Which sim ?

[Ollie Kerley]

Hi there which windows are you running and how old is your laptop? if you have a good setup you should able to run fs2004 otherwise maybe try fs2002 although I don't know whether you are able to get that anymore.

Hope this helps

Ollie Kerley

[Ollie Kerley]

Yes if you look at http://www.simviation.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; that has loads of freeware planes for both flightsims

If I can be of any more help il try my best

All the best

Ollir

[garyscott]

Sure can . .
http://www.avsim.com/
http://simviation.com/1/front-page
http://www.flightsim.com/

(Some of the above may want you to register, panic not!! Its free!)

[FTS]

Rather than start a new thread, i'll pose the same question. I've just bought a new PC, (with plenty of memory this time round!) and I'm wanting to get back into the Flight Sims seriously again. I used to have FS2004 on my old PC until it died and I haven't played it since FSX came out. I'm debating wether to buy FSX or wait for this 'Flight' which i've read about, coming out this spring.

The PC has the following specs;

Processor;
Intel® Quad Core Processor i5-2320
- 3 Ghz
- 6MB cache memory

Operating System;
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

RAM;
6GB (4GB + 2GB), DDR3, 1333Mhz, Maximum expandable memory 8GB

Graphics card;
Intel HD2000

Hard drive;
1.5 TB, 7200rpm (variable), SATA

Which would you recommend?

[POL]

FS2004. FSX is very CPU intensive, so you may just about get away with that i5, but the lack of graphics card will let you down - I'm not too sure how well FS2004 runs on these new integrated graphics to be honest! (and neither game needs much RAM I'm afraid! Where did you get that info from?)

[garyscott]

I'm not too sure how well FS2004 runs on these new integrated graphics to be honest!

I got FS9 running capped at 30FPS, when i went unlimited to test, on medium-high settings i can average 40 - 70FPS depending on location / aircraft etc. But even with high spec addons (aircraft like CS C-130J, AS XB-70, VRS Hornet maxed, etc etc), i extremely rarely get stutters.
Im - Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8300/2.5Ghz, Intel G33/G31 ChipSet.

[POL]

Answers that then, thanks Gary! I'm going to work on a blog post that includes lots of information on how well FS2004/FSX/etc. runs on various systems; do you mind if I include that?

[garyscott]

No problem bud, if you need any specific info, just let me know what you need.

[davem]

HI FTS, I have to say that I think you've got yourself a weak link in your (pretty nice) system with the integrated gfx card. With the rest of the setup, you're probably going to find yourself using your system a lot more to its full potential with a dedicated addon gfx card.

[flarkey]

I use flight gear on my mac - its quite good and is free.

http://www.flightgear.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[FTS]

HI FTS, I have to say that I think you've got yourself a weak link in your (pretty nice) system with the integrated gfx card. With the rest of the setup, you're probably going to find yourself using your system a lot more to its full potential with a dedicated addon gfx card.

I still have the old PC here, and it has what was a top of the range NVidia G-Force (I think) Graphics card in it that I could stick into this machine, i've still got the drivers somewhere. I remember I had issues getting the integrated Graphics card off of the old PC, this was over 6 years ago now and i've slept a lot since then. I'm assuming that getting the card off of this machine will be a oh fudge as well?

[POL]

REMOVE IT?! You can't remove an integrated graphics chip, that's why it's called integrated! It's actually built in to the CPU nowadays, anyway.

If you plug a PCI-E card in to the motherboard, the processor just stops using the integrated chip and uses all cores for processing.

[FTS]

REMOVE IT?! You can't remove an integrated graphics chip, that's why it's called integrated! It's actually built in to the CPU nowadays, anyway.

If you plug a PCI-E card in to the motherboard, the processor just stops using the integrated chip and uses all cores for processing.

I wasn't meaning litterally remove!