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Postby imchief » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:28 pm

What is a good system for FS2004?  I run FS2002 now with an AMD Athlon XP 2000 at 1.66Ghz, GF4 MXSE 64MB, 512 MB DDR PC2700.  Will I be able to obtain grafics like i see in the screen shots and will the Sim run good for me?  I am seriously thinking of getting 2004.  Any help woul be Great.

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Re: System specs.

Postby codered » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:34 pm

The biggest hold up I can see for you is the graphics card and maybe the processor.  FS9 is very graphic intense and requires a lot of processing power and a good card.  Not saying you have to run out and buy a 128MB ATI or Nvidia card, but it wouldn't hurt.  You can look at my specs and I am running at avg 24fps with my menu sliders running at 92% maxed. ;D
Windows XP SP1
Motherboard: Epox 8RDA + main board
Processor: AMD XP2500 Barton CPU
Memory: PC2700 1gb Geil DDR
Hard Drive: SEA HDD IDE 40GB 7M 40GPP
Hard Drive: Western Digital 40gb 8mb cache
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Re: System specs.

Postby Scottler » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:40 pm

It would run, but I don't know how smoothly.   You might be surprised though!  lol
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Re: System specs.

Postby JBaymore » Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:39 pm

inchief,

If you look around this forum a bit you'll find SCADS of threads devoted to just this question.  The VERY short answer........ the best machine you can afford.

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