Hi,
my other brother has took the other  pc i was going to get away so now im getting an 800mhz pc with 394mb ram and an ati 9200 128mb graphics card. is it good enough for fs2004 and what fps would it run at?

P.s Seen the "airplane" dvd. Hilarious!

Sorry Georf.....The ATI 9200 card is ok but the short answer to your question is "Nope"

you need more ram. I have the 9000 which runs ACOF at an acceptable but nothing stunning level. If you can boost upto 512mb Ram then it should run to acceptable standards

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Better, but not great!

As long as your not looking for top visuals, you'll be able to fly with either sim, as I say though, visually, it'll be lacking.

LOL lots!

All the calculations for AI, placement of Autogen, dynamics of how the aircraft is flying, weather conditions and variations and well er just about every aspect of the dam SIM!  Remeber its not a game its a SIM designed to try to be as realistic as possible hence loadsa calculations to be done!

As said it will fly but just dont expect all the eye candy!

I dunno, I would guess so with the detail turned down.  I think peeps are just trying to say yes it will run but it just wont look as good as some of the screenshots posted on here.

U can but try it really, what do you have to loose?

Ok, ideally for fs2004 you want 1gig ram.  You want the fastest CPU you can afford (2.8Ghz+ Pentium or 2100Mhz+ AMD) would do.  To complement this ATI9800pro or Nvidia FX5900 or higher (If you could a new gen card would be better though, just hard to get hold of still).

I would say with these you should get a reasonably good looking sim. I am not to confident that you will get a good looking sim with your current setup without taking a high FPS hit.

I know dude, sux being young dont it! I remember those days!

Well like I said you have nothing to loose trying it! Go ahead and install it, you will have to experiment with the settings and achieve a compromise.  I am sure it will run on that system it just wont look super pretty.  You will however be able to fly fine and go anywhere in the world etc.  If you like flying then go for it.  I understand not everyone can just go buy a new setup.  What I listed was the setup you would possibly require for a really nice looking sim.

Now go install it and get playing with the settings. I would say 1024x860 res (I think the second number is right)  Medium autogen, leave the fancey things like effects off and try to get your aircraft and scenery as good looking as possible.

One thing that may be worth doing on yours is under the display/weather tab set it to simplified clouds.  If you dont mind flying without weather just use clear skies!

Get it set up and run it have a look and see what results you get.  Then I will try help you maybe alter a few things. 

Try not to have any other programs running in the background whilst FS2004 is going too.  Shutdown everything possible.  If you fly offline, disconnect yourself from the net and turn off anti-virus and firewall too.

Let me know how you get on 

What card are you going to get? 

Well thats a much much better card than you have and its on special this week so is kinda a bargain!

You should be able to make it look better with that card!

Remember to get rid of old drivers using a program like 'Driver Cleaner3' make sure its clean of old bits of drivers!

Then install the new ones and you should be good to go.  Think the latest ATI cats are 4.10.  You can get them from www.ati.com ; Choose driverm then your OS then your card type which is Radeon.