Would These PC Specs Be Good For MSTS X?

[chrisracer8903]

I got a new PC recently and I'm wondering if this would be good to get alot out of the new MSTS's graphics and performance:

HP Intel Dual Core Processor 2.15ghz each
2gb of RAM
NVidia 8600GT 256mb video card
and 500Gb of Hard Drive space
and Windows Vista 32bit

Also: Would you say MSTS 2X will support dual cores? -Chris

[djt]

Your question could be answered with about 15 minutes of research by visiting the flight sim forums.

The FSX/hardware section of this forum would be a good start –

http://avsim.com/


To get an idea of how well your system will run MSTS-2, I would suggest you try FSX.

[win23]

those specs look ok, except the vid card. if you have the $ get a 8800 card because fsx (and i predict msts-x will be)is very vid card dependent. and yes, msts x should support dual cores.

my specs are:

Intel quad core processor at 4.35ghz
4gb of ram
150gb hard drive at 10000rpm
nvidia 8800gts 365mb vid card
windows xp (going to get vista for the new sim)

and at those specs, i get about 18-20fps in big citys, and up to 60 fps in the rural areas. and thats with high settings, with your specs you should be ok.

[chrisracer8903]

>my specs are:

>Intel quad core processor at 4.35ghz


Now when you mean by 4.35ghz, do you mean total ghz with all the cores put together or 4.35ghz each? -Chris

[djt]

“because fsx (and i predict msts-x will be)is very vid card dependent”

Really, FSX is GPU dependent, since when?

It’s a primarily a CPU bound application.

[djt]

“my specs are:

Intel quad core processor at 4.35ghz”


Hello, earth to win23!

[BNSF4723]

You can't "put the cores together". A 2.66Ghz dual core is 2.66Ghz. A 3.0Ghz Quad core is 3Ghz. Not 12Ghz (especially considering Intel's Quad core is NOT actually 4 physical cores).

Unless you overclocked it, that's not your true speed.

Anyway back to the topic, your system should be fine but a video card upgrade would be a wise choice. Something like an 8800GT.

[djt]

“You can't "put the cores together". A 2.66Ghz dual core is 2.66Ghz. A 3.0Ghz Quad core is 3Ghz. Not 12Ghz (especially considering Intel's Quad core is NOT actually 4 physical cores).”

I think that win23 might have graduated from the Ottodad school of computer hardware.


“Anyway back to the topic, your system should be fine but a video card upgrade would be a wise choice. Something like an 8800GT.”

That all depends on what he means by “HP Intel Dual Core Processor 2.15ghz each”, Intel Dual Core could mean anything. There’s Dual Core Celeron’s, Dual Core 2’s, and at 2.15GHz you’re not going set the world on fire with FSX’s engine.

As far as the video card is concerned by the time MSTS-2 arrives Nvidia’s 8800 series will be all but a memory, G92 is already on the way.

[plainsman]

Hi Daniel,
Correct me if I error here, but two things we have not previously been considering much, may play a role in FSX or MSTSX performance:
Fast front side bus-I am running 1336 FSB and I read that gives better performance on FSX than slower FSB, I run FSX fine with an E6750.
Raptor (high speed HD) drive to minimize disk read stutters.
Bob

[CP9125]

The GeForce 8600 Gt card is junk... I know that because I have it myself and It turns out it is missing some features. I had an article about it a while back but when I used an ATI 1950 card to play Crysis and it ran better than my Geforce 8600 I was not that happy.

[djt]

Bob,

I’m running an Extreme X6800/1066 FSB (unlocked multiplier) in one machine and a Core 2 E6850/1333 FSB in another.

When ever you increase the pathway of information in and out to the CPU you usually see an increase in performance. The amount of performance increase is another thing. At stock clock speeds my E6850 is just slightly faster in FSX than the X6800. As soon as I increase the multiplier (increase clock speed over 3GHz) on the X6800, it easily passes by the E6850 in CPU bound applications. Clock for clock with the 1066 FSB X6800 and the 1333 FSB E6850 I haven’t noticed any difference between the two in FSX.

The two most significant performance improvements I have seen with CPU bound games/sims is when the instructions per clock cycle and clock speed increase. Unfortunately an increase in IPC is only going to come from an architecture change.

[glcbn]

As djt stated,checking to see if your system might handle FSX would be a good reference for the new train sim. This is a pretty decent site for checking how well your computers hardware would handle the game you specify from the list. Check it out:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest