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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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FSX/Win7_Optimize

falcon409

falcon409

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Another "pearl" from NickN over at Simforums, this time a blow by blow description of how to optimize Win7 for FSX. He takes you from installing Win7, optimizing that installation, then installing FSX and it's optimization.

I already have those installed obviously and no way I was going to start over just to follow along, but it's easy to pick up beyond each install process and make the tweaks he suggests in between each. It took about 2 hours to do everything, including defrags in between each step at one point with O&O Defrag. Those instructions can be found here:
http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=34141&PID=198187#198187

After that I went to his great tutorial on setting up NHancer "correctly", which can be found here:
http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=29041

Scroll down to find the actual setup instructions.

After doing all this, and of course this is simply my results (your results may vary), I went to the main proving ground for fps tweaks (New York City) and while I did experience some stuttering, the fps had gone from single and low double digit fps to 20 to 25fps.

My system is a $300 base system, 2.9ghz CPU, 8gigRAM, NVidia 9600GT Vid Card with 512RAM and running dual monitors (1 22" flat screen, 1 19" CRT). Also, nothing is overclocked. . .I don't know how and I figured it was better to leave that along rather than fry something and have to shut down FSX indefinitely.

Might be worth checking out!!:salute:
 
Skittles said:
Come again!?
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Just what I said, I paid $300 for this Acer Dual Core System after my original computer fried the MB. I didn't have much money and this was all I could find on the shelf. The vid card, harddrive and 2gig of memory came from my old system, I added the additional memory and that's what I'm running FSX on.:salute:
 
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