Completely devoted to DCS World...

[Anatoli-Kagari9]

And particularly this P-51.

 

I have uninstalled all of my other sims but ELITE v8 :-) I now can only regret having spent the money, and time, when I returned to fligfht simming early this year by the hand of MS FLIGHT, instead of having jumped directly into this platform of future - DCS World... Well, the good thing is that I ended up really deciding I should give DSC P-51, even being a military flightsim (a type of flight simulator I really do not like the most...) a fair try.

 

Last time I invested on a military sim it was Flaming Cliffs, but my system by then, while capable of running fs2004 acceptably, gave me very poor performance with Flaming Cliffs. I eventually gave up and waited that one day I could have a better machine...

 

The learning curve with the P-51 and DCS World certainly is steep, only comparable to when I was learnig how to master Aerowinx PS1, some 6-7 years ago :-)

 

My only problem now is that I believe my system can't push the settings to the limits. I am running on Wndows7 Home Premium 64 bit, i5 2500 @ 3,3 HGz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, Nvidia 450 GT 1GB graphics card....

 

Today I even experienced a few black zones in the coclpit and from outside view around the propeller. HDR was ON. Didn't happen again since I turned it off.

 

Some settings have to be at LOW, a few at MEDIUM.

 

I might need to upgrade to an i7 :-/

Edited November 24, 2012 by jcomm

[Blarney]

It might be your graphics card. I have run my AMD 1090T at its native 3.2GHz and it does pretty well. I don't realize too much of a difference when I overclock all 6 cores to 3.825GHz. However, I did notice a difference in performance when I upgraded from a Radeon 5750 to a GeForce GTX480.

Clock speed of your CPU comes more into play when you have a lot of other units flying around, or are playing a sim like A-10C where there are a lot of other aircraft systems operating together.

 

BTW, I'm totally into P-51D as well. I'm enjoying watching all the YouTube videos on the P-51, then going to the sim and trying to copy what is talked about.

Edited November 24, 2012 by Blarney

[Krebs20]

Hey jcomm, upgrade your graphics card and you will see a major improvement. The 2500k is a very popular CPU of flyers. If you have the 2500, it still should give you plenty of power for dcs. Have a safe flight and enjoy the pony.

[Mouse]

I have roughly the same setup, but my video card is a GTX 560 Ti. I run comfortably with all settings at HIGH. The *50 numbers (450, 550) for NVIDIA generally indicates under powered budget cards that are poor for gaming.

 

An i7 will not help you even in CPU intensive games like DCS because *none of them can use all of the processor cores or hyper-threading anyway. Every time I see someone buy an i7 thinking it will boost their gaming performance, I die a little inside. Even if they did, it'd be like a 5% performance increase for 150% the cost over an i5. I have actually heard that i7s perform (very slightly) WORSE for gaming, but I can't confirm that.

 

TL;DR: Put your money towards a video card. I recommend a GeForce GTX 660 or better, as suits your budget. Overclock your CPU if you want to too; the i5-2500K is great for that.

 

*Except that exception that proves the rule that someone will undoubtedly mention.

Edited November 25, 2012 by Mouse

[Rusty_M]

I think you're probably right, Mouse. I could perhaps have been better off with an i5, but my i7 certainly is no slouch.

 

It was my first PC build anyway, so I couldn't expect to get EVERYTHING right :)

[Anatoli-Kagari9]

Ok guys,

 

great suggestions. Actually I noticed that both FSX and X-Plane performed better on my i5 2500k with the Geeforce then on an i7 with an old ATI card.

 

I believe a 660 would be agreat buy - maybe next year ;-)

 

Anyway, I am still capable of running DCS p-51 with comfortable performance, even if not of the bells and whistles on...

 

:-)