andyjohnston Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Ordered new PC yesterday, Windows 8.1 with an i7 and 32 Gigs of RAM. Hope FSX will run nicely! Spent way too much time using these sims... FS 5.1, FS-98, FS-2000, FS-2002, FS-2004, FSX, Flight, FSW, P3Dv3, P3Dv4, MSFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harald Haukland Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 First thing i would do is to get rid of win 8 and get hold of win 7 the 64 bit version. Win 8 sux and do not run well with fsx, but in time you will get it working with many hours swearing and so on, so win 7 is the best option here, but again this is your machine, not mine.. :) http://www.speedtest.net/result/4450194567.png Asus Z170-A-1151 - intel i7-6700K@4GHz - Asus ROG NVidia GTX 1050 TI Strix 4GB - 32GB HyperX DDR4@2400 MHz - Corsair CM750-750W - Corsair H80i v2 Watercooling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvarn Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 FSX is all about CPU clock speed. What is the CPU speed of your machine? Nice to have 32G but FSX and everything else you want to run will do so on 8G sysram with well over 1/2 free. -Pv- 2 carrot salad, 10.41 liter bucket, electric doorbell, 17 inch fan, 12X14, 85 Dbm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyjohnston Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 CPU is Intel Core i7 5930K 3.5GHz 15MB 6-Core S2011-3 Processor Spent way too much time using these sims... FS 5.1, FS-98, FS-2000, FS-2002, FS-2004, FSX, Flight, FSW, P3Dv3, P3Dv4, MSFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScatterbrainKid Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I bought a new PC with Win 7 last year but it gave me a range of problems across several games and sims including FSX, but I just about manage to muddle through. I wish I'd opted for Win 8.1 instead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvarn Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 3.5 is a medium-high computer for FSX. Most of the your sliders with very careful judgment and known working tweaks will be medium to medium high with one or two on max. You have to get well over 4GHz to set most of the sliders (options) near or at max. No one can set them ALL at max all the time without suffering stutters or low frames in high density scenery, weather and add-ons. FSX:MS is a very old sim now and was not coded to take advantage of how computers can push the workload off onto graphics cards now days. Note: To save money toward high clock speed, don't waste it on 6 and 8 cores. 4 will run all your aps and FSX and save you a lot of money. You can save a hundred or two on memory also. Put that money on CPU speed. Every Hz you can afford... and a nice joystick. -Pv- 2 carrot salad, 10.41 liter bucket, electric doorbell, 17 inch fan, 12X14, 85 Dbm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MongooseMike Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Don't get to worrying about the Win 8 until you try it on also. I have Win 8.1 and haven't had so much as a blink or stutter with FSX. Some people seem to have issues while others get lucky and don't have one. The biggest thing to concern yourself with is what pvarn say above. The faster the cpu, the better you'll run FSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stepolano Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 My FSX kept crashing randomly on Win8.1 until I did the UIAutomationCore.dll fix. It runs fine now. On my i5-4670 GTX550Ti system I can run (with no addons) maxed autogen sliders and medium-high traffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 There's absolutely NOTHING wrong with running FSX under Windows 8 or 8.1. Just install OUTSIDE the default C:\Program Files (x86) - for instance to C:\FSX or to a different hard drive, if you have one - this will save you tons of trouble with access rights. Then, as the previous poster points out, get the uiautomationcore.dll fix. Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartOutram Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Always we find among the chaff, some corn, This is the quote that does it for me: MS is a very old sim now and was not coded to take advantage of how computers can push the workload off onto graphics cards now days. Now, here therefore is some more 'chaff' to chew upon! Windows 7 or 8? Yep, more chaff, for they both obviously do something for some, and something else for others. This subject continues to raise so many multiple answers, based upon the same question being repeated over and over again. If the term 'trial and error' had been coined for anything specifically, then FSX and performance could have been designed to fit this descriptor perfectly. 1. CPU? Important but not the absolute critical point 2. Memory? Up to 4gb, very relevant. Lots of advice available on this one if you look around on the net. 3. Good Graphics Card - even so, still, 'old man FSX' dependent 4. . FSX.cfg? Massage it, tweak it, muscle it and take it out to Dinner................ 5. NVIDIA Inspector? Use it if you have it and NVIDIA, (learn about it fully first) 6. FPS/Sliders/Scenery/Autogen, AI density, etcetera? Trial and error, (I've heard this one before somewhere?) 7. Bojote/Kostasfsworld? Has some good tips.....trial and error, dependent upon the machine and the users ability to work it out 8. System Setup? It is never a 'one size fits all' with FSX. For 'all' can be so very different. Possibly trial and.......... 9. Full FSX backup/clone? I would never be without one. Saved me days of re-installing after a foul up. Frooglesim? Always worth a punt....................http://youtu.be/ovSnyxlus3s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 All good points, but I would expand point # 2 to more than 4 GB of RAM and then a 64-bit operating system, so that FSX can get the full 4 GB of RAM it's capable of utilizing. Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartOutram Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Indeed, All good points, but I would expand point # 2 to more than 4 GB of RAM and then a 64-bit operating system, so that FSX can get the full 4 GB of RAM it's capable of utilizing. Agreed......................... S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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