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DVA7749
Captain, B757-200

Joined on September 15 2009
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby."
Tinicum Township, PA

47 legs, 82.7 hours
2 legs, 4.7 hours online
46 legs, 81.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on August 13 2017 13:04 ET by Hendrik Bilek

I was looking into FSX on steam, anybody run this on their setup? Thoughts?

Hendrik Bilek

Captain, B757-200

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

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
US Coastal Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
US Mountaineer Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

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 August 13 2017 14:14 ET by Andrew Vane

I would say more here use FSX SE than use boxed FSX version. Its been tweaked to run more smoothly. It also has all the patches and accleration pack inclusive. Definitely worth it unless you plan to go to P3D.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on August 13 2017 15:01 ET by Hendrik Bilek

Yea I saw that, I plan on sticking with that for now, just have to set up a system first. Thanks!

Hendrik Bilek

Captain, B757-200

DVA273
Assistant Chief Pilot, B777-200

Joined on September 07 2001
B757 100 Club
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Three Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Ponce De Leon Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Everett Millennium Club

"Flying Freedom, Photography Passion"
Aurora, CO

2,143 legs, 8,668.9 hours
39 legs, 247.6 hours online
1,248 legs, 5,106.9 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 14 2017 00:06 ET by Michael Evans

I switched from the Box version to Steam. Runs a bit smoother. Also P3D runs awesomely smooth. Has never crashed on me with the System we built.

Michael Evans

Assistant Chief Pilot, B777-200

Posted onPost created on August 14 2017 15:29 ET by Hendrik Bilek

Awesome thanks! What system are you running it on?

Hendrik Bilek

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on August 14 2017 16:50 ET by Andrew Vane

My former box which ran FSX SE quite smoothly but with the graphics turned down a bit: i7 2600 3.4Ghz, 8GB RAM, 2GB nVidia 750ti GTX. The mobo/cpu upgrade from an i5 2500 3.2 Ghz showed little if any improvement. I upgraded a few months ago to i3 7350K 4.2 Ghz, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, same video card. FSX SE runs like a dream now. FSX wants high single core performance. if you can get something over 4 Ghz and a 1GB nVidia video card you should be in good shape. I'm also running on Win 7 64-bit OS. The i3 only has 2 physical cores so P3D is probably out for me without a cpu upgrade.

At the time, the i3 7650K had the second highest single thread performance you could get and was only about $175. Its in 5th place now on the chart and the cpu price has dropped: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

If you want to eve go to P3D you'll need more horsepower.

Living on a budget as closely as I can.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA3220
Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 19 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
B737 50 Club

Southeastern United States

78 legs, 129.9 hours
73 legs, 122.3 hours online
76 legs, 127.3 hours ACARS
31 legs, 57.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 17 2017 15:22 ET by Tyler Devereaux

I was running FSX:SE for the last year or so until recently making the move to P3Dv4. I moved and my FSX CDs ended up in storage, so I just spent the $20 or whatever it was and bought SE so I could fly again. It worked ..... fairly? It definitely wasn't any worse than FSX Boxed, that's for sure. I'll say that -when- it worked, it worked as expected. I had a few problems running SE on Win 8.1, specifically with joystick recognition, but all of that was rectified in Windows 10.

One word of caution is that FSX:SE has an interesting relationship with Steam's application tracker. Steam won't let you launch one of its applications if it's already running, and the nature of FS means that sometimes your addons can mislead Steam into thinking FS is still running after you've closed it. I found that I had to exercise particular caution with certain addons, especially the ones that don't close down silently and quickly, such as Aivlasoft's EFB DataProvider and ActiveSky. It's all fine and dandy the first time you run FS, but if you need to launch FS for the second time (either restarting after a flight or, more likely, something went wrong and you needed to restart FS), sometimes one of the addons will trip up the Steam manager and then it won't let you re-launch FS (you get an error that FS is already running, despite the process having exited). To mitigate against this, I got in the habit of manually shutting down all of my addons before exiting FS; this seemed to effectively resolve the issue.

