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Apr 6^th, 2004 at 1:39pm

crocker Offline
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Hi simmers, well after much heart searching (not to mention through the wallet as well), I'm purchasing 2004. Just upgraded to a 2.4AMD and 5700ultra card with 512RAM. I hope this is enough - for this year anyway. I'm having to balance the books with some real
flying as well (Cessna 152).

My question is: will 2004 run happily on my hard drive with 2002 still installed? I've got enough spare capacity on the drive. My apologies if this has been asked before - which I'm sure it has.

Cheers

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Reply #1 - Apr 6^th, 2004 at 2:09pm

RollerBall Ex Member

No problem

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Reply #2 - Apr 6^th, 2004 at 2:31pm

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I just got 2004 and I installed side by side to 2002 and there does not seem to be any issues. ALthough I did notice that if I put the settings in both games the same (ie: graphics, hardware....) 2004 does run a little slower....

P4 2.6 Ghz w/ 800Mhz FSB & HT Technology, XP Home, 512MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 333 Mhz, 128MB GeForce FX 5200 Video Card, 80GB Ultra ATA/100 HD, Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 w/ Dolby Digital Sound Card.

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Reply #3 - Apr 6^th, 2004 at 3:06pm

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As you will find with most games coming out, they are going to take advantage of the newest hardware. So if you are not keeping up on the technology you will find your computer running a bit slow with FS9.

Crocker, you shouldn't have a problem. Just like FS2002 you will have to tweek a bit, but that is part of the fun in my opinion. Enjoy your new toy! Grin

Windows XP SP1&&Motherboard: Epox 8RDA + main board&&Processor: AMD XP2500 Barton CPU&&Memory: PC2700 1gb Geil DDR&&Hard Drive: SEA HDD IDE 40GB 7M 40GPP&&Hard Drive: Western Digital 40gb 8mb cache&&Monitor 15 LCD Flat Panel Display (15 viewable)&&Video Card: ATI Radeon 9500 Pro&&Sound Card: Creative Labs Audigy 2

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Reply #4 - Apr 6^th, 2004 at 5:41pm

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Thanks guys. I'm reassured by your replies. One of these days my system will catch up. But what's new today is old tomorrow, a fact of life none of us can escape from!

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Reply #5 - Apr 7^th, 2004 at 1:36am

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Go for it!

COMPLETED: If Anyone Cares, Here's A Map Of My Current FSX Flight Around The World

My Reality Check Bounced

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Reply #6 - Apr 7^th, 2004 at 8:01am

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yeah the 5700 is a fairly beefy card should run fs2004 quite well and i have had no issues with both of them running together infact i still play fs2002 now and again

AMD athlon XP2800+ @2.34ghz&&Epox 8RDA3G 400 fsb, 8x AGP&&1024MB DDR400 PC3200&&XFX 256MB FX5950 Ultra (oc 525/1.04)&&40 gig maxtor 7200rpm&&80 gig seagate baracuda 7200rpm&&

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Reply #7 - Apr 7^th, 2004 at 9:52am

crocker Offline
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Daz

cheers mate.

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