Anymore good screenies fellas?

With your 275, an i7 would be a nice upgrade in terms of performance. But for me, FSX isn't playable anymore if I'm not overclocked to 4GHz or higher. If you can scrape the money together, go with i7, but if not, go get an E8400 and go crazy. FSX was awesome with my old E8400 at 4.5GHz.

Hello all, been flyin since fs3, still searching for that elusive fsx rig though too.  I actually thought this one might do it but I think it'll take at least one gulftown now or a new fs

Ok there are new .cfg tweaks that have been discovered, and I've used them to great success.
Copy and paste these into each section in your .cfg (googlg how to find it if you don't know) and your good to go.
This tweak is awesome. It gives me great frames 32 solid when locked on med high to high settings. 
[GRAPHICS]
SHADER_CACHE_VERSION=1 (each time you edit the fsx.cfg, change this # so it rebuilds the shader cache upon loading)
HIGHMEMFIX=1
STALE_BUFFER_THRESHOLD=2147483647 <--- This equals 2048MB, which is the max that a 32-bit application can use.

[Display]
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=70

[BUFFERPOOLS]
UsePools=0

Tweak found in this thread. 
http://www.flightsimworld.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=184975

Yea, the tutorials are cool. I prefer props over jet engines, preferably the Cessna 182 Skyhawk... As an update I did build a new rig and the i7 was the silver bullet for me. FSX runs smooth and pretty... It was well worth the upgrade even with my old GTX 275 driving it! Just trying to sell my WC Kit and some autographed items to pick up a 480 or 580. I also play a little BFBC2 and would like the DX11 features...

I agree the SSD will make a differance, just not willing to shell the cash out for one yet (one with enough space to hold the OS & games). I would like a new GPU for the simple fact of DX11 and running BFBC2 at highest settings...

Jeepn - Yes I understand, all the SSD's run about $2 plus per GB, I was able to get my SSD for about $1.57 / GB
 
Good luck with whichever GPU you get, so far I haven't been impressed at all with the Black Friday ads that have been coming out.
 
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

The Thunderbirds F-16 simulator was made for the Discovery Channel a few years back then sold off. The interior of it doesn't even look like an F-16 though. It really needs to have the insides ripped out and rebuilt with an F-16 interior. The ejection seat looks like an ACES II at least. The F-4J sim is a real surplus Navy simulator and the T-33A is a real T-33A cut down fuselage that has been built back up with the proper cockpit setups again.

Got out of FS for a while but been playin this since way back when.  Just recently started the demo version of FTX pacific northwest terrain textures.  Most realistic I've ever seen so far.
http://fullterrain.com/index.html
 
FSX settings max
NVCP setting 4x supersample
REX v.2 plus grass textures addon
FTX PNW HD Texture package
Resolution 5760x1080 (images snipped)
 

 

 
Not flown on Vatsim since back in the XP days but may get that set up again.
Great thread! Keep posting.

No you dont need an hdmi cable for an hd picture.  HDMI carries the exact same signal as DVI the only difference is that HDMI carries sound too.  The only thing I had set in the NVCP on those pics was 4x supersampling in the AA transperency setting.  Its that texture package that does most of the work.  Its unbelievable!  Especially at 5760x1080.
Downloading the Tasmania textures demo now.  I'll post pics of those too.

Thought I'd bump this thread since jeepn mentioned it over in the 500 forums.  Also have a question, I noticed people saying they're using the NVCP to set anti-aliasing.  How are you getting this to work?  If I turn it off in the sim, and try setting it in the (global) settings on the NVCP it doesn't do anything and I have jaggies still.  Am I setting it in the wrong place?  I have in the past used NHancer and that did work, so I assume I'm just doing something wrong.

blacksapphire08

I'm really interested in this simulator so i'm downloading the demo. What is the full game like? Do you have access to any kind of aircraft and can you fly anywhere you want? Are there "missions" outside of tutorials?

 
Keep in mind, assuming the demo is the same thing I downloaded 4+ years ago when it came out, the demo is/was VERY unoptimized performance-wise but you will at least get a taste of how the sim works.  There have since been two SP's one of which "significantly" (better than it was at least) improved multi-core support and other performance stuff.  FSX includes free flight, tutorials, and missions. 
 
In free flight you can fly any plane in the game or any plane addon you buy or download (www.flightsim.com or www.avsim.com for tons of freeware stuff) and you can fly anywhere in the world except extreme north and south latitudes.  Hopefully they will finally fix that in the next version but forever the the Flightsim world for MS has been more of a barrel shape instead of a globe.  You can actually fly over the poles now I believe but that far north it's very odd and the land does weird things.

...just putting my fav game thread in plain view again! Long time fellas! Maybe we need to do some EGC flyin together sometime!