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Feb 5
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, 2004 at 5:40pm
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What improves frame rates more, a faster processor or more RAM?
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Feb 6
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It would be helpful to know your system stats first!
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Feb 6
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a cpu
Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD
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Feb 6
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Dell Dimesnsion
Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz
RAM: 256MB* DDR SDRAM at 333MHz
Hard Drive: 80GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA Hard Drive
Graphics: Integrated Intel 3D AGP Graphics
*I might upgrade to 512
Hope This Helps-
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Feb 6
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in that case, more ram and a non intergrated graphics card, the P4 should be just fine, of course dont know if its 800FSB or 533FSB but either way it should be good enough
Still have a nice PC but I just switched to a hella nice mac
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Feb 6
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Yeah your processor is fine. More RAM and a good video card would do the trick.
P4 3.20Ghz 800Mhz FSB&&1 GB PC3200 400Mhz DDR RAM (Dual Channel)&&Nvidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB 8X AGP&&SB Audigy MP3+&&Win XP Pro
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Feb 7
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Cool thanks
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Feb 8
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Yup, fine cpu, ram needs to be much improved.....
512mb as a minimum and an FX5700 or better will bring you one hell of an improvement, no question.
Cost, about £200 if you shop about, worth every penny though.
Posting drivel here since Jan 31st, 2002. - That long!
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Feb 9
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Just saw your system specs bm_727.
Your RAM is starving, but as the other guys have said, you need a video upgrade as well, onboard graphics aren't up to FS2004 or similar graphics intensive software.
I love that 727 pic, and I'm gonna try Infranview for myself.
Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD
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Cost, about £200 if you shop about, worth every penny though.
I just got a 256MB DDR memory card on sale for like $10 after a mail-in rebate! (I don't know how that translates to pounds, though)
By the way congo- Irfanview is an editor- u should get GCS (GrabClipSave) for taking the shots-
http://www.simviation.com/fsdtutscreensh.htm
Can't wait to see ur shots in the screenshots forum!
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Feb 15
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My frame rate is about 15 and descents to 6 when there is bad weather. Is it my GeForce 4 ti 4200 that causes this terrible rates. Any suggestions???
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Feb 15
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Well it's not likely the Video card alone will take it that low in FPS.
What are your system specs?
Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Northwood (With HT) Cooled by Zalman CNPS9500 LED - 2 x 512MB DDR RAM (PC3200) - 120 GB HDD - 128MB Nvidia GeForce FX5700 - Bluestorm 500w PSU&&&&Hopefully soon with RAID 0!
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Feb 16
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PIV 2.66Ghz @533Mhz FSB---768Mb PC2700 RAM---Seagate 120GB--- GeForce 4 Ti4200 8XAGP--- All other hardware isn't important for this problem.
Hope you can answer this question
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Feb 17
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My apologies bm_727,
I hope you don't mind me posting this in for Black Thunder.........
Black_Thunder,
My spec is AMD XP2600+ 333mhz FSB, 1024mb PC2700, (I checked while the sim is running and I have around half my ram still free), 80gig Seagate HDD, GeForce 4 Ti4200 8XAGP.
You see we have a similar spec.
The following screenshot was taken over Hong Kong in FS2004, 1152 x 864 x 32 resolution, 4Sx antialiasing on, anisotropic filtering off. Everything else pretty maxed out.
Here I was getting around 18 FPS despite the dense scenery and clouds with antialiasing.
I'd say you have room for improvement.
Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD
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Hi Thanks. I will try your settings imediatly. I was running on 1280*1024 32bit 3linear filter . Thanks for response
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