Allow an Air Combat simmer to introduce himself

[darryl]

Hi All,
I am Darryl. I live in what is referred to as "the midwest" in Ohio of the USA. I am hopeful of being a useful contributor to these forums, if only by the questions I ask. I have a few to ask! None of them may be worthwhile. ;)

One of my hobbies is online simming. In particular I fly a few combat sims online: IL2, LOMAC. In my experince, good combat sim seems to be very taxing for even a mid'level pc. Some eye-candy features are only available to users with near top-tier components. Among other demanding aspects of combat simming (being very ram cpu-intensive are two that come to mind) video performance is at or near the top concern. It is with me, anyway. I am aware of games like Crysis being super-demanding on systems. In no way can my current rig even begin to render that one. I should say that I am in the planning and financing stage of building a new gaming pc.
Anyway, hello to all. Nice to be here
darryl

[Radiator]

Welcome to the forums .
Crysis cannot be maxed by any PC out there... exept for SLi/Tri-SLi or CF configurations ... ( not sure about CF support on Crysis ) .

Anyway , yeah... simulators are quite taxing on the computer .
And your computer is better than mine.. you can run Crysis on low/medium at 1024x768 ( I run on fully medium , but I get 10-15FPS .. I find that playable , but most people are quite picky when it comes to framerates ) .

[darryl]

Thanks for your input. I'd never considered how Crysis might run on my current machine. :p Oh, I'm not one of those who are picky about frame rates. Well maybe a little.:o One of the combat sims I fly has tracks which we fans use to gage how well we've configured things, balancing out eye candy and frame rates. One track runs fairly well on my pc (about 35-40 fps) except for near the end where there is an explosion (kamikaze hit a carrier), and my frames fell to 7 momentarily. Another runs a bit faster, but drops down to 13fps. And I don't have any maxed out settings relative to fps. That's where I need the cpu upgrade. Going Conroe or Penryn means a new mobo, thus a new video card (6800 ultra-oc AGP here).
I also want to be ready for new sims on the horizon.
thanks again,
darryl

[wyz135]

lol, Mr Darryl, you sounds so pro at computing, I bet you've studied Computer Engineering somewhere like universities...