james143611

Hello all, Got my eye on these 2 machines I'm torn between, one with an AMD and the other with an Intel i5 9600K. Mind I am in no way PC tech savvy, so motherboards types, cooling and that I haven't a clue! What I can tell you is my spec at the mo is a AMD Athlon II X3 425 processor 2.7GHz, 12GB RAM, nVidea GT730 (from the stone ages I think) and Win 7 premium 64-bit. The first one: https://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/system/Ultra-5-Gaming-PC AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 6 core, not up to scratch with AMD products, nor do I know if the supplied AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB graphics card is worth it or not, though there is an option to upgrade to nVideo products, I'd be tempted with the 6GB GTX 1660 though this is standard in the other machine below I'm looking at. Despite the picture the fans are not included, only cooling is AMD Ryzen Wraith CPU cooler. I'd need to fork out on extra case fans? Also no optical DVD drive, there is no optical drive bays available. Not much of an issue as FSX and my other simulators are on Steam, I have a couple of apps I have on CD, and I do burn music CD's so I suspect I need an external CD/DVD writer drive. The other PC below is the same. This has Win 10 Home as standard, but for an extra £20 or so can have Win 10 Pro, which would probably be the option though I can get £88 knocked off the price and buy a Windows 10 Pro key, I believe you can make a Windows 10 Pro boot drive on USB from Microsoft themselves. The other one is: https://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/novatechcoreblizzard.html Only 8GB RAM, though I'd pay the £50 - £60 upgrade charge for the 16GB RAM (2 of the 8GB Vengeance cards), and there is an option to upgrade to the Intel i5 9600K 3.7GHz processor from the supplied 9400F 2.9 GHZ, which I'd be tempted with the upgrade. I'd probably go for the no Operating System option as Win 10 Home 64-bit is the only other option, unless pro isn't really neccesary? From what I've read even the most high spec PC would still bring FSX to it's knees due to the single core running (or something, as I say I'm not that tech!) but I might be tempted with P3D. I have FSX:SE and a lot of payware add-ons, most I can't use as my current PC can't handle it, but having things like UK2000 scenery, Aerosoft A320, Majestic DHC-8, OrbX England and Scotland, Many Aerosoft Pro airports that I've not managed to experience, means I'd have to loose all that if I go to P3D and buy everything over again. The above machines are within my budget with upgrades, I'd only be tempted with £1,000+ machines on finance, not ideal but if the above machines would suffice FSX I'd be happy, with the PMDG, Aerosoft etc addons, even at just 40FPS Anyone's opinion in these machines is most appreciated, I've spent 4 hours looking at both of these and I'm stuck for which one to get! Kind Regards, James.

Hello all, I've been told these Flight Sim specialists like ChillBlast, PCspecialist etc are expensive though very good and handles resource hungry payware aircraft with good frames. I've had a look and even a £1,000 budget would work for me, however even just browsing at options, the only thing is Windows 10 is a standard. Now I know there is a 'No OS' option which is fine, but for some of the specs, is my Windows 7 Home Premium going to be fine? I get on with this OS very well, and from what I've heard about 10 I'd rather not touch it with a bargepole if I can help it. Any help appreciated! James.

I just tried sit and wait, loaded it at 19:45, and as of now at 20:42 it still hasn't loaded. Vic - I have it installed to my D:/ drive, to keep my C drive clear of programs. I shall try the uninstall/reinstall, as I loaded the installer from the ZIP file which may not have helped, and didn't run the installer as admin either (both these I've recently stumbled across on various sites) Thank you, James.

Hello all, I've been thinking of making the transition to Prepar3d for some time now, and this evening I decided to get the academic P3D v4. I installed it, set the .exe to run as admin, opened up the .exe, it ran through the building scenery database, once that was done the Prepar3d Academic screen stays up for a couple of seconds then it all just vanishes. I wait for 2-3 minutes and nothing happens. A couple of more minutes and nothing at all is happening. In the Windows Task Manager it doesn't even appear in 'Applications', only appears in 'Processes' It can be any addon's as there isn't any, this is a complete fresh install that I can't even open. Anyone have any suggestions please? James.