Flight Sim X on a MBP?

I am about to treat myself to a 2.3GHz Macbook Pro with a 9600MGT 512Mb graphics card. I will spend most of my time in OSX, but will be playing some games through Boot Camp. Has anyone had any experience with FSX on this machine or an equivalent spec?

I'm not expecting all the bells and whistles, but would be interested to know what sort of performance I could expect.

 

I played it on my previous Gen Macbook Pro, the one with the 8600M GT.

It ran pretty good I must say. I didn't have all the extra add-ons like real environment and stuff like that, but it was totally playable, and then some.

So I'm thinking the 9600M GT would be okay. Just get the latest Direct X and nVidia drivers!

 

I respectfully disagree. FSX is too much CPU intensive to really deliver on your machine.

If you want a civilian flightsim, install FS9. You'll be able to use all the bells and whistles and still get a smooth fps count with it. And with the add-ons you will be able to install and use, the visual experience will be better than FSX is able to deliver in a machine like yours.

 

I concur with zeve...

 

what cpu does the MBP have? FSX runs great on my Toshiba, both with the 2.5ghz in it now, and with the prior 2.0ghz cpu before I upgraded. It's even totally playable on my tablet with the integrated 3200hd and a 2.4ghz AMD cpu... I'd think that it would run quite well with the 9600 that's in the MBP.

 

MBP's come with C2D

 

I'd say you'll be fine then with it hardware wise... now I have no idea if there's a performance penalty running PC software on a MBP, but a C2D and a 9600GT will run FSX just fine. My old 1.66 ghz toshiba with the 8700GT ran FSX quite well, and your new machine is quite a bit faster than that, so you should be fine... not sure what native resolution is, but I was running it on mine at 1440x900 with most things set to high.

Good luck!

 

Unless there's a significant penalty to running Windows on Apple hardware, I think you'll be just fine. I have a 2.2 GHz Core 2 and the 8600M GT, and the FSX demo ran pretty well on my computer. Not maximum settings, but definitely good ones. You'll be able to get a lot better graphics at the same performance as you would with FS9 - I have the full version of that and while it runs great on my machine the graphics just pale in comparison with FSX. Even at maximum, FS9 doesn't look nearly as real-world as FSX with lower settings.