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Brad27 
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 Topic: 3D Cards For Excellent Performance...Posted: 16 Apr 2008 at 3:56pm |
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Hiya, I have FS2004 on my pc, which has ALOT of addons, also i use AI aardvark traffic too, now i have the ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card, but ive noticed recently that my sim is slowing down, becoming jumpy and also when flying into addon airports even slower. Do i need a higher performance 3D card? Memory on my pc is 1024MB |
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B.Thomas
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Martyn
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Posted: 16 Apr 2008 at 4:01pm |
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Usually its the Processor that is struggling to keep up. Open up your task manager whilst using FS2004 and see what your processor usage is
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Brad27
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Posted: 16 Apr 2008 at 4:07pm |
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Not to sure what im looking for here... It says fs9.exe Mem Usage 700,300k
down at the bottom in the middle is CPU usage 43%
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B.Thomas
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jupp94
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Posted: 16 Apr 2008 at 4:08pm |
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if you need a graphics card, the Nvidia GeForce is very good, I changed my precisely and the sim is much faster with a better card, I had Nvidia GeForce 68.00 changed to 76.00, for me wasen´t the processor Martyn.
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Brad27
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Posted: 16 Apr 2008 at 4:10pm |
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And how do i know if its the processor? how much did you pay for the new 3d card?
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B.Thomas
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jupp94
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Posted: 26 Apr 2008 at 4:31pm |
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I dont remember precisely, but around like 250 euros.
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MartinW
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Posted: 26 Apr 2008 at 5:18pm |
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If you've noticed 'recently' that it's slowing down, then it's not your hardware. I would suggest some basic maintenance. Clear out all unnecessary files, kill the spyware run anti-virus scan, use a low footprint AV like AVG, uninstall add-ons you don't use update all drivers and defrag your hard drive. MartYn is correct, FSX and FS9 are CPU dependant, GPU does boost performance but the CPU is the king. |
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 12:20am |
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"recently".....ohh you mean....recently!
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Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz @ E8800 3.61GHz / XFX GeForce 8800 GTX / 2GB 1150 MHz OCZ Reaper HPC Edition DDR2 RAM
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Kelvin_C-J
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Posted: 05 May 2008 at 2:53pm |
AVG for the win!
It's weird, I've found that better than payware scanners and it has not an affect on performance
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