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Feb 13th, 2003 at 8:17pm

Rifleman   Offline
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Well its just about time for me to ask,....are there many on here with less than I am using.....I see all the wonderful, clean, straight lines of guys screenshots and want some for myself....I think the upgrade is in the works..........
Presently I drive an AMD K6-II 450 with 320 megs of RAM and a 32 meg TNT card.....tons of free drive space too...surely there are some on here who don't make me feel inferior with this syster......Waddaya got ?
 

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Reply #1 - Feb 13th, 2003 at 11:41pm

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I've got an AMD Athlon 1.4 with 514 mb of DDR PC2100 ram and a GeForce3 ti 500 video card.

I hope to upgrade soon Grin
 
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Reply #2 - Feb 14th, 2003 at 12:30am

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Compaq 3200 series - 766 Mhz PIII - 192 Mb RAM
Intergrated Intel 82810e Graphics card.
RAM cannot be increased as they don't make the strips for this anymore (If someone can explain this for me I'd be grateful). Something to do with old type and new type RAM strips (single and double sided?, maybe?)

The graphics are not suitable for CFS3, however I didn't find this out until I went to install (something that M$ forgat to tell us - CFS3 won't work on "shared memory" cards).

CFS2 will operate on the lower settings quite well, except for some downloaded missions which have heaps of activity. CFS1 & FS2000 are fine on top settings. Most of the time!!

There you go. I think yours is better than mine.  Grin Grin Wink

According to the recommended requirements on the CFS3 box, mine is well above the minimum (once again, of course, no mention of graphics being no good).  Angry
 

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Reply #3 - Feb 14th, 2003 at 4:52am

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Hmm, PIII 1Ghz, 512mb RAM, 40Gig HD, some kinda soundcard (makes noise anyways!), a GeForce 2 (Ti4400 here any day now, its only a week late!)

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Reply #4 - Feb 14th, 2003 at 6:43am

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AMD-K6 (OLD SCHOOL) 350 MHZ Slow but it works for now ,I still am in the prosess of getting the latest version of AMD- CPU machine  Cry
 
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Reply #5 - Feb 14th, 2003 at 11:48am

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2Ghz Pentium 4 with 512mb ram, 40gb master and 10gb slave hdd, 64mb Kyro II graphics card. Eats the minimum CFS3 specs for brekfast, but won't run it at all Cry
Runs CFS2 like a dream, especially since I added an extra 256mb just before Christmas. Smiley
As soon as I have enough spare cash, I'm getting a G-Force 4. Grin
 

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Reply #6 - Feb 14th, 2003 at 12:18pm

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2Ghz Pentium 4 with 512mb ram, 40gb master and 10gb slave hdd, 64mb Kyro II graphics card. Eats the minimum CFS3 specs for brekfast, but won't run it at all Cry
Runs CFS2 like a dream, especially since I added an extra 256mb just before Christmas. Smiley
As soon as I have enough spare cash, I'm getting a G-Force 4. Grin


This could just be my complete computer illiteracy speaking, but I have CFS3 and have had CFS2 for 12 months, plus I've heard all the guff about the difficulties people are having, even with highend machines.

It seems to me, that with CFS2, apart from that extra bit of graphics quality that everyone seems to chase, the secret with CFS2, from a performance point of view is simply more RAM, the more the better.

My P.C is nowhere near highend but it's not crap either. The only questionable part of it is the Intel card and with more RAM I could handle any amount of activity on screen at high frame rates. I can get up to 60FPS in freeflight.  Grin Grin Wink

Whoops, this is really a Hardware comment, but then so is the topic, I suppose.
 

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Reply #7 - Feb 14th, 2003 at 1:39pm

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It seems to me, that with CFS2, apart from that extra bit of graphics quality that everyone seems to chase, the secret with CFS2, from a performance point of view is simply more RAM, the more the better.



Hi brensec old pal! All M$ sims are a bit memory hungry. Since adding more ram, it just seams to run smoother.
I'm not a real expert on the subject (I built this PC though, with a lot of help and advice from a clever mate) but I often do little upgrades like adding a network card for my cable modem or adding ram and it is dead easy.
 

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Reply #8 - Feb 14th, 2003 at 2:09pm

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OK:

P4, 1.9Ghz.
GeForce 3 Ti200.
Some sort of sound card...
768Mb od RAM
45Gb HD with a 26Gb backup drive and a 4Gb recover drive.

