tommieboy
May 10th, 2019, 13:40
Welp,
I'm pretty much out of flight simming and just kind of a on-looker / lurker at this point.....but.....my computer / gaming rig that I "gifted" to my friend's son at the beginning of the year, turns out to be way under-powered for his son's budding needs. So he's getting brand spanking new cutting edge computer set-up this summer, what ever that might mean. In any case, the computer rig came back to me with a new ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB 128-Bit GDDR5 installed in lieu of the EVGA GTX 285 that was in there when I shipped it off to him. He told me that they had too many issue with Windows 10 and the EVGA GTX 285 as the available drivers were just too old and antiquated. The ZOTAC solved the Windows 10 driver issues. They were smart enough to pull my original hard drive with my Window 7 Pro install, and purchased a new hard drive for their Windows 10 install. I reconnected my original hard drive with my Window 7 Pro install and it booted right up! I just needed to install the new Nvidia drivers for the ZOTEC it was good to go. It was pretty painless.
So, what's the point, Tommy!
I was told it would be better to upgrade the entire rig as they (more than one person) felt that the CPU was the bottle neck on my system, and not the graphics card. Though I no longer have a joystick, rudder, etc., I do have FSPilot (autopilot) installed so I though why not? and I fired up FSX Steam. Turns out the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB 128-Bit GDDR5 solves many of the FSX issues that I had just chalked up the overall age of my computer. That being said, my FSX is still locked at 30 FPS, but I can now run the following without any issues: Preview DirectX 10, Lens Flare, Light Bloom, Filtering: Anisotropic, Anti-alasing. Prior to this I could run none of those settings without running into some sort of issues along the way. Now I can run all those settings, all at the same time too! With Preview DirectX 10 I can now run Steve's Interior Cockpit Shadows and Cloud Shadows. It's a whole new flight simulator!
The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB 128-Bit GDDR5 is considered to be a budget graphics card these days and priced accordingly, as it has one fan, is less the half the length of my old GTX 285, gets its power directly off the motherboard slot unlike the GTX 285 which used three (3) power connectors directly of the main power supply. With FSX running with all the new settings the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB 128-Bit GDDR5 is dead quiet (yes the fan is working) vs the EVGA GTX 285 which would sound like a hair dryer kicking in and out depending on the graphics load. That kicking in and out of the fan was too annoying to deal with over the long haul.
Just thought I'd share for those on the fence.
Tommy
I'm pretty much out of flight simming and just kind of a on-looker / lurker at this point.....but.....my computer / gaming rig that I "gifted" to my friend's son at the beginning of the year, turns out to be way under-powered for his son's budding needs. So he's getting brand spanking new cutting edge computer set-up this summer, what ever that might mean. In any case, the computer rig came back to me with a new ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB 128-Bit GDDR5 installed in lieu of the EVGA GTX 285 that was in there when I shipped it off to him. He told me that they had too many issue with Windows 10 and the EVGA GTX 285 as the available drivers were just too old and antiquated. The ZOTAC solved the Windows 10 driver issues. They were smart enough to pull my original hard drive with my Window 7 Pro install, and purchased a new hard drive for their Windows 10 install. I reconnected my original hard drive with my Window 7 Pro install and it booted right up! I just needed to install the new Nvidia drivers for the ZOTEC it was good to go. It was pretty painless.
So, what's the point, Tommy!
I was told it would be better to upgrade the entire rig as they (more than one person) felt that the CPU was the bottle neck on my system, and not the graphics card. Though I no longer have a joystick, rudder, etc., I do have FSPilot (autopilot) installed so I though why not? and I fired up FSX Steam. Turns out the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB 128-Bit GDDR5 solves many of the FSX issues that I had just chalked up the overall age of my computer. That being said, my FSX is still locked at 30 FPS, but I can now run the following without any issues: Preview DirectX 10, Lens Flare, Light Bloom, Filtering: Anisotropic, Anti-alasing. Prior to this I could run none of those settings without running into some sort of issues along the way. Now I can run all those settings, all at the same time too! With Preview DirectX 10 I can now run Steve's Interior Cockpit Shadows and Cloud Shadows. It's a whole new flight simulator!
The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB 128-Bit GDDR5 is considered to be a budget graphics card these days and priced accordingly, as it has one fan, is less the half the length of my old GTX 285, gets its power directly off the motherboard slot unlike the GTX 285 which used three (3) power connectors directly of the main power supply. With FSX running with all the new settings the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB 128-Bit GDDR5 is dead quiet (yes the fan is working) vs the EVGA GTX 285 which would sound like a hair dryer kicking in and out depending on the graphics load. That kicking in and out of the fan was too annoying to deal with over the long haul.
Just thought I'd share for those on the fence.
Tommy