Edit: Some context may help understand my word of caution above. I also was using FSUIPC to auto-launch & auto-close many of my addons, in my FSX:SE days. This had the added side-effect of causing all of the addons to launch as child processes of FSX, which contributed to the issue above. The issue above affects any processes that launch as a child of FSX, which I believe would include any auto-launch addons -- things in your exe.xml or, in my case, FSUIPC config.

Posted onPost created on August 17 2017 15:33 ET by Andrew Vane

I haven't had this specific issue Tyler. But, I do notice that it takes a long time for FSX SE to actually shut down if I want to restart it. Other than that, sticking with Win 7 64-bit has worked well for me. I also run Orbx NA and Active sky 16 with no issues.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA9513
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on February 16 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Everett Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Sugar Land, TX USA

145 legs, 288.9 hours
39 legs, 69.5 hours online
135 legs, 271.4 hours ACARS
18 legs, 31.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 17 2017 17:29 ET by Michael Lacaze

I've always wondered if a single core processor would run FSX better than a multi-core. The problem is that if it were ever recompiled for multi-thread operation then a single core would be much slower. I wish there was a way to just combine cores on an i7 to use all the CPU resources similar to a single core.

Michael Lacaze

Captain, B757-200

DVA7846
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on September 25 2009
US Capital Club
50 State Club
Stock Car Racing Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Online Triple Century Club
Quincentenary Club
Events Century Club
Everett 250 Club

"It is what it is!"
Wake Forest, NC

569 legs, 1,264.7 hours
399 legs, 805.1 hours online
561 legs, 1,251.4 hours ACARS
105 legs, 243.5 hours event
87 legs dispatched, 175.9 hours

Posted onPost created on August 17 2017 19:28 ET by Kevin Hornaday

I used FSX:SE up until P3D v4 came out. I used both on an I7 Haswell system with 8 GB and a GTX1070. SE ran well but P3D runs just as well and more stable (well, once I updated the PMDG stuff). That being said, you can't go wrong with it and I don't regret the time I spent with it.

DVA6118
Captain, B777-200

Joined on July 08 2008
50 State Club
Everett Century Club
Double Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Southeastern United States

253 legs, 368.5 hours
150 legs, 206.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on October 30 2017 15:47 ET by Robert Thompson

Hmm maybe steam edition is worth trying on my PC to upgrade from FSX after all? I've been away for a while because I can't find anything stable to make it all the way through a flight over the past year

Robert Thompson

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on October 30 2017 15:57 ET by Andrew Vane

Upgrading to SE was one of the best things I did when I migrated to FSX from FS2004. Even with my upgraded system, I don't think I could run FSX Box edition smoothly.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on October 31 2017 15:22 ET by Robert Thompson

Thanks, one other question on my Win 7 Pro PC: any other tips beyond shutting down all other apps to keep FSX up and stable and not interrupted in flight?

Robert Thompson

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on November 24 2017 16:10 ET by Robert Thompson

I think I may be back in business with FSX Steam smile

Robert Thompson

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on November 24 2017 19:53 ET by Andrew Vane

I don't shut anything down and I have 8 GB of RAM. I usually run ACARS, FSX SE, vpilot, AS Next and a web browser. I also have A/V in the background and my panel software SPAD radio panel for my panel. FSX Uses 1.4 GB typically and the other programs use about 700MB of memory. I have 2 GB of VRAM and no issues there.,

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on November 25 2017 09:34 ET by Robert Thompson

I'm starting slow on what I add on, any of our fleet downloads work better than others on FS X Steam? Thanks for the tips/help.

Robert Thompson

Captain, B777-200

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

Posted onPost created on December 15 2017 16:55 ET by Peter Tambornini

I just went to steam edition and runs smooth and stable. Very nice on my machine. I5 6600k at 4.4 ghz,16 gig ram,gtx 1070,Samsung Ssd. Runs beautiful and needed no tweaking. I also run alot of Orbx stuff and still stay in the 30 to 40 fps range almost all maxed out!

Peter Tambornini

Captain, CRJ-200

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