euroastar350
December 6th, 2009, 22:17
Well after a long time battling with FSX to run smoothly, I have won the battle. My comp specs are as follows:
Dell Inspiron 530
Windows Vistas Home Premium
2.20 Ghz processor
2GB DDR2 RAM
CD/DVD-RW drive
500GB hard drive
FS9.0 (FS2004)
FSX Acceleration
I've only had this maching for a year and half now...and up until now, I've had no luck getting FSX running the way I want, let alone installing Acceleration without an aftermarket graphics card.
The on-board graphics chipset is an Intel G31/G33...but cannot enable anti-aliasing or use all of the FSX features (water, scenery, etc). I purchase an Nvidia FX6200 last year to see if things would improve....nada. No DX10 preview enabled since it was a DX9 card anyways, plus the processing speed was only a mere 512MB.
Now just last week I purchased an Nvidia FX9400 GTX and all I can say is...WOW!!!! This card has 1GB processing speed, it is a DX10 complaint card...so now I can use DX10 preview. With this card, I can now have autogen and water reflections set full and still have awesome frame rates (30-50fps in most areas)...with FS9, I can get up to 100fps with all sliders to the right..Now how is that for performance:applause:
I did some tests with some high end models in FSX, namely the ND Super Puma and CH53E. The performance will take a slight hit in built up areas...but in other areas, I can maintain at least 25-50fps...stock aircraft have high frames.
The best part out of all of this is that my computer is all stock with no mods, its the video card is doing all the magic:icon29:
Dell Inspiron 530
Windows Vistas Home Premium
2.20 Ghz processor
2GB DDR2 RAM
CD/DVD-RW drive
500GB hard drive
FS9.0 (FS2004)
FSX Acceleration
I've only had this maching for a year and half now...and up until now, I've had no luck getting FSX running the way I want, let alone installing Acceleration without an aftermarket graphics card.
The on-board graphics chipset is an Intel G31/G33...but cannot enable anti-aliasing or use all of the FSX features (water, scenery, etc). I purchase an Nvidia FX6200 last year to see if things would improve....nada. No DX10 preview enabled since it was a DX9 card anyways, plus the processing speed was only a mere 512MB.
Now just last week I purchased an Nvidia FX9400 GTX and all I can say is...WOW!!!! This card has 1GB processing speed, it is a DX10 complaint card...so now I can use DX10 preview. With this card, I can now have autogen and water reflections set full and still have awesome frame rates (30-50fps in most areas)...with FS9, I can get up to 100fps with all sliders to the right..Now how is that for performance:applause:
I did some tests with some high end models in FSX, namely the ND Super Puma and CH53E. The performance will take a slight hit in built up areas...but in other areas, I can maintain at least 25-50fps...stock aircraft have high frames.
The best part out of all of this is that my computer is all stock with no mods, its the video card is doing all the magic:icon29: