I have tried everything - please help!!

[Alejandro Rhodes]

I presume, no one is going to offer any more help or advice, geeze friendly place here. I guess I have to post about 20 posts a day and be an expert on everything before I get noticed

...have you tried forgetting all about FSX for a while, and loading up FS 2004....and running it on its Max settings, like I do on my elderly machine.......!

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Navigator...and Multiplayer... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]...!

OMG Paul  ;D Yes, FSX turn upside down the healthy Flight Simulator hobby into something like Sell my house ,my blood my kidneys to buy the best hardware so I can run FSX

[Totty]

Yeah, and it probably still wouldn't be enough...Arggghhh

[Fozzer]

I presume, no one is going to offer any more help or advice, geeze friendly place here. I guess I have to post about 20 posts a day and be an expert on everything before I get noticed

...have you tried forgetting all about FSX for a while, and loading up FS 2004....and running it on its Max settings, like I do on my elderly machine.......!

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Navigator...and Multiplayer... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]...!

OMG Paul

[JHA]

He-he!

As an Old Boy newbie, I can just completely agree with this!

3 months now, and the wife is worried about my mental health...

Still I'm tweaking and testing, downloading airplanes and scenery like a madman, and FSX is getting more and more slow...

Think I'll try the FS 2004, and enjoy flying for once...

JHA

[Totty]

I know the feeling, relations with the Mrs have been a little "strained" over this, especially as I just bought a Thrustmaster Cougar too!

Back to FS2004 for me too methinks, although I still need to price up the system Nick kindly put up for me, problem is I'm in the UK, so I need to source the same stuff from a different Vendor..!!

[vgbaron]

You knopw, I read some of these threads and I start to shudder. I realize that for some, available cash is a major concern, but I continually see folks trying to put a square peg into a round hole. I'm one of the licky ones - with Nick's help I was able to put together and tweak a system that, right now, for me is perfect. I run a q9650 on a Rampage II Extreme w/ 4G DDR3 clocked ram - cpu at 3.88 and a gtx280 card. FSX has never been better.

The key was to find the sweet spot - on MY system, it was 3.88GHZ. Yes, I can run at 4GHZ but FSX doesn't like it. I don't know why and I don't care but the combination of MY parts loves it a 3.88.

The point is - you are only going to get what your parts give you. You'll find a sweet spot that - if you are lower is not good and if you go higher is not good. That's it - any further tweaking will get you only frustration. Either accept that fact or get new parts and start again.

Good luck

[Cessna172150]

What spec is your PC Cessna?

Not great      My card is a crappy ati     2gb ram getting 2 more soon 136 HD with 64 free.   some how i get 20 fps on low graphics  

Oh ya its a laptop

[ShaneG_old]

The key for some of us is patience.

I have FSX, can't really run it that great, but I know that when I finally can, I won't be going back.  

It'll just be nice that when I upgrade, everything should pretty much be solved by then, and people will be worrying about how to get the next version to run.

FSX is my FS11! (someday. )

[Totty]

Good news everyone, I have just installed Windows 7 RC1 64bit, and for whatever reason, it is like night and day between Vista 64 and XP Pro. I'm getting 60fps with almost all sliders up, apart from the traffic It is running better than I have ever seen. It's not perfect and still has the occasional stutter, but I'm impressed.

This is also without any tweaks so far