MS 2002 performance?

[darkhorse]

I was thinking of getting FS 2002 and was wondering how it would perform on my comp.  I have a 1.2 GHz proc, 384 MB SDRAM (not DDR) and no graphics card.  I'm running FS 98 now and can get 20-30 fps with everything active and set to medium graphics/performance.  If I got a PCI graphics card (no AGP slot, and no money to upgrade the mobo and proc, and vid card) either 32 or 64MB, how much better ould I be.  Please no "You should just upgrade the mobo" responces because, as I said, I don't have the money.  I will be lucky if I can get even a 32 MB GForce MX220, or the 64MB MX 440.

[darkhorse]

Odd that you should mention FS 2004.  The reason I was thinking of buying 2002 pro was because my store is selling it for $40.  We didn't have any and don't know when they will come in, but I can have other stores match our price.  

When you said you had a slightly faster system, did you mean you don't have a vid card?  BTW, my proc is a Celeron.  From what I have heard, it would be about the same as an 800 MHz pentium.  Don't know if it makes that much difference though.  And the 32 MB card I was looking at was GForce 2 MX 200, not 220.

[GreG]

Hi there mate, I use to have a system like that, until I got a Geforce 4 MX420 and upgraded to 576Mb Ram, and I have a 766MHz processor.  What I can say about the graphics card is that it does improve the graphics, but my processor cant cope with the card cause it isn't fast enough, but yours should be fine,  and you should wait for FS2004 rather than FS2002, cause you're gonna get FS2002 at you are going to see so many problems with it that you're gonna want to return it, whereas in FS2004, most of the little annoying glitches should be fixed, plus the interactive virtual cockpit and the ATC and especially the weather looks really good, and the clouds aren't "flat" in FS2004!

Happy flying
Greg