new to fs 2004 and wondering re pc specs

[deskpilot101]

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.
Cheers

[Sir_Crashalot]

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

[Capt.Propwash]

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.




by the way, welcome to the Simviation Family. 

[hhomebrewer]

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...

[Rocket_Bird]

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.