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Okay,
I'm just wondering what  does it take to run the max graphics, I don't  mean just turning up the setting to Very High but going into the advance settings and turning everything up high.

My friend can do that but every once in a while the frame rate will go down to about 6 to 9 frame per second.
His computer Specs are:
3.2 ghz Intel Pentium 4 ht
128mb some ati graphics card
1gb of ram.

On the other hand I can't even run it on max not even Very High,
The max setting I can is Medium High.
I have a
Toshiba Satellite A205-S5803
Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.6ghz
2gb ram
and some mobile graphics card.  

I would like to know this as well because I think I have a pc that is more then capable of handling the max graphics settings but yet whenever i play fsx its choppy an it get about 5 fps.

Dell Inspiron 530s

4 GB ram

160 GB hard drive

and a ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT  graphics card

[quote]I would like to know this as well because I think I have a pc that is more then capable of handling the max graphics settings but yet whenever i play fsx its choppy an it get about 5 fps.

Dell Inspiron 530s

4 GB ram

160 GB hard drive

and a ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT

I've just built a new system and I can run all the graphics on high with AF/AA filtering at a resolution of 1440 x 900. Something worth noting is that I have air traffic set to 25% for both commercial and general traffic, road vehicles are off, and 15% traffic for ships and boats.

My specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0Ghz
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 800
Visiontek ATI 4850 512MB GDDR3
Windows XP Home SP3

I would like to know this as well because I think I have a pc that is more then capable of handling the max graphics settings but yet whenever i play fsx its choppy an it get about 5 fps.

Dell Inspiron 530s

4 GB ram

160 GB hard drive

and a ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT  graphics card

What is your processor and processor speed, since from what I heard Microsoft Flight Simulator X depends on pure cpu power.

Intel Pentium R dual  CPU E2180 @ 2.00 Ghz

Vista Basic 32 bit

I too am running Vista, I think Vista Might also be killing it.  What I do is I have the classic Windows Layout since I noticed that when in Aero everything runs slower.

I have my admin account in the Windows Classic layout and my no admin in Aero.
I run Microsoft FS X in the admin account.

[quote]Okay,
I'm just wondering what

And as long as we're taking settings, can anyone suggest any tweaks to the settings I currently have?

I'm running a Dell XPS 720,
NVidia GeForce 8800 GT.0
with the following FSX settings:



Target Frame Rate 20
16x900x32 resolution
Anisotropic filtering
Anti-aliasing is not checked
Global Texture: VH
Light Bloom-checked
Advanced Animations-checked

Level of Detail Radius-Large
Mesh Complex 96
Mesh Resolution 1
Texture resolution 7 cm
Water effects max 2.x
Land detail text-checked
Scenery complex-very dense
Autogen density-extremely dense
Special effects detail-high

Traffic:
Air Traffic Density- 100
Gen. Aviation Traffic Density-100
Apt Vehicle Density-High
Road Vehicle-96
Ships/Ferries-79
Leisure Boats-25

Weather:
Detailed Clouds set to maximum
Cloud Draw 100 mi/160km

Most of the the time FSX runs quite smooth but every once in awhile, I see the screen do the "hiccup," momentarily flash funky colors and then "straighten out" and display correctly. It's like it burps while loading the upcoming scenery.

Okay,
I'm just wondering what  does it take to run the max graphics, I don't  mean just turning up the setting to Very High but going into the advance settings and turning everything up high.

My friend can do that but every once in a while the frame rate will go down to about 6 to 9 frame per second.
His computer Specs are:
3.2 ghz Intel Pentium 4 ht
128mb some ati graphics card
1gb of ram.

On the other hand I can't even run it on max not even Very High,
The max setting I can is Medium High.
I have a
Toshiba Satellite A205-S5803
Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.6ghz
2gb ram
and some mobile graphics card.  

I am pretty sure your pc specs are so outdated that it's really a miracle if you can even start the game.

What about mine? I don't know why mine is running so horrible, the system is fairly new, has more then enough system memory to run the program smoothly, a decent graphics card. I have a target of 15 fps and I'm lucky if i get 5 fps. I might add I also shut down programs I'm not using in the task bar and I never have anything running int he the background while I am simming.

If you max out the autogen in the .cfg, for example, your computer will show more autogen, but not the full amount that FSX can really push out. So basically, I don't know of any system that can truly max the game out, yet. Today's hardware simply cannot pull it off.