by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 03/21/2017 at 19:35
by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 03/21/2017 at 19:35
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Continuing the saga of the recently acquired HP i7-2600 system, I finally got around to installing FSX today. No addons (yet) - nothing other than the app and Acceleration expansion. Just to torture test this thing I flew around Honolulu with all of the settings cranked up to their maximum, with plenty of AI traffic at the airports, roads and waterways. Even at its absolute worst I don’t think it dropped below 30 FPS and that was only for a fraction of a second. I’m sure that when I start adding more advanced scenery and aircraft the FPS will drop, but I can dial the settings back a bit. ATC is just as I remember it, guiding me to taxiways behind me, giving few runway options and having service vehicles driving on taxiways instead of service roads. I’ll have to do a little research and see what, if any, replacements are available.
I tried the DX10 preview setting, but that, not surprisingly, led to numerous crashes. For a program that’s over 10 years old it seems to work reasonably well. Now I just need to find my copy of Prepar3d and see if this system can run it acceptably; I didn’t have the best of luck with the squadron’s Dell i7 laptop, but this machine should run it a tad better.
"whoarder is tellurium" (whoarder)
03/21/2017 at 20:04, STARS: 1
Glad to see i’m not the only one installing FSX again. I just re-installed FSX a few months ago.
I’m thinking it would be nice to have a joystick again.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
03/21/2017 at 20:18, STARS: 1
The last time I played a flight simulator game was on an Apple IIe. I don’t think the monitor was in color.
"Viggen" (viggen37)
03/21/2017 at 20:23, STARS: 1
I’m in line to reinstall it as well. Along with DCS now that I have time.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/21/2017 at 23:05, STARS: 1
I used to fly MS Flight Sim. I landed the Cessna on the USS Nimitz in San Francisco Bay, parked next to the superstructure. I shut off the engine and watched the F-18s take off and land. Then I saved the game so I could start there whenever I felt like it. There was a drop when I left the end of the deck, but I never hit the water.
"AntiSpeed" (AntiSpeed)
03/21/2017 at 23:53, STARS: 0
It’s pretty wicked in VR too! Flying a helicopter is SO much easier.
"Viggen" (viggen37)
03/22/2017 at 13:03, STARS: 0
I’m just hoping with my new flight controls it will be easier to fly helicopters.