FSX | Steam | P3D | X-Plane What difference does a graphics card upgrade make?

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Hi folks and welcome to this video.
I am no tech guru, but I decided some time ago to upgrade my graphics card from rubbish to mediocre. I finally got around to doing it yesterday. Consequently, I thought it might be nice to do a very basic comparison video of performance before and after for FSX Steam, Prepar3d and X-Plane 10.
With a mix of 32 and 64 bit programs allied to different usage of GPU's it was always going to be an interesting if non scientific experiment. This test is by no means comprehensive, nor is it a comprehensive valid benchmark test. What I will say is that I was surprised by one particular aspect of my results.
Now the caveat is obvious. I am not a tech guru, so please don't ask me which card you should use and certainly I can't tell you what speed your set up should give. Moreover, and I mention this several times in the video, please don't compare any of the sims with any other sim. Each has different graphics, aircraft and environmental settings so you cannot directly compare frame rates between sims. What is however evident is which sims benefit and by how much assuming the only change is the graphics card.
This video is simply an account of my experience and thoughts about my upgrade, on my system with my software.
If you want to find out a little bit more about me and my channel, please feel free to visit it here :
flightsim481.wix.com/flightsim481
You can also support me and help me to make further videos through my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/Flightsim481?...
My system:
Intel Core i5-4670k overclocked to 4.4 GHz
MSi z87-G43 Motherboard
Enermax TES-T40 Black Cooler
16 GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
MSI Twin Frozr GeForce GTX 760 2GB graphics card
TS XFX 550w PSU
Sandisk 128Gb SSD
Seagate 1TB HDD
Western Digital 1TB Hybrid drive
Windows 7

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24 июн 2015

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@SQTierHog 9 лет назад

Rich,

@MrCobolman-FSPro 9 лет назад

Really interesting video, Rich. Thanks for sharing.

@dfarro 9 лет назад

Thanks for the video. You've definitely sold me on P3D for when I build my new rig. What an improvement on that sim. I'm currently on legacy FSX running on an Intel Q6600 Core2 Quad 2.4GHz, GeForce 9800GT 512Mb, 4GB DDR RAM. Ancient!

@Ireallydongiveashit 9 лет назад

Hi Rich, nice to see another nice video from you - I was starting to get worried and was missing your techy reviews :)

@pickle4474 7 лет назад

Thanks for this. I was running a gt 630 on an i7 then just upgraded to a gtx 1050 and of course I was expecting a big improvement with fsx steam but not really and I'm still struggling with frame rates. Think I might give up with fsx steam even though I have bought so many addons.great video.

@Litlesmall 9 лет назад

Great to see you back! Any new videos soon?

@forestchunk 8 лет назад

This is a great vid, thanks for making. I am in exactly the same boat(plane) as you, in that out machines are very similar. I've a 6600k at stock 4ghz with the same 750ti. I'm a bit fed up I'm still having to mess with FSX so much to get it to play nicely, so I've got p3d month test and purchased X plane 10. This video has proven to me that I need to bite the bullet and go for P3D. Although I'll not be able to use the NGX or A2A C172 unless I purchase again, I can still use ORBX, ASN and REX, so it's not all bad. Thank you for helping me in a non scientific manner that I'd struggle to understand 😄

@SpikeBlighty 9 лет назад

Very interesting results. I've been humming and hawing regards a GFX card upgrade but as your video has illustrated so clearly its a bit of a raffle. Especially in the mid level grade cards such the various GTX 760, 960 and Ti SKU's

@JamesLyonaviation12 9 лет назад

Great video mate! I've also got the MSI 760 card, it's great but there's definately room for an update! Maybe for next time it would have been a bit more fair if you had disabled the scenery in FSX as you weren't testing it in P3D or X-Plane (I'm an FSX fanboy :P ). Other than that really enjoyed it and keep up the great videos!

@asj511 9 лет назад

This just shows that X-Plane is the future.

@shantk.2530 8 лет назад

Hi Sir nice video,but you should have tried default LOWI Scenery at FSX SE as you did in P3D and X-plane 10 , because each of those Scenery companies has it's own FPS performances,Hope you know what i mean.Thank you for this nice Video ,Keep up the great work.

@gghifar22 9 лет назад

Yeay! Same graphics card :D Although I do think the gpu can't handle very high quality on X-Plane 10 without stutters

@arran987654321 8 лет назад

My pc build budget is £600 and I'm so happy to see you can build a good pc for that amount of money, I just can't decide between a AMD graphics card or a nvidia

@20gibbon 8 лет назад

Hey Rich, hope you're all good. Have just been re-watching a couple of your vid and thought this may be helpful to you. As far is a know when you make any changes to your sim settings or you change your graphics card then it is also wise to delete the Shaders folder located in your Users\[you]\AppData\Local\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2 folder, this is not to be confused with the Shaders folder in the main P3-D folder, if you do not do this then some of the changes may not be visible.

@janparadowski4894 9 лет назад

I really like your PC, and I actually want to build a new one, using some similar components to your's. (GTX760, the HDD, the CPU and Win7). BTW You said somethin' about DCS. Perhaps a DCS video. Keep up the good work on your channel ;) Cheers

@MaxWaldorf2011 9 лет назад

Hey Rich!

@wingman7743 9 лет назад

Great video making the great content

@louisslater6351 6 лет назад

Hello there. I’ve installed FSX steam but due to poor graphics on my PC it doesn’t open steam. There’s a message that asks me to install a better graphics card, advises GeForce or Radeon8500. Do you have any recommendations? Nothing expensive, just want it to work!!

@Worstplayer 9 лет назад

The differences would be more in favor of 760 in cloudier weather. 760 is a huge improvement over 750 in fill-rate ( 94.1 gtexel/s vs 32.6 - almost 3x better), which determines how well it handles overlapping textured objects (like clouds, or transparent windows in virtual cockpit).

@ChodeVFD 9 лет назад

I may have missed it in your video but did FSX rebuild the shaders after the install of the 760? If not that could have negated some of the benefit of the upgrade.