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    Posted: 28 Apr 2008 at 6:27pm
At last my rig is up and running after replacing my ATI HIS Radeon 1950X 512mb graphics card. The problem i have now is the FPS rarely goes above 14-15 FPS. I have FSX settings on low to medium though when in FSX and i try to adjust the settings to try and get better performance it doesnt seem to make much difference. Do i need to restart FSX after adjustment of the settings ?. I have a fresh install of FSX with both service packs and accerleration installed, all in the correct order as advised on other threads. My spec is as follows:
 
Vista: Service pack 1 32 bit
AMD Athlon 64 (x2) Dual Core 6000+ 3.00 ghz
RAM 3 GB
Nvidia Ge Force 9600GT
 
Though my machine isnt the latest and greatest i would have thought i would get reasonable performance.
 
Does anyone have a similar machine that can report better performance?
 
Anyone any ideas to help.
 
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Oh please 34 views and no help Cry
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Welcome to the forum.

Have you installed SP1 for FSX?
Your Graphics card isn't the best by a long way. Have you downloaded latest drivers for it?
 
No, you don't need to restart FSX after changind settings. You can even change them in game by pressing ALT.
 
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FSX SP1 SP2.
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You say both service packs and accerlation, does that mean you've installed sp2 as a download and installed accerlation?
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SP1 will give you a big jump in performance. SP2 some install some don't. Acceleration is an add-on, if you buy it it includes SP2.
 
You need the best CPU you can get for FSX, the sim is CPU dependent, GPU will improve performance but not by as much.
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And also if you installed sp2 and accerlation seperatly, that may cause bad performance as they might cancel each other out.
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