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A few hardware questions.. (Read 164 times)
Apr 26th, 2005 at 1:06am

har_konnen   Offline
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Hi all, I have a few questions regarding FS 2002 and video cards, etc, if I may. I am running an IBM desktop at 550 mhz with 192 megs ram and a radeon 7000 v/c. First I am curious about the difference in video cards, would I see improvement with a 128 meg card or is my slow cpu and lower ram just killing my chances. How about going up with the ram too? It gets to the point of spending  the extra money on a new fast system, doesn't it? O.K., here's another question from someone who does't have, and hasn't really seen FS 2004; What are  the improvements offered in FS2004 and if I buy a new system and get all excited about running FS 2004 am I going to run into the same video card chase to run it with most of the settings turned up.  I hate slow frame rates as it kills the realism for me, and I love to boot around in some of the fantasy aircraft that I've downloaded (What a riot) as well as the big jets and smaller aircraft too but some aircraft are so damn nicely rendered that my flying experience turns into a slide show (The Millenium Falcon over New York City for example, hee hee). Any feedback is welcome, thanx in advance.
 
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Reply #1 - Apr 26th, 2005 at 2:39am

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I'll take a stab at your FS2004 question.  Just started using it last week, broke down because of a couple of must-have addon files that are only available for that version of FS (plus a good deal on the price).  I was very surprised by the improvements over the earlier offering, the differences are considerable.  Weather is much better (although T-storms are lame), default autogen scenery is nicer, and contrary to what put me off of getting 2004 in the first place, the framerate issue, everything runs smoother than FS2002 does.  There are a lot more addons available as this presently represents the state-of-the-art in FS.  I have added a considerable amount of scenery in one area, with FS2002 things are noticeably "choppy", whereas with FS2004 they are not.  The other surprise is that all of my aircraft all fly much more smoothly with FS2004 for some reason - it seems the flight dynamics are better.  Upgrades were made to my system (1024 MB of RAM and 256 MB video card) prior to installing FS2004, so the much-discussed performance issues have not been noted so far.  Actually, replacing the 128 card with the 256 made for nicer overall graphics but did not seem to really help much with the framerates, however that was with FS2002 only installed.  With the latter version it would seem more is definitely better...I am not a computer whiz by any means but figure anyone adding similar upgrades should be good to go.
 

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Reply #2 - Apr 27th, 2005 at 12:46am

har_konnen   Offline
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Thank you for the input CAFedm, I will continue to slobber over the possibilities of running FS 2004 on my next machine, which will hopefully be a screamer with lots of ddr ram & a snappy video card, etc. I know what you mean about the must have add-ons, I recently saw a massive mothership from the movie Independence Day that is available only as scenery for FS 2004. It apparently has landable decks and interior runways and the like and I HAVE to have it. Enjoy your recent purchase!
 
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