System Upgrade

My advice would be to upgrade the 570 to a 970 if your frame rates are suffering. The added vram , from 1.2 to 4gb, alone would help if the system specs are accurate.    Adding an SSD if you don't have one and putting the flight sim on it might make for a smoother experience if the game loads a lot of textures, traffic, distance , etc in game. 

Looks like plenty of ram. 


Edited by bprat22 - 30 Oct 2015 at 11:24am

My pleasure.  

Up until a year or two ago I did alot of DCS A10, Black Shark and then the DCS World all in one setup with Huey.  .    Running a gtx 560 then 570 with an older i5-2500k clocked at 4.4 resulted in max gaming and excellent game play.

FSX was another story.....kept it locked at 30fps and even then had to turn down traffic, distance, etc.   Still played good.   Haven't tried it since updating to a gtx 970.  The FA/18 Superbug was going to be my next thing but I've been lazy lately.  

Still have my HOTAS TM Cougar with pedals and Tracir5 waiting for me to engage .

Have fun.             Viper out.

 

Thanks, folks. I just ordered an EVGA GTX 970 FTW (overclocked), and expect it next week sometime.

grats!

As a final followup about Prepar3d and the GTX 970:
This morning I set sliders much higher, then departed Ashland, OR across Medford to Kellnuss (a small grass field I created, just north of Medford). I had 29-30 fps at Ashland, and it gradually reduced after takeoff until I had 18-20 fps across Medford (still 4-6 better than before), then 20-24 at Kellnuss. Settings were:

MSAA 4 Samples
Anisotropic 4x
FXAA On
Tessellation Factor Ultra
Level of detail Radius Ultra
Scenery Complexity, Veg Density and Building Density at Extremely Dense,
Water Detail High
HDR Lighting, Shadow Qual High, Terr and Cloud Cast Shadow 20,000m
Cloud Draw Distance 100 mi, Clooud Coverage Density High (Detailed Clouds)
Weather set to Orbx Weather 1.

This is a lot higher than I've ever dared before. Leaving Kellnuss I changed the visibility to 40 miles, but the rest was the same as before, as I flew a 280º heading to near the coast, then GPS to Siletz Bay (S45) (with ORBX major enhancements). Throughout, to long final approach, I had 28-30 (locked at 30) fps, mostly 29.5 or better. On final to S45 it ran from 23-30 fps, then from the flare to parking through shutdown it was 29-30 fps.

Wow! This would have brought my system to its knees with the GTX 570 I had before. Money WELL spent!
Larry

Yes, TrackIR is an integral part of my simming. It, along with the assignable buttons and axes on my stick/throttle, make it feel so much more natural, and easier to look around, orient yourself and just fly.