i7 quad core and Raid 0 - whats the performance increase?

[Tomliner]

If it's plumbed into the mains water supply you'll need to fit a stopcock! EricT

[DogTailRed2]

Received my new PC :-)
Amazingly light and an amazingly large CPU! What with all the pipes and fans (max fan case, 5 fans! and water cooling).
Also so quite, can't even hear it.
Was surprised task manager shows 8 cores? Each core must be a dual core??? Just guessing.
Installing all my software now, will post some more info later.

[GHD]

Was surprised task manager shows 8 cores? Each core must be a dual core???

No, there are only 4 cores but with hyperthreading enabled, each has two virtual cores.

[DogTailRed2]

Initial tests with VFR X and VFR London set to 60cm, most sliders pushed quite far to the right, some on max (like autogen scenery and water) flying the A2A Spitfire with Accusim gives me 17-21fps over London, 50+ everywhere else (I've capped FPS at 50). PC is running at 4ghz.

One problem. After flying for half an hour and 5 minutes over VFR London I went into the settings menu, when returning to flight my aircraft was invisible with a few disembodied gauges in mid air. Going into the menus again and the screen went black but FSX still working correctly.

Anyone know what caused this? Is this a bug, GFX issue, memory problem?

I'm using 8gb ram and 2gb GFX card.

[DaveB]

It shouldn't be with a 2gb card but it sounds like a memory issue.. perhaps too many draw calls I used to see this happen with DG's Beaufighter until I upgraded my system.. likewise the Flying Stations Wyvern. Try cranking your settings down a tad and see what happens.

ATB
DaveB

[TSR2]

You need to remember that FSX is a 32bit application and its also 4+ years old. There then comes a point where its doesn't matter how much new fangled hardware we throw at it, the program can't use a lot of it. I'm guessing with all of that London VFR and a fairly detailed aircraft, its filling up its 32bit application memory pool.

[DogTailRed2]

You need to remember that FSX is a 32bit application and its also 4+ years old. There then comes a point where its doesn't matter how much new fangled hardware we throw at it, the program can't use a lot of it. I'm guessing with all of that London VFR and a fairly detailed aircraft, its filling up its 32bit application memory pool.

Hi,

thanks for the replies.
What would be the best fix. Is it just a case of turning down the sliders as previously suggested or something else?
Turning down the sliders is fine because with 20fps maxed, a slight degredation in quality is not going to make much visual difference.
I could also turn off 6ocm textures as I didn't used to use them previously with VFR London.

BTW what effect does `clear cach on exit` make to the scenery loading, displaying?

ATB,
Ted.

[DaveB]

Yo Ted..

Unless I'm mistaken.. clearing out cache on exit is a hang-on from days gone by when folk didn't have enough disc space to load the entire sim to HD. This meant doing a 'partial' install and the sim pulled scenery off the cd and kept it in 'cache' ready for use. To some degree, it still works this way even with a full install by loading scenery for your area and 'pulling in' where it expects you to go next.. similar to but not quite the same. If I'm wrong, I apologise but that's what it used to be for

ATB
DaveB

[nigelb]

Just remember computers are like the Old Testament God - lots of rules but very little mercy.

Nigel²