 ram,gtx 1070 gpu,500gb ssd,windows 10 home 64
Peter TamborniniCaptain, CRJ-200
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DVA12650
Captain, B777-200
Joined on June 10 2015
White Knuckles Club
50 State Club
Everett Century Club
Globetrotter
Black Pearl Club
Double Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Midwestern United States
213 legs, 288.8 hours
206 legs,
278.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 05 2016 17:17 ET by Noah Weber
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DVA4614
Captain, CRJ-200
Joined on February 25 2007
Stage 1 Jet Century Club
Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Madison Heights, MI USA
150 legs, 302.0 hours
3 legs,
4.2 hours online
135 legs,
276.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 05 2016 18:57 ET by Peter Tambornini
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DVA10785
Captain, CRJ-200
OLP
Joined on June 02 2012
50 State Club
Piranha Club
Double Century Club
Everett Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Established on the localizer..."
Lugoff, SC
273 legs, 698.0 hours
64 legs,
158.9 hours online
270 legs,
685.6 hours ACARS
18 legs,
34.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 05 2016 21:09 ET by Michael Koger
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DVA12847
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on December 30 2015
Everett Century Club
DVA One-Year Anniversary
Online Century Club
Double Century Club
"Step on the ball!"
Ajax, ON Canada
256 legs, 968.6 hours
162 legs,
548.7 hours online
244 legs,
947.2 hours ACARS
22 legs,
80.0 hours event
25 legs dispatched, 29.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 06 2016 10:44 ET by Aidan Stevens
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DVA12793
Captain, B777-200
Joined on October 29 2015
Globetrotter
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
South American Samba Club
Everett 500 Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club
US Capital Club
Two Million Mile Club
Regina, SK Canada
690 legs, 4,282.4 hours
690 legs,
4,282.4 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 07 2016 11:40 ET by Steven Jones
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Peter Tambornini wrote:Just got my ne system and will be starting fresh with fsx steam. Is there anything i should know or is the steam download a no brainer? I really appreciate your time and info.
System specs.
Msi motherboard,core i5 6600k@3.5,16GB ddr4 ram,gtx 1070 gpu,500gb ssd,windows 10 home 64
Whichever you select for a flight sim, you should check out the bible by Nickn, it is getting a little dated but it still has lots of good advice on how to setup a new machine in general and/or it puts you on the right track to researching settings for current hardware. It gives you nice tweaks and configuration settings to streamline things and get more speed out of your hardware.
If you computer itself is not configured to be fast in the first place it does not matter what tweaks or configuration settings you make in FSX. Make you computer fast, THEN make FSX fast.
Good stuff in it if you are running SSD drives as well.
You got yourself a fancy GPU I would recommend doing some research on settings that offload the work from your CPU to GPU to take advantage of it. FSX is heavy CPU intensive and was not written for our modern multi core processors or our high power GPU's, so it pays to tweak it a bit to take advantage of multi cores and the GPU. Without configuring my GPU (GTX 980) was very underutilized while the CPU was hitting 100%. After I made some configuration settings the GPU utilization went way up and the CPU down so it was much more balanced which gave me much better FPS performance.
Anyway just my two cents, you got yourself some good hardware so take advantage of it.
Steven JonesCaptain, B777-200
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