FS2004

[dc3707]

I have a 1.4 GHZ pc with about 600mb of memory with sound card
and video card. could some one let me know If f9 will perform
ok on my pc. specially with shareware or freeware add ons?

thank you

[jeffhunter]

What're the specifics of your video card? What OS are you running?

regards,

Jeff
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[mfountain01]

The key word is "OK." I have an old Dell XPS 500 upgraded to a 1.4 GHz celeron and it runs pretty fair. But that is with a LOT of compromises on visual quality, no ATC, traffic or high res scenery. It comes down to, what is "OK" for you?

mfountain01

[DK8290]

my specs are bwloe this message. I find it is pretty ok and I have most graphics sliders at full except weather ones (which I have low). I fly mainly away from larger cities (which are a frame-rate hit due to concentrated buildings and more traffic) and I'm getting mostly up to 18 or 20 frames / sec while mountain flying (fsgenesis 38m meshes)

If you are asking whether you should buy FS2004 for your system , I'd say sure (depending on the graphics card......mine's not top of the line but it seems ok at 128megs and a bit old)

[chrisblore]

In my experience, you will likely be able to run FS2004 on there quite comfortably but will have to reduce visual quality on weather detail and also AI traffic and building density when flying around busy areas and more detailed cities in the sim simply because it is quite CPU intensive under these conditions, no matter how much RAM you have. It all depends on what you see as being "ok".

Chris

[dc3707]

>my specs are bwloe this message. I find it is pretty ok and
>I have most graphics sliders at full except weather ones
>(which I have low). I fly mainly away from larger cities
>(which are a frame-rate hit due to concentrated buildings
>and more traffic) and I'm getting mostly up to 18 or 20
>frames / sec while mountain flying (fsgenesis 38m meshes)
>
>If you are asking whether you should buy FS2004 for your
>system , I'd say sure (depending on the graphics
>card......mine's not top of the line but it seems ok at
>128megs and a bit old)


thank you sir for replying.

now what is the best configuration one should have in order
to run fs9 to its best with all visual to highest?

specially some add ons do call for much faster and higher
cpu etc and so even say XP mine is windown 2000 professional.

thank you and waiting your reply

Robert

[zoynyne]

>now what is the best configuration one should have in order
>to run fs9 to its best with all visual to highest?

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You can't do that with any stock hardware.

To do that you need to own absolute top end hardware in every category and overclock it all BIGTIME.

As in, liquid cooling required.

Now, some schmoe will probably come along in this thread and say "No way, I run it all maxed out and get great performance".

Ahem - not true. There are settings somewhere that are NOT all maxed out.

You take FS2004, and TRULY MAX OUT EVERY POSSIBLE PARAMETER, and ACTUALLY USE THEM (ie. clouds maxed out and you DO have thunderstorm weather happening...) and you are going to get low fps and at least a little bit of stutter.

I don't care what rig you're running.

Of course it will not be very long before we DO have hardware that can do all this...