This kinda sucks

[Vraciu]

Your setup is similar to mine except for the card. I'm running an i5 2500k @ 4.6Ghz 16gb ram and a HD6950 2gb card. In offline mode with the same settings I get 30fps just sitting on the runway. I am running 3 monitors though so I am probably taking a hit on that as well. 

I want to run a multiple monitor setup, too. I think that would rock.   Baby steps though.

My good card is in my older machine.  Maybe I can swap them.  I think the old card is AGP and the new one PCIe though.....  I need to run diag on both.  *Starts digging out cables for old machine*

[RotBaron]

What is your CPU, you never stated it. For one if its an AMD CPU you are in some trouble as a friend of mine has a fx-8350 8 core AMD and my quad core 4 years older i5 2500k still beats him in FPS.
Also my CPU usage when i normally play is around 10-15% as I have pandora and multiple tabs of web browser open.

The game tried to fine the "best" FOV for me but I like wider FOV in this game for better SA (flying with mouse and keyboard its harder to keep SA high...) Also thats another thing, generally the higher the FOV the bigger the FPS drop... How ever this isn't really a factor anymore.

EDIT: What model is your 660ti? is it 1gb or 2gb/higher

The 660 ti is a 2gb. I found through trial and error that nvidia seems to be much better for me for AH.
CPU is amd phenom II x4 830, 2.80ghz,  10gb ram

[BaldEagl]

Ah, the old 'I'm tough as nails in the midst of complaining that I'm being persecuted unfairly by the masses' ploy.

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'Alright, the rest of you! I'm Vraciu and I'm going to give you a fresh perspective
about this game. You see, the default graphics setting is horribly outdated, the
business model is woefully inadequate and though the game has outlasted most
it is certainly on its last gasping breath. Hear me! Something must change!
I'm not entirely sure what.

And, by the way, you are all stinky retarded poopy-heads that pick on me way too
much while I'm doing my best to win friends and influence the community.

Nooooo! Ahhhhhh! Stop! You're crushing my broad shoulders! I'm not complaining, mind you.'

   

[Tinkles]

Ah, the old 'I'm tough as nails in the midst of complaining that I'm being persecuted unfairly by the masses' ploy.

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'Alright, the rest of you! I'm Vraciu and I'm going to give you a fresh perspective
about this game. You see, the default graphics setting is horribly outdated, the
business model is woefully inadequate and though the game has outlasted most
it is certainly on its last gasping breath. Hear me! Something must change!
I'm not entirely sure what.

And, by the way, you are all stinky retarded poopy-heads that pick on me way too
much while I'm doing my best to win friends and influence the community.

Nooooo! Ahhhhhh! Stop! You're crushing my broad shoulders! I'm not complaining, mind you.'

 

What movie is that from?

[Max]

Life of Brian

[Vraciu]

What movie is that from?

"Gotta be Monty Python," I thought.   Confirmed. 

[LCADolby]

Never try to influence a community of old people.

"Generation XP" with their 10 year old PCs...

[TwinBoom]

i run xp on 2 machines what options will msc offer me?

[Vraciu]

Never try to influence a community of old people.

"Generation XP" with their 10 year old PCs...

Newer doesn't mean better.  Give me Windows 2000 and Office 2003 and I will run circles around anyone using Winnlows 7 and Office 2010 for productivity.  I don't need Microsloth to continuously shift the paradigm without preserving the core things we have had since at least windows 95 (and the first versions of MS Word and Works).  Keep the bells and whistles.  They're a distraction.


They do this bogus "continuous improvement" as a reason to drive the sheep into buying hardware and OSes, not because it actually does anything in a superior way.   Leave hardware sales to the game industry.  That's the only real need for most of it any way, as Linux has ably shown.   Just my opinion.

 

[BluBerry]

Never try to influence a community of old people.

"Generation XP" with their 10 year old PCs...

 
So true about this place.

[Lusche]

Never try to influence a community of old people.

"Generation XP" with their 10 year old PCs...

CP/M was good enough for us, so it should be good enough for you, young man!