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What is best Graphics card for FSX?

thunder100

thunder100

Charter Member 2010
dear All

It seems my Nvidia 8800 GTX is dying(white screens in FSX)

Which one should I buy next ?

I have 1000 plus planes
run highest airplane settings
medium scenery settings
want min 25-28 FPS
do a lot of flight testing so need no stutter(like at the thermals) as Starliner team member
want a reliable driver

Thanks for suggestions

Roland
 
Roland, Are you sure you have DX10 unchecked? And also Bloom unchecked too ?

Its your CPU that gives performance, so about all new cards out will do fine.

However I'm partial to ATI. The 4870 is a good choice.
 
As Harleyman mentioned above, make sure Light Bloom is not on. White screens are (usually) the result of bloom being used with non-FSX SDK airplanes.
 
Roland, bei Windows XP gibt es die Option für DirectX 10 nicht.

Von den Treibern her machen beide Hersteller grade nicht wirklich gute Arbeit (jedenfalls meiner Erfahrung nach), jedoch scheinen NVidia-GPUs tendentiell weniger Probleme mit dem FSX zu haben.

Also würde ich dir eine GTX285 empfehlen. Bei etwas geringerem Budget auch eine GTX260.
 
GTX260 läuft bei mir auch bestens, und NVidia Karten sind besser geeignet fuer FSX als ATI.... ungefähr doppelte fps. Und niemand weiss genau weshalb ;-)

'Die beste Karte' existiert wohl nicht... ebensowenig wie das beste PC. Vielleicht in 5 Jahr oder so? :wavey:
 
Well guys...I don't think one over the other is better...just what you like...After all , FSX is run by the Processer not the vid card...

My rig does great for FSX.....5 years????
 
thunder100 said:
dear All

It seems my Nvidia 8800 GTX is dying(white screens in FSX)

Which one should I buy next ?

I have 1000 plus planes
run highest airplane settings
medium scenery settings
want min 25-28 FPS
do a lot of flight testing so need no stutter(like at the thermals) as Starliner team member
want a reliable driver

Thanks for suggestions

Roland
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It is very sad, I lost me 8800 GTS of close to 2-years, stuck with a Nvidia 7600, Yuk, I have to Squint allot to get through a flight, is ok though plenty of cheer on me side !!

Thinking of a Cheap ATI 4800 maybe just under a couple c-notes !!

:ernae::ernae:
 
My best friend owns a computer store and I had a box full of just about every card there is. Starting with the 8800gt and moving up to the latest, I tried them all. Nothing scientific just seat of the pants playing. With each latest,faster card I noticed some big changes in every game but one . Yup, FSX. In alot of cases, FSX and older games ran slower or not at all. If the game wasnt programmed to take advantage of its features,the card doesnt do any good. Sometimes driver changes help but have you EVER seen FSX on any ATI or Nvidia driver list. Never will.
FYI I run a 4870 because it was free and kick ass in every game but FSX. It IS slower than the 8800 series especially in clouds but not by much. Since I run other games than FSX, its a tradeoff. If FSX is your main concern, IMO the Nvidia cards have the lead. But its been said a million times and I will say it again. Its the cpu speed and elimination of background proccesses which have the greatest effect on FSX performance.
 
If I were buying one I'd go with an nVidia GTX260 or better, and I would avoid ATI as their hardware/driver architecture is known to produce lower framerates than nvidia cards, even when clearly CPU bound, which means its an architecture thing.
 
Roland..
What the gentlemen say about most graphics cards not mattering with FSX is absolutely correct. However, there's one exception to the rule..
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_295_us.html
Used with NVidia's CUDA drivers ( the power behind Tesla ) the GTS/GTX family of graphics cards turn your computer into a heavyweight number cruncher by utilizing the graphics cards processing cores as co processors for the cpu.
I had the cuda drivers running on my system with an 8800GTX before i installed windows7 and even with being a complete novice with overclocking and memory speeds and all that, i was seeing frame rates and graphics that were quite wonderful for me..
I believe i can confidently say however, that the only thng you can get to run FSX better than these cards mixed with a good processor and the cuda drivers, is tesla ( your basic desktop supercomputer that makes anything including the new I7 boards look totaly pathetic ).
Hope this helps
Pam
 
With a good CPU (like an i7 940 overclocked) the GTX285 would be the best card out there for FSX

Otherwise, with lesser hardware, something like a GTX260 or 9800GT (even slower than the 260) would be a good match

I run a 8800GT with my 19inch monitor
 
Francois said:
GTX260 läuft bei mir auch bestens, und NVidia Karten sind besser geeignet fuer FSX als ATI.... ungefähr doppelte fps. Und niemand weiss genau weshalb ;-)
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Weil ATI irgendwas falsch macht? :>


JIMJAM said:
It IS slower than the 8800 series especially in clouds but not by much.
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Erm...by much.

When even default real weather brings the 4850 down to some stuttering in the 8 to 10 FPS range, I wouldn't dare to say what it's like with stuff like ASX generating the weather. :monkies:
 
There is a BIG difference betreen the 4850 and 4870. Huge, Gigantic. Enormous. Like I said, if FSX is all you do and you have a older rig, the 8800gt series still cannot be beat for the price. But yes, I tried the 4850 and the clouds killed it. The 4870 isnt even in the same league. Much, much faster. And HOT. Even on a dual core rig, the 4870 runs all the latest shooters FAST and looks great. Thats why I still use it. FSX is,aahhh, FSX.
 
Dear All

First I repaired my Display problem

If is bloom and Aircraft shadow

And FSX remembers not only effects but also settings

I had to

Delete all cfg files
Go to FSX standard settings
Close and restart FSX 2 times(1 is not enough)
New settings-->works now fine

2nd

I tested several graphics cards on my friends rig(in a computer shop) to find the mistake and to see what works,and see wether mine is broken-->is not see above

Pls remark that on my 1000 + planes there are mainly FS9 portovers
Cal Classic Boeing 377 runs at 17 FPS
last FSX portover with a new VC of this plane runs at 12
WOS 377 runs at 19-20

Best results are

True FSX plane WOS 377(tried also the Carendo Mooney but they are all easy on FPS)

8800 GTX 19
4870X2 24
280 GT 27
295(test dummy) 28

So If I would buy I,ll take 280 as more silent less hot and less power drain then 295(but is a test dummy) and almost same result

The 4870X2 is extremely loud

Thanks for help and suggesting me

Roland
 
I would not buy the GTX 295, because it is essentially running on SLI - something that FSX does not support. The GTX 280/285 is a better decision. ;)
 
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