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Hello all! I'm just getting into MS Flight Sim X and am looking for high fidelity planes and liveries. No idea how I ended up here, but the Piper Cub, 377 Strato, B-17, and Spitfire Accusims look wonderful.

My question/concern is, what kind of performance hit does the better graphics and improved physics have on the game? Is it negligible, light, moderate, or heavy?

Thanks!

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For me, negligable to very light.

My system:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 o/c @3,74Ghz (Noctua NH-D14)
7GB DDR2-800
GTX-295 o/c
Windows 7 64bit

And the most immediate add-ons: REX2+overdrive and sceneries.

Hope this helps

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I have an older system, leaned to peak fro FS2004, but I switched full time to FSX in 2009. I have a motherboard I can't remember what it's called. I have Win & Home Premium 64 bit, AMD Phenom I X4 processor 2.2ghz and a PNY GeForce GTX280. I have the Captain Sim 707 and I am bogged down liek nobody's business. Their 727 and 757 really slow me down. The detail on my B-17 which is greater than the 377 with accusim hardly slows me down, although teh deatil, realism and AccuSIm features do morethan the 757 and 727 do. Its just hjow the developer does it. I really need a system update.

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Do you like the B17 Accusmim better than the Boing 377?

For me, it is light/moderate, depending where I'm flying. I am on a pentium 4 though so that has a good impact on my game performance alone. The plane is usually only slow on the frame rate during the initial loading of the plane and surrounding scenery, and runs fine after that, as long as I stay out of the heavily populated areas like L.A., San Francisco, and Seattle areas for example.

Well I don't own the 377, but my friend does, and I've compared and the B-17 (in my opinion) has more detail and quality of textures than the 377 and I'd say the B-17 is more demanding of the system, but it doesn't effect mine as many add-ons do.

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Hi,

Negligible to light impact. Nothing to worry about! Definitely the lightest in my hangar by a good margin.

Best regards,
Robin.

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A2A/AccuSim. 'nuff said!

Light impact - EXCEPT for fire and smoke effects.

I have had A2A Accusim birds for some time and fly many other pay-ware too and default FSX planes often. I fly FSX every day. I have never noticed or felt any performance hit from A2A Accusim on my J3 Cub or the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. Good question though as some other pay-ware birds I've purchased were so terrible my system bogged just trying to switch aircraft external views when other publishers birds don't have these drawbacks. If you stick (no pun intended!) with a quality aircraft publisher you'll be fine. and you'll have access to forums and updates. Happy Landings to all....


Summary:
I get no negative issues on any of my A2A birds with this modest FSX setup.

Gateway DX4840 / Intel Core i5-650 / Win 7 Ultimate & FSX on 64G Kingston SSD / EVGA GT 240 512M (Fermi) / Asus 19" at 1440x900 (75hz) / Logitech 3D Pro flight stick.

CharlieP51 in La Veta, Colorado

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Those that i own(see sig) have no more impact than other highend products(e.g. Carenado), sometimes even less.

Regards,
SL007

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[quote="CharlieP51"]I have had A2A Accusim birds for some time and fly many other pay-ware too and default FSX planes often. I fly FSX every day. I have never noticed or felt any performance hit from A2A Accusim on my J3 Cub or the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. Good question though as some other pay-ware birds I've purchased were so terrible my system bogged just trying to switch aircraft external views when other publishers birds don't have these drawbacks. If you stick (no pun intended!) with a quality aircraft publisher you'll be fine. and you'll have access to forums and updates. Happy Landings to all....


Summary:
I get no negative issues on any of my A2A birds with this modest FSX setup.

Guess I'm already in this thread..since I love to read my own posts I'll just ADD a +1 I sense no performance hit I have ever been able to attribute to A2A. This A2A product line is so good and so well supported I would buy new hardware if I needed to ...there is just none better. I have flown since SubLogic was the only sim in town. (That would be Commodore 64 BTW!

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