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> My husband is thinking about getting a computer that has a dual core CPU
> (4800+) and SLI video (256--Nvidia 7800). While he's not a heavy gamer,
> he does load up FS9 on occasion. Does FS9 run well with this setup or are
> there known issues?
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>I don't believe FS9 was written to take advantage of dual core CPU's and I
>don't believe that FSX will either (when it comes out).
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> Having said that, you do get a noticeable improvement in game play when
> using a dual-core over a single core. This is because you can have all
> your background tasks/programs set to run on one CPU and the flight-sim on
> it's own on the other.
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> As far as I know, there are no issues either.
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> "grannygamer" <shortbyte@removethis.cox.net> wrote in message
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> Can it not be forced by making a custom profile?

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> grannygamer wrote:
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> No, it can't.
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> Toosmoky
> Work to ride, Ride to Work...
> http://toosmoky.d2.net.au
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> Ummm, the way SLI is implemented nowadays, the software doesn't do
> anything anyway. It's all handled by the hardware, so FS9 will still use
> SLI because it's the hardware performing whatever SLI is happening anyway.

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> "Someone" <Somebody@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> No it won't. I have FS9. I have SLI. FS9 does not use SLI.
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> --
> Toosmoky
> Work to ride, Ride to Work...
> http://toosmoky.d2.net.au
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> "Someone" <Somebody@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> No it won't. I have FS9. I have SLI. FS9 does not use SLI.
>
> --
> Toosmoky
> Work to ride, Ride to Work...
> http://toosmoky.d2.net.au
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> btw I have FS9 too and I also have an SLI set-up (two 7900's) and the game
> runs just fine, which means the hardware is implementing SLI perfectly. If
> it wasn't, I would only see half a screen.

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> "Someone" <Somebody@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Compatability with an SLI setup is a big difference to actually utilising
> SLI. When I first put my rig together 18 months ago, FS9 and many other
> games wouldn't even run unless SLI was disabled in the driver. Later
> drivers have improved that so that now you can leave it enabled and those
> games that can't utilise SLI will run, but in single card mode.
>
> The reason you don't see half a screen is because your primary graphics
> card is running the whole show.
>
> Enable "Show load balancing" in your drivers. You'll see no balance
> display because you're running only one card. Do it in the FSX demo and
> you will, because FSX can use SLI.
>
> Disable SLI.in your drivers and run off one card. You'll notice no
> difference in performance with FS9...
>
> --
> Toosmoky
> Work to ride, Ride to Work...
> http://toosmoky.d2.net.au
>

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> "Someone" <Somebody@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
>
> Compatability with an SLI setup is a big difference to actually utilising
> SLI. When I first put my rig together 18 months ago, FS9 and many other
> games wouldn't even run unless SLI was disabled in the driver. Later
> drivers have improved that so that now you can leave it enabled and those
> games that can't utilise SLI will run, but in single card mode.
>
> The reason you don't see half a screen is because your primary graphics
> card is running the whole show.
>
> Enable "Show load balancing" in your drivers. You'll see no balance
> display because you're running only one card. Do it in the FSX demo and
> you will, because FSX can use SLI.
>
> Disable SLI.in your drivers and run off one card. You'll notice no
> difference in performance with FS9...
>
> --
> Toosmoky
> Work to ride, Ride to Work...
> http://toosmoky.d2.net.au
>

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> I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're talking about.
> No software uses SLI. It's a hardware implementation.
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> "Toosmoky" <toosmoky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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