Who can run Flight Sim X on MAX graphics? I need your help!!!!

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I play FSX a lot and I went from a e6600 to a Q9550 and I didn't notice a lick of difference. Ok, maybe about 10% increase on frames. That is still way lower then I expected. So who of you can run it all maxed out, not just of High or on Ultra High, but everything customly maxed out? Here's my specs below. Please let me know what I need to do to be able to play it all maxed out with very good frames. I am very disappointed with the Q9550 so far. I hope its just user error that can be fixed and not something I just wasted money on.

My Specs:
Quad Core Q9550 2.83GHz 1333Mhz 12MB cache 45nm
EVGA 8800GT 512MB Superclocked (Core 700, Mem 975)
2GB Corssair XMS2 DDR2 800 (4-4-4-12) 2.1 volts
EVGA 780i Mobo
700w OCZ GamerXStream PSU
320GB Hard drive 16MB cache 7200RPM
Sound Blaster Audigy SE
Windows XP

So this is what I have and I can run everything on Ultra High settings with good frames, but as soon as I add light bloom effects or traffic it craps out on me. What can I do?
 
Upgrade your graphics card. You will likely need a HD4870/GTX260/GTX280 to come close to maxing it out. Possibly multiples of the above cards. I'll see if I can find some benches.
 
If youve recently upgraded your pc are there any configuration files that the game sets up on installation that need deleting and recreating? just wandering if it checks on core numbers when its first ran or installed and decides thats how many cores to send the work to?

I had a massive headache with oblivion a few months after upgrading graphics cards (properly cleaning graphics drivers etc) I went to play the game again and realised I had some textures really washed out and allsorts of graphical anomalies, I knew my graphics card was working fine, so I assumed file corruption so I uninstalled and reinstalled oblivion - then the game wouldnt even launch without crashing, I tried uninstalling oblivion and reinstalling on another drive, I tried different patchs different forms of uninstall and reinstalling to make sure old damaged files werent being undeleted instead of actually installed fresh, I went through reinstalling the game and all the plugings 6 times before I solved the problem...

Eventually the cause of my problem turned out to be a configuration file in my documents\my games\oblivion that the game sets up first time its ran, but doesnt delete with uninstallation and reinstallation. Once I deleted the file and allowed the game to recreate it everything worked fine, I dont think I ever actually needed to reinstall the game in the first place...
 
those games barely max out a mid range dual core CPU

those games are more GPU intensive and cpu intensive.

if you look at system requirements, you will notice that cpu requirements only change slightly over time while videocard requirements are on a endless warp speed skyrocket
 


Yeah, please let me know if you find anything. Do you by chance have it on max? If so what do you have? I am tired of having to turn off and tweak graphics to get smooth frames depending on the city i fly into.
 
Alright this is beginning to piss me off and is getting really frustrating. I borrowed my roommates 8800Gt and installed it to run SLI. So now I have a Q9550 with two 8800Gt's in SLI. So the first test I wanted to do was to run Flight Sim X. Ok you ready for this? NO fricken difference. My $319 Quad and an extra $150 8800GT total of $469 didn't do a darn thing for FSX. That game is really pissing me off. What does it take for that game to even run on high? What do the developers have? Bunch of bull!!!!!

Ok the good news. Crysis improved dramatically. With only one 8800GT I turn off Ailising(sp?) and have somewhat good frame rate. Now with two 8800Gt's WOW! Now I can put the ailising to 2x and it begins to run like I had only with one card. So with ailising off dramatic improvement. With it on 2x it back to the frame rate as when i had one if that makes since. So I would call that a 35 to 40% improvement. Not bad.

That Flight sim thing is still a bunch of bull.
 
Chances are that FSX isn't meant to be run with Multiple graphics cards. I never really see anyone bench with it so I can't say for sure or not.
 
Are there any patches for the FSX? Try patching, they may have made the code more economical.
Also, are your graphics drivers up to date?
Have you tried overclocking your GPU? It sounds like the game is GPU rather than CPU bound.
 
Hey guys check this out...

I just got 2GB more of RAM. I actually see a bit of a difference. It actually is running somewhat smoother and when i checked my memory usage its up to about 70%. Thanks guys that was a good tip and a good start. Before my memory usage levels were going above 100%. Not good.

There is a patch and I have it. Its to utilize multy cores. Also i am OCing my GPU from 650core and 950mem to 700core and 975mem stable.

Keep feeding me more of your tips. I think we are starting to get somewhere.
 
Guys apparently Flight sim is not a graphics intensive game either. The biggest increase in performance I have noticed is when I changed the RAM. I played the game with two 8800GT's in SLI with the 4GB Memory and still no difference from only with a single 8800Gt. That tells me the GPU doesn't matter much for that game.

Here's the reason. I did a benchmark with Crysis with 4GB RAM and one 8800GT. The best average frames were 14.06 and the worst average was 12.98. When i installed the second 8800GT in SLI with that same benchmark the best was 22.37 and the worst was 19.93. That is a major increase for crysis and we know that, that is a graphics card intensive game. With that same setup with the huge increase I tired Flight Sim and still no difference at ALL.

So when putting in my $319 Q9550 I was able to just slightly increase graphics by about 10%. I still wasn't happy with the lag, stuttering, and low frame rate. Then when I installed 2 more GB or memory. Hum... I was somewhat surprised. It gained in performance by another 15% on top of the earlier 10%. So with the new CPU and two more Gigs of RAM I increased performance by 25%. Not bad, but not what I was expecting at all. I thought I would be sailing through the air without a low frame anywhere in sight. Not even close. That 25% increase I still cant run on full graphics and it is still sluggish and stuttering constantly. Lame once again.

