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However, like I said, I would be very surprised if over the course of the next 36-60 months, FlightGear would address all its technical/architectural challenges that are currently preventing it from leveraging modern gaming rigs.įlightGear simply isn't there yet - and even if the core team were able to address core most issues, there simply is too much fgdata stuff (Nasal !!) that cannot easily be ignored - even the way people currently tend to use Nasal + Canvas is highly problematic from a rendering standpoint, if you want fast rendering, it simply is not a good idea to set up subsystems or avionics in Nasal space using timers and listeners, which then update properties to in turn update a FBO/RTT context to update a MFD. Obviously, FlightGear isn't 'Crysis' - but anything much lower than these specs, might be frustrating by future developments. Still, it's probably what I'd consider the 'minimum' these days for people wanting to set up a system specifically for FlightGear. Thus, 400-500 USD/5 years is something like 100 USD/year or 9 USD/month, or 0.30 USD/dayĪ quad core system, with 16gb of RAM and dedicated graphics with 2gb of VRAM still is a fairly decent system these days, even as a mobile device. My assertion is, it will take more than 5+ years for FlightGear to fully leverage a system like the Z800.

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So, if you limit your budget to ~300-350 USD, you can still set aside 10 USD/month to have the option to upgrade your graphics card (or RAM/CPU!) every 18 months or so, without having to change the whole system. to track what's going on at the subsystems level, and at the sub-subsystem level (think Nasal GC property I/O, swapping, RAM/VRAM utilization etc). Right now, I don't quite see how purchasing a high-end system makes sense.įlightGear really isn't very optimized, and it's not very good at leveraging dedicated gaming systems - and FlightGear is lacking built-in tools to gather performance stats, i.e. by adding a better graphics card over the course of the next 12-18 months). Given how FlightGear is being developed and designed, I would not expect to spend more than 300-400 USD on hardware currently (hardware that will be good enough for the next 3-5 years probably) - FlightGear is facing some very real architectural issues, and even with the changes currently in the pipeline (compositor, compositeviewer, WS 3.0 scenery/LOD and ortho scenery), you're unlikely to benefit from purchasing top-notch hardware currently - it's best to keep your budget in the low hundreds (200-350) and then incrementally update a solid platform like the Z800 (e.g.

Speaking in general, a Z800 with 64 gb of RAM and 12gb of VRAM does offer quite a bit of horsepower, for only 300 bucks (or even less)Ī dedicated gaming GPU is typically 100-150 USD these days, even though I am still not suggesting to currently buy one. The system was tested using a 144Hz 27' Acer Monitor.Īgain, FlightGear isn't optimized for such GPUs, and such GPUs are not optimized for 3D simulation, and shader units - if in doubt, read up on how gaming GPUs differ compared to CAD GPUs The frames can range from 60FPS to 200FPS depending on the game and settings that you choose. We have tested this system with games like Dota 2, CS Go, PubG, and The Division. Samsung 256GB 6GBPS SSD + Samsung Evo 970 NVME.2 SSD A notebook will obviously be more mobile, more integrated, less powerful and more expensive.īack in 2019 someone wrote: Using the criteria above you can build a good to borderline high end gaming system using a HP Z800 Workstation. In general, a corresponding system can be had for roughly $250-$500 US these days, depending on your part of the world - if you're able/willing to use a refurbished server, things can become much cheaper, and you'll primarily need to add a decent graphics card into the mix. If you can afford it, I'd suggest to 'double'these specs (2gb of VRAM, 16-32gb of RAM, 8+ core CPU, 128-256gb SSD drive)

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at least 6-8gb of free RAM (I would opt for 16b) a dedicated GPU with an NVIDIA/ATI chipset with at least 1024MB of VRAM, preferably not much older than say 18-24 months (but also not much newer than 6 months, because graphics card are becoming better and cheaper as we speak) Unfortunately, updating such wiki pages isn't exaxctly our strongest forte here - just a couple of days ago, people were sharing their specs in another topic and I suggested to update that wiki article.Įither way, roughly speaking you'll probably want at least: