SSD likely to help FSX?

ringo747 · 4 Aug 2010 at 15:04

As title suggests really.. I have FSX running pretty sweet running locked at 30fps but texture loading still seems quite slow. Was wondering would an SSD give much better performance and cut out microstutters and shimmering from texture loading?

Running an i5@4GHz, 4GB RAM, ATI 5850 on Win 7 x64.

Philtor · 4 Aug 2010 at 15:08

I would say so mate as some of the textures are fairly large files but you would need a big SSD to handle the whole FSX install along with any add-ons you may have too. Assuming your going to have Windows 7 on the SSD also.

ringo747 · 4 Aug 2010 at 15:10

At the moment my Windows install + video editing stuff + 4GB of video + games + FSX is about 87GB! Looks like I will need to be saving for something like 120GB version.

Philtor · 4 Aug 2010 at 15:11

lol ! I was thinking that. I used to run FS2004 and it took a lot of disk space. Worth every Megabyte but

ringo747 · 4 Aug 2010 at 15:13

As long as the drive supports TRIM then thats all I need to worry about?

Philtor · 4 Aug 2010 at 15:18

TRIM is important but you want to look at what controller the drive use's as some have been known to be very unreliable and also what sort of performance you get with reads and writes etc. This is a cracking drive but it's a mental price. You might be able to get away with a smaller capacity however.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-006-CR

ringo747 · 4 Aug 2010 at 15:19

Mad price indeed. Hopefully they come down in price in the next while.

Philtor · 4 Aug 2010 at 15:27

There are loads of cheaper alternatives that you could probably take a punt at but the best SSD's on the Market at the moment are made by Crucial, Vertex or Intel. I would even take a look at the Intel X-25 but even this is coming in at £170 for an 80GB drive

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-IN

lukext · 4 Aug 2010 at 16:15

Got FSX, albeit with no add ons, just bare FSX deluxe on my ssd and can confirm it is faster that when it was on my F3. Much less if any stutering, and have been able to turn options up higher.

I have OS+general apps+office+FSX on my 64 GB SSD, all other games, backups etc on my 1TB F3 and 250G WD. OP, can you not do something similar?

ringo747 · 4 Aug 2010 at 16:26

I probably could you know. All I play is Dirt2, BFBC2 and FSX. FSX being the most important to me.

I guess I could install all my other apps onto a secondary drive. I do some video editing but I guess I could just use another drive for capture and a third for rendering. Maybe worth considering.

-TNT- · 5 Aug 2010 at 13:23

Let us know how it goes with the SSD and FSX as Im also interested to know the performance differences.