I recently updated my lagging PC to:
Gigabyte S-Series Motherboard
Athlon 64 x2 6000+
PCI-E GeForce 9600GT
4Gb RAM
I still had the odd problems with stuttering, but found it was the graphics card that was sucking all the power from the rest of the machine.
When I updated the power unit from 350W to 500W the machine came alive. No stuttering now, even if I run FS9 with virus checker and defrag in the background.
O.k. It cost a few bob, [pounds sterling], and it does dim the lights a bit when i boot up but in the long run it's the dog's nadgers.
With today's graphics and the cards to go with them it's always worth spending a bit more and getting more power. I never thought the 350w power unit would fail to supply, still you live and learn.
If you don't have a quick PC try logging off and back on as a different user, then you can stop all the services you don't need as well as the network connection and virus checker. This speeds up the system quite a lot.
Tony
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Nice package - compared to minealjude wrote:I recently updated my lagging PC to:
Gigabyte S-Series Motherboard
Athlon 64 x2 6000+
PCI-E GeForce 9600GT
4Gb RAM
(Laptop, 1.6GHz Intel 945 chipset, 1.24GB RAM, 60GB HDD; flying in Heathrow area the fan is running like a race car engine on a straight track while the AI slows the FPS rate to seconds per frame)
But your room will be warmed up in minutesaljude wrote:...and it does dim the lights a bit when i boot up...
Jan
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Former technician in MFG2 at ETME (home base of PANAVIA The flying computer TORNADO. sadly closed now)
I gave this a try and the computer itself definitely runs much faster. However I saw no improvements in my FPS in FS9, in fact they were actually lower. To me that indicates that my lower FPS are a result of the graphics card and RAM combination and not necessarily CPU speed or memory at this point. But that's good information to know.If you don't have a quick PC try logging off and back on as a different user, then you can stop all the services you don't need as well as the network connection and virus checker. This speeds up the system quite a lot.
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I'm just not sure the graphics card has much to do with it. I noticed a huge improvement in fps when I upgraded CPUs and no improvement when I went to a higher-end video card.
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