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I need some major help  My laptop specs are 2.2 ghz 226 mbs of ram 40 gb hardrive and a sis651 32mb video card, Now with the dash 8 from pss I get maybe 12 to 15 frames sitting at meigs with minimal detail I cant even play the game its too slow  I have upgraded video drivers and sound drivers can someone please tell me how to fix this mess because I fly for a virtual airline and need to make a flight soon thank you soo much  

its a p4 windows xp too sorry

If I am not mistaken....it is your sytem that matters not just one thing...but some things that would help improve the performance are....a desent video card and RAM (which isn't nearly as expensive a a new video card)

Yeah, laptops really aren't made for gaming.  The RAM sounds a little low (I think you mean 256 Mb, not 226 - I'd suggest 512 Mb at a min for an XP system) but laptops come with lousy video cards or, worse, integrated video (i.e., no video card).

If there were some way you could add a video card you would have a good system.

I think your system can just about handle FS2K2 and although FS2K2 runs best with XP, XP can be very heavy on your system. Try the following: In control panel set your display to run at 16bit (medium) colour not 32bit (highest). Also under system properties, click advanced and adjust visual settings to give best performance. This will remove the really pretty face of XP to look like drab ol' Win2K but it will reduce the high RAM demand by XP. Also click on advanced and set processor scheduling and memory usage to give best performance for programs.

Basically that's all you can do with XP to run programs such as FS2K2 faster. Now turn your attention to FS2K2. Go to settings, display and turn down most settings to sparse. Do the same with aircraft and hardware. Set refresh rate to less than 20. If FS2k2 is now running fine though a little bland, slowly crank up display setting levels until you get to levels that do not cause any slow down. It should work. My PC at work is a crap/standard 1.8GHZ, 128MB no graphics card machine running XPpro but FS2k2 runs just fine after a little experimentation with the display and making the above settings on the PC. At home I have a Compaq Presario s5100nx 2.6GHZ running 640MB ram with an integrated graphics/video card and even running FS2K2 at max display setting bothers it not one jot!

hey thanks every little thing makes it run better on my desktop comp p4 1.8 256 ram 32 mb sis 40 gb xp it runs better than the laptop but yah thnaks for your suggestions hopefully many more