Minimum System Specs

[Gixer]

So Nick would it not be worth me getting the 2gig of ram if I am not going to go to Windows Vista?

Sounds like ram is not the issue with my stutter low down close to autogen.

Do you think I would be better off saving up and doing a complete upgrade of the mobo / cpu / g-card?

[NicksFXHouse]

In your case I think waiting and saving up for good hardware is the best choice.

Be aware the demo has missing files and although the full version may be somewhat smoother than the demo, more memory is not going to fix what you were experiencing.

FSX is going to be a DX10 flagship product. You will want DX10 when it arrives in March-May 07 because FSX performance a visuals will increase dramatically with DX10. The only downfall is you must install Vista to have DX10 as well which will not be cheap.

My advice is to wait. Unless you just have to have it and cant wait, purchasing todays top end hardware would be the best solution for FSX future-proofing but there will be shifts in the hardware market after xmas which I intend to wait for myself before purchasing anything.

[MattNW]

I think the chief question or at least the one I have is what is the minumum specs to run FSX at a level that would make it worth switching from FS9. What's the use spending $60 on a sim when the highest settings you can use result in less features and appearance than the sim you already have.

In other words what will it take to have a sim with flyable FRs that graphically is superior to FS9? For my part if the choice is $1,000 - $2,000 of hardware upgrades to run the latest sim vs sticking with what I have until the needed hardware to run FSX is affordable then I'll have to wait.

[Arnimon]

At last everyone has to decide by himself.Wether he should upgrade his Computer or buy a new one.
Btw. this makes me thinking of a marketing idea.The SimV Computer!Designed to play FSX!In Germany some bigger Store Companies(like Aldi) have already a Computer in their stock which was designed to proove good performance for a low price.Maybe we should do the same? But as you can read above,some Hardware is not available yet.So,lets just wait...and see!

[dodger]

Let me tell you all what it (the demo) WONT run on, with more than 10 FPS, anyway. Sempron 2400 in a year-old Asus Socket A board, 512 RAM, NVidia 5200 128 graphics card, 80 GB SATA Seagate HD,and XP SP 2. Not that I expected a miracle, but the demo convinced me to wait till I build an AM2 based (Athlon 64X2) machine with Vista and DX10. Maybe next year when I'll

[coulterww]

I'm running an AMD 3400 + Athalon 64 with XP SP2, 2 GB RAM and a Radeon X1900 and the game runs smooth until things get a bit cluttered then it stutters and the scenery takes a hit, flickering and whatnot... How do you check your frame rates?

[lintonam]

I have just installed FSX on my system

Intel Celeron 1.1ghz
256mb Corsair Ram
Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 (PCI)

I am getting about 15-20 FPS on bare minimal settings and when put the settings to med the frames drop to about 3-8. FSX is playable on my system but sometimes looks worse than FS2002.

As for a comparison to FS2004, it will not even run on my system as the FX5500 is not supported by it.