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Recommended Hardware Setup For PC FSX Flight Simulation X

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I enclose these photographs of pc hardware recommended to take FSX to maximum level in setting which will give you smooth fast Simulaton realtime play! No laags no Framerate annoyance just beautifull simulation.! This hardware yes is costyly but worth everypeny you spend on them for your flying aviation hobby! Yes your simulaton will be fast and smooth as engineered to be by microsoft.

On the back of your FSX box microsoft recommends these processors but they will not tell you the really maximum setup recommended to take FSX settings to max with no problems! ALL fsx hardware has to be more powerfull than fs2004 hardware and this they will not tell you they know ppl cannot fork out this kind of money so they tell you basics setup just for 1 aeroplane takeoff and landing hardware called Minumim required!

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CPU recommended is the INTEL QUAD CORE EXTREME procesoors running from 3.0GHZ to 3.2GHZ - these processors have 4xCPUs running at these speeds!

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A 1300W power supply which ill allow you to draw the power for 2 - 3 graphics cards!

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Recommended memory NVIDIA SLI memory DDR2 from speeds 800mhz or above! they come in 2GB Sticks and recommended memory is 6GB to 8GB when using windows vista!

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Windows Vista 64 Bit operating system higly recommended alows you to expand memory to 8GB . Fsx when you take to maximum settings you will find getting memory errors with alot of addons and settings at maximum so 6gb to 8gb is recommended,

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Graphic cards like the XFX 9800GTX or above by nvidia are recommended, but we recommend 3 installed for 3 cards framrate crossfiring the best performance will take your games or simulation 60 frames per second but only 30 frames are needed but you can add 2 cards which is totally dependand how much simulation data is added to fsx to get the correct framerates runing fast and smooth. Thats why people add 3 for maximum performance.

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Motherboards like the ASUS P5NT deluxe or better motherboards are recommended for simulation and not to forget like all motherboards you must update the bios from the website manufacturers.
Motherboards like these should have 3 PCI Express slots allowing to add 3 graphic cards and your best CPU on board and typical 4 memory slots allowing 8GB. Not forgetting to add cooling to your casing to stop overheating to powerfull systems. These motherboards have built in sound so u can hook up speakers for simulation.

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A 500GB hardisk or higher is recommened for FSX basically 2 HD are recommended 1 for operating system and second for FSX or fs9 flight simulation setup to stop operating system host process runining in background while in flight simulation. If everthing was installed on 1 drive and you were flying somewhere in your flight time windows vista will kick of host processing and other system file initiating which does slow down your simulation as people have discovered. 500GB recommended or above if your going to do alot of addons for yoour simulation , making videos etc etc.

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and finaly dont forget about your headset to chat to your co-pilots and the Real ATC on the ground!

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External Accesories recommended is the Saitek Flight Yoke and throttle quadrant highly recommended as it is engineered to real aviation calibrated design essential for flying your aircraft and gives less straign off keys on keyboard always looking down. Also dont forget your rudder pedals highly required to turn left righ on runway or rudder left right and braking!
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This video is a typical example of setting up 2 Graphic Cards in SLI
Crossfiring to Improve your Flight simulation X Or Fs2004 Framerate performance! Mostly used for all games and Flight simulation highly recommened for fast smooth flying. FSX is power hungry!

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8) Now this is what I'm talking about 8)
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First of all, this topic is not related to the forum posted, Abbas shall check which forum it suits best to move!

Secondly, you did not mentioned what budget shall be fixed for such machine to perform flight simulation flights. But before you mention this information, i highly recomend you to consider the average class of people who are using flight simulator for their aviation/flight simulation enthusiaism. I hope you will get not much impressive numbers as a very few can afford such highly budget machine rest are flying the flight simulator with normal machine which is in their budget reach.

So recommend some thing while focusing the average number of users can afford!
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raihans wrote:First of all, this topic is not related to the forum posted, Abbas shall check which forum it suits best to move!

Secondly, you did not mentioned what budget shall be fixed for such machine to perform flight simulation flights. But before you mention this information, i highly recomend you to consider the average class of people who are using flight simulator for their aviation/flight simulation enthusiaism. I hope you will get not much impressive numbers as a very few can afford such highly budget machine rest are flying the flight simulator with normal machine which is in their budget reach.

So recommend some thing while focusing the average number of users can afford!

1STly this topic is realted to the forum with flight simulation hobby for correct setup for simulations if you want your PIA addons working correctly.
2ndly this is tecnical knowledge for people who go out and buy FSX finding that they have justed wasted their money for nothing because they dont have a powerfull machine!
3rdly your looking around £3,500 pounds thats around $6,000 us dollars and in pakistan rupees your looking around 3.5 lakh rupees . so if u people cannot afford it plz do not buy FSX because FSX is designed for higher powerfull machines machines,
4thly And for the people who have FSX and want to get their up and running to get their PIA forthcoming addons working yes you will have to fork out the money for these kind of things and plz dont hope to go out to buy FSX hoping it will run properly on your old machine like a PENTIUM 4 processor because it will not run properly. This is what Microsoft will not tell you on the box just mimimum requirements so u can fly with all problems to come.

