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media_pdc Guest
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:12 pm

Hello Guys,

I also have my FSX Deluxe, but it doesn't work well. It doesn't work fluently.

My system:
Intel 4 HT 3GHz
ATI Radeon 9800 XL (128MB DD SDRAM ; 256Bit Memory Interface)
512 MB DDR 400 Mhz

FS 9 works very good. Do you think it would help me much, if I would upgrade my Ram to 2,5GB?
Or is it the graphiccard?
I want to buy a new one, but I still want to wait for DirectX 10.

What do aou think about upgrading RAM?

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 18001 Location: U.S.A
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:16 pm

Both, do what you can do now and upgrade your card when you can.
Look in the Hardware Forum, there is a thread about DX 10 cards.

The ram will be needed for Vista also.

Radar

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PIC1stOfficer First Officer
Joined: Sep 25, 2006 Posts: 157 Location: KSEA/Seattle
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:21 pm

I agree upgrade both. 🙂

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CrashGordon Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 3837
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:09 pm

Both.

media_pdc Guest
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:15 pm

ok thx, but now i don't have the money for it and I have to wait fpr the directx 10 cards. But do you think, that upgrading ram would help me much?

media_pdc Guest
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:41 pm

I mean, will it improve the frame rate, if I upgrade the Ram? Now I have low settings and a framrate of about 12frames /sec. sometimes it brakes up for one second or longer.
Do you thing it will be much better with 2560MB RAM?

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Solotwo Chief Captain
Joined: Jan 26, 2006 Posts: 1188 Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:16 pm

Umm play FS9 then. Why doesn't anyone do any research before buying a product now a days?

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CrashGordon Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 3837
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:21 pm

The major stutters are caused by memory content being swapped to and from the cache on your hard drive. The addition of RAM will definitely help with this. I have checked my system with 512 MBof RAM and found that 1 GB was in use when I was using FSX. This means that fully half ofr everything has been swapped out to the hard drive. That is very inefficient.

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