RAM is the key.  I used to have 256Mb...FS2002 ran at a maximum of 15fps...now I sometimes see 50fps, full settings and the largest screen resolution with 16bit colour.
 
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Reply #9 - Feb 14th, 2003 at 7:25pm

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700mhz duron (heap of crap... going to get an athalon XP2000 next week... I hope...)
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256mb RAM (Gonna be doubled as soon as I recover from the new proccesor)
18.6gb HD (With under 500mb left)
 

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Reply #10 - Feb 14th, 2003 at 9:24pm

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I just found out that AMD is coming out with an AMD AthlonXP 3000+!!!
 
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Reply #11 - Feb 14th, 2003 at 10:43pm

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okay here is the POS i am working with Roll Eyes Tongue

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considering i got the actual computer in 96 its not that bad

the main advantage of my computer is it has a lot o memory Grin
 

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Reply #12 - Feb 15th, 2003 at 8:49am

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I just found out that AMD is coming out with an AMD AthlonXP 3000+!!!



And how much will it be? I might save up and get one... but wait.... it ain't been released yet... sod it i'll get the XP2000... Still better than a P4 2.2 ghz! Grin
 

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Reply #13 - Feb 15th, 2003 at 5:44pm

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And how much will it be? I might save up and get one... but wait.... it ain't been released yet... sod it i'll get the XP2000... Still better than a P4 2.2 ghz! Grin


I'm not sure how much it will be, although it'll probably be quite expensive at first. Hopefully I'll be able to get atleast an AthlonXP 2200 this summer
 
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Reply #14 - Feb 15th, 2003 at 9:59pm

Professor Brensec   Offline
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700mhz duron (heap of crap... going to get an athalon XP2000 next week... I hope...)
gF4 ti 4200
a noisy soundcard
256mb RAM (Gonna be doubled as soon as I recover from the new proccesor)
18.6gb HD (With under 500mb left)


Hey Woody,

How does your setup handle CFS3?

When you say "noisy" card, what exactly is noisy. Is it just the scratchy, clickering sound you get from the PCU when it's "working"? or something else.

P.S. With all the people on this and other threads that are updating whole systems or Graphics cards or processors, there should be alot of 2nd hand stuff around soon....................lol. But I'm in Aust.  Angry   
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Reply #15 - Feb 15th, 2003 at 11:54pm

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Upgrade time was yesterday, for both Stormy and I.............got the new board, processor, case and pwr supply....got it all installed and up and running last night..........new ram to come in about 4-5 days, but will run with 256 megs of SD till then
Specs ?.....well the Athlon XP 1800 is a step up from my old K6-II 450.......case and pwr supply provides 350 watts of elec.......512 megs of DDR coming.......still gonna run WIN 98SE......one 40 and one 17, but maybe a 30 gig to be installed if I can do a low level format and be satisfied it has no bad sectors.........32 meg tnt vid will have to suffice for a while, but thats next on the agenda...
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Reply #16 - Feb 16th, 2003 at 12:39am

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Specs ?.....well the Athlon XP 1800 is a step up from my old K6-II 450


That's a nice jump! 8)
 
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Reply #17 - Feb 18th, 2003 at 1:05am

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Whats a good choice on a vid card that won't have me breaking the bank to improve my display....I use a 19" monitor and would like to stay under $100 Cdn if I can....maybe if the recommendation is high enough, I will spend $150. 8)
 

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Reply #18 - Feb 18th, 2003 at 8:47am
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My specs:

-Duron 1200 on Epox EP-8 KHA+
-256 meg of no-name DDR(266)-Ram
-40gb HDD
-ATI 7500 with 64meg video ram (i want a 9700... Sad)
-Terratec 128i PCI
-AVM Fritz Card (my ADSL card)
-CD-drive and Cd-recorder
-17" monitor
-pwr supply 300W
-and ,of course a good ol' 1.44" floppy drive (seven years old)
 
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Reply #19 - Feb 18th, 2003 at 3:28pm

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My specs:

-Duron 1200 on Epox EP-8 KHA+


What ticks me off is that I bought the EP-8 KHA a couple weeks before the 'plus' edition was announced!
 
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Reply #20 - Feb 19th, 2003 at 8:23am
ATI_7500   Ex Member

 
hmm... what shall I do now?
should i laugh at you or should i show sympathy?
nah...

[Nelson]
Ha,Ha!
[/Nelson]

Grin
 
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