Simviation Forum - PC Tweaking

Nov 24^th, 2005 at 10:32am

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Hi Guys and Ladies, "Me" again from the corners of my lil' cave. Study is a "hobby" of mine [never got over being 3years old - - - - - WHY -WHY - Why ]. Grin

I have a Gateway Micro tower. I can't find all that info that you Guys mention such as motherboard speed / graphics card speed , etc etc ! I've got my FS2k2 on a partition alone ,and I've got "REAL SCENE 2004 /USA Terrain and Landclass Data Sets" installed. I fly only ultralights VFR in SE Alaska. Here's what info I do have : motherboard : Nimitz 4000792. Pentium4 / 1800 mHz / Memory768 Mb RAM / Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service pack 2 / VideoCard is Intel Video 4000 792 / Hard drive is 80 GB / and after some "clean-up" I have 565MB RAM that I can use for the FS2k2. Oh- - the CPU is1.80 GHz. I don't know how to get more info about my PC. NOW IS THE QUESTION : What would you suggest I do to improve my SCENERY ? Believe me - - - I almost LIVE to have the "poor-man's " dream of seeing the rest of the world in these SIMS. As ALWAYS - - I thank you for your time and in-put in helping me. caveman

My PC's Specks: Case: Thermaltake v7000c/ 5 very quiet case fans. Motherboard: AMD/ASUS-A8N32-Sli Deluxe Socket 939 Processor: AMD Athion 64x2 4400+/Socket939 Dual Core. Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition w/sp2 Full version. RAM: Corsair XMS 2 GB [2x1 GB] Twin 2048-3200c 2pt. Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE/sata interface 3.0 GB/ 250 GB/ 7200 rpm/8MB cache. DVD Burner: Has everything, even fixes my coffee. Graphics Card: eVGA/DX-9/ GF 7900GT/Memory 256MB/ 256-P2-N563-AX.Sli ready. Power Supply: Hiper Modular Type-R/ Continuous 580w Output/Peak load 630w/ Sli ready. Monitor: Phillips 19" LCD 1280x1024 native/8ms Response/Dot pitch 0.294mm. Ultimate Defrag & System Booster 2. Thanks to Congo & ctjoyce for helping me

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Reply #1 - Nov 24^th, 2005 at 12:28pm

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Speaking for FS2002: Gerish's trees are somewhere on this site, they helped a bit. There's also some re-do of the houses somewhere. You can also re-do the water textures. You will not get any major changes, but it will help a bit. Always remember to backup original files & folders in case you don't like something new.

It's been 2 years since I installed all of these, so I don't remember the exact details of how-to or where-at, but look in the Scenery section. The water stuff is trickier, look over at Flightsim.com for variations on that. There have been a lot of posts here at SimV on re-doing the water with a lot of good advice.

Tweaking is more of a performance item and may not directly improve scenery.

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Reply #2 - Nov 24^th, 2005 at 2:24pm

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That was fast - - - had them on hand / the trees and "Flight water Pro". They're installed now - - - need to test them yet. Thanks for your help. caveman

My PC's Specks: Case: Thermaltake v7000c/ 5 very quiet case fans. Motherboard: AMD/ASUS-A8N32-Sli Deluxe Socket 939 Processor: AMD Athion 64x2 4400+/Socket939 Dual Core. Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition w/sp2 Full version. RAM: Corsair XMS 2 GB [2x1 GB] Twin 2048-3200c 2pt. Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE/sata interface 3.0 GB/ 250 GB/ 7200 rpm/8MB cache. DVD Burner: Has everything, even fixes my coffee. Graphics Card: eVGA/DX-9/ GF 7900GT/Memory 256MB/ 256-P2-N563-AX.Sli ready. Power Supply: Hiper Modular Type-R/ Continuous 580w Output/Peak load 630w/ Sli ready. Monitor: Phillips 19" LCD 1280x1024 native/8ms Response/Dot pitch 0.294mm. Ultimate Defrag & System Booster 2. Thanks to Congo & ctjoyce for helping me

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Reply #3 - Nov 29^th, 2005 at 8:57am

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Unfortunately your computer is not upgradeable as far as the video card is concerned, which is your major drawback.

Your motherboard has an "onboard" graphics processing chip rather than a dedicated graphics card.

Please sell it and start again, there is no hope for that system.

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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Reply #4 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 6:25am

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As far as i,m concerned every pc is upgradable in some way if you have a PCI slot in your computer you can upgrade your graphic card, every system has a PCI slots for modems and lan cards and such. normally most system,s take an AGP graphic card only if they have the slot in your case your going for a PCI card any size from 64mb to 252mb

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Reply #5 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 6:25am

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As far as i,m concerned every pc is upgradable in some way if you have a PCI slot in your computer you can upgrade your graphic card, every system has a PCI slots for modems and lan cards and such. normally most system,s take an AGP graphic card only if they have the slot in your case your going for a PCI card any size from 64mb to 252mb

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Reply #6 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 11:18am

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This is an old thread but........

Adding a PCI graphics card (not PCIe) is a dubious "upgrade". The better PCI cards are barely an improvent over the onboard chip and they are generally way overpriced for what they are.

The money would be better spent on another mainboard that supports a dedicated graphics slot like AGP or PCIe. Then you have to buy a video card to go into that slot. By this time we are throwing a lot of cash into a most likely, dated system. (slower graphics interface, bus speeds, cpu and ram on an older second rate chipset).

You would really have to weigh up whether it's worth it or not, and I say not in most cases.

The mistake was made with the original purchase not being a suitable simming platform.

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Reply #7 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 6:30pm

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Exactly. Guys me and congo for a long time now been telling you that you NEED PCI-E. AGP 8x is okey, but for a true simming platform you MUST have a PCI-E motherboard with a MINUM spec of a 3.0Ghz Intel or 1.8Ghz AMD, 1G of RAM, and a 6600GT or Radeon X800 256MB. Yes it costs more, but you will thank yourself for it when you can actually run everything with more than 15 FPS.

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