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should these specs be enough to run FSX with VLC, Godzone Flight1 ATR, PMDG Beech?

Windows XP
AMD Athlon II X2 240 Processor 3.0 GHZ
4.00GB of RAM
Geforce 9800GT 1GB of Memory
2tb portable Hard drive

cheers

In my humble opinion, like a Toyota Corolla towing a caravan.

Keeping with that processor i would double the RAM and also look further maybe step up the G/card

Have a read of this.

http://www.flightsimworld.com/forums/topic...ht-simulator-x/

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 17 2013,6:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Keeping with that processor i would double the RAM and also look further maybe step up the G/card

cant use anymore Ram as I'm on XP

Dash8captain wrote:

QUOTE (Dash8captain @ Mar 17 2013,6:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

cant use anymore Ram as I'm on XP

Off course silly me .. maybe increase the G/card tho

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 17 2013,7:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Off course silly me .. maybe increase the G/card tho

all good - what graphics card do you reccomend - my only issues with my current setup are occasional crashes when I use Flight 1 ATR or wilco 737 and when changing from cockpit view to oustide view it shudders for a couple of seconds, so basicly it is slow to load graphics.

when everything is going im getting great FPS its just those small issues

so if you could reccomend a good graphics card for my system it would be great

will search T/Me

is DDR3

Are you buying new components or is that your current rig? If new what's your budget and which bits do you have available to reuse (I take it your planning to use a 32bit XP license)?

deeknow wrote:

QUOTE (deeknow @ Mar 17 2013,7:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Are you buying new components or is that your current rig? If new what's your budget and which bits do you have available to reuse (I take it your planning to use a 32bit XP license)?

Budget - no more than $400

yes Iam using my current Rig on XP 32bit

what about this?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=571451867

anyone?

Frankly would touch anything below $250 for a G/card and even then it would be pushing it , make sure you have the right slots and what not s ...

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 18 2013,12:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Frankly would touch anything below $250 for a G/card and even then it would be pushing it , make sure you have the right slots and what not s ...

yeah I cant find one for around that price in DDR3 for 300W

Dash8captain wrote:

QUOTE (Dash8captain @ Mar 18 2013,12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

anyone?

To be honest mate I'd just stick with what you have, it SHOULD behave ok until you save enough $$$ to splash out on a brand new rig.

One thing though, you mention you have a portable drive, is that your only source of storage? ie where is FSX and in particular the scenery stored? if its on an external then that could be most of your performance problem. You might be better of spending $150 or so a a new internal HDD, maybe even an SSD, and transfer FSX to that.

Yeah FSX is installed on the Portable Hard drive - the computers Hard drive C is only 80GB are just installing a 500GB WD Carvair blue HD and then I will do a Fresh FSX install on C and see how that goes

Dash8captain wrote:

QUOTE (Dash8captain @ Mar 18 2013,7:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah FSX is installed on the Portable Hard drive - the computers Hard drive C is only 80GB are just installing a 500GB WD Carvair blue HD and then I will do a Fresh FSX install on C and see how that goes

That'll make a big difference I reckon, especially re scenery load times and when switching views etc