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old FSX was a 3 core use - you would think that with today's multi-core machines that games are would be optimized to use them? I've seen several PC benchmarks of games with different intel core counts and they all seemed to indicate that 8 cores was the best with diminishing returns after that. FSX is now 2020 - would have thought they would have moved away from the 2-3 cores only thing, i recall back then it was poor code requiring ultra-fast OC'd CPUs with a half-decent GPU (at the time in 2009 he got a GTX460 and i5-2000 series and 4GB RAM @ 16000Mhz XMP plus a 1TB HDD and it taxed the system to death. he has just bought a new TV too so won't be looking to break the bank as he invested £250 in an Xbox which has turned out to be useless to him as he doesn't ever game...he just liked Flight Simulator X and that was it - he would set autopilot from London to Newcastle and only be at the PC in time for take-off and landing l0l - in real-time hehe.. i know he needs all you suggest but i can tell you now he would say NVMe SSD? just tear out the 10-year-old 1Tb HDD out of the current machine and stuff like that, basically he cant upgrade his current machine, he needs a new one as the old mobo won't take new components. he's been advised this: recommended is Ryzen 5_1500x , radeon RX 590, 500GB ssd, 16 GB RAM thereabouts remember this is just 1080p @ 60Hz not 4K@120Hz which everyone is selling their houses to get a system that can pull this off on most games lol thanks

thanks for your quick reply you signature specs were $1700..? (we are based in the UK) and is that for 4K? as he is paying only at 1080p@60Hz so though this may help bring the price down... he has a 4K TV but his "gaming room" with 2 PCs and Xbox use a 23" 1080P@60Hz monitor thanks again

Hi my dad used to play FSX original (using an old 4-core sandy bridge i5 @ 4.8Ghz / 4GB RAM / GTX460 and a 1TB HDD which maxed out the system but worked (also had the upgrades/addons for weather & traffic etc and optimal settings added) and it worked great, but it looks nothing like the new one, after a while, he got bored and but stopped, now in the summer he heard about FSX2020 and instead of having to spend several hundreds of pounds upgrading to a decent gaming PC thought it would be cheaper to buy an Xbox One X for £250 as it was gunna be available on that too... but it isn't and there is no timeline even though one is considered as being "in the works" it sounds like it's not going to happen. I suggested at least 16GB RAM (24Gb-32Gb recommended) at least an 8-Core CPU and 1TB SSD (for installs) + 2TB HDD for temp storage - this game supposedly has 40,000 HD Discs worth of data to stream and would imagine it being tough system-wide so no bottlenecks. can anyone help as everyone knows the "minimum requirements" just aren't up to the real task? edit: for 1080p@60Hz only thanks