On what hardware do you run your SSM2007?

[penguin44]

Thanks, glad to be part of a community re-living and learning the ins and outs of the shuttle.

[JLM]

Question- what part of the computer makes the greatest impact on performance/quality vs. price for SSM 2007

[Admin]

JLM,

There is not a single component since SSM is not bound by the CPU (like FSX) or by the 3D Graphics accelerator card (like other sims). If your PC subsystems are balanced and work well with each other, you can get away with even with a reasonable 4 y/o gaming rig.

/Admin

[desktopsimmer]

CPU - Pentium4 3.0 GHz (HT)
MotherBoard - ASUS P4P800S
RAM - 1Gb PC3200
Graphics Card - AGP ASUS V9999 Ultra (Nvidia 6800 Ultra 256Mb)
Resolution - 1280 × 1024
FPS - Average 50fps High 60fps Low 35fps
Graphical features - All set to high

That was my 'working' PC until the M/board blew up. So I shifted the GFX card and SSM2007 to my my Linux PC:

PC - Dell Precision 330
CPU - 1.4GHz
RAM - 512MB
Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
Resolution - I'm running SSM2007 in a window 1024x768
FPS - 25 with smoke, 40-75 on orbit/landing
OS - Linux, OpenSUSE 11.2, SSM2007 running using WINE 1.1.40

Any offers for a lower spec PC?

[Admin]

WOW desktopsimmer,

I'm amazed that it even loads on your setup... also considering the OS overhead!

I guess you are a clear winner of the "weakest HW/OS combination on which SSM2007 runs with acceptable frame-rates" - LOL!

Hats off!

/Admin

[desktopsimmer]

Thank you Admin for the award, I'll keep the speech short

However true credit should go to yourselves, as If you had used DirectX instead of OpenGL for the 3D, then I would of been in trouble.

Only hiccup I have is I don't get music, not sure if this a Hardware/driver fault (OpenSUSE) or how WINE handles sound.

[JLM]

JLM,

There is not a single component since SSM is not bound by the CPU (like FSX) or by the 3D Graphics accelerator card (like other sims). If your PC subsystems are balanced and work well with each other, you can get away with even with a reasonable 4 y/o gaming rig.

/Admin

Sorry ADMIN, I don't have a 'GAMING' PC

I have:

Intel Core 2 duo-1.86ghz processor
ATI Radeon X1300 Pro graphics card
1 GB of installed RAM
My computer is only 3 years old.

One question-would performance be improved drastically if the game was set to use multi-core CPUs?-it might help with my slight performance issues.

[desktopsimmer]

I use a, well to be honest, a rubbish CPU, but the GFX card appears to do all of the work. If I swap for a lesser GFX card, the FPS drops of the scale.

[JLM]

What causes, do you guy's think, FSX to rely so much on the processor v.s. everything else?

[Admin]

JLM,

There is not a single component since SSM is not bound by the CPU (like FSX) or by the 3D Graphics accelerator card (like other sims). If your PC subsystems are balanced and work well with each other, you can get away with even with a reasonable 4 y/o gaming rig.

/Admin

Sorry ADMIN, I don't have a 'GAMING' PC

I have:

Intel Core 2 duo-1.86ghz processor
ATI Radeon X1300 Pro graphics card
1 GB of installed RAM
My computer is only 3 years old.

One question-would performance be improved drastically if the game was set to use multi-core CPUs?-it might help with my slight performance issues.

If you currently get a constant 50-60 fps with Vsync on, it is not necessary to upgrade. The fact that without Vsync you will get 1,000fps will be irrelevant anyway since SSM is smooth at anything above 35fps.

/Admin

[Admin]

I use a, well to be honest, a rubbish CPU, but the GFX card appears to do all of the work. If I swap for a lesser GFX card, the FPS drops of the scale.

Not necessarily - depends to which "lesser 3D card" you swap and how well it is matched to the CPU

As an example, I've been running SSM2007 on an Vista 32Bit LG laptop, 1280x1024 screen, mobile Intel P8600 Centrino 2, 2.40GHz, 4GB (2GB usable) RAM, with a nVidia 9300 GS mobile chipset with 256MB VRAM. In many ways, this mobile 3D chip chip is significantly less powerful than your 6800 and I still get a sustained 50-60fps at all times.  The Processor Vista "experience index" is 5.3 and the Gaming Graphics is 4.7.

/Admin

[Admin]

What causes, do you guy's think, FSX to rely so much on the processor v.s. everything else?

Old code mixed with new code and the need to be backward compatible with so much content.

FSX needs to be re-written to really take advantage of the latest technology. AFAIK, Microsoft has been silently re-hiring some of the old ACES team, so there is still hope.

But let's stop talking about FSX here. There are enough forums dealing with it already

/Admin

[lelleck]

I have:
I950@4.0 GHz, 12 GB RAM, 128 MB SSD, 400GB HDD (SSM2007), 2GB EVGA GTX285 on 195.62, NHANCER, HOTAS COUGAR, SyncMaster 245B. W7 64Bit...

And i get a horrible tearing effect, upper 1/3 of the screen lags behind up to about 1-2 inches when i pan the view... actualy feels dizzying...
VSYNC on or off dont make a difference. It diminishes a little with AA=OFF,
but even at AA=2, the screen is teared up. -So i run AA32 =)

Anyone have ´n idea what i need to do?

Kind regards Henrik Owenius

[JLM]

I wanted to get a RAM upgrade-not necessarily for SSM2007 but just for the computer in general.

I do, however want to get a better Graphics card since I can't run SSM2007 on the quality/performance levels I want to be at-since my PC is-like you guys said-is more than capable of running SSM2007. I could probably run SSM2007 and FS9 at the same time with little computer performance loss.-which is EXCELLENT-but my old X1300 pro is getting in the way of the quality/performance I want to play SSM2007 at.-If you guy's could remember the thread I started about the computer problems I was having when even the lowest anti-aliasing settings was enabled from the catalyst control center now you guy's know why I'm thinking about saving money to get a better graphics card.

[rstites950]

PC - Dell Studio XPS 9000
CPU - Itel i7 920 Quad core 2.66GHz
RAM - 8GB
Graphics Card - NVidia GeForce GTS 240 w/1GB
Resolution -2048x1536
FPS -60i
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit