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alright... to be honest, i am suprised. here are my system specs:
2gb ram
1.8ghz dual core
ati radeon x1650 graphics card

anyway, not to divert attention... not until you see the shots.

here is my beauty, the eurofighter in FS9 (struggling at about 20FPS or so):





and i tested the FSX demo, and i kept 20FPS atleast, on pretty much full spec... and it was smooth as anything. so much for weak computers cant take it... mine isnt brilliantly strong and it runs great (i am really suprised)... so here is a demo one:






please C+C. i might just get FSX next week or so  ;D

cheers



EDIT:

my latest shot whilst multiplayering... at the KNUQ airshow

I couldn't get 10 FPS on the FSX demo with it on low specs but I can get 50FPS on FS2004 with High specs  :-/

Although the first shot is so dark you can hardly see the aircraft I LOVE IT!
I think it is very creative to have a black aircraft in a pitchblack surrounding only showing its afterburners ... excellent idea!

I couldn't get 10 FPS on the FSX demo with it on low specs but I can get 50FPS on FS2004 with High specs

I find that very hard to believe. From [url=http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1187837730]
what I've seen from you[/url] and what I know from your system (Sony Vaio - 1.6 GHz CPU - 256 MB RAM - onboard AGP 4x 64 MB GPU) you are light years away from high specs! You want to see what a US$3K high spec machine runs like? Take a look at this.

So maybe you can explain what you did so that you got 50 FPS on your machine?

Love the burners!

Love the burners!

thanks

and thanks for the rest of the comments

Although the first shot is so dark you can hardly see the aircraft I LOVE IT!
I think it is very creative to have a black aircraft in a pitchblack surrounding only showing its afterburners ... excellent idea!

I couldn't get 10 FPS on the FSX demo with it on low specs but I can get 50FPS on FS2004 with High specs

I find that very hard to believe. From [url=http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1187837730]
what I've seen from you[/url] and what I know from your system (Sony Vaio - 1.6 GHz CPU - 256 MB RAM - onboard AGP 4x 64 MB GPU) you are light years away from high specs! You want to see what a US$3K high spec machine runs like? Take a look at this.

So maybe you can explain what you did so that you got 50 FPS on your machine?

I was online in all of my screenshotts, I lose alot of FPS online.

I was online in all of my screenshotts, I lose alot of FPS online.

That still leaves the question open ...

So maybe you can explain what you did so that you got 50 FPS on your machine?

I think we all like to know as when we read your set up we can stop wasting our money on Quad Cores & 8800's :-?

I didn't do anything, I'm not saying I get 50 fps 24/7, I'm saying it has hit that mark.
Jeez, I would love it to be getting 50 24/7  ::)

I didn't do anything, I'm not saying I get 50 fps 24/7, I'm saying it has hit that mark.

OK ... I get it. In here people generally speak about average frame rates. Hitting the 50 range is easy, I've seen them spike into the 200's on FS9. And while at 40.000 feet with clear skies I could run 50 FPS easy while my system is only throttling ...

But flying around Aerosoft Manhattan in a thunderstorm, that features full 3D clouds while you have 100% AI traffic on both sides - remember your between KEWR and KJFK is something completely different! You would probably get 1 Frame Per Minute.

All I'm basically saying is that you should never brag about your frame rates unless you can back it up. And then you might have a huge budget which will just buy the most awesome rig ever built. Some people don't have that ...

As systems and setups are different on every machine and high frame rates are not what you need in Flight Simulator. Afterall it is not a shooter but a simulator. And 50 FPS is useless anyways as you can't see any difference above, say, 30 fps. Smooth is smooth.

I believe that anything above 30 FPS is a waste of resources. Save those resources for something else ...

modified first post with a second eurofighter shot (at KNUQ airshow)

I think that good FPS are:

higher than 14, lower than 25

And that's it  :P