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What's your frame rate?

This is an interesting article describing how Flight Simulator checks your hardware and determines what "performance bucket" it falls in......

VERY interesting reading!

Well im pretty happy  ;D



The space free isnt exact, i have a 350GB hardrive split into a D (250GB) and a C (105ish GB)  I found in the demo i just need to keep traffic down and the do the autogen fix, and i can pull 25 frames easy.  ;D

Edit:  just noticed the gauge on the side,  My system : WWOW  lol

Are you sure this thing is correct.....cos it says that my rig is better than yours and I cant get 25fps with all the settings on lowest





.mic

My system is in the last green tile and the gauge gives PURRRR as performance

i saw the Deluxe version yesterday but still not sure about buying it

OMG, how did my system top out? im still runing with a radeon 9200

Well, purring may be alright for cats, but it ain't so good for computers, it would seem.

My system 'PURRS', too, but I get frame rates in single figures in FSX Pro unless I turn most things right down.

Mine was WWOW!!!





Cheers Theis

For some reason i don't think this analyser is accurate.....looking at some peoples specs and what they get on the bar thing.

.Mic

me neither, my computers old as dirt

I hate to be cynical here.... but whom is to benefit if someone runs this "test" and gets told that their computer is a "Wow" when it comes to buying a demanding piece of software?

Please keep in mind the "minimum machine specifications" stipulated for fs2004 and FSX.

yea, this thing does not seem accurate enough, now that ive seen other results,  512 mb ram and you got the same rate as me, and i have 2 gigs... Im thinking FSX will not like that you only have 2 gigs.  this seems to give an extremely rough guess based on a few things like your processor and video card. oh well...  ;D

so what specs would you need to run everything maxed out easily? the minimum specs are a load of rubbish in my opinion.

trouble is, as far as I can tell from here, similar logic is used to determine the automatic defaults set when you first run FSX.

Well worth tinkering with the settings to optimise frame rate against visual content on your particular system.  Made a huge difference to mine after trading complexity for performance.

so what specs would you need to run everything maxed out easily? the minimum specs are a load of rubbish in my opinion.

   

Here's what it said about my machine........ and I can't run FS2004 (FS9) fully maxed out at acceptable framerates.




Compare my result to THIES result above.