So I dont think a better GPU would do it. Like I said, not a lick of difference from one GPU to two in SLI. Thats just a hint that it probably wont get better with a better card. I dont know what it is then. I have supposedly a very good CPU, a good GPU setup in SLI, and 4GB ram. I can only dream of what the developers must be using to make this game run right
 
I am running FSX smoothly with maxed settings on 1680x1050. I have 4gbs ram, q6600 oced to 3.0ghz, and a gtx 260. What resolution are your playing on?
 
Zstratto has the right idea. Rather than get some pair of economy-class cards in SLI... a buff single card is probably the way to go. GTX 200 series or single 4870.
 



SLI only helps if you have a game that makes use of SLI, and even then SLI only offers a 20-30% performance boost at most

which means a laggy game may be 20-30% less laggy if the video card is a bottleneck

when I was building one of my friends a really cheap gaming pc, I went with a amd x2 5200+ (overclocked), 2GB memory and a nvidia GTX 280 (overclocked) , windows xp pro (tweaked for performance, 11 running processes at startup )

everything is low-midrange except the videocard, and he can max out crysis with no problem, and also run flight simulator x with no problem

I would have gone with higher end parts but he was on a very limited budget and wanted to spend as little as possible

while the graphis of fsx may not bee the best, due to the view distance and the number of items on the screen, it can lag a videocard pretty well

and it is not very optimized for performance either


PS if you want to try something cool, try this

get the grove demo from nvidia (designed to show off the power of a geforce 2), then have it render a crap load of trees, trust me, i will lag a GTX280

 


I am running at 1680x1050 as well. So it would seem that we have pretty much the same system except for the GPU. By what you are saying, my GPU is a mojor bottlenck for my CPU right? Are you saying that you can run FSX with absolutely everything to the maxed out settings? Not just the pre arranged Ultra High settings, but taking it a step further to manually increase everything to the max?

So if I get a GTX 280, 260, or even a 9800GX2 then I should be smooth sailing with everything maxed, including Bloom, traffic maxed, draw distance, etc. right? In a sense, it should even be slightly better then yours because of the Q9550 vs. Q6600 difference right? I dont mean to put your CPU down, I just want to know the truth. Thanks.
 


What frames are you getting in FSX?

Also, in your opinion which would be better the GTX 260, 280, or 9800GX2. I probably dont want to spend over $300 unless the results would really really be worth it in everything.
 
Ok, well i know this is an older post but i have been looking for the "miracle soluton", for flight sim x too. I am currently running a 8800 gt super just like you with 2 gigs of ram and a quad core 9500. I get up to about half graphics at 25 fps.

I just ordered a gtx260 and 4 gigs of corsair. and they will be here by thursday. cost me 377 dollars for both so if you already havent solved your problem ill be glad to let you know how it goes. I dont know what it is about flight sim x that eats up so much, i mean i bought call of duty world at war and it runs 60 fps with extra frames to spare at full eye candy, and its a newer game. At any rate ill let you know the results!
 


I dont want to be the bearer of bad news, but I did get the GTX 260 core 216 Black Edition, plus the Quad 9550, plus 4 GB Ram. I still cant play on maxed out. I still have to take away some of the eye candy for that game. I found that for the most part I can run with everything maxed if I dont have the glow effect on. Even then, I was getting about 27fps up and down.

I will soon be using the GTX 280 xxx edition which is pretty much one of the best cards on the market and will let you know how that runs it.
 
Hahahaha, were all gonna become poor because of Flight Sim X, the game cost 50 bucks but for me I built a system over 2000 dollars just to run it. lol
 
geforce gtx 280
2.83 ghz quad core
8 gb ram
latest physx driver

full graphic settings= 12 14fps, on dual view around 6-8 fps

air traffic minimal, water effects none, special effects low, auto generated trees and buildings low = 22-30 fps

im tired of trying the best setting for mfsx and this is the best setting where i can get the balanced quality and performance. can someone help me what i can do do increase frame rate with higher settings by not overclocking anything?
 
So it looks to me that you have the Q9550? I have that one as well and from my experience you dont get much performance out of it unless you go above 3Ghz. I put mine up to 3.83 for quite some time with a noticable performance increase, but went back down to 3.4 stable right now and I am getting better frames then you are on most of your settings. I also have 4GB RAM in XP, and a GTX 260 core 216 Black Edition which was rated higher performance then the stock 280.

Everything Ultra High settings, Auto Gen buildings 3/4 the way up, no building shadows. Water FX MAXED, Cloud draw distance low, scenery complexity draw distance medium to low. Bloom on, sun flare on, and all other eye candy on. 29-32 FPS. Heavy scenery, 25fps.

Try lowering your draw distance. Its usually wasted resources anyways. Its better to live with beautiful surroundings and blurry far off distance.
 
Hmm, I just got a new system but have not re-installed this game yet. I use my PC mostly for doing audio, but now I remember the horrid performance on my old machine, this should be a good test.

Core7 920 @ stock speed
9GB DDR3
ATI 4850 1GB

I will give it a shot tonight and see what it runs like.
 


Oh yeah, I cant wait to see what a Core i7 can do. This will be a good test, because I think the nVidia cards do better for this game, but you do have 9GB of RAM and an i7. So please give us a detailed layout of your results. What settings do you have it on (very detailed) etc.?
 
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