[simpits-tech] gaming computer...

[delor lauchang]

Bill is right, go back to XP, and check if your browser is in maximize mode,
to undock you should not be in full screen.

My set up is working great with the two 512 Radeon Pro two 32" Broksonic
HDTV and two 22" Envision.




On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:03 PM, William Segal <catalina299 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Bill Segal wrote
>
> That is a excellent reason why many of us switched to XP . I had an Opteron
> Workstation dual core dual processors dual 7800GTX 512meg
> It flew X-plane with every feature to the limit and still produced frame
> rates above 120 but in FS X with 16 gigs of ram it was a pile of bones .
> I am sorry and you spent all that money and it still wants more.
>
> In my opinion in order to fly FS X balls out your going to need dual 4 core
> Quads + 790I type motherboard and the only one out there is a Tyan
> $600. 4 each 280 1gig cards and 16 gigs or maybe $6000 of machine +1350
> watt redundant power supply add it all up its like a giant workstation
>
> Regards
>
> William Segal
>
> 10th Year in X-plane
>
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>
>
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>   On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Justin Messenger <jjmessenger at yahoo.com
> > wrote:
>
>>     I purchased a nForce680i SLI mother board with a q6700 quad 2.66 ghz
>> CPU and for gigs of SLI RAM to use with my 8800 Ultra video card that I
>> already had.
>>
>> The result.. with FS9 it no longer lets me undock windows making the
>> system useless with my simulator. The main view only works properly in
>> fullscreen mode. Put it in a window mode and you can hear it flying but the
>> visuals are frozen.  I do average 40 FPS with the slider all the way up on
>> all the options flying around KLAX.. It looks outstanding but I need to
>> undock extra views. FSX still gets horrible frame rates. very disappointing.
>> this system should be smoking!
>>
>> when I installed all the patches for X it said my video card was not a new
>> enough model and couldnt handle the shaders. X then closes.
>>
>> All of this with a clean install of of Vista Home 32 bit
>>
>> A puzzled Justin
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