Upgrading/building new PC

[Balagor]

Does any body here have any experience with Fligthsimulator X Deluxe

and its very heavy way of running?

 

Either Microsoft are not fully honest with the system requirements,

or the application just runs that way; BAD.

 

I am to help a friend with upgrading/building a new pc for his FSX.

 

Right now he has as follow:

 

Asus M3N32 WS PRO

AMD 6000+ Dualcore

XFX GTX 280 1 gb

4 gb pc6400 ram

WD Caviar 320 GB 16 mb cache

 

By testing i can see FSX uses approx. 500 mb ram, which is not much.

It uses around 50% of the CPU power, which i think is a lot.

On the other hand DAO uses 100%.

I am not able to test the use of grafic power, but i think it is not

very much, since the temp. does never rise to the extremes, even in

high settings.

 

I have an idea that i might get most value for the money, by upgrading

the motherboard and CPU for something much faster.

 

Due to budget, he wants to stick with AMD.

 

Now, what do you guys´n girls say?

Am i completly lost?

Have you got other suggestions?

Have you even tryed this FSX your self?

[Illiad86]

really, I think your buddy's computer is completely fine. DAO uses 100% CPU on many people's systems, and I blame that on poor coding. A game shouldn't use 100% CPU ever...

 

As for FSX, never played it, but most of MS's games run pretty crappily (is that a word? lol).

[Balagor]

really, I think your buddy's computer is completely fine. DAO uses 100% CPU on many people's systems, and I blame that on poor coding. A game shouldn't use 100% CPU ever...

 

As for FSX, never played it, but most of MS's games run pretty crappily (is that a word? lol).

 

Thanks for your reply, Illiad86.

If the word "crappily" does not exits, it´s anyway a good desciption

for Microsoft Games.

 

In the 90´ i played the Age of something stuff, and it was the same problem.

Even with a super computer (in the 90´s) it was chrasing and laging.

 

It is probably as you say; bad coding.

We have also tryed out FSX on my pc, which is a lot better, and we could only

see poor results.