How many low-end PC owners are NOT upgrading for FS2004?

**Ironstar** · 06-21-2003, 10:29 AM

By low-end PC owners I mean anybody that hasn�t upgraded there processor, or motherboard, since they bought FS2002.

I keep seeing all these post asking if their PC will run FS2004 or asking if what should I change on my PC? I�m wondering if I�m the only one not upgrading for it. I was planing to but do to circumstances upgrading will not be possible any time soon or in the immediate future.

I have been using the same old (now anyway) one since I started with FS2000 (not a misprint FS2000) and the only changes I have done to it is I increased the Ram from 128Mb to 384Mb, increased my hard-drive to 40Gigs 7200rpm, and changed my sound card because one channel died on me with the old one.

My Computer Specs.

DELL XPS-T500
OS-Windows 98SE
CPU-Pentium 3 500MHz
RAM-384MB SDRAM
Monitor-Dell P780 17" (Sony Trinitron)
Video-Diamond Viper V770D Ultra NVIDA 32MB
Audio-Philips Seismic Edge
Hard Drive-Maxtor Diamond Plus 40GB 7200-RPM
Joystick-Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro (1st version)

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**M2B880** · 06-21-2003, 01:10 PM

i'm not, i personally don't see the point in spending several hundred dollars to make a 50 dollar game run better. The MOST i might do is upgrade RAM to 512....maybe...if i can get the cash.

I'm not one of those computer tekkies so here is what i think i should put here for my system specs.....

HP Pavillion....P3
Win98
127MB ram
Intel 810 graphics card (atleast thats what FS says i have, and it sucks)

I just dont have the money right now to spend several hundred bucks on one of those fancy shmancy video cards, i wish i could but i'm sure i can run FSACOF with little difficulty, i may not get the performance that is ideal but i will sure as hell will buy the game.

Mike
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**Atmosphere5** · 06-21-2003, 01:45 PM

Im not upgrading either. I bought my dell last year with the specific purpose for AUTO Cad...(though on the side i didnt tell my parents it was REALLY ALL ABOUT The FS2002! LOL).. college student here...not much cash in the back. If I could buy a better graphics card then yeah I would but as if 200 bucks isn't worth it. I like your philosophy on the matter that it is a $50 est. piece of good software...so it isn't worth the over cost for upgrade.

What im Truly stoked about in FS2004 is the FACT That there's one version which means we get ALL the planes and Turboprobs dynamics finally! for the Standard price(assuming one chose not to buy the Proffessional FS2002). I AM SO HAPPY ...i am SO ready to drag over the files to FS2002 LOL (if FS2004 doesn't run smoothely) . I pray that Fs2004 isn't FS2000 ...aka "The LabRat Experiment" where i live.

I require at least 20fps constant to run my game.
Oh ummm a tip in FS2002, i just realized yesterday that it is better to turn on Anistropic Filtering (2x) and Anti-Aliasing (2x or more) VIA your Graphics Card menu and NOT the FS2002 menu. for my Nvidia GeForce 4 MX420 with the latest drivers i get 22fps constant with them ON...but if i use the FS2002 menue for some odd reason i get like 10fps! ! ???? wierd huh.

Dell Dimension 8200
2.53 Ghz P4
80Gb 7200rpm
Nvidia GeForce4 MX420
256Mb DDRAM
Fs2002 - 30Fps Constant, anywhere all sliders full, default traffic full, reflections too (contact me if you dont get reflections with your card, ill forward you the method to get it).

**Ironstar** · 06-21-2003, 02:02 PM

Mike at least I know that I�m not the only one. I think that if it looks like I�m not going to upgrade for a long time. I might even increase my ram also. When I got my sound card I didn�t go for the latest and greatest either I thought fifty bucks was enough.

I think that there are a lot of people that don�t have bottomless pockets and can�t or wont upgrade to the latest and greatest hardware and software every time something new comes out.

We just learn to adapt and except what we have and make do with what we have. I think I will like FS2004 just the same as FS2002 or even more, most likely more.

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The earth revolves around the sun at the rate of approximately Mach 59
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**sirecks** · 06-21-2003, 02:15 PM

I won't be upgrading unless the money bag fairy leaves one of her bags of money on my front step.

Of course, that money may find its way to my '98 Cobra, my real flying, or a new car for my wife first.

Seriously though, from what I read, it seems that ACOF runs as well as 2002 does on these Beta tester systems. I don't have 2002 maxed out, and I enjoy it thoroughly, so I am expecting to still be able to enjoy 2004 without maxing it out.

I will be at the store the day it is out, and I am going home to load it on my dinasour or a system. But, I am going to enjoy every minute of it.

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**M2B880** · 06-21-2003, 02:49 PM

yea, i'm a senior in highschool...i have car payments..600 every month, i pay for 1/2 of my flight lessons....college....ehhhh.

Maybe the Powerball gods will give me some luck....:-lol

Mike
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**RyanbATC** · 06-21-2003, 03:49 PM

I've had this one since FS2002 (but only because of the aviation department here in college requiring me to have an "aerospace laptop," which is a P3-m 1.2 Ghz, 256 MB ram, intel 16 mb vid card. My old computer which I used for FS98/FS2000/FS2002 was a Intel celeron 533 Mhz, 256 mb ram, and a Geforce 2 mx PCI card. FS2002 worked ok on that one, but it got a little slow after using some of the intense payware planes such as the flight one golden eagle. I haven't "upgraded" for any flight sim that I've ever played. I just had to get this laptop for school.

I might not buy FS2004, but I'm certainly not going to upgrade this laptop (which isn't even mine - its leased from University of North Dakota Aerospace).

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**johnster** · 06-21-2003, 04:01 PM

Im not upgrading and checking out all fs2004 info thats around the web I don't think It will cause too many problems. Did a longhaul flight yesterday/Today (Melbourne to London via Singapore). I used Project Opensky 747, real weather and had a few Ai traffic and I had a constant FPS of 22-27. The pics look great and there seems to be so many improvements. This summer is gonna be a good one, finishing my A lEVELS on TUESDAY!! :) And when flight sim comes out my parents will be away for a week so computer all to myself :)