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Sep 1^st, 2010 at 5:46pm

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I am about to build a new pc with a 3 gig phenom 945 and a radeon 4850. I've decided to buy fs2004 because I 've heard that fsx requires awesome pcs to run smoothly and I'd rather run an older sim smoothly than a newer one badly. Previous flight sim experience has all been on IL2 Sturmovik. I've ch stick, throttle and pedals and basic track IR 3. I was wondering if it was possible to download scenery for fs 2004 that would include uk airports such as Plymouth as well as the major ones. I've noticed that, as in iL2 there seems to be a good level of support still for fs 2004. Would appreciate any guidance re the best way to start off with this title. The FAQ will be a good place of course, so I will give them a go. Any other advice gratefully received.
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Reply #1 - Sep 1^st, 2010 at 5:51pm

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Hello and welcome to Simviation.com. Don't know much about specs but since my old Pentium 4 with 2 Gb RAM can run FS2004 smoothly I think your new rig will do just fine.

Sceneries for the UK are well available. Just do a search in Simviations library and I'm sure you'll find what you are looking for.

Carlo Wink

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Reply #2 - Sep 3^rd, 2010 at 4:07pm

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there are sceneries for the UK for FS9 all over the net. have a search around here in our library, and if you dont find it here, take a look at http://www.freewarescenery.com/fs2004.php ; for any other scenery area that you might like. also, depending on if you are willing to shell out any money check out http://www.scenerysolutions.com/# ; (FS9 TAB at the top brings up UT-CANADA/ALASKA, USA, EUROPE). I have all 3 and OH MY GOD what a difference.

There are also many, many, many more addons for FS9 to make it look as good, or possibly even better than FSX (in my opinion).

If you are willing to go Payware for some scenery, aircraft, airports, new sky/weather/ taxi\runway textures /water - you can have something truely spectacular.

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Reply #3 - Sep 3^rd, 2010 at 7:15pm

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I have the 3.00 GHz 940, 8Gb of DDR2 RAM and two old (but still very good) 8800GS video cards. I get a solid 60 frames per second over any terrain or scenery you can throw at it. I can run this bad boy at 32X simrate and it never misses a beat. FS9 is graphics-intensive. FSX is processor-intensive. That's why it drags so badly-- there just ain't chips out there powerful enough to really run it. Someday, when we have 16-core chips running at 32GHz per core, FSX will run as smoothly as FS9 does today. You'll be fine with your rig...

I am homebrewer. I had 633 posts when for some unknown reason, my account disappeared...
AMD Phenom II X4 940 (Deneb), Asus M3N72-D motherboard, 2 x nVidia 8800GTS @640MB RAM, 1 x Seagate Barracuda 500Gb HDD (storage), 1 x Western Digital Black 250Gb HDD (boot), 12Gb 800Mhz G.Skill RAM (5-5-5-18), 2x Sony DVD writers, 28-inch ViewSonic monitor given to me by my computer guru, FS2004, Windows 7 Professional (64-bit), 850-watt Thermaltake modular p/s, 7 x 120mm fans to cool it...

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Reply #4 - Sep 4^th, 2010 at 10:46pm

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I used to run FS2004 on a Pentium III 700 mhz on a 128 meg (if memory serves) geforce 5200 back in the day. It ran with most sliders up. That was back in... 2004-2005'ish.

Nowadays, anything modern will run this thing silky smooth, albeit the faster your video card, the better you can handle HD clouds and stuff from 3rd party addons.

And yes, as mentioned, there are plenty of UK scenery.

Cheers,
RB

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