jimmyhatt

CPU just came in.. its an improvment. I cant run all catagorys on high, but i can get all the important ones like traffic, scene, texture, trees, and view range. Frames seemed to stay around 17-20 when it was rough. Normal flying was in the 40-50 range and when i was near nothing it was in the 60's.. Anyways it was worth it. just cant wait to get the track IR tomorrow.

I just installed 64bit.. and it is signifigant improvement. I can now select all GFX settings on high on all options before i was limited to med, and the FPS is a little better. Its just as slow in some spots, but in other its stuck at 60 FPS which is really nice looking on the eye... If anyone is running the 32bit version of XP and you go to win 7 64... you need to make sure all your HDD's are setup prior to the update.. i got a hard disk error and it took me forever to fix it considering i did it correctly the first time... just do not create a new partion on the drive.. use the old partition and it will let you upgrade.. If you do a clean install it wont recognize that you had a prior version of windows and you wont be able to active the updated windows 7 even though it does 100% clean install you still have to have the old files on the HDD apparently..

I am in the process of upgrading to 64x

I was under the impression that the system uses 1gig and the rest was used for memory so eventhough it reads 4 under dxdiax.. the systems tab only reads 3 because 1 is being located to win 7

I am upgrading my rig because games are starting to stutter. I made it in 2007 and have upgraded it accordingly.. Today is the last and final upgrade... the CPU.. I have the following.. Asus Striker Extreme MB 4 gig ram nVidia 560ti 4 39gig WD 10k hd win 7 32 bit intel e6700 (core 2 2.66 ghz) I am upgrading to a e8600 ( 3.33 GHZ ) Along with he new CPU i got track IR 4 and all the goodies... so hopefully it will smooth the game out just enough to convince me to get the TM a-10 HOTAS.. ATM it runs about 30 - 40 fps at take off and basic cruise speed. It will burp every now and then and if it gets really crazy it will drop to 11 -15 FPS... I have scowered the forums and seen several references to CPU upgrades and hopefully this might help. Since the upgrade is above the e8200 recommended system specs, but we will see how well it performs. FYI am stuck in the LGA 775 catagory and severly limited by my the mother board when it comes to smaller CPU's.. mine does not effectivly use the quad cores as it advertised.. so the duel core is my best bet.. I will try and keep you updated.