[stylee4799]

Heyy.... I just bought flight simulator X... First of all I have a HP.. 2.8 GHz.. 160Gb Ram..With a Nvidia G Force FX 5200.... The game runs slow even with the lowest but horrible graphics... I mean.. Its like playing FS9 all over again.... Before i bought it a called Microsoft and they told me it would run perfectly... It didn't....

So you people need to help me.... Should I Boy a new Graphics card or a Whole new Computer because I dont know what to do... It takes me almost 15 min to start the game....
And lets say that I change the Gforce Card..Should i make any other upgrade to the PC????

Thanksssss

[EchoNoise]

Wow.. 160gig of ram :| should run fine!

Seriously, upgrade your graphics card, and then if it still doesn't do anygood, buy a new pc, but buy a custom computer and then you have your brand new graphics card

[awergh]

i tried the demo on a Celeron 700Mhz, 256MB RAM, Geforce 4 MX 420 PCI and it didnt take 15 minutes to start up so it may not be a hardware problem

[nitroshift]

It does that 'cause it's a M$ game
On a serious note now, you need to upgrade your gfx card. And how much RAM do you have? 160Gb?

This post has been edited by nitroshift: 18 October 2006 - 05:56 AM

[awergh]

is an upgrade going to really help, the videocard doesnt decide that it will take 15 minutes to start up and the requirement is only a 32 mb video card

[bluhound]

160GB RAM!?!? Are you sure? It sounds more like your HDD.

[stylee4799]

im sorry guys

its 512 Mb of Ram.....

but rally is the problem an update for the video card only... or is the whole CPU??>>???

[ripken204]

well its prolly the whole comp, but this is ur decision. ram should be at least 1 gig. cpu is prolly a little weak for it but it should be okay. and a video card will help out greatly. now the decision is are you able to spend money on a new computer right now? if not then the video card you will have to buy may already be outdated due to the interface, most likely agp. what motherboard do u have?

[kartel]

I played this game and it sucked

[bluhound]

Try reformatting your pc and install the latest drivers. If you have a recovery disc, use it. Most of the time it works for me. I always have this problem where Windows starts slowing down after a few months.

[ripken204]

kartel, on Oct 18 2006, 11:34 PM, said:

I played this game and it sucked

how so?

[Polarman]

Get 2 brand new 8800gtx put in SLI mode with latest drivers and restart the game.

Honestly. I have the FSX and i run it with a AIW X800XT. There's NOTHING you can do about the lousy FPS rate. Even a killer overclocked system runs like crap. check out the Ultimate Game Machine for 2006 article on Extremetech and look at the benchmark results.

[awergh]

try free some ram instead of buying 2 new gpus