Yes in FSX you can convert all your PIA aircraft which you installed in FS2004 you can install it to your FSX folders.
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I disagree with Raihans view point over the budget part, we all know some hobbies require us to shed our pockets....there are many other things one can do but for this hobby or rather a skilled hobby, we do require what is right for it! Yes there is no harm for people who can not afford these advanced hardware, but if only you agree to face the consequences of limited capability!
Rashad on the other hand made a very helpful post for people thinking of upgrading their systems! He did not specifically FORCED everyone to have these stuff did he? All he is saying is what is right for FSX! And ideal settings which will not only give an individual best appearance but performance as well. If some people with limited means cannot afford all of these than its no harm that they keep on using what they have. But if some do want to upgrade than Rashad has mentioned some one of the very best hardware available at the moment in the market!! There is nothing to get personal on since its an open forum so everyone has the right to express their oppinions but without offending anyone's comments!

With all due respect raihans, pardon me but you need to reconsider your oppinions about moving Rashad's post since this is the "hobby forum" he hasn't done anything off-topic and irrelevant but infact helped many people decide who wish to upgrade their systems for the sake of real time aviation experience in Pakistani simulation hobby. These types of deliberate actions by the administrator will only show their bullying power over its members which many of us here would strongly protest to, as nobody has the right to move or delete anyone's topic as long as topic is relevant and useful.
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rashad546 wrote:1STly this topic is realted to the forum with flight simulation hobby for correct setup for simulations if you want your PIA addons working correctly.
2ndly this is tecnical knowledge for people who go out and buy FSX finding that they have justed wasted their money for nothing because they dont have a powerfull machine!
3rdly your looking around £3,500 pounds thats around $6,000 us dollars and in pakistan rupees your looking around 3.5 lakh rupees . so if u people cannot afford it plz do not buy FSX because FSX is designed for higher powerfull machines machines,
4thly And for the people who have FSX and want to get their up and running to get their PIA forthcoming addons working yes you will have to fork out the money for these kind of things and plz dont hope to go out to buy FSX hoping it will run properly on your old machine like a PENTIUM 4 processor because it will not run properly. This is what Microsoft will not tell you on the box just mimimum requirements so u can fly with all problems to come.

Yes in FSX you can convert all your PIA aircraft which you installed in FS2004 you can install it to your FSX folders.
rashad546, no offense but your first post does not point out any part of Paksitani Flight Simulation related but still you are insisting to keep the post in Pakistani Aviation Hobby Forum, why you don't bother to post such in World Aviation Hobby Forum!

And regarding the budget, please note that what i stated is a general view of the hobby enthusiasts and what i requested that you have to provide some average system specification for such users but you TOTALLY IGNORED it as you have taken my post in wrong meanings :roll:
captain_salman wrote:I disagree with Raihans view point over the budget part, we all know some hobbies require us to shed our pockets....there are many other things one can do but for this hobby or rather a skilled hobby, we do require what is right for it! Yes there is no harm for people who can not afford these advanced hardware, but if only you agree to face the consequences of limited capability!
Rashad on the other hand made a very helpful post for people thinking of upgrading their systems! He did not specifically FORCED everyone to have these stuff did he? All he is saying is what is right for FSX! And ideal settings which will not only give an individual best appearance but performance as well. If some people with limited means cannot afford all of these than its no harm that they keep on using what they have. But if some do want to upgrade than Rashad has mentioned some one of the very best hardware available at the moment in the market!! There is nothing to get personal on since its an open forum so everyone has the right to express their oppinions but without offending anyone's comments!
No one is getting personal over here and i know very well that this is a public forum and every one has right to share his/her views which can be helpful to others.

And since when you thought that I am saying that "rashad546 is FORCING to upgrade the system spec." from my initial post? Dear, STILL i suggest you to read my first post 2nd paragraph in which I just pointed out my opinion about this hobby level and asked for an average system specification will be much helpful to the average class flight sim enthusiasts and those you can spend $$$ for this hobby can buy even go SUPER computer like rashad546 mentioned.
captain_salman wrote:With all due respect raihans, pardon me but you need to reconsider your oppinions about moving Rashad's post since this is the "hobby forum" he hasn't done anything off-topic and irrelevant but infact helped many people decide who wish to upgrade their systems for the sake of real time aviation experience in Pakistani simulation hobby. These types of deliberate actions by the administrator will only show their bullying power over its members which many of us here would strongly protest to, as nobody has the right to move or delete anyone's topic as long as topic is relevant and useful.
Already replied to rashad546 response for moving the thread, please read that. Thank you.
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^ Raihan, it's okay to discuss computer hardware for flight simulation software in this forum. Let's not make it a serious issue - thank you.

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Its okay Abbas, thank you.
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I'd agree with abbas! :) Let's not make it a serious issue.....raihans thank you for your discretion, you are very right about an avarage flight simmer, you see that's where you got me wrong, I was only pointing out the possibilities of what an individual can possibly get for his/her FSX ultimate expanding limit raihan bro...so Rashad bhai is kind enough to tell us all what we can get as an ultimate settings for our beloved flight simulator 8) .....so for the sake of information....i think by now most of us have known about these fantastic stuff......now buying these or not is a different issue all togather, and that depends on one's budget! Where i'd agree with you raihan... :roll: