Microsoft Flight Simulator X System Requirements
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First and foremost, get an INTEL processor, not AMD. And I5 or I7 if you can, and 4 core preferably, or 6 core even better.Get yourself another 1GB RAM minimum.Those two changes, with a decent cooling system and adequate power supply, will do more for your Sim experiences than anything else.I would suggest another, much larger HDD too. They are a dime a dozen these days. FSX has a tendancy to grow. You WILL add planes, sceneries, gauges, effects, whathaveyou.If you want to run at 30 FPS and all your sliders to the right, you will need a Cray, and even that might not be enough.
There isn't a system small enough to fit in a regular house that will do what you desire, although the changes I suggest will do the most for you. You can start with all your sliders in the default positions, make certain you add the Himemfix to the fsx.cfg, at a minimum, and start moving the slider(s) important to you slowly right until your system can't take it any more. There are a few more tweaks that will improve you system too.
Read the thread stickied at the top of this forum from Kosta for more details on tweaking your FSX.CFG.As you move the sliders, listen for a very small voice, with a heavy Scottish brogue, saying 'I'm given 'er all she's got, Capn!!' That's when you know you need to back a slider down a little bit.I suggest to move the Road Traffic and Airport Vehicles sliders all the way left to start with.
They can really suck up FPS. 3D Clouds can too.
That's all just a suggestion, though.Hope that all answers your questions. I know there will be many more folks weighing in on this, however, and each has their own opinion, so keep abreast of the threadPat☺.
As far as I knew an i5 CPU has 2 cores but with hyper threading the system looks like 4 and an i7 CPU has 4 cores which looks like 8.You need to make a budget on how much you want to spend (you could spend up to $4000 for a very fast PC which will give best fps - frames per second). You can get a PC which will give reasonable fps (30) with good scenery density for $1000 - $1200.There are a lot of settings within FSX to improve realism such as scenery density all of which can have effects of fps.Anyway I believe you will get best 'bangs for bucks' with at least an Intel i5 CPU with the fastest CPU speed as you can afford. I have read that FSX cannot 'use' hyper threading but not sure so FSX may not run faster with an i7 CPU than an i5 - I am not sure of this.The CPU will have most effect on fps (frames per second).Also if you want to be able to make the CPU operate faster (ie overclock) get a CPU which has a 'K' at the end of its model number eg there is an i7 4770 and an i7 4770K. They are just a little more expensive than the one you can't overclock.
To correct one slight error in jparnolds post only:The i5 does not have only two cores.The i5 has 4 cores and no hyperthreading.The i7 has 4 cores and does have hyperthreading.Programs have to be written to make use of hyperthreading. Hyperthreading is relatively new, and not many programs were written especially to make use of it.FSX can't make use of it for example. But Windows can.For playing FSX the advice is usually to switch hyperthreading off, as leaving it on does nothing for fsx, and does actually make the cpu run at higher temperature. The cooler the better it is.The reason a i7 is still often chosen, is because i7's are available at higher cpu speeds then i5's. That's a more important reason then hyperthreading.I do completely agree with the statement that the i5 is the best budget processor for fsx. I have one as well. (My pc has a: i5-3570k ).
Thank you for all of your input. I did forget to mention my ram was upgraded to 8gb.Also from my own research after posting this was that fsx was optimised for nvidia so that's probably why. Yeah I've figured that I'll need i5 and nvidia GT 570 off the top of my head. I'm not the sort of person that just asks everybody I like to learn myself. But equally there's nothing like experience so thank you all.Looks like I'll have to save my little pennies haha, going to take a while haha.I'm not looking to have all sliders to the right, just a lot better than pretty much low everthing.Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk. And to add one other comment to jparnold's good explanation - 4GB of RAM is not enough. Since FSX alone is capable of consuming the entire 4GB you'll need a minimum of 8GB.
If you are only running the normal background tasks, the OS, and FSX then 8GB will be fine as the total RAM used will always be below 8GB. But if,like many of us, you like to surf the web, watch a movie, edit homemade videos, photoshop a couple of snapshots, etc. On those long flights you might want to look at 12GB (or more depending on what you're doing).Doug. Yes, RAM matters. Some.Since MSFS (whichever flavor) is a 32 bit program, the MOST it can possibly utilize is 4GB. However, if 4GB is all you have, the OS will use a percentage, background programs another percentage, etc, so you can run low on RAM for the sim to use pretty fast.
I am sure there comes a point at which the RAM you have vs the RAM everything wants to use will match up fairly evenly, and any more than that, FOR MSFS, is a bit of a waste. I can't speak of other stuff, like different games, video editing and so on.By the same token, like processor speed, more is better, as the saying runsHave fun, and great flights to all!Pat☺Late edit: Given that FS is a 32 bit program, I understand it needs a special tweak of the executable to utilize 4GB RAM, but I may well be mistaken on that. I often am!Pat☺Last edited by PhantomTweak; at 02:18 PM. Thank you all for your responses. I should have mentioned that I have upgraded already to 8gb ram.I believe fsx wqs optimised for nvidia so that's probably why they work better there.I'm not the sort of person that just likes to ask a question and forget, so after I posted yesterday I did my research and it does seem like it or i7 is the way to go.
Twinned with something like nvidia gt570 i think off the top of my head.I will be flying through vatsim so AI isn't a massive thing for me. The hell in vietnam game system. Also not looking to have all sliders to the right, currently pretty much everything is on low:-(I have seen a lot of CPUs that are around 4ghz (being aware that fsx is CPU intensive), but they are not i5 or i7 but are Intel, would they be suitable enough?Looks like I'll have to save my pennies for a long long while haha.Thank you for all your input it is much appreciated.Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk.
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